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264 and supplies of Gen. Banks's command in Maryland in 1861, of the quartermaster's depot at Nashville, Tenn., in 1863-'3, and as chief quartermaster of the Army of the Tennessee. He took part in the siege of Vicksburg and in the invasion of Georgia. On 9 April, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-gen- eral for faithful and mei'itorious services during the rebellion. After the war he was successively chief quartermaster of the department of the lakes, assistant quartermaster-general at Washington, be- ing in charge of the bureau a part of the time, as commissioner to audit the Kansas war accounts, and as chief quartermaster with the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel at the headquarters of the division of the Pacific and the department of the Missouri, and from 4 June, 1886, at Chicago, 111., as chief quarter- master of the division of the Missouri.

BINGHAM, Kinsley S., senator, b. in Camillus, N. Y., 16 Dec, 1808 ; d. at Oak Grove, Mich., 5 Oct., 1861. He received a common-school education, and was clerk in a lawyer's office for three years. In 1883 he emigrated to Michigan and settled iipon a farm. In 1837 he was elected to the Michigan legislature, continued during eight years a member of that body, and for three years as speaker. In 1849 he was elected a representative in congress, and served on the committee of commerce. In 1854 he was elected governor of the state, and in 1859 was chosen U. S. senator.

BINGHAM, William, senator, b. in Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1751 ; d. in Bath, England, 7 Feb., 1804. He was graduated at Philadelphia college in 1768, went as agent for the continental congress to Martinique, and afterward was consul at St. Pierre. In 1787-'8 he was a delegate in the old con- gress from Pennsylvania. In 1795 he was elected a senator, and served till 1801, in 1797 as president of the senate pro tempore. He was a strong sup- porter of President Adams. In 1793 lie purchased, for $350,000, more than 2,000,000 acres in Maine, which he described in a pamphlet published the same year. In 1794 he published a " Letter from an American on the Subject of the Restraining Proclamation." — His wife, Anne Willina:, was dis- tinguished in Philadelphia by her lieauty, elegance of manners, and the magnificent hospitality which the means of her husband, who was at that time the wealthiest citi- zen of Pennsyl- vania, permitted her to dispense. The accompany- ing portrait is af- teroneby Gilbert Stuart. — Their eldest daughter, Anne Louisa, who died in 1848, married in Philadelphia, 23 Aug.. 1798, Al- exander Baring, negotiator of the Webster-Ashburton treaty. — Their second daughter, Maria Matilda, married James Alexander, Comte de Tilly, for lier second husband Henry Baring, brother of Lord Ashbur- ton, and for her- third the Marquis de Blaisel.

BINGHAM, William, educator, b. in North Carolina in 1835. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1856, and succeeded to the management of a classical school at Mebanesville, Alamance co., N. C, which had been conducted with success by his father and grand- father. He has published " A Grammar of the Latin Language " ; " A Grammar of the English Language " ; and " Cjesar's Commentaries, with Notes and a Vocabulary."

BINNEY, Amos, merchant and naturalist, b. in Boston, Mass., 18 Oct., 1803 ; d. in Rome, Italy, 18 Feb., 1847. He was graduated at Brown in 1821, and obtained a medical diploma in 1826, but engaged with success in commercial pursuits, de- voting his leisure to natural science. He was a founder of the Boston society of natural history, and was its president from 1843 until his death, and was active in establishing the American asso- ciation of geologists and naturalists. As a mem- ber of the Massachusetts legislature he was instru- mental in securing the appointment of the zoologi- cal and botanical commissions, which resulted in the valuable reports of Harris, Emerson, Storer^ and Gould on injurious insects, forest-trees, fishes, and invertebrate animals. To the "Journal " and " Proceedings " of the Boston society of natural history he contributed many scientific papers. He devoted many years to the study of American mol- lusks, and spent a large amount of money in pre- paring a treatise on the subject of land mollusks, sending exploring parties to Florida, Texas, and other regions, and employing skilful artists to make drawings and engrave plates. His " Terres- trial and Air-Breathing Mollusks of the United States " was published under the direction of Dr. A. A. Gould (Boston, 1847-'51). His son, W. G. Binney, became known as a eonchologist.

BINNEY, Hibbert, clergvman, b. in Nova Scotia, 13 Aug., 1819 : d. in Halifax, 30 April, 1887. He was educated at Worcester college, Oxford, being graduated with classical and mathematical honors in 1842, became a fellow of his college, and was tutor there from 1846 till 1851, when he re- turned to Nova Scotia, and was consecrated as the fourth Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Dr. Courtney was his successor.

BINNEY, Horace, lawyer, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 4 Jan., 1780 ; d. there, 12 Aug.. 1875. He was of English and Scotch descent. His father was a surgeon in the revolutionary army. In 1788, the year after his father's death, he was placed in a classical school at Bordentown, N. J., where he continued three years, and distinguished himself especially by his attainments in Greek. In July, 1793, he entered the freshman class of Harvard, and at graduation in 1797 he divided the highest honor with a single classmate. He had acquired the art and habit of study, and a love for it which never abated until the close of his life. This art he ever regarded as his most valued acquisition. He began the study of law in November, 1797, in the office of Jared Ingersoll, and was called to the Itar in March, 1800, when he was little more than twenty years of age. His clientage for some years was meagre, but his industry continued unflagging, and gradually, in the face of a competition with eminent lawvers, such as no other bar in the country then exhibited, he became an acknowledged leader. In 1806 he was sent to the legislature of the state, in which he served one year, declining a re-election. So early as 1807 his professional engagements had become extremely large, and before 1815 he was in the enjoyment of all that the legal profession could give, whether of reputation or emolument. Between 1807 and 1814 he prepared and published the six volumes of reported decisions of the supreme court. of Pennsylvania that