Bergen, Joseph Young – Berry, Lucien W
Bergen, Joseph Young
educator, author, was born Feb. 22, 1851, in Red Beach, Maine. He became professor of natural sciences in Lombard university, becoming, in 1883, principal of the Peabody (Mass.) high school. He is a regular contributor to the Journal of Education, and has written for the Engineering and Mining Journal. He is joint author with his wife of The Development Theory: the Study of Evolution simplified for General Readers.
Bergen, Teunis G
soldier, surveyor, horticulturist, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1806, in Gowanus, N. Y. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1846; was supervisor of the town of New Utrecht for twenty-three years; served in all the grades, from sergeant to colonel, in the state militia; was a member of the Charleston and Baltimore conventions of 1860; and was, in 1864, elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.
Bergh, Henry
philanthropist, author, was born May 8, 1823, in New York city, N. Y. He was a New York philanthropist who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was the author of The Streets of New York, a volume of sketches; Love's Alternative, a drama; and Married Off, a poem. He died March 12, 1888, in New York city.
Berghmann, Charles
musical director, was born in 1821 in Germany. For a time he was conductor of German opera, officiated as the musical head of the Arion singing society, and became alternate conductor of the Philharmonic. He died Aug. 10, 1876, in New York city.
Berghoff, John T
physician, surgeon, inventor, was born Nov. 17, 1823, in Germany. After studying pharmacy he emigrated to the United States in 1846. In 1850 he opened a drug store in St. Louis, Mo.; studied medicine in the St. Louis medithe civil war. cal college; and in 1860 continued the practice of his profession in St. Joseph, Mo. He served as a surgeon in the union army during He held the position of professor of the principles and practice of surgery in the Northwestern medical college of St. Joseph, Mo., from 1879 until his death. He invented a universal apparatus or splint for the treatment of fracture of the leg, injuries and diseases of the hip, knee, and ankle joints. He delivered numerous papers before the Missouri state medical association, and other medical societies.
Berhowitz, Henry
rabbi, founder, and chancellor, was born March 18, 1857, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is rabbi and founder of the Jewish Chautauqua society; and the author of Judaism and the Social Question; First and Second Hebrew Readers; Bible Ethics; Pulpit Message; and The Open Bible.
Bernard, Francis
colonial governor, was born in 1714 in England. He came to America in 1758 as governor of New Jersey, but in 1769 returned to England. He was the author of Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America; and Principles of Law and Polity Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America. He died June 16, 1799.
Bernays, Augustus Charles
physician, author, was born Oct. 13, 1854, in Highland, III. In 1883 he became professor of anatomy in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Bernays is the author of two embryological monographs-one on the development of the valves of the heart, and one on the development of the knee-joint and joints in general; and also of a series of surgical papers, under the title of Chips from a Surgeon's Workshop.
Bernhardt, Wilhelm
educator, author, was born May 9, 1849, in Halle, Germany. Since 1881 he has been head of the German department in the Central high school of Washington, D. C.; and since 1892 director of German instruction in the high schools of that city. He is the author of a series of German text-books for schools and colleges, and during the summer lectures on German literature in the Amherst Summer School of Languages.
Bernheim, Gotthardt Dell- Man
clergyman, author, was born in 1827. He is a lutheran clergyman at Phillipsburg, N. J., and the author of The Success of God's Work; Localities of the Reformation; and History of the German Settlements in North and South Carolina.
Bernhisel, John M
physician, congressman, was born June 23, 1799, in Cumberland county, Pa. He graduated in the medical department of Pennsylvania university; and engaged in the practice of medicine. He was elected a delegate to the thirty-fifth congress from the territory of Utah; and re-elected to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses.
BERNON, GABRIEL. He was a French Huguenot, who resided in Providence, R.
I. He founded the three first episcopal churches in America-one in Virginia, one in Newport, R. I., and St. John's church in Providence, R. I. History states that the first English prayer book in America was brought here and owned by Gabriel Bernon.
Berrian, William
clergyman, author, was born in 1787, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman who was rector of Trinity church, New York city, 1830-62. He was the author of Travels in France and Italy; Devotions for the Sick Room; On Communion; Enter thy Closet; The Sailors' Manual; Recollections of Departed Friends; Family and Private Prayers; and Historical Sketch of Trinity Church. He died Nov. 7. 1862, in New York city.
Berrien, John Mcpherson
was born Aug. 23, 1781, in New Jersey. In 1809 he was elected solicitor-general of Georgia, and the next year judge of the eastern circuit.
During the war of 1812 he had command of a regiment of volunteer cavalry; and served in the state legislature for several years.
In 1824 he was elected to the United States senate, where he remained until 1829, when he took a seat in the cabinet of President Jackson as attorney-general.
In 1840 he was again elected to the United States senate for six years. In 1845 he was elected one of the judges of the supreme court of Georgia; and in 1847 was once more elected to the United States senate, resigning his seat in May, 1852.
He died Jan. 1, 1856, in Savannah, Ga.
Berry, a. Moore
lawyer, financier, was born Dec. 5, 1849, in Greenville, S. C.
He was law reporter of the court of appeals for twelve years in St. Louis, and during his incumbency of that office he prepared and published twenty-eight volumes of Missouri Appeal Reports. He is president of the Southern Saving-Fund and Loan company.
Berry, Abraham J
physician, was born in 1799 in New York city. At the time of the desolation of New York by Asiatic cholera in 1832, he was among the few that remained at the post of duty.
For more than a century a considerable part of Williamsburg, now Brooklyn, had belonged to his family. He identified himself with the interests of the place when it was made a city, and became its first mayor. He also assisted very materially in the establishment of the important ferries connecting with New York. In 1861 Dr. Berry, although over sixty years of age, went out as surgeon of the thirty-eighth New York infantry.
He died Oct. 22, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Berry, Albert Seaton
lawyer, congressman, was born in Campbell county, Ky. He was educated at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, and attended Cincinnati law school. He served two terms in the state senate and five terms as mayor of Newport. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Berry, Campbell P
was born Nov. 7, 1834, in Jackson county, Ala. He removed to Arkansas in 1841, and thence to California in 1857; and graduated at the Methodist college of Vacaville, Cal. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1869, 1871, 1875, and 1877, and the last term was speaker of the house. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Berry, James H
soldier, lawyer, jurist, governor, United States senator, was born May 15, 1841, in Jackson county, Ala. He removed to Arkansas in 1848; entered the confederate army in 1861 as second lieutenant sixteenth Arkansas infantry; and lost a leg at the battle of Corinth, Miss., Oct. 4, 1862. He was elected to the legislature of Arkansas in 1866; was re-elected in 1872; was elected speaker of the house at the extraordinary session of 1874; was president of the democratic state convention in 1876; and was elected judge of the circuit court in 1878.
He was elected governor in 1882; was elected to the United States senate as a democrat, to fill a vacancy, and was reelected in 1889 and 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Berry, John
lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1833, in Crawford county, Ohio. He was educated at the common schools, and the Ohio Wesleyan university; and graduated at the law school of Cincinnati college. He was admitted to the bar in 1857; practiced his profession at Upper Sandusky; was prosecuting attorney of Wyandot county in 1862, and again in 1864; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a democrat.
Berry, Lucien W
college president, was born in 1815, in Alburg, Vt. At the age of thirty-four he was elected president of Indiana Asbury (DePauw) university for six years; resigned in 1855, and accepted the presidency of the Iowa Wesleyan university. After three years here he resigned and entered into the project of founding a methodist college at Jefferson City, Mo. He died July 23, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio.