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was a nephew of H. Ballou

1st,

and

like

him

a universalist clergyman. He wrote A Memoir of the Kev. Merritt Sanf ord and was the author of The Divine Character Vindicated.

He

died

May

19, 1879, in Atco, N.J.

Ballou, Nahum Enon, physician, scientist, author, was born Sept. 16, 1833, in Plymouth, N.Y. He was a student of meteorology for nearly half a century and was the author of a number of works on that subject. From 1863 he was United States pension surgeon, being at his death one of the oldest in the service. He died about 1900 in Sandwich,

111.

Ballou, Sullivan,

soldier,

lawyer, states-

man, was born March 88, 1837, in Smithfield, R.I. He became a member of the Rhode Island house of representatives and was unanimously chosen speaker. He was one of the most prominent men of his native state and



lost his life at the disastrous battle of Bull

Run

in 1863. Ballou, WiUiam Rosea,, journalist, scientist, author, was born Sept. 30, 1857, in Hannibal, N.

In 1877-81 he attended the

Y.

Northwestern university ; studied at the university of Pennsylvania; and made special studies in natural science. In 1875-77 he was recorder of the

lake States survey. In 1893-95 he was vice-president of the American humane association. In 189198 he was vice-president of the New York

United

and Westchester water company;

and in 1893-96 was president of the Pocantico waterworks company. In 1895-98 he was editor of the

Dispatch. He is Ride on a Cyclone; The Ba-

New York Weekly

the author of chelor Girl;

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The Upper Ten; An Automatic

Wife; and Spectacular Romances. Baltes, Peter Joseph, clergyman, bishop, author, was born April 7, 1827, in Bavaria. He was consecrated bishop of Alton in 1870. He was the author of Pastoral Instruction. He died Feb. 15, 1886, in Alton, 111. Baltzell, Thomas, lawyer, jurist, was born about 1805. In 1853-59 he was chief justice of the supreme court of Florida. He died in 1866 in Tallahassee, Fla. Bamford, Mary Ellen, litterateur, author, was bom in Healdsburg, Cal. She is the author of Land and Water Friends; The Dumb Look About Club; Thoughts of

My

My

Father Lambert's Family; Up and Down the Brooks Janet and Her Father; Talks by Queer Folks; and other works. Bancroft, Aaron, clergyman, author, was bom Nov. 10, 1755, in Reading, Pa. In 17851839 he was a unitarian clergyman of Worcester, Mass.; and was prominent in the earlier days of the unitarian movement as a Neighbors;



writer in its behalf. He was the author of Sermons on the Doctrines of the Gospel; and Life of Washington. He died Aug. 19, 1839, in Worcester, Mass. Bancroft, Edgar Addison, lawyer, railroad manager, author, was born Nov. 30, 1857, in Galesburg, 111. He is vice-president and general solicitor of the Chicago and Western Indiana railroad company. He is the author of The Chicago Strike of 1894-95. Bancroft, Edward, physician, author, was born Jan. 9, 1744, in Westfield, Mass. He was a physician who resided chiefly in London, where he was supposed to have been a spy of the English government during the American revolution. After the close of the war he obtained patents in France and England giving him the exclusive right to import yellow oak bark, which made him rich. He was the author of Natural History of Guiana; Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colors; Charles Wentworth, a novel; and several political works. He died Sept. 8, 1820, in England. Bancroft, Frank Watts, educator, zoologist, scientist, was born Oct. 18, 1871, in San Francisco, Cal. Since 1900 he has been instructor of physiology at the university of California. He has made valuable researches

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on the anatomy, embryology and physiology of the tunicates. Bancroft, Frederic, historian, author, was born Oct. 30, 1860 in Galesburg, 111. In 1888 he lectured on political history of civil war and reconstruction at Amherst college; and then became chief of the bureau of rolls and library. He is the author of Life of William H. Seward; and The Negro in Politics.

Bancroft, George, cabinet historian, cester,

was

Mass.

bom

Oct.

officer,

3,

diplomat,

1800, in

Wor-

He graduated from Cambridge university in 1817. In 1818 he visited Europe studied at Gottingen

and Berlin, and traveled extensively. In 1833 he published a volume of poems; in 1824 he published a translation of Heeren's PoliGreece; and became a. frequent contributor to the North

tick of

American

and

other

reviews. On his return from Europe he spent one year as a tutor at Harvard; and was at the head of the Round Hill school at Northampton, in 183841 he was collector of the port of Boston; in 1844 was an unsuccessful candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts. In 184546 he was secretary of the navy; and in 1846-49 was minister to Great Britain. In 1844 he published the first volume of hia History of the United States, which now contains twelve volumes; and in 1855 published his Literary and Historical Miscellan-