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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY Bayard, Thomas Francis, cabinet officer, United States senator, was born on Oct. 29, 1838, in Wilmington, Del. In 1853-54 he was United States district attorney for Delaware. In 1869-87 he was United States senator. On the same day of his election, his father, James A. Bayard, was also re-elected

to the United States senate from the same state. He was re-elected in 1875, and again in 1881. In 1885-89 he was secretary of state; and resigned his seat in the senate. He died Sept. 38, 1898, in Dedham, Mass.

Bayard, William, statesman, was born Jan. 1739, in New York. In 1765 he was a delegate from New York to the colonial congress. He died in 1804 in England. Bayard, William, merchant, ship owner, was born about 1764 in New York. He was a lage ship owner; traded with all the world; was for many years director of the Bank of America; and in 1810-37 was president of the Chamber of commerce. He died Sept. 3, 1,

1850, in

New York

City.

Bayles, George

James, lecturer, author, was bom Aug. 38, 1869, in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. He graduated from Columbia university; and in 1897-1900 was prize lecturer on the Civil Aspects of Ecclesiastical Organizations. He is secretary of church press of New York City. author of Church Book of Laws.

Bayles,

the

He

Civil is

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James Copper, soldier, lecturer, was bom .July 3, 1845, At the beginning of the

journalist, author, in New York City. civil

war he entered the United States

ser-

vice as a lieutenant of artillery. In 1870 he became editor of the Iron Age; and in 1874

established the Metal Worker. He is the author of the first standard American work on the Mechanics of Hygiene, House Drainage and Water Service. Bayley, Jacob, soldier and statesman, was born on July 3, 1798, in Newbury, Mass._ He served in the French, Indian and revolutionary wars. In 1776 he was appointed brigadier-general. He died March 1, 1816, in Newbury, Vt. Bayley, James Roosevelt, clergyman, auth-

was bom Aug. 33, 1814, in New York He was a clergyman who entered the Roman catholic church from the episcopal church and became archbishop of Baltimore. He was the author of History of the Catholic church of New York; Memoirs of Brate, First Bishop of Vincennes; and Pastorals or,

City.

for the People. He died Oct. 3, 1877, in Newark, N. J. Bayley, Richard, educator, physician, auin Fairfield, Conn. health officer of the port of New York; and was successful in obtaining the passage of quarantine laws. The causes of yellow fever were very earefully studied by him; and in 1797 he published a work in which he contended that its origin was due entirely to local causes. He died Aug 17,

thor,

was born about 1745

He was

1801, on Staten Island, N.Y.

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Bayley, Thomas, congressman, was

bom

in Somerset county, Md. In 1817-33 he was a representative to the fifteenth, sixteenth

and seventeenth congresses from Maryland.

He

died in Maryland.

Bayley, jurist,

Thomas Henry,

was born Dec.

soldier, legislator, 11, 1810, in Aecomac

county, Va. While a inember of the Virginia state legislature he was elected by that body a brigadier-general of the militia of eastern Virginia; and subsequently he was electedjudge of the circuit superior court of law. In 1844-56 he was a member of the national

house of representatives. 1856, in

He

died June 32,

Acoomac county, Va.

Bayley,

Thomas

M., legislator, congress2, 1775, in Virginia. He entered public life in 1798; continued therein until 1830; and served in both branches of the state legislature. In 181315 he was a representative from Virginia to the thirteenth congress. He died Jan. 6, 1834 in Aecomac county, Va. Bayley, William Shirley, geologist, author, was born Nov. 10, 1861, in Baltimore, Md. Since 1886 he has been associate editor of the American Naturalist; and is professor of geology at Colby college. He is the author of Reports on the Geology of the

man, was born Sept.

Lake Superior Iron

Districts.

Edwin, lawyer, author, was lorn on Aug. 23, 1840, in Clinton, N.Y. In 1863 he graduated from Hamilton college; in 1870 from the law school of that institution; from which he subsequently received the degree of LL.D. He has been president and postmaster of Johnstown, N.Y. and is now city attorney and president of Johnstown public library. He is the author of Questions and Answers for Law Students Sureties and Guarantors; Trial Practice; New Trials and Appeals ; Code Pleading and Forms; and Supplement to Wait's Actions and Defenses. Baylies,

Baylies, Francis, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, author, was born Oct. 16, 1783, in Taunton, Mass. In 1813-30 he was register of probate in Bristol county, Mass. In 1821-27 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses. He was a member of the state legislature in 1827-1833 and in 1835. In 1832 he was appointed charge d'affaires to Buenos Ayres. He was the author of A History of the Plymouth Colony. He died Oct. 38, 1853, in Taunton, Mass. Baylies, Nicholas, lawyer, jurist, author, was bom in- 1773 in Uxbridge, Mass. In 1831-34 he was a judge of the supreme court of Vermont. He published a Digested Index to the Modem Reports of the Courts_ of Common Law in England and the United States, in three volumes; and an Essay on Free Agency. He died Aug. 17, 1847, in

Lyndon, Vt. Baylies, William, physician, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1743, in Uxbridge, Mass. He practiced medicine in