OlHTr AIUKS, A.MKKICAN. (BATTERHIUIX BIGKMJW.) 



,4. with the rank of brigadier-general. 

 tin- clo.-c of the war he engaged in Imsine** in I'itt.- 

 l>iirg, building tin' tir-t -Meet railroad and laying 

 tin- tirst block |)iivi-iin-iit, till the failure of u f.aiik 

 force. 1 him into bankruptcy, lie thru went t Sun 

 Francisco, mul in 1^7'.' became manai;er of the ('uli 

 I'oniiu Theatri'. Wliih- there he was the tirst mana- 

 ger in the eniiiitry t<> priMliK Fatinit/.u." After his 



.uson, he manaircd ii tlramatie tour for Joseph 

 K.Kriiinet ami a leeture tour for <'<>!. Robert G. In- 

 gcrsoll, and then, returning t<> New York, was em- 

 ployed editorially on tin- " Mail ami Kxprcss." Suli- 

 equently, in conjunction with I,. K. Miles, he built 

 the Hijoii Tin-lit re, when- Henry K. Dixey had his 

 IOMU run with " Adonis," and managed the successful 

 plav " l.<>st in New York." 



tiattenhall, Jeue Park, chemist, born in Troy, N. Y .. 

 Ma\ -jr., is.M ; died in Poughkecpsie, N. Y., .Ian. 

 )_'. 'ls;ii. He pursued the study i>t' eheinisrry in the 

 School of Mines, Columbia College, and in tier 

 many. In 1878 he received the decree of Doctor of 

 Natural Sciences from the University of TQbiiuren. 

 and afterward took a course of lectures with Prof. 

 Mariana.- at Geneva. On returning to the United 

 States he was employed for some time as an analytic 

 and consultint.' cberalat in New York 'dty, and in 

 1879 he was appointed cheniist at the United States 

 Laboratory in New York, which office he held until 

 his death' He translated. Naquet's "Legal Chem- 

 istry" (New York, 1876)i and was author of " Adul- 

 teration of Food and Drink" (New York, 1886) iind 

 of numerous contributions to scientific publications. 



Beardaley, Eben Edward, clergyman, born in Stepney, 

 Conn., in 1807 ; died in New Haven, Conn., Dee. -2-J, 

 1891. He was graduated at Washington (now Trin- 

 ity) College, Hartford, in 1832 ; was ordained deacon 

 in the Protestant Episcopal Church, Aug. 11. 18:5,1, 

 and priest, Oct. 24, 1836 ; was rector of St. Peter's 

 Church, in Cheshire, in 1836-'48; and was rector of 

 St Thomas's Church, New Haven, from 1848 until his 

 death. Dr. Beardsley had been a deputy to the Gen- 

 eral Convention of his Church from Connecticut 

 since 1869, a member of the standing committee in 

 his own diocese since 1850, and President of the 

 House of Clerical and Lay Deputies in the General 

 Conventions of 1880 and 1883. His publications in- 

 clude " The History of the Episcopal Church in Con- 

 necticut from the Settlement of the Colony to the 

 Death of Bishop Brownell in 1865 " (2 vols.. 1865-'68) ; 

 "The Life. and ( 'orrcspondenee of Samuel Johnson, 

 D. D., Missionary of the Church of England in Con- 

 necticut, and First President of Kings (now Columbia) 

 College'' (1874); "The Life and Times of William 

 Samuel Johnson, First Senator in Congress from Con- 

 necticut and President of Columbia College" (1876) ; 

 and " The Life and Correspondence of the Right Rev. 

 Samuel Seabury, First Bisnop of Connecticut and of 

 the Episcopal Church in the United States" (l^i ,. 

 At the time of his death he was putting through the 

 press a volume of his discourses. 



Belcher, Nathan, manufacturer, born in Griswold, 

 Conn., June 23, 1813; died in New London, Conn., 

 .lime :5, 1891. He was graduated at Amherst College 

 in Is.:;-.' and at the Cambridge Law School in 1835, 

 was admitted to the bar in 1836, and practiced in 

 Clinton, Conn., till 1846. He then relinquished his 

 profession, removed to New London, and cniraired in 

 inanufacturinir. The same year he was elected to tin- 

 State Legislature : in 1M7 was re-elected ; and in Is.'.o 

 was elected to the State Senate. He was Democratic 



E residential elector-at-larirc in is.Vj. and member of 

 ongressfrom the -"-d Connecticut District in 1- 

 Bennett, Charles Wesley, educator, l>orn in East Beth- 

 any. N. Y., July 1>, ivjs; died in L'vaiiston, 111., 

 April 17, Is'.'l. 1 1 < was graduated at \Ycsle\an I'ni- 

 vereity in 1852, studied arclwology and ecclesiasti- 

 cal history in Berlin I'nivi-rsity, was ordained a min- 

 ister oft lie Methodist F.piscojial Church in lsi',-_'. was 

 principal of theGencsee \Vesleyaii Seminary in Lima, 

 N. Y..'in Isc, i '''.';. an I made a 'tour of Kuropi- and tin- 

 East in 1866-'69. In 1871 he became Professor "t' 



in SyraciMft I'nivrrnitv ; in 1*7* 

 WUH art editor or' " The I.;, 

 und Hiibm-^iicntly of" The Niitionul K. |-,t..( . 



he win. elected l'r,,|. -..I ,,t lll-toti.il! . 



>gy in the (Jarn it Hihlieul Inntitiitt-, M 

 iiiaiind until his di-ulli. Dr. I;- nnett WIM a jm.liflc 

 writer, and in I"*; made an t-xt4 nde.l t</ur in Kuroj*-. 

 \isitiinr many ot the most important lil.rariei. und mu- 

 heiims in the iiitcivM of h'm great liti-run lid- wr.rk, 

 "Christian Art and Arrlm-ology of tin- Fir>t Nix C. ni 

 UricH." lie edited the McthodW oUoje<-ti. ill tin re 

 vised edition of -The American Cvclopn-diu." and 

 published a" Digest of the Lawn and Knuilutinni. of 

 Coii'/n -s n-lativi- to 1'ei^if.ii!.. Bntintv lands. Pay of 

 tin- Army, et<-." i 1 s.M , ; " History of tin- I'hilow.j.h v 

 of PdaffOgio n (1877); and "National Kdtieation in 

 Italy. France. Gennuny. Kn^luiul. and \Vlen " 



Berry, James Bxnneyn, clerjfvinaii, Umi in Haekeii- 

 saek, N. .1.. iii is-jc, ; ,1'nd in Ashury Park. N.. I ..June, 

 r>. Is'.'l. lie was a graduate of Kutgcrti Colletre and 

 of the New Brunswick Theological Seminarv ; and 

 had held pastoral relations in Pien.iont and" Fich- 

 kill. N. Y., in Jersey City and Montdair, N. J., and 

 latcrly in Khinebeck, N. Y. For many years he wan 

 an earnest worker in the movement to brinir ahout a 

 union of the two branches of the Reformed Church 

 in this country. At the time of his death he was at- 

 tending the session of the Svnod of the Reformed 

 Church in America, and had just retired from the 

 presidency of that body. 



Bioknelli George Augustus, jurist, born in Philadel- 

 phia, 1'a., Fcl). i;. lsir>; died in New Albany, Ind., 

 April 11, Ib'.il. He was graduated at the I nmr-ity 

 of Pennsylvania, and in 1832 at the Y'ale Law School; 

 was admitted to the bar in Albany, N. Y., in 1886; 

 and, after practicing in New York Vitv till 1846, re- 

 moved to Scott County, Ind. In 1848 he was elected 

 county prosecutor, in 1850 circuit prosecutor, and 

 in 1862 judge of the 2d Judicial District By re- 

 elections beheld the latter ottice till 1*7*;, when he 

 was elected member of Congress from the 3d Indi- 

 ana District as a Democrat, and in 1*7* lie was re- 

 elected. While in Congress he served as Chairman 

 of the Committee on the Kleetoral Count, and its mein- 

 licr of the Foreign Attains and other committees, la 

 1881 he was appointed Commissioner of Appeals in the 

 Supreme Court of Indiana, which office censed with 

 the completion of its work in 1885. Judge Bickiu-11 

 was elected judge of the circuit court of Indiana 

 in 1889, and held the office at the time of his death. 

 During his vacations while on the bench he was Pro- 

 fessor of Law in the State University from istil till 

 1*7". He wns the author of " Bicknell's Civil Prac- 

 tice " and " Bicknell's Criminal Practice." 



Bigelow, Allen Oilman, journalist, born in Buffalo, 

 N. \., in 1854; died in Asheville. N. C.. An-.'. *. ivM. 

 When nineteen years old he began a promising liter- 

 ary career as a writer on the Buffalo "Bohemia," pub- 

 lished by his brothers, from which he went to the 

 Buffalo "Telegraph" as associate editor. Subse- 

 quently lie was connected with the Buffalo 

 j>n -> " and the Lockporf Journal." While engaged 

 in journalism, he became a contributor to u Golden 

 Days," "St. Nicholas," "The Atlantic Monthly," 

 "The North American Review, ''and other periodicals, 

 and w rote many |MK-IHS. He was also a musician of 

 much natural afiilitv. 



Bigelow, Hobart B., manufacturer, bom in North 

 Haven, Conn.. May ir.. lSJ4;died in New Haven, 

 Conn.. Oct. 1-.'. 1 VI. He received mi academical educa- 

 tion, removed to New Haven, and was apprenticed to 

 the machinist's trade in ls,">l. Knteriiiir the machine 

 shops of Ives and Smith, lie was successively journey- 

 man, foreman, and proprietor. In lsr.1 in MMeiatioO 

 with Henry Bushiu-ll, inventor of the com pressed -air 

 motor, he took a Government contract for (applying 

 gun parts for 300,000 Springfield muskets. ,,n which 

 he was ciiiraircd three years, with a force of -'i 1 ** men._ 

 In lsi;7 the increase of husinesa causetl a removal of 

 liis works to (irap-vine Point In politics he ww 

 always a Repuhliean. Ik- was appointed l>y the Com- 



