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228 1850, and in 1854 and 1855 the unsuccessful whig candidate for governor. In 1855 he was elected to the U. S. senate, where he served until his death.—Another son, Luther Vose, physician, b. in Chester, N. I-J., 20 Dec, 1800 ; d. in camp near Budd's Ferry, Md., 11 Feb., 1862, was graduated at Bowdoin"in 1823, and, after studying medicine with his elder brother John in New York city, received his diploma from Dartmouth in 1826. He began to practise in New York, but returned to New Hampshire after his brother's death in 1830. He became noted as a practitioner and writer, taking two Cambridge Boylston prizes by his essays before he was thirty years of age. One of his earlier operations, the amputation of the femur, was successfully performed, in default of any other accessible instruments, with the patient's razor, a tenon-saw, and a darning-needle for a tenaculum. Dr. Bell early became interested in the establishment of hospitals for the insane, and was elected twice to the legislature for the defence of his favorite plan. Although he was not successful, he brought himself into public notice, and in 1837 was chosen superintendent of the McLean insane asylum at Charlestown, Mass. In 1845, at the request of the trustees of the Butler hospital for the insane, at Providence, R. I., he visited Europe for the purpose of studying recent improvements in lunatic asylums, and, after three months' absence, completed the plan of their present building. While at Charlestown, he brought to notice a form of disease peculiar to the insane, which is now known as "Bell's disease," and was also called upon frequently to testify in the courts as an expert. In 1850 he was a member of the state council, and in 1853 of the convention for revising the state constitution. In 1852 he was nominated by the whigs for congress, and in 1856 for governor of the state, but was defeated both times. In 1856 he resigned his place in Charlestown, and when the civil war began he entered the army as surgeon of the 11th Massachusetts volunteers. At the time of his death he was medical director of Hooker's division. Dr. Bell published "An Attempt to investigate some Obscure Doctrines in Relation to Small-Pox" (1830), and "External Exploration of Diseases" (1836), and also described his investigations of alleged spiritual manifestations.—Another son, Louis, soldier, was b. in Chester, N. H., in 1836 ; d. near Fort Fisher, N. C, 16 Jan., 1865. He was graduated at Brown in 1853, and began the practice of law at Farmington, N. H. In 1860 he was appointed solicitor for Strafford co. In April, 1861, he was offered the captaincy of a company of the 1st New Hampshire regiment of three months' men, and served his term of enlistment. Returning home, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 4th New Hampshire volunteers, and became colonel in March, 1862. Col. Bell was for some time a member of Gen. Thomas W. Sherman's staff, and was inspector-general of the department of the south from November, 1861, till March, 1862. Prior to the Wilmington expedition he had been several times temporarily a brigade commander, and had participated in the engagements at Pocotaligo (21 Oct., 1862) and Fort Wagner (July, 1863). In the attack on Fort Fisher (15 Jan., 1865), he commanded a brigade of Gen. Ames's division, and was mortally wounded while leading his men in an assault upon one of the traverses of that work. He died on the day following the engagement.—Samuel Dana's son, Samuel Newell, lawyer, b. in Chester, N. H., 25 March, 1829, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1847, was a member of the 42d and 44th congresses, and in 1874 was appointed by the governor and council chief justice of the superior court, but declined. He retired from practice in 1876.

BELLAMY, Emily Whitfield, author, b. in Quincy, Gadsden co., Fla., 17 April, 1839. Her maiden name was Croom. She was educated at Spingler institute, New York city, taught in a seminary for girls in Eutaw, Ala., contributed to periodicals short prose articles and poems, and has published, under the pen-name of "Kampa Thorpe," two novels, "Four Oaks" (New York, 1867), and "Little Joanna" (1876).

BELLAMY, John, publisher. He was a Lon- don bookseller, who issued Mourt's "Journal of the Plymouth Colony " (1622), and from that time was for twenty-five years the principal publisher of books relating to New England.

BELLAMY, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Cheshire, Conn., in 1719; d. in Bethlehem, Conn., 6 March, 1790. He was graduated at Yale in 1735, and when only eighteen years old licensed to preach by the association of New Haven co. He supplied for some time the pulpit of the church at Bethlehem, Conn,, was ordained its pastor in 1740, and remained there until his death. During the revival of 1742 he preached as an itinerant in Connecticut and the neighboring colonies, and after the excitement was over he returned to his parish and established a divinity school, which soon became noted. Many of the most eminent clergymen in New England were trained by him. His system of divinity resembled that of Jonathan Edwards, with whom he was very intimate. His method of instruction was peculiar. He first gave out questions, indicating at the same time a course of reading that would enable his pupils to answer them, and then, after examining and assisting the students constantly in their work, he required them to write essays on the points that had occupied their attention. He also encouraged them to read the works of the most acute and learned opponents of Christianity. In 1768 he received the degree of D. D. from the university of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Bellamy was a man of commanding presence and possessed much natural humor. His works are: "True Religion Delineated " (1750); "Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasia," a collection of letters and dialogues (1759); "A Letter to Seripturista" (1760); "The Nature and Glory of the Gospel" (1762); "The Law our Schoolmaster" (1762); "The Half- Way Covenant" (1769); "Four Dialogues between a Minister and his Parishioner" (1769); and a large number of sermons. An edition of his entire works appeared after his death (3 vols., New York, 1811), and another, with a memoir by Dr. T. Edwards, was published by the doctrinal tract society (2 vols., 1850).

BELLEROSE, Joseph Hyacinthe, Canadian senator, b. in Three Rivers in 1820. He has been long and prominently connected with the volunteer militia in Lower Canada, being the first to organize companies in the rural districts after the passing of the militia act of 1854, and later became lieutenant-colonel, commanding Laval reserve militia. In 1858 he accepted a captaincy in the 100th regiment of the British army, but soon resigned. He was elected for Laval as a conservative, and represented it in the Canada assembly from 1863 till 1867, and from that date until 1873 (when he was elected to the senate) represented the same constituency in the house of commons. He also represented Laval in the Quebec assembly from the union (1867) until the general election in 1875, when he retired. During the whole of that time he had been chairman of the contingent commit-