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i 'harlcs T. Jackson, of Maine, a volume in manuscript 

 on tin- uiiiiiiaU ami plant* of that State, to accompany 

 /.ciulu^ieal survey, but the manuscript 

 was lost liet'orc it reached the printer. He made 

 lane aiul valnalilo acquisitions us a naturalist ; pub- 

 lished one of a series of six volumes of poetical 

 : and for many years had applied liimself 

 < wholly to gathering engravings, of which he. 

 had <>no of the most rare and original collections in 

 the country. 



Bay, Oeaan. lawyer, born in Hiuesburg, Vt, Dec. 

 ,; died in Lancaster, N. II., Jan. 28, 1892. He 

 removed in early youth to Irosburg, Vt, where and 

 at 1 >crby he received an academic education, and be- 

 gan studying law. In 1854 he removed to Lancaster, 

 and in 1857 was admitted to the bar. Ho was a mem- 

 U-r <>t the Legislature in 1868-'69; solicitor for Coos 

 Countv in IM!.' '7:?; delegate at large to the Repub- 

 lican National Convention in 1872; and United States 

 Attorney for the district of New Hampshire in 1879- 

 '80. lie was elected to Congress to fill a vacancy from 

 the 2d New Hampshire district, in 1880, as a Repub- 

 lican, and was re-elected in 1881 and 1883. While 

 in Congress he served on the Committee on Invalid 

 Pensions. In his legal practice he made a specialty 

 of railroad cases. 



Bedding, John B., journalist, born in Portsmouth, 

 N. H., Oct. 18, 1805; died there, Oct. 8, 1892. He re- 

 ceived a common-school education, and was appren- 

 ticed to the printer's trade in the office of the New 

 Hampshire "Patriot" in Concord. In 1826 he went 

 to Boston, where ho was employed on the " States- 

 man " and the " Post," and subsequently he removed 

 to Haverhill, Mass., where he established the " Demo- 

 cratic Republican," of which he was sole editor and 

 proprietor till 1841. He was postmaster of Haverhill 

 in 1831-'41, was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 

 1841 and 1843, and was appointed naval storekeeper 

 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in 1853. Mr. Redding 

 served several terms in the State Legislature, and was 

 elected Mayor of Portsmouth in 1860. Next to Rob- 

 ert C. Wintnrop, of Massachusetts, lie was the oldest 

 ex-Congressman living, and was the last survivor of 

 the first Congress to which he was elected. 



Reed, Henry, journalist, born in Sharon, Conn., Nov. 

 25, 1809 ; died in San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 21, 1892. 

 He was one of the best-known journalists in Ohio 

 more than fifty years ago, as well as one of the most 

 forcible and witty writers in the West. He hod been 

 employed on newspapers in Toledo and elsewhere 

 before he became connected with the Ohio " State 

 Journal," and was best known through his editorial 

 connection with the Cincinnati " Commercial " under 

 its founder and proprietor, M. D. Potter. When 

 Mural Halsteod became editor in chief of that paper, 

 Mr. Reed, with his brother, Samuel R. Reed, founded 

 the Cincinnati " Penny Press," which was the first of 

 the one- and two-cent newspapers in the West. This 

 venture was not successful financially, and he be- 

 came an editorial writer on the Cincinnati " En- 

 quirer," while his brother took a similar place on the 

 " Commercial Gazette." Of late years he had lived 

 in retirement in San Francisco. 



Beeae, John J v toxicologist, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., in 1818; died in Atlantic City, N. J., Sept 4, 

 1892. He was graduated at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania in 1836 ? and at its medical school in 1839, 

 rose rapidly in his profession, and acquired a national 

 reputation by his revelations in toxicology. He s> r\. . 1 

 hi the United States army as an assistant surgeon 

 through the civil war, and for many years afterward 

 was connected with a firm of analytical chemists in 

 Philadelphia. Ho was a frequent contributor to med- 

 ical literature, and by many was believed to stand at 

 the head of the medical profession in this country in 

 toxicology and medical jurisprudence. He was fre- 

 quently called on to give expert testimony, and his 

 evidence in the celebrated tnal of Mrs. Wharton, of 

 Philadelphia, accused of poisoning Gen. Ketchum, of 

 Baltimore, produced a great sensation. Dr. Reese 

 edited the seventh American edition of Taylor's 



" Medical Jurisprudence," and published u Analysis 

 of Physiology," " American Medical Formulary," 

 " Manual of Toxicology," and a text-book on medical 

 jurisprudence and toxicology. 



Benville, Gabriel, Indian "chief, born about 1822; 

 died at tin- si--, ii.n Agency, South Dakota, Aug. 28, 

 1892. He had been chief of the Siwseton ana Wahpe- 

 ton tribes of Indians for a number of years, and wan 

 widely known because of his services in protecting 

 the wnites irom raids of hostile Sioux, and for his fre- 

 quent trips to Washington in the interest of his peo- 

 ple. In 1862 he owned a farm of 3,000 acres near 

 the present city of Gracevillo, on Minnesota river, 

 and during the great Indian massacre of that year he 

 organized and commanded a formidable Indian force 

 for the defense of the white settlers against further 

 outrages, and it was mainly through his efforts that 

 250 white captives were surrendered at Camp Rivas 

 at the close of the uprising. 



Biohards, Sarah J., philanthropist, born in German- 

 town, Pa., in 1820; died in Philadelphia, April 18, 

 1892. She was among the first to answer Gov. Cur- 

 tin's call for nurses to go to the battle fields in 1862, 

 and remained with the army till the close of the war, 

 being for a long time connected with the field hospi- 

 tals of the 2d Army Corps. She served with much 

 effectiveness at the battles of Antietam, Chancellore- 

 ville, Gettysburg, and Fredericksburg ; and on one 

 occasion, while on the Rappahannock, she prevented 

 the capture of on ambulance full of wounded soldiers, 

 which she was driving in person, by putting a re- 

 volver to the head of a Confederate officer who at- 

 tempted to make them prisoners. To thousands of 

 officers and soldiers she was known as " Mother" Rich- 

 ards. The 2d Army Corps presented her a gold corps 

 badge containing the inscription, " Presented to Mrs. 

 Sallie Richards by the soldiers of the 2d Army Corps, 

 in loving memory of her motherly care of and tender 

 ministrations to them while in hospital under her 

 charge." She was specially commended for her brav- 

 ery and assiduous attentions by Gens. Grant, Meade, 

 Burnside, Hooker, and Slocum. - 



Biohardson, Ithian Silsby, inventor, born in 1806 : died 

 in Woodlawn, 111., Feb. 1, 1892. He had a natural 

 fondness for mechanics, and during much of his life 

 busied himself inventing new devices and improve- 

 ments for others already in use. Among his most 

 noted inventions were an apparatus to roll and sugar 

 pills, the machine now employed for placing pins 

 on strips of paper ready for sale, another machine 

 for similarly attaching hooks and eyes, and the pneu- 

 matic tube. 



Boberts, James, painter, "born about 1827; died in 

 New York city, March 21, 1802. He came or a family 

 of scene painters, his father and grandfather having 

 been especially well known, and had been in the 

 service of Daly's Theatre in New York for nearly 

 twenty-three years. For more than twenty years the 

 elaborate stage pictures presented in Mr. Daly's thea- 

 tres were designed by nim, and painted ana set un- 

 der his immediate supervision. 



Bobinson, Janma S., military officer, born in Richland 

 County, Ohio, Oct 14, 1827: died in Toledo, Ohio, 

 Jan. 14, 1892. He was brought up on a farm, was ap- 

 prenticed to the printer's trade in Mansfield, and, after 

 working in various offices, established the Canton 

 "Weekly Republican" in 1847. In 1856 he was 

 elected clerk of the General Assembly of Ohio as a 

 Republican. At the outbreak of the civil war he en- 

 listed as a private in the 4th Ohio Volunteers. He 

 was appointed a captain a few days afterward, and 

 served in the Rich mountain campaign till commis- 

 sioned major of the 82d Ohio Regiment, when he ac- 

 companied it into the West Virginia campaign. In 

 April, 1862, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of 

 this regiment and, at the battles of riianecllorsvillo 

 and Gettysburg he served with distinction, receiving 

 in the latter buttle a shot through his lung, and lying 

 helpless for two days and nights between the oppos- 

 ing lines. Recovering from his wound, he rejoined 

 his regiment and served in all the battles of the 



