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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (AYRES BEARDSHEAR.) 



was assistant and corporation counsel of New 

 York city, and from 1884 till 1901 was an Asso- 

 ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. His opinions, 

 especially in tax cases, were considered of great 

 value. 

 Ayres, Alfred. See OSMUN, THOMAS EM- 



BLEY. 



Babcock, Nathan, manufacturer, born in 

 Westerly, R. I., Nov. 19, 1824; died in Pawcatuck, 

 Conn., May 31, 1902. When eighteen years of age 

 he was apprenticed to a machinist, and afterward 

 he applied himself to mechanical pursuits. In 

 1855 he entered into partnership with the late 

 C. B. Cottreh, under the firm name of Cottrell & 

 Babcock, for the manufacture of cotton and 

 woolen machinery, and in a few years the firm 

 began building power printing-presses. In 1880 

 he retired from the firm, and two years later he 

 organized the Babcock Printing-Press Manufac- 

 turing Company, of which he was secretary and 

 treasurer from the time of its organization till 

 his death. 



Baldwin, Stephen Livingston, missionary, 

 born in Somerville, N. J., in 1835; died in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., July 28, 1902. He became a mission- 

 ary when a young man and labored in China 

 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church for twenty years, during which time he 

 translated a large part of the Bible into Chinese. 

 He is also said to have printed the first copy of 

 the Bible in that language. After his return 

 to the United States he held pastorates in the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, and was conspicu- 

 ous in the organization of the Ecumenical Mis- 

 sionary Conference in New York in 1900. 



Bangs, Mark, jurist, born in Massachusetts 

 about 1822; died in Chicago, 111., June 23, 1902. 

 He removed to Chicago in 1844, and for a 

 time was engaged in farming. Later he stud- 

 ied law in Lacon, 111., became a partner of 

 his preceptor under the name of Fenn & Bangs, 

 and on the death of Judge Fenn associated 

 himself with F. W. Shaw. Mr. Bangs prac- 

 tised in association with Mr. Shaw till the 

 organization of a new judicial district, when the 

 former was chosen its first judge, and at the end 

 of his term returned to private practise. In 1870 

 he was elected to the State Senate. In December, 

 1875, he was appointed United States District At- 

 torney, and during his incumbency of this office 

 he was active in prosecuting the famous Whisky 

 Ring and other transgressors of the revenue laws. 

 Judge Bangs was foremost among the temperance 

 and total -abstinence reformers; was one of the 

 organizers of the Republican party in the State 

 of Illinois; and in 1862 with four others estab- 

 lished the Union League of America. 



Barnwell, Bobert Woodward, clergyman, 

 born at Beaufort, S. C., Dec. 27, 1849; died at 

 Selma, Ala., July 24, 1902. He was a graduate of 

 Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and studied for 

 the Episcopal ministry at the General Theolog- 

 ical Seminary, New York city. He took orders, 

 and, after some months devoted to missionary 

 work in Georgia, was rector of Trinity Church, 

 Demopolis, Ala., in 1876-'80, and of St. Paul's, 

 Selma, in 1880-1900. He declined a nomination 

 to the bishop coadjutorship of Alabama in 1890, 

 but on the death of Bishop Wilmer, in 1900, he 

 accepted the office of Bishop of Alabama and was 

 consecrated in July. Bishop Barnwell possessed 

 great charm of manner, and in his administration 

 of affairs exhibited rare tact and skill. 



Barrows, John Henry, educator, born in Me- 

 dina, Mich., July 11, 1847; died in Oberlin, Ohio, 

 June 3, 1902. He was a son of the late Prof. 

 John M. Barrows; was graduated at Olivet Col- 



lege in 1867, and later at Yale, Union, and Ando- 

 ver Theological Seminaries; and for nearly three 

 years was engaged in missionary and education- 

 al work in Kansas. After a pastorate with the 

 First Congrega- 

 tional Church in 

 Springfield, 111., 

 he spent a year 

 in travel in Eu- 

 rope and the Holy 

 Land. On his re- 

 turn to the Uni- 

 ted States he be- 

 came pastor of 

 the Eliot Congre- 

 gational Church, 

 Lawrence, Mass., 

 where he remained 

 for five years. He 

 removed to Chi- 

 cago in 1881, to 

 take charge of the 

 First Presbyterian 

 Church, and re- 

 mained there more 



than fourteen years. The semicentennial cele- 

 bration of the founding of the Presbyterian 

 Church occurred in 1883, and this led him 

 to publish a history of that Church, under 

 the title of Ecclesiastical Antiquities. He took 

 part in all missionary and reformatory enter- 

 prises in Chicago; became a favorite speaker 

 at college commencements, on the lecture plat- 

 form, at temperance, missionary, and Christian 

 Endeavor conventions, at soldiers' meetings, and 

 before the great gatherings at Chautauqua, N. Y. 

 In 1893 he was president of the World's Parlia- 

 ment of Religions. In 1894 he accepted the lec- 

 tureship of Comparative Religion in the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, and in 1896 resigned his pasto- 

 rates in order to deliver in India a series of lec- 

 tures on a foundation endowed by Mrs. Caroline 

 E. Haskell in connection with the University of 

 Chicago. On his return to the United States in 

 May, 1897, he delivered numerous lectures, in- 

 cluding the Morse course at the Union Theolog- 

 ical Seminary on The Christian Conquest of Asia. 

 In November, 1898, he accepted the presidency of 

 Oberlin College, which he held until his death. 

 He was the author of I Believe in God; Life of 

 Henry Ward Beecher; The World's Parliament of 

 Religions; A World-Pilgrimage; Christianity, the 

 World Religion; and The Gospels are True His- 

 tory. 



Beach, Miles, jurist, born in Saratoga Coun- 

 ty, New \ork, in 1840; died in New York city, 

 May 18, 1902. He was graduated at Union Col- 

 lege in 1854, studied at Albany Law School, 

 and soon after his admission to the bar became 

 associated with his father in the law firm of 

 Beach & Smith. He entered political life whon 

 a young man, and subsequently became mayor of 

 Troy. In 1867 he removed to New York and 

 organized the firm of Beach, Daly & Brown, later 

 Beach & Brown. He was elected to the Court 

 of Common Pleas in 1879, and on the expiration 

 of his term in 1894 was elected a justice of the 

 Supreme Court of the State. 



Beardshear, William Miller, educator, born 

 in Dayton, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1850; died in Des 

 Moines, Iowa, Aug. 5, 1902. He was brought up 

 on a farm, and at the age of fourteen entered 

 the National army. After the war he studied at 

 Otterbein University, Ohio, and later at Yale. 

 In 1881 he was chosen president of Western Col- 

 lege. Toledo, Iowa, where he served till 1889, 

 when he became superintendent of the public 



