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medical asthe author of Thoughts on the Connection of Life, Mind and Matter; and other works. He died April 8, 1868, in New York City. sociation in 1858.

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Batchelder, Richard Napoleon, soldier, was July 27, 1832, in Lake Village, N.H. In 1861-66 he rose through successive ranks until brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He then entered the regular service and became brigadier-general and quartermaster-general United States army. He died Jan. 4, 1901, in Washington, D.C.

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Batchelder, Samuel, state legislator, manufacturer, inventor, author, was born June 8, 1784, in Jaffrey, N.H. In 1808 he began the manufacture of cotton 'at New Ipswich. In 1846 he removed to Cambridge, Mass.; and was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. Among his inventions, that of the dynamometer, for ascertaining the power for driving machinery, first used in the York mills in 1837, is perhaps the greatest. He was the author of History of the Cotton Manufacture in the United States. He died Feb. 5, 1879, in Cambridge, Mass. Batcheller, George Clinton, manufacturer, 27, 1834, in Grafton, Mass. He is a member of George C. Batcheller and company, who employ one thousand hands in the manufacture of corsets and feminine attire at Bridgeport, Conn.

was born Sept.

Batcheller, George Sherman, soldier, diplomat, was born July 25, 1836, in Batchellerville, N.Y. He reorganized the militia of New York; and served as inspector-general in 1865-69. He was appointed to represent the United States at the international tribunal in Egypt; and in 1883 was elected president of that body. In 1889 he was appointed consul-general to Egypt. He died July 2, 1908, in Paris, France.

Batcheller, Mrs. Tryphosa Bates, musician, singer, author, was born April 4, 1878, in Brookfield, Mass. She has sung before President Roosevelt and members of royal families in Europe. She is the author of Glimps^es of Italian Court Life.

Batchelor, Georgia, clergyman, author, was born July 3, 1836, in Southbury, Conn. He has been a unitarian clergyman since 1866; and since 1897 editor of the Christian Register of Boston, Mass. He is the author of Social Equilibrium and Other Problems, Ethic-

and Religious. Bateman, Cephas Caleb, chaplain United States army, was born May 16, 1857, in Ionia county, Mich. He graduated from California college and has received the degrees of A.B., A.M. and D.D. He is a clergyman of the baptist church; and in 1890 was apal



pointed by President Harrison as a chaplain in the United States army. He served with distinction in the Spanish- American war; against the insurrection in the Philippines in 1899-1902; and against the Moros in

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1902-03. Since 1905 he has been chaplain of the United States sanitarium at Fort Bavard, N.M. Bate, William Brimage, soldier, lawyer, governor. United States senator, was born Oct. 17, 1826, in Castalian Springs, Tenn. He received an academic education; served as a [private throughout the Mexican war in Louis1

iana and in Tennessee regiments; and a year after returning from the Mexican war was elected to the Tennessee state legislate. In 1854 he was elected attorney-general for the Nashville district for six years ; and was a presidential elector in 1860. He was private, captain, colonel, brigadier-general and major-general in the confederate service, surrondering with the army of the Tennessee in 1865; and was three times dangerously wounded. After the close of the civil war he returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice of law was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1868; served on the national democratic executive committee for Tennessee twelve years; and wag an elector for the state-at-large on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876. In 1883-86 he was governor of Tennessee; and in 1887-1905 was United States senator. He died March 9, 1905, in Nashville, Tenn.

Bateman, Ephraim, physician, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1770 in Cedarville, N.J. In 1815-23 he was a repri'i^entative from New Jersey to the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth congresses; and in 1826-29 was a United States senator. darville, N.J.

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died Jan. 39, 1829, in Ce-

Bateman, Isabel, actress, was born Dec. 28, 1854, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Her family moved to England in 1863. Two years later she made her debut in a child's character in London. In 1872-78 she played the leading characters with Henry Irving. Most of her acting has been done in the theaters of London.

Bateman, Kate

Josephine, actress was 1842, in Baltimore, Md. Her father became the manager of the Lyceum theater in London. She was introduced to the London public by Barnum in conjunction with her young sister, as the Bateman

born Oct.

children.

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Her married name was Crowe. Her was that of Leah in a play of

best character that name.

Bateman, Newton, educator, college presiwas born July 27, 1822, in Fairfield, N.

dent, J.

fle assisted in organizing the state teach-

In 1858 Teacher, and was its first editor. He became state superintendent of public instruction of Illinois in 1859, and ers' association of Illinois in 1854.

he founded the

Illinois