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dier-general of volunteers, and he served as such 

 until honorably discharged, May 12, 1899. He 

 was in command of the cavalry division at Chick- 

 amauga Park, Ga., from April 25, 1898, to May 

 17, 1898, when he was assigned to command the 

 2d Division, 1st Army Corps; commanding cav- 

 alry division at Tampa, Fla., May 20, 1898 ; com- 

 manding 2d Division, 7th Army Corps, May 28, 

 1S98, till Oct. 29, 1898, and temporarily in com- 

 mand of 7th Army Corps; commanding cavalry 

 brigade, Oct. 30, 1898, to Jan 10, 1899, and tem- 

 porarily in command of 4th Army Corps; ordered 

 to Cuba, and was in command of the 2d Divi- 

 sion, 7th Army Corps, Jan. 16, 1899, to April 1, 



1899. He was retired from active service March 

 4, 1901. 



Babcock, Maltbie Davenport, clergyman, 

 bom in Syracuse, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1858; died in 

 Naples, Italy, May 18, 1901. He was graduated 

 at Syracuse University in 1879, entered Auburn 

 Theological Seminary, and was graduated there 

 in 1882. In January of the senior year in Auburn 

 he was called to the First Presbyterian Church in 

 Lockport, N. Y. He served as its pastor till 

 October, 1887, when he accepted the call of the 

 Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Balti- 

 more, Md. As its pastor he was eminently suc- 

 cessful, winning a place for himself in the hearts 

 of people of all creeds and in all walks of life and 

 society. Every effort was made by the citizens of 

 Baltimore to retain him when in 1899 he was 

 called to the Brick Presbyterian Church in New. 

 York city. He began his duties there in January, 



1900. In February, 1901, he sailed with a party 

 of friends to visit Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, 

 and Constantinople. He was taken ill with Medi- 

 terranean fever on the steamer on the way from 

 Constantinople to Brindisi, and after an illness 

 of a week died in the International Hospital, in 

 Naples. A volume of poems and selections from 

 his prose writings and sermons, Thoughts for 

 Every-Day Living, was edited by his wife and 

 published in 1901. 



Bacon, Charles A., educator and astronomer, 

 born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1860; died in Beloit, 

 Wis., Nov. 6, 1901. He was graduated at Dart- 

 mouth College in 1883. During 1883 and 1884 he 

 was instructor in science and mathematics in Hal- 

 lowell Classical Academy, and in 1884-'85 instruc- 

 tor in science in Wakefield, Mass. In 1885 he 

 went to Beloit College to assume charge of the 

 new Smith Observatory, wherein he spent sev- 

 eral years in study and observation. He was a 

 brilliant mathematician and astronomer, and at- 

 tained a world-wide reputation through his dis- 

 cussions of meteoric showers, sun-spots, and 

 eclipses. He had been physically helpless for six 

 years, but continued to teach his classes till his 

 death. 



Ballard, Charles Henry, inventor, born in 

 Leominster, Mass., June 9, 1822; died in Wor- 

 cester, Mass., Aug. 9, 1901. As a boy he showed 

 great liking for everything connected with ma- 

 chinery, and his ingenuity was the wonder of his 

 native village. When he was about fifteen years 

 old he made a desk out of an old walnut table, 

 which he bound with brass that he was allowed 

 to work at the village blacksmith shop. In this 

 desk he constructed a secret drawer opened by a 

 hidden spring. Over this drawer experts worked 

 after his death, but failed to find either the drawer 

 or. the manner of opening it. At the outbreak of 

 the civil war he had for some time been foreman 

 in the factory of Ball & Williams in Worcester. 

 In 1860 he obtained patents on a breech-loading 

 rifle. It was of 42 caliber and was especially 

 adapted to cavalry use, and it was used, exten- 



sively during the war. In 1862 Ball & Williams 

 employed 200 men in turning out this arm. In the 

 latter part of his life Mr. Ballard engaged in the 

 manufacture of hand-vises. Though he retired 

 from active life several years before his death, he 

 retained the reputation of being one of the finest 

 workmen in his trade, and he never lost interest 

 in invention, leaving many patterns unfinished at 

 his death. 



Ballard, Stephen, philanthropist, born in An- 

 dover, Mass., Sept. 9, 1815; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Aug. 11, 1901. He began business as a lum- 

 ber-merchant, and for many years he was agent 

 for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in 

 Manchester, N. H. After 1858 he was engaged in 

 the belting business in New York city, and in 

 1897 he retired. He was treasurer of the White, 

 Potter, Page Manufacturing Company till his 

 death. He founded the Ballard School for Colored 

 Persons in Macon, Ga., and for the last fifteen 

 years of his life was its chief support. He also 

 gave liberally to the Afro-American schools at 

 Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C., Tougaloo, 

 Miss., and Berea, Ky. He was one of the earliest 

 members of the Central Congregational Church 

 of Brooklyn, and was one of its trustees. He 

 rendered aid to other denominational churches, 

 and gave two apartment-houses to be used in con- 

 nection with the work of the Young Men's Chris- 

 tian Association. 



Bancroft, Cecil Franklin Patch, educator, 

 born in New Ipswich, N. H., Nov. 25, 1839; died 

 in Andover, Mass., Oct. 4, 1901. He was gradu- 

 ated at Dartmouth College in 1860, and at An- 

 dover Theological Seminary in 1867, having served 

 from 1860 to 1864 as principal of an academy in 

 Mount Vernon, N. H. He studied at the Uni- 

 versity of Halle, Germany, and late in 1867 be- 

 came principal of Lookout Mountain educational 

 institutions in Tennessee, where he remained till 

 1872. He was ordained in the Congregational 

 ministry May 1, 1867, but he never became a 

 pastor. In 1873 he became principal of Phillips 

 Academy, Andover, Mass., in which capacity he 

 served till his death. Dr. Bancroft received the 

 degree of Ph. D. from the University of the State 

 of New York in 1874, that of Litt. D. from Wil- 

 liams College in 1891, and that of LL. D. from 

 Yale in 1892. He was a trustee of Andover Theo- 

 logical Seminary, and after 1897 of Dartmouth, 

 and was active in many other educational, re- 

 ligious, and charitable institutions. He gave 

 many addresses and wrote much for the periodical 

 press on religious and educational subjects. 



Barker, William Morris, clergyman, born in 

 Towanda, Pa., May 12, 1854; died in Tacoma, 

 Wash., Feb. 21, 1901. He studied at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania and at the Berkeley Divinity 

 School in Middletown, Conn., and was admitted 

 to deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in 1879 and to the priesthood in 1880. 

 After serving as an assistant for a year and a 

 half in churches in Troy, N. Y., and Washington 

 city, he was for six years rector of St. Paul's 

 Church in the latter city. He was successively 

 rector of St. Luke's Church, Baltimore, Md., and 

 St. Paul's Church, Duluth, Minn., and on Jan. 25, 

 1893, he was consecrated bishop of the newly 

 established missionary diocese of Western Colo- 

 rado. In 1894 Bishop Barker was translated to 

 the missionary diocese of Olympia, comprising the 

 western half of the State of Washington. 



Bartlett, Charles G., soldier, born in West 

 Point, N. Y., in 1839; died in New York city, 

 June 14, 1901. He was a son of the late Prof. 

 William H. Bartlett, of West Point. On April 17, 

 1861, he was appointed a sergeant in the 7th Regi- 



