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of the State, holding the latter office at the 

 time of his death. 



Bartol, James Lawrence, an American lawyer, 

 born in Havre-de-Grace, Md., June 14, 1813 ; 

 died in Baltimore, Md., June 23, 1887. In 

 1828 he went to Baltimore with a view of pre- 

 paring himself for mercantile life, but soon 

 manifesting an aversion to it, returned home 

 and resumed study under a private tutor. He 

 was graduated at Jefferson College, Philadel- 

 phia, in 1832, admitted to the bar in 1836, and 

 began practice in Caroline County. In 1845 

 he removed to Baltimore, and, after a success- 

 ful career of twelve years at the bar, was ap- 

 pointed to fill a vacancy on the bench of the 

 Court of Appeals, occasioned by the resigna- 

 tion of Judge J. T. Mason. In the autumn of 

 1857 he was elected a judge of the Appellate 

 Court, and on the expiration of his term in 

 1867 was elected Chief-Judge of the Court of 

 Appeals. He held this office till 1883, when 

 failing health compelled him to resign. 



Bartow, Morey Ilale, an American genealogist, 

 born in Westchester County, N. Y., April 9, 

 1831 ; died in New York city, Dec. 24, 1887. 

 He was a descendant of John Reid, the Sur- 

 veyor-General of East Jersey, and of Nathan 

 Hale, the New England patriot, who was 

 hanged by the British as a spy, and a great- 

 grandson of Rev. John Bartow, who came to 

 the United States from England as a mission- 

 ary in 1702, and founded St. Paul's parish, 

 New York city, over which he had charge till 

 1726. For several years Mr. Bartow was adver- 

 tising agent of the New York " Observer." He 

 was an earnest worker in genealogy and family 

 history, a member of the New York Genealogi- 

 cal and Biographical, the New York Historical, 

 the American Geographical, and the American 

 Huguenot societies, and a writer on religious, 

 biographical, and genealogical subjects. 



Beach, John Sheldon, an American lawyer, 

 born in New Haven, Conn., in 1819 ; died 

 there, Sept. 12, 1887. He was graduated at 

 Yale College in 1839, admitted to the bar in 

 1843, and immediately taken into partnership 

 by Gen. D. Kimberly. On the retirement of the 

 latter in 1852, Mr. Beach continued the busi- 

 ness alone, and so conducted it that at the time 

 of his death it was the largest practice in the 

 State. While his practice was general, he did 

 much as a patent and corporation lawyer, and 

 as counsel for vast estates, in courts of probate. 

 He was regarded as the father of the New 

 Haven bar, and was credited with having been 

 before the U. S. Supreme Court more frequent- 

 ly than any other lawyer in Connecticut. 



Beach, William Morrow, an American physi- 

 cian, born in Amity, Madison County, Ohio, 

 May 10, 1831; died near London, Madison 

 County, Ohio, May 5, 1887. After receiving 

 his education at Ohio Wesleyan University he 

 was graduated at Sterling Medical College, 

 Columbus, Ohio, in 1853, and practiced his 

 profession in Unionville until 1855, when he 

 removed to Lafayette, Ohio, remaining there 



until the beginning of the civil war. He en- 

 tered the service as major-surgeon, and became 

 assistant surgeon in the Seventy-eighth Ohio 

 Volunteers on May 3, 1862, holding this post 

 until May 19, 1864, when he was transferred to 

 the One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio Volun- 

 teers in the Twenty-third Army Corps, Army 

 of the Tennessee, serving until the close of the 

 war. During the Vicksburg campaign he was 

 the hospital director of Gen. John A. Logan's 

 division. He was mustered out in June, 1865, 

 being then division-hospital director of the Sec- 

 ond Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, and 

 also one of the surgeons constituting the divi- 

 sion operating board. After the war he resided 

 on his farm in Madison County, practicing there 

 until his death. He was a member of the Legis- 

 lature, and was the Republican candidate for 

 Lieutenant-Governor in 1873. Dr. Beach was 

 a member of the principal medical societies of 

 Ohio, was the first president of the Ohio Sani- 

 tary Association, and was president of the State 

 Medical Society in 1885, and served in this ca- 

 pacity for other societies, contributing valuable 

 papers to their proceedings, which were copied 

 extensively in medical journals. Among these 

 was one on " Milk-Sickness," which was read 

 before the American Medical Association and 

 afterward published in the " Reference Hand- 

 Book of Medical Science." 



Beers, Henry Newell, an American manufact- 

 urer, born in Lexington, N. Y., June 12, 1819; 

 died in Bay Shore, Long Island, July 12, 1887. 

 He received a collegiate education at Amherst 

 College and New York University, being gradu- 

 ated at the latter. Nearly the whole of his 

 life, after that time, was spent in New York 

 city, where he was engaged for many years in 

 the manufacture of glass. He was one of the 

 organizers and most active members of the 

 u Committee of Seventy," which was formed 

 to wrest the control of municipal affairs from 

 the Tweed Ring. Out of that committee grew 

 a more permanent organization, known as the 

 " Council of Municipal Reform," the object of 

 which was to secure a greater efficiency and 

 economy in the city government. Of this body 

 Mr. Beers was an earnest member during the 

 remainder of his life. Among his other labors 

 he was instrumental in procuring the passage 

 of the constitutional amendment limiting the 

 corporate indebtedness of cities, and in having 

 the official conduct of the Park Commissioners 

 investigated by the Supreme Court. He also 

 rendered the city valuable service before the 

 Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and at 

 Albany, in successfully opposing improper and 

 illegal items in tax levies. 



Belts, Charles Wyllys, an American lawyer, 

 born in Newburg, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1845 ; died 

 in New York city, April 27, 1887. He was 

 graduated at Yale in 1867, and directly after- 

 ward entered the Law School of Columbia Col- 

 lege, where he was graduated two years later. 

 He practiced law in New York city for two 

 years, and then returned to New Haven for the 



