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 HKRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bean, Taileton Hofiman, curator, author,

was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Bainbridge, Pa. York aquarium. He is the author of The Fishes of Pennsylvania; The Salmon and Salmon Fisheries and The Fishes of Long Island.

Bean, William, the first white settler west of the Alleghanies. He was a companion of Daniel Boone in his visit to Kentucky in 1760; and returned in 1768 and settled with his family on Boone's creek, a small tributary of the Watauga. A Mr. William Bean died

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Sept. 20, 1886, in Shawneetown, 111., and left over two hundred descendants. He was probably a son of the above. Bean, William Heeber, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1886 he graduated from the military academy; and in 1902 attained the rank of major. Beard, Adelia Belle, educator, illustrator, artist, author, was born in Painesville, Ohio. Her first painting was exhibited at the national academy of design. -With her sister, Lina Beard, she is the author and illustrator of

American Girl's Handy Book; What a Girl Can Make and Do; Handicraft and Recreation for Girls and Things Worth Doing. Beard, Andrew, manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1849 in Alabama. He went into millwrighting in Hardwicks; built his first mill there and three years later succeeded in building four more. In 1889 he discovered



the rotary engine. Beard, Cyrus, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 13, 1850, in Venango county. Pa. In 18741904 he practiced law in Iowa and Wyoming. Since 1904 he has been assobiate justice of the state supreme court of Wyoming. Beard, Daniel Carter, surveyor, artist, author, was bom June 21, 1850, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1878 he removed to New York as an illustrator, and there studied art. He is the author of The Jack of All Trades, The

American Boy's Handy Book; Moonlight; Six Feet of Romance; and American Boy's

Book L.I.,

of Sports.

He

died in 1900 in Flushing,

N.Y.

Beard, Frank, artist, author; and third son of J. H. Beard.

He was an

is

the

artist

Harper and brothers during the civil war. lectures on various topics, accompanying himself with crayon sketches on the blackboard. He was for a time professor of the fine arts in Syracuse university. He is the author of The Black Board and the Sunday for

He

School.

Beard, George Miller, physician, author, was born May 8, 1839, in Montville, Conn. In 1865 he settled in New York; and was the first to point out and exemplify the tonic effects of electricity. He was the author of American Nervous Diseases; The Scientific Basis of Delusions; Clinical Researches in Electro-Surgery; Medical Uses of Electricity; Physiology of Mind-Reading; Stimulants and Narcotics; Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft and Its Practical Application in Our Own Time; and other works. He died Jan. 23, 1883, in New York City.

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Beard, Henry, soldier, artist, was born in 1841 in Ohio. He was a captain in the thirtieth regiment Missouri volunteers at twentyone years of age. He painted genre subjects in oils and water-colors; and made the designs for many of Prang's publications. He died Nov. 19, 1889, in New York City. Beard, James Carter, lawyer, artist, was born June 6, 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has made spirited drawings of birds and animals, which are to be found in the best illustrated books and periodicals of the day. He has been connected as editor of some of the publications of Appleton and company. Beard, James Henry, diplomat, artist, was born in 1812, in Buflialo, N.Y. His studio was in Cincinnati, Ohio. He painted portraits of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and other distinguished persons. He also served as United States minister to Rome. Among his best known works are Peep at Growing Danger; The Widow; Mutual Friend; There's Many a Slip Consultation Don't You Know Me; Heirs at Law; Which Has Pre-emption; The Mississippi Flood; and Out All Night. He died April 4, 1893, in Flushing, N.Y. Beard, James Thorn, civil engineer, inventor, author, was born Oct. 19, 1855, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1877 he graduated from the Columbia college school of mines. In 1877-79 he was assistant engineer on the Brooklyn bridge; and in 1880-83 resident division engineer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad. In 1883-85 he was United States deputy mineral surveyor at Aspen, Col.; and in 1885-91 was mining engineer of the Ottumwa fuel company. In 1891-96 he was proprietor of the Iowa coal exchange; in 1893-4 was acting secretary and treasurer of the El;



don coal and mining company of Ottumwa, Iowa; and in 1888-94 was secretary of the Iowa state mine examining board. Since 1896 he has been principal of the coal mining division of the School of Mines in the International correspondence schools, of Scranton, Pa.; and associate editor of Mines and Minerals. He invented the Beard-Mackie sight indicator for testing for gas in mines. He is the author of The Ventilation of Mines ; The Design of Centrifugal Ventilators; and Mine

Gases and Explosions. Beard, Lina, artist, author, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is one of the authors and illustrators of The American Girls' Handy Book and What a Girl Can Make and Do. Beard, Oliver Thomas, soldier, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 13, 1833, in New York City. He built railroads in South America;

served in the civil war in 1861-65 from private in the seventy-first regiment New York volunteers to colonel in the forty-eighth regiment New York volunteers. He practiced

law

in

Ohio and Michigan



and was editor of

the Post and Tribune of Detroit, Mich. He is the author of Bristling with Thorns. Beard, Richard, educator, college president, author, was born Nov. 27, 1799, in Sumner county, Tenn. He became president of Cum-