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He was tlie author System of Chemistry for Students in Medicine; and The Dispensatory of the United States. He died March 19, 1864, in Phila-

medical college in 1841-64. of

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delphia, Pa. Bactae, George M., naval oflBcer, was born Nov. 12, 1840, in the District of Columbia. He served throughout the civil war; and in

1866 was commissioned lieutenant-commander.

He was

1807, in New York City. Bachelder, John, manufacturer, inventor, was born March 7, 1817, in Weare, N.H. He invented the horizontal bar, supporting table, continuous feed and straight needle of the sewing machine. He has been engaged in the dry goods business and cotton manufacturing.

Bachelder, Nahum Josiah, agriculturalist, governor, was born Sept, 3, 1854, in Andover, N.H. He was educated at the Franklin academy; at the New

Hampton

literary institution; and in 1887 received the honorary degree of A.M. from

Dartmouth

For he has been prominently identified with the business and public welcollege.

years

fare of his state;

has

He

is

House

the author of Master of of O'Darrow; Eben Hol-

den; Darrel of the Blessel Isles; and

many

poems. Bachi, Pietro, educator, author, was born 1787 in Sicily. In 1836-46 he was teacher of Italian and Spanish in Harvard college. He was the author of several grammars and phrase-books and a book of fables for learning

and of A Comparative View of Spanish and Portuguese language. He died Aug. 32, 1853, in Boston, Mass. Bachman, Charles W., physician, was bom in 1856 in Reading, Pa. Since 1881 he has practiced medicine in Reading, Pa.; and has been president of the Reading medical assoItalian;

retired in 1875.

Bache, Hartman, civil engineer, was born in 1797 in Philadelphia, Pa. He received the brevet of brigadier-general in 1865, the highest grade in the engineer corps. Among his engineering works of conspieious merit were the construction of the Delaware breakwater and the successful application of ironscrew piles for the foundation of lighthouses upon sandy shoals and coral reefs. He died Oct. 8, 1873, in Philadelphia, Pa. Bache, Richard, postmaster-general, was born Sept. 12, 1737,in Seattle, Pa. He established himself in Philadelphia; and married Sarah, the only daughter of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin appointed him secretary, compiler and register general. In 177682 he was postmaster-general. He died July 29, 1811, in Berks county. Pa. Bache, Sarah, philanthropist, was born on Sept. 11, 1744, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was the leader among the ladies of Philadelphia to furnish the destitute American soldiers with money and clothing during the year 1780. She died Oct. 5, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. Bache, Theophylact, merchant, colonist, was born Jan. 17, 1734, in England. In 1771 he was elected the fifth president of the New York chamber of commerce. He died Oct. 30,

many

repont, N.Y. Silence; Still

and

various positions of trust and honfilled

or; and resides in Andover, N.H. In 1902-04 he served with distinction as governor of the state of New

Hampshire. Bacheller, Addison Irving, journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 36, 1859, in Pier-

ciation.

Bachman, John, clergyman, naturalist auwas born Feb. 4, 1790, in Dutchess county, N.Y. He was a naturalist of Charleston, S.C.; where he was pastor of a Lutheran church in 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, thor,

preparing the greater part of the text of The Quadrupeds of North America. He was the author of Two Letters on Hybridity; and Defence of Luthdr and the Reformation. He died Feb. 25, 1874, in Charleston, S.O.

Bachman, Max,

sculptor, artist,

was born

Feb. 27, 1862, in Brunswick, Germany. Some of his more important works are the four figures which support the cornice of the World building in New York City ; and twenty figures of heroic size in the state normal art school of Massachusetts. Bachman, Reuben K., educator, merchant, congressman, was born Aug. 6, 1834, in Williams, Pa. He spent his early boyhood upon his father's farm; and followed the vocation of teaching in his early manhood. Subsequently he entered into the mercantile and milling business at Durham, Pa. In 1879-81 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.

Bachman, Solomon, manufacturer, was born 1837 in Germany. He was engaged in the manufacture of balmoral skirts; and bought a mill at Paterson, N.J., with machinery to make yarns, and power looms to weave skirts and shawls. In 1877 he bought the Merrimack woolen mill in Lowell, Mass. Bachmann, Alexander, musician, composer, was born Jan. 2, 1836, in Germany. For many years he has been principal of the Northwes-

in

tern musical institute of Philadelphia, Pa. He is said to have taught the largest number of individual pupils of any music teacher in America, a number of

whom now

occupy high

positions in the musical world. He has been organist of some of the leading protestant episcopal churches of Philadelphia; and for many years was vocal instructor of the protestant eniscopal divinity school. He is the-