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Rh BAXTER, Algernon Sidney, broker, b. in RockingliHin, Vt., 14 Nov.. 1S19 ; d. in New Yorlc city, 29 April, 18U7. He was a si)n of Judge Hor- ace Baxter, of Vermont, and after acomnioii-scliool ediicaliiiD he went to Boston, and later to St. Louis, where he was a merchant, and tiecame acquainted with Capt. U. S. Grant. Soon after the war be- gan, he was on the staff of Grant as quartermaster, with the rank of captain. At Siiiloh he carried to Gen. Wallace that celebrated despatch which caused so much controversy. Grant, in his " Per- sonal Memoirs," says: "Capt. Baxter, a qnarter- master on my staff, was ai'conlingly directed to go back ami order Gen. Wallace to march immedi- ately to Pittsburg by the road nearest to the river. Capt. Baxter made a memorandum of this order. Gen. Wallace has since claimed that the order deiivered to him by the captain was simply to join the right of the army." Baxter's condition of health compelled him soon after to leave the service, when he settled in New York city, pursu- ing a successful career as a broker in Wall street. He was the last survivor of those officers who served on Gen. Grant's staff in the successful bat- tles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh.

BAXTER, James Phinner, author, b. in 6or- ham. Me., 23 March, 1831. He was educated in Portland, Me., and l^ynn, Mass., and became a mer- chant and manufacturer. He organized the Asso- ciated cliaritii-s in Portland, and was instrumental in founding the Maine industrial school for girls. Mr. Baxter in 1S87 presented to the I'ortland pub- lic library, the Portland scwietr of art, and the Maine historical societv, conjointly, a lot of land, and is erecting u|>on it, at a cost of tlOO.IMX), a building for these societies. lie is the author of a volume of poems entitled "Idyls of the Year" (Porllan<l. 18»4); "The Trelawiiey Pafiers.," pub- lished as the Sd volume of the " Documentary His- tory of Maine " (1884) ; " George Cleeve, of C'a.*co Bay, 1K«)-I6fl7" (1885); and "Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine" (1889). He has also e«lile<l " I)igby's Journal," the writer of which served under Burgoyne. under the title of "The British Invasion from the North " (Albany, 1887), and the 4th volume of the "Documentary History of Maine." containing dwumenls from American atid foreign archives (Portland. 1889).

BAVLOR, FranoPH Conrtenay. author, b. in Fayettevdle, Ark., 20 Jan.. I84.S. She was etlu- caled at home, and has travelled extensivelv. Her present residence Is Winchester. Va. Miss Baylor's principHl (iublicatiotisare"On Both Sides " (Phila- delphia. I88«).'-Juan and Juanila" (Boston, 1887). "Behind the Blue Kidge" (Philndeliihia, 1888). "ShiK-king KxamiOes. and other Sketciies" (18S0). "Claudia Hvde" (New York. 18!)4). "Miss Nina Barrow" (1897). and "The Lailder of Fortune" (Boston. 181i9i. Her first work is very entertain- ing, and has iH'pn liighlv coinmcnde.(.. he was principal of Smyrna seminary. Delaware, and of the high school in Wilki-slmrre, Pa. In 1874 he became cnnnected with the V. S. fish cominissiim. was curator of the department of fishes in the U. S. nati<inal muwum. ichthyologist and iLssislant in charge of the di- vision of llsh culture. V. S. fish commission, and editor of il.s publications. With Dr. G. Brown Goo<Ie he ha* written an important memoir on the "Deep-Sea Fishes of the Atlantic Basin." Twice he visitol Alaska, in 1884 and 1889. to in- restigate and report on fisheries. Dr. Beau was for two years in charge of the Castle garden aqua- rium, of New York, which was opened in 1896.

BEARDSLEE, Lester Anthony, naval officer, b. in Little Falls, N. Y., 1 Feb., 1835. He was graduated at the V. S. naval academy in 1856, served as a midshipman under Coinmcjdore Perry when, in IS-W, he opened Japan to commerce. In October, 1864, he was, as licutenanl-conimander. ex- ecutive officer of the " Wachuset " when she caught the Confederate privateer "Florida" in Bahia, Brazil, and he brought the prize to the United States as commanding officer. After the civil war he served as the naval member of the board for testing American ineluls. In July. 1869. as com- mander of the gunboat " Palos " on the way to China, he carried the first American flag thrdugh the Suez canal. In 188(>-'3 he had charge of the government of southeastern Alaska. In 1894-'7, as rear-aee-ty). Canadian lawyer, b. in Trafalgar. (»nt«rio, 10 Nov.. 1831. His parents were Irish. He was educated in Toronto, studied law, was called to the bar in 185.5. and practised his profe8.sion. In 1873 he was appointeil queen's coun.«el. He was made alderman of Toronto in 1877, anil in that year intriKluced the '' Bealy by- law." changing the entire management of the civic business. He l)ccame mayor in 1878. and was re- elected to this office in the following term. He is a bencher of the Imw society of Ontario, is head of the legal firm of Beaty, Hamilton & Ca.«sels. and has been for fifty years a justice of the court of apiK-als for Ontario. He was elected to parlia- ment from West Toronto in 1880. and continued a memt)er to the close of 1887. He was chairman of a committee of parliament, a founder of the Confederation life a-s-socintion. and president and a director of many institutions and associations in Toronto. In 1884 he became president of the Northwest Central railway company. Trinity col- lege, Toronto, pave him tiie degrees of B. C. L. and D. C. L. Flc is the author of "Paying the Pa«tor Cnscriptural and Tradilional" (London, 1SS5). — His uncle. JaiueH Beaty, b. in Cavan. Ire- lanarty. and was a founder of various chari- table anil monetary institutions in Toronto.

'''BEAUDRY. Lewis Napoleon,''' clergyman, b. in Highgate, Franklin co., Vl., 11 Aug., 183.1. He is of French-Canadian parentage, and was a Roman Catholic, but was converted to Protestantism through the influence of his classmate, the Uev. Josi'ph Cofik, became a Methodist, and entered the Troy conference in 18.50. He studied in Troy university, but left without graduation, and be- came chaplain of the 5th New York regiment of ca%'alry on 31 Jan.. 1863. After jiarticipatiiig in manv battles, he was captured and spent the sum- mer 'of 18IW in Lil)by nri.son. On 19 July. 1805, he was honorably discharged from the service. Since 1876 he has iH-en a member of the Montreal conference, and was superintendent of the French district of the conference, and professor of theol- otry in Wesleyan theological college. Montreal. Mr. Beainlry is the author of "Army and Prison Experiences with the Fifth New York Cavalry "