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schools of Des Moines. Two years later he was 

 made president of the Iowa State College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts, which po$t he held 

 until his death. In 1894 Dr. Beardshear was 

 made president of the Iowa State Teachers' Asso- 

 ciation, and in 1897 was appointed one of the 

 United States Indian Commissioners. 



Behman, Louis C., theatrical manager, born 

 in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 4, 1855; died there, Feb. 

 27, 1902. He was brought up with the view of 

 becoming his father's assistant in the grocery 

 business, but as he grew to young manhood his 

 ideas of making a fortune developed along differ- 

 ent lines. While still a mere youth he gave sum- 

 mer-night concerts in the old Clermont Avenue 

 Skating-Rink, and with the money he made there 

 he went to Philadelphia in 1876, while the Cen- 

 tennial Exposition was in that city, and, with a 

 friend, Richard Hyde, another Brooklyn youth, 

 he leased a theater and made considerable money. 

 They returned to Brooklyn, and leased a build- 

 ing in Adams Street that had formerly been the 

 Brooklyn Market. This the young managers 

 soon turned into a theater, and they gave their 

 first performance in it May 19, 1877. The char- 

 acter of the entertainment was similar to that 

 presented at the German Volksgartens, but the 

 venture prospered, and when the building was 

 destroyed by fire, in 1890, Mr. Behman purchased 

 more adjacent land and erected a new and hand- 

 some theater. The partnership was dissolved in 

 1899, and the Hyde and Behman Amusement 

 Company was incorporated. They acquired the 

 ownership of the Star, Novelty, and Amphion 

 heaters, in Brooklyn, and owned controlling in- 

 erests in the Herald Square Theater, in Manhat- 

 in, and the Newark, Bijou, and Folly Theaters, 

 Newark, N. J. They also sent many compa- 

 lies of vaudeville performers on the road. When 

 Ir. Behman died he was considered one of the 

 wealthiest managers in the United States. 



Bierstadt, Albert, artist, born near -Diissel- 

 lorf, Germany, Jan. 7, 1830; died in New York 

 city, Feb. 18, 1902. He was brought to the Uni- 

 ed States in infancy, his family settling in New 

 Iford, Mass., where he spent his youth. He 

 studied painting in Diisseldorf, Germany, under 

 " essing, four years, and later in Rome, returning 

 to the United States in 1858, and introducing 

 is known as the Diisseldorfian manner of 

 landscape. He visited the West and the Rocky 

 " lountains, where he obtained material for many 

 jf his most noted pictures; and in subsequent 

 risits to Europe he collected material for Alpine 

 md Italian subjects, the best known of which is 

 lis Storm on the Matterhorn. He was elected 



member of the National Academy of Design in 

 1860; was awarded many foreign medals; was 

 lecorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor 

 in 1867, with two degrees of the order of St. 



tanislaus in 1869 and 1872, and with the Impe- 

 rial Order of the Medjidii in 1886. His paintings 

 of American scenery include Laramie Peak 

 (1861); Lander's Peak in the Rocky Mountains 

 (1863); North Fork of the Platte (1864); Look- 

 ing down the Yosemite (1865); El Capitan; On 

 Merced River (1866); Valley of the Yosemite 

 (1866); Settlement of California; Discovery of 

 the Hudson River ; Emerald Pool on Mount Whit- 

 ney (1870); Great Trees of California (1874); 

 Valley of Kern River, California (1875); Mount 

 "hitney, Sierra Nevada (1877) ; Estes Park, Col- 

 3rado; Mountain Lake, Sierra Nevada (1878); 

 Mount Corcoran, Sierra Nevada (1878); Geysers 

 (1883) ; View on Kern River (1884) ; On the Saco, 

 New Hampshire (1886); and California Oaks 

 (1886). 



Bigelow, Marshall Train, printer and proof- 

 reader, born in South Natick, Mass., Oct. 5, 1822; 

 died in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 28, 1902. He be- 

 came connected with the University Press in 

 Cambridge in 1843, and was for many years a 

 member of the firm, the firm name from 1859 to 

 1879 being Welch, Bigelow & Co. He was long 

 ranked as one of the most competent proof-read- 

 ers in the country, but had retired from active 

 life for several years. He published Punctuation 

 and Other Typographic Matters (1881), and Mis- 

 takes in Writing English and How to Avoid 

 Them (1886). 



Bloodgood, Delavan, surgeon, born in Spring- 

 field, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1831; died in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., April 4, 1902. He was graduated at Mad- 

 ison University, Hamilton, N. Y., in 1852, and 

 later at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. 

 He entered the United States navy with the rank 

 of assistant surgeon in 1857, and in the civil war 

 served on the Mohawk and the Dacotah, which 

 took part in several important operations. After 

 the war he served on foreign stations, and for 

 several years was fleet surgeon of the Pacific 

 squadron. In 1886-'87 he had charge of the 

 Naval Hospital at the Norfolk Navy-Yard, and 

 later of the naval laboratory at the Brooklyn 

 Navy- Yard, holding the latter assignment at the 

 time of his retirement, Aug. 20, 1893. When the 

 Spanish- American War broke out, in 1898, Sur- 

 geon Bloodgood was assigned to special duty at 

 the naval hospital in Brooklyn. 



Bouton, John Bell, author, born in Concord, 

 N. H., March 15, 1830; died in Cambridge, Mass., 

 Nov. 18, 1902. He was graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1849 and studied law, but did not prac- 

 tise. His life work was that of journalism and 

 literature. He was editor of the Cleveland, Ohio, 

 Plain-Dealer in 1851-'55; removed to New York 

 city in 1857 and became connected with the Jour- 

 nal of Commerce, with which paper he remained 

 till 1889, when he retired from journalism. He 

 was a contributor to Appletons' Annual Cyclo- 

 paedia for ten years. His published books in- 

 clude Loved and Lost, a series of essays (1857); 

 Round the Block (1864) ; Treasury of Travel and 

 Adventure; Round about Moscow (1887): Uncle 

 Sam's Church (1895); and Memoirs of General 

 Bell (1902). 



Boynton, James Stoddard, jurist, born in 

 Henry County, Georgia, May 7, 1833; died in 

 Griffin, Ga., Dec. 22, 1902. He was elected ordi- 

 nary of Butts County, Georgia, in 1860; served 

 in the Confederate army during the civil war, 

 rising from private to colonel; was judge of the 

 Spalding County Court in 1866-'68; mayor of 

 Griffin in 1869-72; president of the State Senate 

 in 1880-'82; and became Governor of Georgia in 

 1883. In 1886-'93 he was judge -of the Flint Cir- 

 cuit Court, resigning in the latter year to become 

 division counsel of theCentralof Georgia Railway. 



Brantley, John Joyner, clergyman, born in 

 Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29, 1821; died in Macon, Ga., 

 June 8, 1902. He became connected with the Bap- 

 tist Church in Milledgeville in 1839, and was 

 licensed to preach in the First Church of Charles- 

 ton, S. C., of which his father was pastor, in 1844. 

 He held pastorates in Fayetteville, N. C., five 

 years, and in Newbury, S. C., seventeen years; 

 taught for several years in Richmond Academy, 

 Augusta, Ga. ; was principal of the Male Acad- 

 emy in Pillsboro, N. C.; and was Professor of 

 Languages in Mercer University from 1867 till 

 his death. Dr. Brantley was one of the most 

 accomplished linguists in the South. 



Bridges, Eloise (Mrs. Charles H. Erwin), 

 actress, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1832; died in 



