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Rh again elected a senator, took his seat 2 Dee., 1839, and served till the end of his term, 3 March, 1845. He was appointed charge d'affaires at Brussels, 10 Dec, 1850, and represented the United States there until 12 Sept., 1853. His widow, a grand-daughter of Charles Carroll, of CarroUton, who was celebrated for her beauty, died in 1885.

BAYARD, Samuel, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 11 Jan., 17G7; d. in Princeton, N. J., 12 May, 1840. He was the fourth son of Col. John Bayard, a,nd was graduated at Princeton in 1784, delivering the valedictory oration. He studied law with Will- iam Bradford', whose law-partner he became, and practised for seven years in Philadelphia. In 1791 he was appointed clerk of the U. S. supreme court. After the ratification of Jay's treaty with Great Britain, signed 19 Nov., 1794, he was appointed by Washington agent of the United States to prose- cute American claims before the British admiralty courts, and in that capacity he lived in London four years. After his return he resided several years "at New Rochelle, N. Y., and while there was appointed by Gov. Jay presiding judge of West- chester CO. In 1803 he removed to New York citv, and resumed the practice of law. He was one of the founders of the New York historical society, organized in 1804. In 180(3 he purchased an estate at Princeton, N. J. For several years he was a member of the New Jersey legislature, and for a long period presiding judge of the court of coin- mon pleas of Somerset co. He was interested in religious enterprises, was one of the founders of Princeton theological seminary, and joined with Elias Boudinot in establishing the American Bible society and the New Jersey Bible society. In 1814 he was nominated by the federalists for congress, but was defeated. He published a funeral oration on Gen. Washington (New Brunswick, 1800) ; " A Digest of American Cases on the Law of Evidence, intended as Notes to Peake's Compendium " (Phila- delphia, 1810) ; " An Abstract of the Laws of the United States which relate to the Duties and Au- thority of Judges of Inferior State Courts and Jus- tices of the Peace " (New York, 1834) ; and " Let- ters on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper" (Philadelphia, 1825; 2d ed.. 1840). See "Samuel Bayard and his London Diarv, 1791-'4," by Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson (Newark, 1885).

BAYARD, Thomas Francis, statesman, b. in Wilmington, Del., 29 Oct., 1828; d. in Dedham, Mass.. 28 Sept., 1898. He was educated in the Flushing school established by the Kev. Dr. F. L. Hawks, and, being intended for mercantile life, was placed in a business house in New York city. Af- ter the death of his elder brother in 1848, he re- turned to Wil- mington, stud- ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He was appointed U. S. district attorney for Delaware, but resigned in the following year. In 1855 he removed to Philadelphia, where he became the partner of William Shippen and practised for two years, but then returned to Wil- mington and continued in the practice of the law until he was elected in 1868 to succeed his father in the U. S. senate. In 18(il, at a public meeting in Dover, he delivered a memorable speech in favor of peace with the south. He took his seat 4 March, 1869, and, being re-elected for a second term in January, 1875, and again in 1881, served continu- ously until he became secretary of state, 4 March, 1885. On the day on which he was elected to the senate for a full term his father was also re-elected a senator from Delaware to serve for the unexpired part of his original term. This is the only case of a father and son being voted for by the same legis- lature to fill the senatorial office. In the senate he served on the committees on finance, judiciary, private land claims, library, and revision of laws. In October, 1881, he was elected president pro tem- pore of the senate. He was a member of the elec- toral commission of 1876-'7, and a conspicuous upholder in congress of democratic doctrines and state rights, and was voted for in national conven- tion as a candidate for the presidency in 1880 and again in 1884. In appointing his cabinet in March, 1885, Mr. Cleveland selected Mr. Bayard for the post of secretary of state. Including his great- grandfather. Gov. Bassett, he is the fifth member of his family who have occupied seats in the U. S. senate. In 1893 he was appointed by Mr. Cleve- land first ambassador to Great Britain.

BAYARD, William, merchant, b. in New York, 1 June, 1729 ; d. in Southampton, England, in 1804. He joined the Sons of Liberty, but his prin- ciples would not permit him to aid the movement for independence, and he sailed for England, re- siding near Southampton. At the period of his departure Col. Bayard was among the most promi- nent and opulent merchants of New York. His ancestral country-seat at Castle Point included nearly all the land on which the present city of Hoboken is built. The estate was confiscated and sold, but by marriage has again passed into the possession of a Bayard. Two of his four sons en- tered the British army — Lieut.-Col. John Bayard, and Maj. Samuel Vetch Bayard. His third son, William, was the head of the leading mercantile house of New York in the early part of the present century, the firm l)eing Bayard, Leroy & McEvers.

BAYFIELD, Henry Wolsey, English naval officer, b. in Hull, 21 Jan., 1795; d. in Prince Ed- ward island, 10 Feb., 1885. He entered the British navy in 1806, and during the war of 1812 had com- mand of an English gun-boat on the lakes. In 1815 he made a survey of Lake Ontario, and from 1817 till 1823 was engaged similarly on Lakes Erie and Huron. In 1827 he surveyed the river and gulf of St. Lawrence ; and his charts are of great value. In 1834 he was made captain, in 1863 rear- admiral, and in 1867 admiral on the retired list.

BAYLES, James Copper, journalist, b. in New York city, 3 July, 1845. He pursued a course of technical studies until 1862, when, shortly after the beginning of the civil war, he entered the U. S. service as a lieutenant of artillery. His health having been impaired by exposure and injuries, he resigned in 1864 and turned his attention to journalism. He was editor of the New York "Citizen" in 1865-7, of the New York "Commercial Bulletin" in 1868-9. In 1870 he became editor of "The Iron Age," and in 1874 established "The Metal Worker," of which he also became editor, Mr. Bayles has devoted much time and careful study to the special topics of which his journals treat, and has made numerous varied and success-