Bixby, John Munson – Blackburn, Gideon
Bixby, John Munson
lawyer, author, was born in February, 1800, in Fairfield, Conn. He was a lawyer of New York city, whose two novels were issued under a pseudonym. He was the author of Standish the Puritan; and Overing, or the Heir of Wycherly. He died Nov. 22, 1876, in New York.
Bixby, Moses Homan
missionary, clergyman, was born Aug. 20, 1827, in Warren, N. H. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; attended Newbury seminary, Derby academy, and Montreal college; received the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth college, and the degree of D.
D. from the Central university of Iowa.
He first served four years as a pastor in Vermont; then for twelve years was a missionary in Burmah, India, and for the past thirty-three years has been a pastor in the Baptist church of Providence, R. I.
Bixby, Samuel M
manufacturer, was born May 27, 1833, in Haverhill, N.
H. He has made his name famous as manufacturer of shoe blacking; his business grew to gigantic proportions and now occupies the whole of an imposing structure; and extends to every quarter of the habitable globe.
Black, Alexander
journalist, author, was born in 1859, in New York. He is a Brooklyn journalist, and literary editor of the Brooklyn Times. He is the author of The Story of Ohio; Photography Indoors and Out; Miss Jerry, and a Picture Play.
Black, Charles C
lawyer, author, was born July 29, 1858, in Mount Holly, N. J. Since 1881 he has practiced law in Jersey City; and since 1891 has been a member of the state board of taxation.
He is the author of Proof and Pleadings in Accident Cases; and New Jersey Law of Taxation.
Black, Edward J
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1806 in Beaufort, S. C. He commenced his public life by going into the Georgia state legislature, where he served for several years; and was elected a representative in congress from Georgia in 1838, remaining there until 1845. He died in 1846 in Barnwell, S. C.
Black, Frank S
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born March 8, 1853, in Limington, Maine. He was editor of the Johnstown Journal for a short time after graduating from Dartmouth; then removed to Troy, where he studied law and was a newspaper reporter. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and since that time has followed his profession in Troy. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican; and has filled the high office of governor of the state of New York.
Black, George R
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born March 24, 1835, in Scriver county, Ga. He divided his attention between the law and agriculture; and served in the confederate army during the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1865; and also to the democratic national convention of 1872. He was a state senator from 1874 to 1877; and was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-seventh congress.
Black, Henry
jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1783, in Somerset county, Pa. He was the father of Judge J. S. Black. In 1815 he was elected to the state legislature, and for three successive years afterwards. In 1820 he was appointed an associate judge of his county, and held the office for twenty years. In 1841 he was chosen to fill the seat in congress to fill a vacancy. He died Nov. 28, 1841. was
Black, James
congressman, born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.
Black, James
prohibitionist, author, was born Sept. 23, 1823, in Lewisburg, Pa.
He was a noted Pennsylvania advocate of temperance who was the presidential nominee of the prohibitionists in 1872. He is the author of Is Prohibition a Necessity; History of the Prohibition Party; and The Prohibition Party.
Black, James A
soldier, congressman, was born in South Carolina. He served as a captain in the war of 1812; was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to the time of his death. He died April 5, 1848, in Washington, D. C.
Black, James C. C
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 9, 1842, in Stamping Ground, Ky. He was a private soldier in company A, ninth Kentucky cavalry, confederate army; and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He was elected to the fifty-third congress over Thomas E. Watson, and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat over Watson, but declined to enter on the term and resigned March 4, 1895; and was re-elected at a special election held October 2, 1895.
Black, James Fred
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 20, 1859, in Nova Scotia. He has attained success as a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; has been secretary of the Algona district conference for five terms; and now fills a pastorate in Anamosa, Iowa. He is the author of The Bible Way, and contributes extensively to religious literature.
Black, James Rush
physician, surgeon, author, was born March 3, 1827, near Glasgow, Scotland. During the war he was surgeon in the one hundred and thirteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and director of Gen. Gilbert's staff; and later became professor of hygiene in the Ohio Medical college. He is the author of Ten Laws of Health; and has contributed numerous articles on hygiene to current literature.
Black, Jeremiah S
jurist, was born Jan. 10, 1810, in Glades, Pa. In 1842 he was appointed presiding judge of the judicial district in which he lived; in 1851 was elected to the bench of the state supreme court, and made chief justice; and was re-elected in 1854. In 1857 he became attorney-general of the United States; and was secretary of state in 1860-61, when he resumed the practice of law. He died Aug. 9, 1883, in York, Pa.
Black, John
congressman. He was at one time a resident of Louisiana, but removing to Mississippi, was elected a senator in congress, from 1832 to 1838. He died Aug. 29, 1854, in Winchester, Va.
Black, John
state legislator, was born in France. He has lived in America since 1846, and in Milwaukee since 1857.
He has always been a democrat, and has twice received the party nomination for congress. He was a member of the Wisconsin state legislature; and served with distinction as mayor of Milwaukee.
Black, John
diplomatist, was born in 1792 in New York. He was for forty years a resident of Mexico, where he was a consul of the United States, and also minister resident there during the Mexican war. He died Nov. 19, 1873, in Albany, N. Y.
Black, John Charles
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 27, 1839, in Lexington, Miss. He graduated from the Wabash college of Crawfordsville. During the civil war he served as colonel in the thirty-seventh Illinois volunteers; and was brevetted brigadier-general United States volunteers. He was commissioner of pensions, congressman-at-large from illinois; and United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois. He is best known as an eminent lawyer, practicing in Chicago and before the department in Washington, and in the supreme courts of Illinois and the United States.
Black, John Fisher
soldier, broker, was born Dec. 23, 1841, in New Orleans, La. He enlisted as a private in the Louisiana guards in 1861; and attained the rank of lieutenant. In 1869 he was engaged in the cotton brokerage business; was a member of the New York Cotton exchange; and one of the organizers of the Confederate Veteran camp of New York.
Black, Samuel W
jurist, governor, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from that state an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Nebraska; and was appointed governor of that territory in 1861, remaining in office until 1867.
Black, Warren Columbus
clergyman, journalist, author, was born May 24, 1843, in Copiah county, Miss. He acquired a superior education, chiefly through his own efforts; and was successively placed in charge of the leading churches of his conference. In 1861 he entered the confederate army and served continuously until the close of the war in 1865. He was licensed to preach in May, 1864, being at that time a first lieutenant in the confederate service; and he distinguished himself as a soldier, as he has since in his ministerial career. In 1886, 1890, and 1894 he was a delegate to the general conference. In 1886 he declined the presidency of Whitworth Female college of Brookhaven, Miss.; and the same year declined the presidency of the Centenary college of Jackson, La. Since 1893 he has been editor and owner of the New Orleans Christian Advocate. Dr.
Black lectured in nine different states; and three of his lectures-God in Nature; Genesis and Geology; Is Man Immortalhave attracted much attention. He is the author of Philosophy of Methodism; Temperance and Teetotalism; Christian Womanhood; and other works.
Black, William Henry
clergyman, college president, author, was born March 19, 1854, in Centerville, Ind. He was a graduate of the Waynesburg seminary, and has filled important pastorates in the presbyterian church. In 1890 he was elected president of the Missouri Valley college of Marshall, Mo. He is the author of God, Our Father; Womanhood; and Sermons for the Sunday School.
Blackburn, Gideon
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 27, 1772, in Augusta county, Ga. He passed the last forty years of his life in the western states, in preaching, organizing churches, and, from 1803 to 1809, during a part of each year, in his mission to the Cherokees, establishing a school at Hywassee. He established a school in Tennessee in 1806, and from 1827 till 1830 was president of Center college, Ky. He died Aug. 23, 1838, in Carlinville, Ill.