Bingham, Charles – Bird, John T
Bingham, Charles
clergyman, poet, was born June 16, 1828, in Geneseo, N. Y. He has been a clergyman since 1870, and now fills a pastorate in the First congregational church of Daytona, Fla.
Bingham, Edward Franklin
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Aug. 13, 1828, in Concord, Vt. He received his education in the select and public schools and Peacham academy in Vermont, and at Marietta college, Ohio. During 1850-55 he was prosecuting attorney of Vinton, Ohio; and served as a representative in the Ohio legislature in 1855-57. In 1860 he was a delegate to the democratic national convention of Charleston, S. C., and Baltimore by adjournment. For several years he was a member of the board of education of Columbus, Ohio; city solicitor during 1867-71; chairman of the democratic examining committee of Ohio in 1868, and as such conducted the campaign of that year. In 1873 he was elected common pleas and district court judge, was twice re-elected and served until 1887, when he was appointed by the president of the United States as chief justice of the supreme court, District of Columbia, in which office he is now serving. In 1881 he was the nominee of the democratic state convention of Ohio for supreme judge of that state.
Bingham, Harry
lawyer, legislator, author, was born March 30, 1821, in Concord, Vt. He graduated in 1843 from Dartmouth college; and since 1846 has been engaged in the practice of law.
During 1862-68, 1871-79, and also in 1881, 1889 and 1891 he was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives for Littletown, and during 1883-87 was a member of the state senate. In 1876 he was a member of the constitutional convention: He was a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1868, 1872, 1880, 1884 and 1892, and in all these conventions he was a member of the committee on resolutions. He is the author of a number of works on legal, biographical and general topics, and various addresses and articles on important subjects.
Bingham, Henry H
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 4, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the union army as a lieutenant in the one hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania volunteers; was wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1863, at Spottsylvania, Va., in 1864, and at Farmville, Va., in 1865; and was mustered out of service July, 1866, as brevet brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in 1867; and was delegate at large to the republican national convention at Philadelphia in 1872, also delegate from the first congressional district to the republican national convention at Cincinnati in 1876, at Chicago in 1884 and 1888, at Minneapolis in 1892, and at St. Louis in 1896. He was elected to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second, fifty-third, and fiftyfourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Bingham, Jennie M
author, was born March 16, 1859, in Fulton, N. Y. She is the author of two books entitled Annals of the Round Table; and All Glorious Within.
Bingham, Joel Foote
educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 11, 1827, in Andover, Conn. In 1867 he was pastor of the First parish church at Augusta, Maine; in 1871 had charge as rector of St.
John's church of Portsmouth, N. H., and St. James church of New London, Conn.
He is the author of Mediæval Myth, Melody and Mirth; and Historic Cameos of Gaul, Celt and Saracen.
Bingham, John A
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1815 in Pennsylvania. In 1854 he was elected a representative from Ohio in the thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, fortyfirst and forty-second congresses. was
Bingham, Judson David
soldier, born May 16, 1831, in Massena Springs, N. Y. He took part in the suppression of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion.
After the war he was successively chief quartermaster of the department of the lakes, assistant quartermaster-general at Washington, being in charge of the bureau a part of the time, as commissioner to audit the Kansas war accounts, and as chief quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant-colonel at the headquarters of the division of the Pacific and the department of the Missouri, and from 1886, at Chicago, Ill., as chief quartermaster of the division of the Missouri.
Bingham, Kinsley S
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, governor, was born Dec. 16, 1808, in Camillus, N. Y. He was elected to the Michigan legislature in 1835, and was five years a member of that body-three years as speaker. He was a representative in congress from Michigan from 1847 to 1851; was elected governor of Michigan in 1854 and 1856; and also held in other years the offices of postmaster, supervisor, prosecuting attorney, judge of probate, and brigadier-general of militia. In 1859 he was elected a senator in congress from Michigan, for six years.
He died Oct. 5, 1861, in Oak Grove, Mich.
Bingham, William
educator, thor, was born in 1835 in North Carolina.
In 1856 he graduated from the university of North Carolina and succeeded to the management of a classical school at Mebanesville, N. C., which had been conducted with success by his father and grandfather. He has published A Grammar of the Latin Language; A Grammar of the English Language; and Cæsar's Commentaries, with Notes and a Vocabulary. au-
Bingham, William
United States senator, was born in 1751 in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at the college of Philadelphia in 1768; was agent for this country at Martinique during the revolution; and in 1786 was a delegate to the continental congress from Pennsylvania. He was elected a senator in congress in 1795.
He died Feb. 7, 1804, in England.
Binkley, Lillie
educator, poet, was born Dec. 9, 1869, in Atchison county, Kan. She is a successful educator of Atchison, Kan.; and has contributed poems to Texas Siftings, and the periodical press generally.
Binmann, Adolph
farmer, soldier, public official, was born Nov. 19, 1842, in Norway. He was collector of internal revenue for the district of Minnesota during 1885-90; and is now state auditor of Minnesota. He served three years as a soldier during the civil war; was democratic nominee for congress in 1882 and in 1884; and for governor of Minnesota in 1883.
Binney, Amos
physician, author, was born Oct. 18, 1803, in Boston, Mass. He was a once prominent physician and naturalist of Boston, and the author of Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States. He died Feb. 18, 1847, in Rome, Italy.
Binney, Horace
jurist, congressman, author, was born Jan. 4, 1780, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted jurist of Philadelphia. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1806-07; and a representative in congress in 1833-35.
He was the author of Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1799- 1814; Leaders of the Old Bar of Philadelphia; and Inquiry Into the Formation of Washington's Farewell Address. He died Aug. 12, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Binney, Joseph Getchell
college president, was born Nov. 4, 1778, in Milford, Mass. In 1822 he accepted the chair of theology in Waterville college, and remained there until 1828, when he became president of the Columbian college. He died Oct. 1, 1845.
Binney, William Greene
conchologist, author, was born in 1833, in Massachusetts. He is a well-known conchologist of Burlington, N. J. Besides completing his father's work on mollusks he has written Bibliography of North American Conchology; Land and Fresh Water Shells of North America; and Catalogues of the Terrestrial Air-Breathing Mollusks of North America.
Binns, John
journalist, author, was born Dec. 22, 1772, in Ireland. From 1807 to 1829 he conducted, at Philadelphia, the Democratic Press, the leading paper in the state. He was for twenty years an alderman of Philadelphia. In 1854 he published Recollections of the Life of John Binns; Twenty-nine Years in Europe, and Fifty-three in the United States. He was also the author of Binns' Magistrate's Manual. He died June 16, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Birch, Thomas
artist, was born in 1779, in London, England. During the war of 1812 he executed a series of historical paintings, representing the naval victories of the United States. He also painted landscapes, particularly snow scenes. The Harrison collection in Philadelphia contains his paintings of the engagement between the United States and the Macedonian, and between the Constitution and the Guerriere. Three of his marine views are in the Claghorn collection. He died Jan. 14, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Birckhead, William H
poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Changing Moods.
Bird, Frederick Mayer
clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal clergyman widely known as an hymnologist. He has edited The Lutheran Ministerium Hymns; Songs of the Spirit; published Charles Wesley Seen in His Finer and Less Familiar Pieces; and contributed extensively to the critical literature of his subject.
Bird, John
lawyer, congressman, was born in Litchfield, Conn. He was early distinguished at the bar of New York state and in the legislature; and was a representative in congress from 1799 to 1801.
Bird, John T
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1829, in Hunterdon county, N. J. In 1863 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for Hunterdon county for five years; and in 1868 was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-first congress; and re-elected to the forty-second congress.