Berry, Nathaniel S – Beverley, Robert
Berry, Nathaniel S
statesman.
He was governor of New Hampshire for two years, from 1861 to 1863, taking an active interest in raising troops for the war of the rebellion.
Berry, Orville E
lawyer, state senator, was born Feb. 16, 1852, in Mc- Donough county, Ill. In 1883 he was elected mayor of Carthage, and was twice reelected without opposition. He was secretary of the Hancock county agricultural board for four years. He has served with distinction as a member of the Illinois state senate, and is a noted parliamentarian.
Berry, William Franklin
railroad manager, was born Feb. 2, 1844, in Biddeford, Maine. He is the second vicepresident in charge of traffic of the Boston and Maine railroad. For thirty-five years he has been engaged in railroad work, commencing as freight clerk and working his way through all grades to his present position.
Bertram, George Webb
lawyer, jurist, was born March 21, 1847, in Salem, Mass. He attended the common schools and the agricultural college of Manhattan, Kan. He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company B, eighteenth regiment Kansas cavalry. For two years he was attorney for Mitchell county, Kan.; and during 1890-94 was judge of the seventeenth judicial district court of Kansas. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., Knights Templars, and other fraternal bodies.
Berwald, William Henry
musician, was born Dec. 26, 1864, in Germany.
He was conductor of orchestra and chorus for two years in Russia, after which, in 1892, he came to America and entered the Syracuse university as instructor upon the piano and professor in the history of theory of music. In 1893 he was made full professor.
Beshoar, Michael
physician, legislator, journalist, was born Feb. 25, 1833, near Mifflintown, Pa. He attended the Tuscarora academy, Philadelphia and Jefferson medical colleges, medical departments of the universities of Pennsylvania and Michigan, graduating from the latter institution in 1853. He was a representative in the legislatures of Arkansas, and the territory (and later the state) of Colorado. He was surgeon in the Arkansas state militia, surgeon of the provisional (and later the regular army) of the confederacy; and filled numerous other public offices as a physician. He was county judge for seven years; county superintendent of schools for two terms; founder and editor of the Pueblo Chieftain in 1868; founder and present editor and owner of the Daily Advertiser of Trinidad, Colo. He has been a member of the Pan-American medical congress.
Bessey, Charles Edwin
botanist, author, was born May 21, 1845, in Milton, Ohio. He is a botanical professor in the university of Nebraska, and the author of Geography of Iowa; Botany for High Schools and Colleges; and The Essentials of Botany.
Besson, Samuel Austin
lawyer, was born April 6, 1853, in Everittstown, N. J. In 1882 he was appointed corporation counsel of the city of Hoboken; and in 1889 was chosen president of the Hudson county bar association. BESSONIES, MONSIGNOR JOHN FRANCIS AUGUST DE, V. G. R. P., priest, was born June 17, 1815, in France.
In 1840 he was ordained a priest at Vincennes, Ind. He has been pastor at Leopold, Ind.; of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Jefferson, Ind.; and of St. John's, Indianapolis, Ind. He was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of Vincennes in 1872; was nominated Roman prelate in 1884; and elected administrator of the diocese of Vincennes in 1887.
Best, Eva
author, poet, was born Dec. 19, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of several dramas entitled An American Princess; Sands of Egypt; A Rhine Crystal; and is the author of numerous short stories and poems.
Best, Philip
brewer, was born Sept. 26, 1814, in Germany. He located in Milwaukee, and, together with his father and three brothers, he established the famous brewery of Philip Best and Co. He was for many years major-general of the Wisconsin state militia. He died in 1869 in Bavaria.
Best, Susie Montgomery
educator, poet, was born in Ireland. She is the author of nearly two thousand poems; and a volume in verse entitled The Fallen Fillar Saint.
Bethune, George Washington
clergyman, author, was born in March, 1805, in New York. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of Brooklyn of considerable note as a preacher. He was the author of Orations and Discourses; Fruits of the Spirit; History of a Penitent; and Lays of Love and Faith, a volume of verse, are some of his works. He was an ardent fisherman, and edited Walton's Complete Angler. He died April 27, 1862, in Florence, Italy.
Bethune, Laughlin
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was for several years a senator in the state legislature, and from 1831 to 1833 a representative in congress from Cumberland county, N. C.
Bethune, Thomas Green
musician, was born May 25, 1849, near Columbus, Ga. He was blind from birth, and known as Blind Tom. He was born a slave. At the age of five he was familiar with the piano. He made his first public appearance in 1858, and made successful tours of the United States and Europe.
Betton, Silas
congressman, was born in 1764. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1787, was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1803 to 1807; and held the office of sheriff of Rockingham county for several years. He died in 1822 in Salem, N. H.
Betts, B. Frank
educator, was born Dec. 1, 1845, in Warminster, Pa. He has held a professorship in the Hahnemann Medical college of Philadelphia since 1873. He is consulting gynecologist to the Homœopathic hospital of Wilmington, Del., and to the out-patent department of the Children's Homœopathic hospital of Philadelphia. BETTS,
Betts, Craven Langstroth
author, poet, was born in 1853 in New Brunswick. He was the author of Songs from Béranger; The Perfume Holder; A Persian Love Poem; and co-author with A. W. H. Eaton of Tales of a Garrison Town.
Betts, Frederic Henry
lawyer, author, was born March 8, 1843, in Newburg, N. Y. In 1872 he was chosen consul for the New York state insurance department; in 1873 was lecturer on patent law in the law department of the Yale university; and in 1879 published pamphlet on Policy of Patent Law. He is the author of a work entitled The Life of Joseph Henry. a
Betts, Frederick
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 15, 1859, in Hillsdale county, Mich. He received the degree of B. A. from the University of Michigan; and has attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of the west of Pueblo, Colo. During 1888-92 he served with distinction as state senator in the Colorado legislature.
Betts, Samuel Rossiter
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 8, 1787, in Richmond, Mass. He took part in the war of 1812, and was appointed judge advocate. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 to 1817; in 1823 was appointed a circuit judge for the state; and in 1826 was appointed judge of the United States district court for the southern district of New York, which office he continued to hold until May, 1867. He was the author of Admiralty Practice. He died Oct. 3, 1868, in New Haven, Conn.
Betts, Thaddeus
United States senator, was born in Norwalk, Conn. He was at one time lieutenant-governor of Connecticut, and was an influential member of the United States senate from 1839 to the date of his death. He died April 8, 1840, in Washington, D. C.
Betz, John Frederick
brewer, was born April 8, 1831, in Germany. His properties are the Riverside Mansion, Lyceum theater, Grand opera house, and the huge Betz building on South Broad street; and he is also connected with The Germania Brewing company, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Bevan, Philip
poet. He is a successful writer of Martinsburg, Ind.; and the author of Woman Lost and Gained; and Songs of the War for the Union.
Beveridge, John
educator, poet, was born in Scotland. In 1752 he came to Boston and six years later removed to Philadelphia to accept the chair of languages in the college and academy, which was the real nucleus of the present university of Pennsylvania. In 1765 he published a collection of Latin poems.
Beveridge, John L
lawyer, governor, was born July 6, 1824, in Greenwich, N. Y. From 1846 to 1851 he taught school in Tennessee and read law; he practiced in Chicago; he served four years in the union army as major and colonel of cavalry; and was sheriff of Cook county, Ill., two years; he was elected state elected to senator in 1870; and was elected to BEVERLEY clergyman, journalist, author, was born August, 1827, in New York city, N. Y.
He was successively rector of several churches until 1865, when he was appointed librarian of Columbia. Of the large library of that college he prepared a full catalogue. He has been a frequent contributor to the church journals, and for many years one of the editors of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. fill a vacancy in the forty-second congress; he was elected governor of Illinois in 1873 for the term of four years.
Beverley, Robert
author, was born about 1675 in Virginia. He was a writer whose one work, a History of the Present State of Virginia, 1705, is full of life and vigor; in it occurs the phrase "the almighty power of gold," which anticipates Irving's "almighty dollar." He died in 1716.