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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. thor of The Effects of Civil War Upon the Rights of Persons and Property; Conflict of Decisions; Self-taught Law; and The Detective Faculty. Bailey, William Whitman, botanist, author, was born Feb. 33, 1843, in West Point, N.Y. and is a brother of L. W. Bailey. In Judicial



3864 he was graduated

from Brown university; in 1900 graduated from the university of

New

Brunswick; took

a special course in botany at Harvard university; and has receivthe degrees of A.M.,

B.Ph. and LL.D. In 1877-1906 he was proof botany at university. He the author of New

fessor

Brown is

England Wild Flowers and Their Seasons; Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers Botanical Collector's Handbook and Botanizing.



Bailey, Willis J., farmer, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1854, in Carroll county. 111. He was a member of the Kansas state board of agriculture in 1895-99; and was elected to

the Kansas state legislature from Nemaha county in 1888. In 1899-1901 he was a representative from Kansas to the fifty-sixth congress as a republican. Bailly, Joseph A., sculptor, was born in 1835 in Paris, France. He began his career as a woodcarver; and later he applied himself to marble sculpture. He became a professor in the Pennsylvania academy of fine arts. He has produced a statue of Washington, which was placed in front of the Philadelphia statehouse in 1869 ; a colossal statue of Witherspoon; the companion groups called The First Prayer and Paradise Lost portrait busts of General Grant and General Meade; an equestrian statue of President Blanco of Venezuela; and Spring. Baily, Elisha Ingram, soldier, was born Nov. 14, 1834, in Pennsylvania. In 1847 he was first lieutenant and assistant surgeon in the United States army; became major-surgeon in 1861; and surgeon in 1883. Since 1904 he has held the rank of brigadier-general in the United States armyi Baily, Hannah Muriel, journalist, author, was born Oct. 14, 1873, in Oakland, Cal. She served faithfully as a war correspondent duing the Philippine insurrection. She is the author of several plays. Baily, Joel J., merchant, philanthropist, was born Oct. 29, 1826, in Brandywine, Del. In 1847 he started in the dry goods business. He was the founder of a home for aged cou;

ples.

He

died

March

6,

199

church in that city. He died Dec. Boston, Mass. Baily, Joseph, manufacturer, congressman, was born March 18, 1810, on the Brandywine battleground, Chester county. Pa. In 183945 he represented his native county in both branches of the state legislature; and in 1850-54 represented Perry county in the state senate. In 1854 he was treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania. In 1861-65 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses. He was one of the twelve democrats in congress who voted for the constitutional the

first

12, 1697, in

amendment

abolishing slavery.

He

died ab-

out 1890 in Pennsylvania. Baily, Mark, educator, author, was bom Aug. 19, 1867, in Petaluma, Cal. In 1891-98 he was professor of ancient languages in the

Washington

sjtate university at Seattle; and since 1899 has held that professorship in the Whitworth college of Tacoma, Wash. He is the author of The Latin Verb and Its Uses; and The Latin Prepositions. Baily, William, physician, surgeon, was born Nov. 3, 1833, in Bridgeport, Ky. During the civil war he was surgeon of the ninth Kentucky cavalry. Since 1865 he has practiced medicine in Louisville, Ky. Since 1874 he has been professor of the principles and practice of medicine in the hospital college of medicine at Central university of Fayette,

Mo. Bain, Charles Wesley, educator, author, 24, 1864, in Portsmouth, Va. In 1890 he began educational work; and since 1898 has been professor of ancient languages at the South Carolina -college. He is the author of Bain's First Latin Book.

was born June

Bain,

man,

Robert

legislator,

Edward Mather, business was bom Aug. 9, 1858, in

Chicago, 111. He is general southwest agent of the White Star line of steamers at St. Louis, Mo. In 1881-83 he was a member of the Missouri state legislature. He is well known as a successful photographer; and has traveled extensively in securing photographs for illustrating Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee; and Romance of Palestine.

A

Samuel McCutchen, educator, botanist, scientist, was born Jan. 14, 1869, in Eagleville, Tenn. In 1893-99 he was instructor, in 1899-1901 was assistant professor, and Bain,

since 1901 has been professor of botany at the university of Tennessee. He has made valuable researches on the flora of Tennessee; and on the physiological action of copper on leaves.

Bainhridge,

Edmund

Cooper, soldier,

was

1903, in Philadelphia,

born in Virginia. In 1856 he graduated from the United States military academy; and attained the rank of brevet major and lieu-

bom Feb. 24, New England

tenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services during the civil war. He then served in the army until 1897. He died April 1, 1903.

Pa. Baily, John, clergyman, was 1644, in England. He came to

about 1684; and was ordained minister of the church at Watertown, in 1685. In 1692 he returned to Boston; and in July of the following year became assistant minister of

Bainhridge, Henry, soldier, was born in 1803 in New York. He served in the Florida war; in the military occupation of Texas; in