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comparative Psychology; Problems in Philosophy; Sociology; Social Theory; Ethics; The New Theology; Historical Interpretation of Philosophy; A Philosophy of Religion; and Growth of Nationality in the United States. Bash, Appleton, educator, clergyman, was born March 31, 1862, in Indiana county. Pa. In 1885 he was ordained to the ministry; and in 1893 was associate president of Beaver college. In 1894 he became a pastor at Pittsburg, Pa. Bashford, Coles, lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Jan. 24, 1816, near Cold Spring, N.Y. In 1852-56 he was a member of the Wisconsin state senate; and in 1855-57 was governor of Wisconsin. In 1863 he removed to Arizona; and was attorney-general of that territory in 1864-66. In 1867-69 he was a delegate from Arizona to the fortieth congress; and appointed secretary of Arizona in 1869. He died April 25, 1878, in Cold Spring, N.Y. Bashford, Herbert, author, poet, was born in 1871 in Sioux City, Iowa. He is the author of Northwest Nature Stories; and Songs

from Puget Sea. Bashford, James Whitford, clergyman,

reme court of Utah; and since 1903 has been chief justice.

Baskerville, Charles, educator, chemist, author; was born June 18, 1870, in Noxubee countv iVTJaa T" 1 soo he graduated from the

university of Virginia; studied at Vanderbilt university; and attended the university of

Germany. In 1894-1900 he was assiBerlin,

stant-professor of chemistry, and since 1900 jirofessor of chemistry at the university of

In Carolina. 1904 he was professor of chemistry at the college Cicy of JNew York. He is the author of School Chemistry; Key to School Chemistry; Radio-Active Phenomena; and The Chemical Elements.

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Baskett, James Newton, zoologist, author, was born Nov. 1, 1849, in Nicholas county, Kv Tn i«72 he Graduated from the Missouri state

shop, author, college president, was born on May 25, 1849, in Fayette, Wis. He has held various pastorates in the methodist episcopal church; and in 1889 was elected president of the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delavan. He is the author of Science of Religion and other works. Bashford, Robert McKee, lawyer, statesman, was born Dee. 31, 1845, in Fayette, Wis. Ho graduated from the state university of Wisconsin in ancient classics in 1870; and in law the following year. In 1880-85 he was city attorney of Madison, Wis.; was a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1884; and in 1890 was mayor of his

city. In 1884-85 and since 1893 he has been professor in the law school of the state university of Wisconsin. In 1892-96 he was a member of the Wisconsin state senate.

Bashore, Harvey Brown, physician, author, was born July 31, 1864, in West Fairview, Pa. Since 1889 he has been in practice of medicine at West Fairview, Pa. He is the author of Outlines of Rural Hygiene Baskervill, William Malone, educator, author, was born on April 1, 1850, in Fayette oounty, Tenn. He was professor of English language and literature irv the Vanderbilt university. He was the author of Joel Chandler Harris, a biographical and critical study. He died Sept. 6, 1899, in Nashville, Tenn. Baskette, Gideon Hicks, soldier, journalist, author, was born March 11, 1845, in Rutherford county, Tenn. He served throughout the Since civil war in the confederate army. 1884 he has been editor of the Nashville Banner. He is president of the Carnegie public library at Nashville, Tenn. Baskin, Robert N., lawyer, jurist. For many years he was associate-justice of the sup-

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university.

has been a student of comparative vertebra-

bi-

anatomy, with ornithology as a specialty. He has resided chietly in Missouri; and has been surveyor of Andrian county. He has been engaged as a civil engineer; and is a writer on natural history. He is the author of The Story of the Birus; I'ne Story of the Pishes; The Story of the Mammals The Story of the Amphibians and the Reptiles; At You-All's House; As the Light Led; and Sweetbrier and Thistledown. te



Bass, Edgar Wales, soldier, mathematiciwas born Oct. 30, 1843, in Prairie du Chien, Wis. In 1868 he graduated from West Point military an, author,

academy ;and then

stu-

died at the post-graduate school for military engineers. In 1863 he enlisted in the eighth regiment Minnesota volunteers; and in 1864 served against the Sioux Indians. In

1871 he became

first

lieutenant. In 1878-98 was professor of mathematics at the West I'oint military

academy; and was then

re-

tired after thirty-six years of service as colonel in the United States army. He is the author of Introduction to the Differential

Elements of Trigomometry Llements of Differential Calculus. Calculus;



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