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taught an- bricklaying, plastering, plumbing, car 

 pciilM , house ami sign painting. fresco j.aintin^, st..ne 

 cutting, hhicksmitliinir ami tailoring. 'l'<> tin- c.-tal> 

 lislimcnt ami support "I this institution he ami his wife 

 gave hux'cU I n>m their private means. The average 

 annual attendance, exclusive of tin- students of archi- 

 tecture "i Ciilmiiliia College, is about '-.">. In 1889 

 tlir institution was incorporated, ami Mr. uml Mrs. 

 Au. -11111111} added j*l c,i i.i M MI tc, their previous g^ftSj and 

 in April, Is'.iij, .). Picrpont Morgan endowed it witli a 

 yil't of *.' , 



Avery, George Whitefield, physician, born in Hamp- 

 ton, Conn., Sept. -J7, 1836; died in Hartford, Conn., 

 He was graduated ut tin: Yale Medical 

 l, and on the outbreak of the civil \vur 



under (it'ii. Butler, who placed him in charge of the 

 St. .lames Hospital, ami afterward of the Marine llos 

 pital. He greatly aided Gen. Butler in effecting san- 

 itary reforms in" the city; was surgeon of the New 

 Orleans Volunteers in 1864-'66; served a year as 

 sheriff" after the war ; and remained in the city, en- 

 gaging in private practice and rendering important 

 services through the epidemics of cholera and yellow 

 fever, till 1871, when ne removed to Hartford. For 

 many years before his death he was physician at the 

 American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. 



Barrymore, Georgians Brew, actress, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., in 1856 ; died in Santa Barbara, Cal., 

 July 2,1 893. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

 John Drew, and sister of John and Sydney Drew, 

 all well-known actors. She made her first appear- 

 ance on the stage at the Arch Street Theater, Phila- 

 delphia, then under her mother's management, in 

 1872, in " The Ladies' Battle," and remained in her 

 mother's stock company for several years. In 1876 

 she was married to Maurice Barrymore, the actor. 

 During her theatrical career she supported Edwin 

 Booth, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Mine. 



"The Senator," "Mr. Wilkinson's Widows," and her 

 lost appearance in New York city, in 1892, in " Set- 

 tled out of Court." 



Bartlett. Joseph Jackson, military officer, born in 

 Binghamton, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1834; died in Baltimore, 

 Md., Jan. 14, 1893. He received an academic educa- 

 tion, studied law in Utica, was admitted to the bar in 

 Syracuse, and began practicing in Binghamton in 

 1858. In May, 1861, he entered the Union army as 

 major of the 27th New York Volunteers; in Septem- 

 ber following was promoted colonel ; and in October, 

 1862, was commissioned brigadier-general. He took 

 part in the first battle of Bull Run; commanded his 

 brigade in the 1st division of the old 6th Corps on the 

 Peninsula, at Crampton's Pass, Antietam, Fredericks- 

 burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Mine Run ; 

 was placed in charge of the " veteran brigade of Grif- 

 fin's division of the new 5th Corps in 1864 ; held the 

 right of the Union line at Bethesda Church on June 2, 

 1 ->'.); was in the assault on Petersburg on Juno 18 

 following ; and at tne surrender of Gen. Lee held 

 the rank of major-general. Under President John- 

 son he held the office of United States minister to 

 Sweden, and in President Cleveland's first adminis- 

 tration he was Deputy Commissioner of Pensions. 



Bartlett, William Holms Chambers, mathematician, 

 liorn in Lam-aster. Pa., in September, 1804 ; died in 

 Yonkcrs, N. Y., on Feb. 11, 1893. He accompanied 

 his parents to St. Louis. Mo., whither they removed 

 shortly after his birth, and there he received his early 

 education. Through the influence of Thomas H. 

 Benton he received an appointment to the United 

 States Military Academy at West Point, where he 

 was graduated in 1826, 'standing first in his class, 

 which rank he had held during the four years of 

 his course; also he was one of the few who passed 

 through that institution without ha\ing received a 



demerit. His roommates at Went Point were Leon- 

 Idas Polk and Albert S. Johnston. During 1824-'2<J 



his last two years as a student he WOK Acting As- 

 sistant Professor of Mathematics, and alter graduation 

 ciincd at the academy until 12'., partly in that 

 capacity ami partly as Assistant Professor of Kn^im-er- 

 ing. for a time during l.v>8 he was engaged in the 

 construction of Fortress Monroe, Va., and during 

 IMT.I ':;2 lie was similarly occupied at Fort Adanm, 

 Newport, K. 1. He then served as assistant to the 

 chief of engineers in Washington, D. C., whence, iu 

 1834, lie returned to 

 West Point, becom- 

 ing Acting Proi 

 of Natural and Ex- 

 perimental Philoso- 

 phy. In 1836 he se- 

 cured an appointment 

 from President Jack- 

 son to the full posses- 

 sion of the chair, and 

 thenceforth he con- 

 tinued at the academy 

 until 1871, when he 

 was retired with the 

 rank of colonel. Se- 

 lecting Yonkers,N. Y., 

 as his place of resi- 

 dence, he accepted an 

 appointment as actu- 

 ary to the Mutual Life 

 Insurance Company 

 of New York city, which place he then held for twen- 

 ty-two years, during which time he prepared various 

 tables in order to facilitate their office work, and an 

 elaborate report showing the working of that corpora- 

 tion for thirty -one years. In 1840 he was sent abroad 

 to examine the European observatories, with a view of 

 improving the course of instruction at West Point On 

 his return he submitted a report which suggested a 

 plan for an observatory in Washington, D. C. Of his 

 other work, there is worthy of mention a paper on the 

 " Expansibility of Coping Stones," contributed to the 

 "American Journal of Science" in 1832, and a paper 

 on "Strains on Rifle Guns," contributed in 1865 to the 

 " Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences." 1 1 is 

 text- books, originally written for the students at West 

 Point, were very successful, passing through several 

 editions. They included " Treatise on Optics "(New 



"(1850) ^Ana- 

 Astronomy " 

 (1859). The 

 degree of A. M. was conferred on him by the College 

 of N'ew Jersey in 1837, and that of LL. D. by Geneva 

 (now Hobart) College in 1847. He was a member of 

 the American Philosophical Society, the American 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1863 was one 

 of the original incorporators of the National Academy 

 of Sciences named by act of Congress, 



Battin, Joseph, civil engineer, born near Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., in 1807 ; died in New York city, Aug. 29, 

 1893. He was educated for a civil and mechanical 

 engineer; was the first man to demonstrate the prac- 

 ticability of carrying water from Lake Erie, through 

 a tunnel, to supp'ly Buffalo, on the system now used 

 in Chicago; built the Albany, N. Y., gas works in 



Elizabeth, N. J., and the water works at Rochester and 

 Buffalo, N. Y., and invented the coal breaker and a 

 steam road carriage. He acquired a large fortune, 

 and in 1874 settled in Elizabeth, N. J., to manage the 

 water works, which he practically ow ncd. He gave 

 the city a building for a nigh school that cost $240,- 

 000; the Elizabeth Hospital, $.">,000; and various 

 sums to a number of loca_l charities. In 1890 he be- 

 came interested in the faith-cure movement, and be- 

 gan giving so liberally to its promoters that the aid of 

 the courts was invoked by his family to prevent tho 

 dissipation of his property. 



