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New York to the forty-fiftli congress as publican. He died about 1890 in Utiea,

a reN.Y. Bacon, William Thompson, clergyman, jo-

was born Aug. 34, 1814, in Woodbury, Conn. During several years he was editor and proprietor of the Journal and Courier of New Haven, Conn. He was the author of two volumes of poems. He died urnalist, poet,

May

18, 1881, in

Derby, Conn.

Almon C,

educator, college presi25, 1830. He has held prominent positions in the schools of New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Michigan; and in 1878 took charge of the Cherokee male seminary at Tahlequah, I.T. Bade, William Frederic, educator, archaeologist, was born Jan. 22, 1871, in Carver, Minn. Since 1902 he has been professor of Semitic languages at the Pacific theological seminary of Berkeley, Cal. He is a writer on archseological subjects and on subjects con-

Bacone,

dent,

was born April

nected with mountaineering and nature studies.

Badeau, Adam, soldier, diplomat, author, was born Dec. 29, 1831, in New York City. He was a general in the United States army. He was secretary to General Grant; and assisted in writing his life. He was author of The Vagabond; Military History of General Grant; Conspiracy: a Cuban Romance Aris;

tocracy in England; and Grant in Peace: a Personal Memoir. He died March 20, 1895, in

Ridgewood, N.J. Badger, Algernon Sidney, soldier, was born Oct. 28, 1839, in Boston, Mass. In 1861 he joined the sixth regiment Massachusetts infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral and major-general. He died in 1905. Badger, DeWitt Clinton, educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1858, in Madison county, Ohio. He is a successful lawyer of Columbus, Ohio was elected prosecuting attorney in 1883; and in 1893-1901 was common pleas judge. In 1903-05 he was a representative from Ohio to the fiftyeighth congress as a republican. Badger, George Edmund, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born April 13, 1795, in Newbern, N.C. He was elected to the legislature in 1816. In 1820-25 he was judge of the supreme court. In 1841-45 he was secretary of the navy. In 1845-55 he was United States senator. He died May 11, 1866, in Raleigh, N.C. Badger, Joseph, soldier, jurist, was born Jan. 11, 1722, in Haverhill, Mass. He was appointed brigadier-general in 1780 was judge of probate in 1784-97; and in 1788 was a member of the convention that adopted the federal constitution. In 1784 and 1790-91 he was a member of the state council. He was one of the founders of Gilmanton academy. He died April 4, 1803, in Gilmanton, N.H. Badger, Joseph, missionary, was born Feb. 28, 1757, in Wilbraham, Mass. In 1800 the missionary society sent him to the unsettled part of the country northwest of the Ohio river. Here he endured great hardships for thirty years, going from settlement to sett;



lement, over a country where there were neither roads nor bridges; and often passing the night in the branches of a tree. This mode of life gave him great familiarity with the country, which was of use to the American army during the war of 1812, when he served as chaplain. He died May 5, 1846, in Perrysburg, Ohio. Badger, Joseph, clergyman, founder, was born Aug. 16, 1792, in Gilmanton. He edited Palladium; and founded various churches. He died May 12, 1852, in Gilmanton, N.H.

Badger, Luther, lawyer, congressman, was born April 10, 1785, in Partridgefield, Mass. In 1825-27 he was a representative from New York to the nineteenth congress. He had been engaged in military services in his state; and in 1819-27 was judge advocate for the twenty-seventh brigade of infantry of New York state. In 1840-43 he was examiner in chancery and commissioner of United States loans. In 1846-49 he was United States district attorney for New York. He died in New York. Badger, Milton, clergyman, was born May 6, 1800, in Coventry, Conn. In 1835 he bec-

ame the associate secretary of the American home missionary society; and was senior secretary for thirty-four years. He died March 1873, in Madison, Conn. Badger, Oscar Charles, naval officer, was born Aug. 12, 1833, in Windham, Conn. He was made lieutenant-commander in 1862; and commanded the ironclads Patapsco and Montauk in the engagements with the forts and batteries in Charleston harbor in 1863. In 1872 he was made captain; and in 1881 became commodore. In 1885 he was placed on the retired list. He died June 31, 1899, in Concord, Mass. Badger, William, jurist, state senator, governor, was born Jan. 13, 1779, in Gilmanton, N.H. He was a member of the legislature in 1810-12; was a member of the state senate in 1814-16; and president of that body in 1816. He was an associate judge of the court of common pleas in 1816-21; was high sheriff of Stafford county in 1832-33 and governor of the state in i834-36. He died Sept. 31, 1853, in Gilmanton, N.H. Badger, William, soldier, was born in New Hampshire. He was a captain in the civil war. He died May 11, 1897. 1,



Badin, Stephen Theodore, clergyman, auwas born in 1768 in France. He emigrated to the United States in 1793. He was ordained in the old cathedral at Baltimore, being the first priest ordained in the United States. He died in 1853 in Cincinnati, Ohio. thor,

soldier, was bom May 35, Mass; and was a brother of General Stephen Badlam. He was a captain

Badlam, E?ra,

1746, in Milton,

in Grilley's artillery regiment at the siege of Boston in 1775; was in Baldwin's regiment in 1776 ; was present at Trenton and Princeton; in 1777-80 was lieutenant-colonel of Bailey's regiment. He died April 5, 1788,. in

Dorchester, Mass.