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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BENTON BOOTH.) 



came third bishop of that diocese and successor to 

 Bishop Mcllvaine hi 1873, and resigned the office on 

 account of long-continued illness, April 29, 1889. 

 Bishop Bedell published numerous sermons, ad- 

 dresses, and pastoral letters, and " Canterbury Pil- 

 frimage to and from the Lambeth Conference and 

 heffield Congress" (New York, 1878); and "The 

 Pastor: a Text-Book on Pastoral Theology" (Phila- 

 delphia, 1880). 



Benton, Jacob) lawyer, born in Waterford, Vt., Aug. 

 14, 1819 ; died in.Lancaster, N. H., Sept. 29, 1892. Ho 

 received an academic education, taught for several 

 years, removed to Lancaster, in 1842, and was admit- 

 ted to the bar there in the following year. He was 

 elected to the Legislature in 1854. 1855, and 1850 ; was 

 a delegate to the National Eepublican Convention in 

 1S(JO; was elected to Congress as a Kepublican from 

 the Third New Hampshire District in 1867, and was 

 re-elected in 1869. During his career in Congress he 

 served on the committees on Land Claims, on Re- 

 trenchment, on Pensions, and on Agriculture. After 

 retiring from Congress he applied himself wholly to 

 his law practice, in which he was very successful. 



Bennndez, Edward Edmond, jurist, born in New Or- 

 leans, La., Jan. 19, 1832 ; died there, Aug. 22, 1892. 

 He was graduated at Spring Hill College, Alabama, 

 in 1851 ; studied law in Frankfort, Ky., and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar there ; was graduated at the Law 

 School of the Louisiana University in 1852, and was 

 sworn in as an attorney in January, 1853. In 1860-'61 

 he was a member of the State Convention, and after 

 the civil war he became assistant City Attorney of 

 New Orleans, President of the Board of School Direct- 

 ors of that city, and counsel to several large corpora- 

 tions and commercial Arms, especially those having 

 direct business with France. On the reorganization 

 of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, under Gov. 

 Wiltz's administration in 1880, he was appointed 

 chief justice of that court, and he held the office till 

 the expiration of his term in April, 1892. 



Bladne, Emmons, railroad officcr : born in Augusta, 

 Me., in August, 1857 ; died in Chicago, 111., June 18, 

 1892. He was the eldest living son of James G. 

 Elaine, ex-Secretary of State ; was graduated at Har- 

 vard in 1878, and at its law school in 1880; removed 

 to Chicago and became a clerk in the freight depart 

 ment of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad 

 Company, and continued in railroad work till his 

 death. At various times he was connected with the 

 West Virginia Central, the Atchisou, Topeka and 

 Santa Fe, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Chicago, Santa 

 Fe and California, and the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Southwestern Kailroads, becoming general freight 

 and passenger agent of the Chicago, Santa Fe and 

 California Railroad Company in 1887, and subse- 

 quently Vice-President of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Southwestern Company, with headquarters first in 

 Baltimore and afterward in Chicago, where he had 

 charge of the Western interests of the company. He 

 married Anita, daughter of Cyrus H. McCormick, the 

 inventor, in 1889. 



Blanchard, Jonathan, educator, born in Kockingham, 

 Vt., Jan. 19, 1811 ; died in Wheaton, 111., May 14, 

 1892. He was graduated at Lane Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1832 ; was ordained a minister of the Presby- 

 terian Church in 1838; was American Vice-Ppesident 

 of the World's Antislavery Convention in London 

 in 1843, and accepted the presidency of Knox College 

 in Galesburg, 111., in 1846. .His administration here 

 was one of more than usual success, and on resigning 

 he left the college stronger financially than it had 

 ever been. In 1880-'82 he was President of Wheaton 

 College, and on resigning was chosen president 

 emeritus, subsequently applying his time mainly to 

 editorial work on the " Christian Cynosure." 



Bliss, Edwin Elisha. missionary, born in Putney, 

 Vt, April 12, 1817 ; died in Constantinople, Turkey, 

 Dec. 29, 1892. He was graduated at Amherst College 

 in 1837, and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 

 1842 ; was ordained to the ministry, Feb. 8, 1843, and 

 in the same mouth married and sailed as a missionary 



for Turkey. He was stationed at Trebizond in 1S43- 

 '52 ; at Marsovau, Armenia, in 1852-'56 ; and at Con- 

 stantinople from 1856 till his death. In addition to 

 his missionary labors he had edited since 1865 " The 

 Messenger," published at Constantinople in the 

 Armenian and Turkish languages, and had compiled 

 text-books to aid him in his" work, notably the "Bible 

 Handbook " in Armenian. 



Blunt, Charles E., military officer, born in New 

 Hampshire; died in Boston, Mass., July 10,1892. He 

 was graduated at the United States Military Academy, 

 and appointed a brevet 2d lieutenant of engineers in 

 1846; was promoted 2d lieutenant, Feb. 28, 1848; 1st 

 lieutenant, Feb. 2, 1854; captain, July 1,1860; major, 

 March 3,1863; lieutenant-colonel, March 7,1867 ; and 

 colonel, June 80, 1882; and was retired, at his own 

 request, after forty years of consecutive service, Jan. 

 10, 1887. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for 

 long and faithful service, and colonel for meritorious 

 service during the civil war, both on June 30, 1866. 

 Col. Blunt was assistant engineer in the construction 

 of Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor ; during the civil 

 war was engineer in charge of the construction of the 

 various defenses in Boston harbor and on the Massa- 

 chusetts coast; and after the war was engaged in the 

 construction of defensive works on Lake Erie and 

 the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire. 



Bolles, Timothy Dix, naval officer, born in Boston, 

 Mass., Oct. 31, 1847 ; died in San Francisco, Cal., 

 Aug. 23, 1892. He was graduated at the United States 

 Naval Academy in 1869 ; promoted ensign, July 12, 

 1870; master, May 24,1872; lieutenant, June 27,1875; 

 and was assigned to the charge of the Hydrographic 

 Office in San Francisco, April 25, 1891. He was at- 

 tached to the United States Naval Observatory in 

 1878- '81 ; to the United States Coast Survey in 

 1881-'83; to the Smithsonian Institution in 1885-'87 ; 

 and to the storeship "Monongahela" in 1889-'90. 

 Under this last appointment he arrived with his ship 

 at Samoa immediately after the terrible disaster to the 

 American and German men-of-war at Apia, and was 

 instrumental in saving much of the Government prop- 

 erty redeemed from the wrecks. He was a nephew 

 of Gen. John A. Dix. 



Bomford, James Vi, military officer, born on Govern- 

 or's Island, New \ork harbor, Oct. 5, 1811 ; died in 

 Elizabeth, N. J., Jan. 6, 1892. He was a son of Col. 

 George Bomford, United States Army ; was graduated 

 at the Military Academy in 1832 ; was a lieutenant in 

 the military occupation at Texas in 1845; captain in 

 the Mexican War, where he distinguished himself in 

 the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Mon- 

 terey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, and San Antonio, 

 the storming of Chapultepec, and the capture of the 

 city of Mexico, where he was the first man to plant 

 the American flag on the ramparts. He was brevetted 

 major for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and 

 lieutenant-colonel after Molino del Rev, and was 

 promoted major while on frontier duty in Texas, Oct. 

 17, 1860. He was surrendered with the rest of the 

 force by Gen. Twiggs, but, refusing to give his parole 

 not to fight against the Confederacy, he was held a 

 prisoner'from April, 1861, till May, 1862, receiving in 

 the meantime promotion to lieutenant-colonel. After 

 his release he returned to the army, and for distin- 

 guished gallantry in the battle of Perryville, Ky., 

 where he was ch'ief of staff' to Maior-Gen. McCook, 

 and was twice severely wounded, he was brevetted 

 colonel. At the close of the war he was brevetted 

 brigadier-general, and served for several years on 

 Western frontier posts. He was retired with the full 

 rank of brigadier-general, June 8, 1874. 



Booth, Newton, lawyer, born in Saiem, Ind., Dec. 25, 

 1825; died in Sacramento, Cal., July 14, 1892. He 

 was graduated at Asburv University in 1846, received 

 his legal education at Terre Haute', Ind., and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1850. Soon afterward he removed 

 to California, and engaged in mercantile pursuits in 

 Sacramento till 1857, when he returned to Terre 

 Haute and practiced law. In 1866 he went aarain to 

 California ; in 1803 was elected to the State Senate, 



