Bevins, Philip Denison – Biddle, Horace P
Bevins, Philip Denison
educator, journalist, was born Feb. 3, 1862, in Pike county, Ky. He received a thorough education and graduated from the State College of Lexington, Ky. He has attained success in educational work; has been county teachers' examiner; and during 1894-97 was superintendent of schools of Pike county, Ky. He was one of the organizers of the first teachers' associations in his county; and has been instrumental in the enactment of better educational laws in the Kentucky state legislature.
Bevis, Mrs. S. Hazlett
journalist, author, poet, was born July 17, 1846, in Zanesville, Ohio. As a journalist, she has attained fame in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she organized the Woman's Press club; and was its first president. She has published a volume of poems; and is the author of biographical and other works.
Beutgen, Peter John
missionary, author, was born Oct. 7, 1861, in Tecumseh, Canada. He graduated from the normal school in Canada; studied law and was admitted to the bar in the United States in 1886. He afterward studied theology at the Louvin university, Belgium; and was ordained priest. He became a missionary in Oregon and Texas; built the most westerly church in the United States at Cape Blanco, and two other churches in Oregon. He built the Ursulian convent in Laredo, and St. Peter's church in the same place. He was the first professor of Mt. Angel college, Oregon; and the founder of the school for boys in Laredo, Texas. He is a great linguist; and speaks seven languages. He is the author of Our Lady of Guadalupe; and has contributed extensively to current periodicals.
Bibb, George M
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1772, in Virginia. He was a justice, and twice chief justice of the court of appeals of Kentucky; was in the state senate two years; held the position of chancellor of the court of chancery; was secretary of the treasury under President Tyler; and afterward practiced his profession in the city of Washington; and acted as an assistant in the office of the attorney-general of the United States. He was a United States senator from 1811 to 1814, and again from 1829 to 1835. He died April 14, 1859, in Georgetown, D. C.
Bibb, Thomas
governor, was a kinsman of W. W. Bibb, whom he succeeded as governor of Alabama in 1820.
Bibb, William Wyatt
governor, United States senator, was born Oct. 1, 1780, in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1806 to 1814; and a senator in congress from 1813 to 1816. In 1817 he was appointed governor of the territory of Alabama; and was elected first governor under the constitution of that state in 1819. He died July 9, 1820, in Fort Jackson, Ala.
Bibighaus, Thomas M
congressman, was born in 1816, in Pennsylvania.
He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to the time of his death. He died June 18, 1853, in Lebanon, Pa.
Bible, George Potter
educator, lecturer, was born Feb. 26, 1858, in Bellefonte, Pa. He is known in his state as one of the most gifted institute instructors, having lectured in nearly every institute in the state. In Ohio, Delaware and Indiana, he has also been much in demand. He was professor of literature and elocution in the normal schools of Lock Haven and Indiana, Pa.; and for fifteen years past has been lecturer and instructor in the institutes of Pennsylvania. He is now organizer and principal of the state normal school of East Stroudsburg, Pa. For three years he was editor of the Bellefonte Central Democrat; and has written extensively for the educational papers of the east.
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Bicker, Walter
soldier, was born Feb. 29, 1796, in New York city. served in the war of 1812; and at the time of his death was its last surviving officer.
He died June 3, 1886, in Far Rockaway, L. I.
Bickford, Levi F
clergyman, poet, was born January 9, 1840, in Hartford, Ind. He is a successful congregational clergyman of Brownwood, Texas; and fills the chair of mathematics and metaphysics in the Daniel Baker college of that city.
Bickmore, Albert Smith
ethnologist, author, was born March 1, 1839, in St. George, Maine. He is an ethnologist; and since 1885 has been the curator of the American Museum of Natural History in New York city. He is the author of Travels in the East Indian Archipelago; The Ainos or Hairy Men of Jesso, Saghalien, etc.; and Sketch of a Journey from Canton to Hankow.
Bicknell, Albion Harris
artist, was born March 18, 1837, in Turner, Maine.
He began the study of art at an early age, and was a pupil of Thomas Couture and L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
He has painted portraits of a great number of distinguished public men. His historical paintings-Lincoln at Gettysburg; and the Battle of Lexington-have a national reputation, and are among the most important and meritorious paintings yet produced by an American artist.
Bicknell, Bennet
state senator, congressman, was born in Mansfield, Conn. He served in the assembly of the state in 1812; was a state senator from 1815 to 1818; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1863, in Morrisville, Madison county.
Bicknell, George Augustus
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He was judge of the second judicial circuit of the state of Indiana in 1852, holding this position by successive re-elections for twenty-four years. From 1861 to 1870 he was professor of law at the university of Indiana. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.
Bicknell, Thomas Williams
educator, journalist, author, was born Sept. 6, 1834, in Barrington, R. I. He has been very active in educational journalism, and during the years 1874-86 he founded, edited, and owned The Journal of Education; The Primary Teacher; The American Teacher; Education, a bi-monthly magazine; and Good Times. The New England Bureau of Education and the National Council of Education were organized by him. He has published Biography of William Lord Noyes; Historical Sketches of Barrington, R. I.; Reports of the Commissioner of Public Schools; and History of the Bicknell Family.
Biddle, Andrew Porter
physician, dermatologist, was born Feb. 25, 1862, in Detroit, Mich. He studied in Geneva, Heidelberg and Leipzic; and in 1892 was appointed lecturer on dermatology in the Detroit college of medicine. He has been assistant dermatologist to the St. Mary's hospital clinics; and dermatologist to the Children's Free hospital clinics. During President Cleveland's second administration he was United States pension examining surgeon. He has taken great interest in military organizations; and is captain and assistant surgeon of the fourth regiment infantry Michigan national guard. Dr. Biddle is a prominent member of various medical associations and other societies.
Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drex- El
journalist, author, was born in 1874, in Pennsylvania. He is a journalist and publisher of Philadelphia; and the author of A Dual Role, and Other Stories; An Allegory and Three Essays; The Madeira Islands; and The Froggy Fairy Book.
Biddle, Charles John
soldier, congressman, was born in 1819, in Philadelphia, Pa. In the war with Mexico he was brevetted a major for gallant and meritorious services. In 1861 he was appointed a colonel in the Pennsylvania reserve volunteer corps; and while in the field in Virginia was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyseventh congress, to fill a vacancy. He was a son of Nicholas Biddle. He was a successful journalist; and the author of The Case of Major Andre. He died sept. 28, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Biddle, Clement Cornell
soldier, was born Oct. 24, 1784, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1812 he raised a company of volunteers-the State Fencibles-was elected its captain, and subsequently was colonel of the first Pennsylvania infantry.
At the conclusion of hostilities he devoted himself to the study of political economy; and annotated an edition of Say's treatise on that science. He died Aug. 21, 1851.
Biddle, Edward
soldier, lawyer, statesman, was born in 1739. He was an officer in the French war from 1756 to 1.763; became eminent as a lawyer in Reading, Pa.; and was a member of the assembly, and speaker. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775; and was one of the prominent advocates of independence. He died Sept. 5, 1779, in Baltimore, Md.
Biddle, Horace P
lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born March 24, 1818, in Hocking county, Ohio. In his boyhood he received an elementary English education, and afterward acquired a knowledge of Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and several eastern languages.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and in 1838 opened an office in Logansport, Ind.; rose to the first rank in his profession, and received the highest judicial honors of the state. He was a member of the constitutional convention, which formed the present constitution of the state. He is the author of several books; in science- The Musical Scale; in philosophy-Elements of Knowledge; in poetry-A Few Poems; Biddle's Poems; American Boyhood; and a Glance at the World; and a volume entitled Prose Miscellany. In childhood Mr. Biddle showed an intense love of music, and thirty years after the publication of his scientific work, entitled The Musical Scale, his theory was proved to be true by demonstrative evidence. He still resides in his Island Home on an island in the Wabash river near Logansport, Ind.