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other hit as Collie Parker in Run Wild, and so 

 for several years Miss Atherton identified her- 

 self with her husband's management of the Strand 

 Theater. Her specially notable performances 

 were Mimi Mahew in Our Daughters, Lady Betty 

 Vane in A Night's Frolic, and Jeffie in Hans the 

 Boatman. In 1892 she appeared at the Opera 

 Comique, and subsequently at several of the popu- 

 lar music halls of London. In November, 1897, 

 she returned home and became a popular favor- 

 ite in the various vaudeville theaters of different 

 cities. Her last appearance was at Hyde & 

 Behman's Theater, Brooklyn, Jan. 27, 1899. 



Atkinson, William Yates, lawyer, born in 

 Oakland, Ga., Nov. 10, 1854; died in Newnan, 

 Ga., Aug. 8, 1899. He was a son of John P. 

 Atkinson, a farmer and teacher, and brother of 

 Prof. T. E. Atkinson, who prepared him for col- 

 lege. He was graduated at the University of 

 Georgia in 1877, was admitted to the bar in 1878, 

 and established himself in Newnan. In 1879 Gov. 

 olquitt appointed him solicitor of the Coweta 

 County Court, an office he held for three years. 

 He was elected to the Legislature in 1886, 1888, 

 1890, and 1892, and in the last year was Speaker 

 of the House. During 1890-'94 he was chairman 

 of the Democratic State Executive Committee, 

 and in 1894 and 1896 he was elected Governor 

 of Georgia. He was an advocate of free silver 

 and an income tax; founder of the Georgia Nor- 

 mal and Industrial College for Girls, at Milledge- 

 ville, and president of its Board of Trustees; and 

 ^ trustee of the University of Georgia. 



Bailey, Isaac Hazeltine, journalist, born in 

 Yarmouth, Me., in May, 1819; died in New York 

 city, March 24, 1899. He was a direct descend- 

 ant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. When 

 eleven years old he was apprenticed to the print- 

 er's trade, but subsequently spent several years 

 at sea, and in 1837 went to New York and en- 

 tered the leather house of Gideon Lee. About 

 ten years afterward he went into the leather 

 business in partnership with George Palen and 

 William B. Isham. The firm speedily became con- 

 spicuous in the trade, and Mr. Bailey was in- 

 fluential for many years in adjusting disputes 

 between merchants and customers in the trade. 

 He entered political life at an early age, first as 

 an earnest abolitionist and later as an original 

 adherent of the Republican party. In 1859 he 

 was appointed a police commissioner of the city, 

 and in 1873-76 he was a commissioner of the 

 Board of Charities and Correction. In 1873 also 

 he was appointed receiver of the National Bank 

 of the Commonwealth, which failed in the panic 

 of that year, and was an unsuccessful candidate 

 for Congress. Two years afterward he became 

 editor and proprietor of The Shoe and Leather 

 Reporter. He held these posts till 1882, when 

 the paper passed to a corporation, which contin- 

 ued him as editor till his death. 



Baiz, Jacob, merchant, born in Barcelona, 

 Venezuela, about 1839; died in New York city, 

 June 20, 1899. He was brought to New York in 

 childhood, was educated there, and w r as engaged 

 in the commission business till his death. For 

 many years he was the consul general of the re- 

 publics' of Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras. 

 In 1878 he was appointed charge d'affaires for 

 Honduras in Washington, and while holding the 

 office was instrumental in preventing a steamer 

 from leaving New York with munitions of war 

 for the insurgents, for which service the Hon- 

 duran Government commissioned him a brigadier 

 general. During his business career he was in- 

 fluential in developing trade between the United 

 States and Central America. He was the first 

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merchant to introduce into this country the fa- 

 mous brand of Guatemala cofl'ee raised by ex- 

 President Barrios. 



Bardwell, Elizabeth Miller, educator, born in 

 Colrain, Mass., Dec. 4, 1831; died in Greenfield, 

 Mass., May 27, 1899. She was a daughter of 

 Amos Bardwell, for many years active in the 

 public affairs of Colrain, and was educated for a 

 teacher. After leaving Shelburne Falls Academy, 

 she taught till she entered Mount Holyoke Semi- 

 nary, where she was graduated in 1800. In the 

 following year she became an instructor there, 

 and for twenty years she taught at different times 

 algebra, trigonometry, and physics, as well as 

 astronomy, but after 1886 she devoted herself 

 wholly to the last branch. In the interest of her 

 department she had visited the observatories at 

 Washington, Princeton, Berlin, and Potsdam, and 

 the Lick in California. Prof. Bardwell was a 

 member of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 

 and of the British Astronomical Association. 



Baker, David Jewett, jurist, born in Kas- 

 kaskia, 111., Nov. 20, 1834; died in Chicago, 111., 

 March 13, 1899. He was a son of United States 

 Senator David J. Baker, and was graduated at 

 Shurtleff College in 1854. He was admitted to 

 the bar in 1856, and began practice in Cairo, 111. 

 He was always a warm supporter of the Repub- 

 lican party. In 1864 he was elected mayor of 

 Cairo, in March, 1869, judge of the 19th Judicial 

 District, and in June, 1873, judge of the 26th 

 District. On the organization of the Appellate 

 Court in 1877 he was assigned by the Supreme 

 Court to be one of the three judges of the 4th 

 District. In 1878 he was appointed a justice of 

 the Supreme Court of Illinois to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Judge Sidney Breese, and 

 in 1888 he was elected to the bench of that court, 

 on which he served nine years. At the expiration 

 of his term he removed to Chicago. 



Baker, Lewis, journalist, born in Belmont 

 County, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1832; died in Washington, 

 D. C., April 30, 1899. He received a common- 

 school education, was apprenticed to the printer's 

 trade when sixteen years old, and, excepting the 

 period of his diplomatic service, spent his active 

 career in journalism. When twenty years old he 

 edited the JefFersonian in Cambridge, Ohio. Sub- 

 sequently he was associated with Samuel S. Cox 

 in conducting the Daily Ohio Statesman in Co- 

 lumbus, and owned and edited the Wheeling 

 Daily Register and the St. Paul Globe. He was 

 admitted to the bar, but never practiced. While 

 editing his paper in Wheeling, W. Va., from 1863 

 till 1884, he served on the Democratic National 

 Committee and as president of the State Senate, 

 and was a leader in West Virginia politics. In 

 1885 he bought the St. Paul Globe, which he made 

 a power in the political and commercial develop- 

 ment of the Northwest. He was chairman of the 

 Democratic State Committee of Minnesota and 

 delegate at large from that State to the Demo- 

 cratic National Convention in 1892, became inter- 

 ested in several financial corporations in St. Paul, 

 and w r as active in promoting the educational con- 

 cerns of the city. In 1893 he was appointed min- 

 ister to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, 

 and after retiring from that office he passed the 

 remainder of his life in Washington. 



Baker, Sarah, actress, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., in 1817; died in Holmesburgh, Pa., Sept. 1, 

 1899. She was a daughter of Charles Porter, an 

 actor and manager, of Philadelphia. Her dtbut 

 was made in the Walnut Street Theater, Phila- 

 delphia, in the part of Virginia in Sheridan 

 Knowles's Virginius, Dec. 17, 1838. She was then 

 engaged for small parts in the Pittsburg Theater, 



