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the Beardsley Family; and other genealogi-

Oxford Divinity;

works. Beardsley, Joseph Cosmo, soldier, was born in Ohio. In 1898 he attained the rank of captain of Ohio volunteers. Beardsley, Levi, lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Nov. 13, 1785, in Hoosic, N.Y. In 1835 he was elected to the New York state assembly that passed the first railroad charter in the

Science of the Human Mind; and Reply to Dr. Channing. He died Nov. 2, 1845, in Elizabethtown, N.J. Beasley, Mercer, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1815 in Philadelphia, Pa. He began the practice of law in 1838; and became justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. In 1864 he became chief justice; and held the office until his death. He died Feb. 19, 1897, in Trenton, N.J. Beates, Henry, physician, scientist, was born Dec. 20, 1857, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was president of tlie state board medical examiners of Philadelphia, Pa. He is a member of the American association for the ad-

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United States.

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the state senate in 1829; re-elected in 1834; was president of the state senate in 1838; and for many years judge of the court of errors of New York. Besides elected

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his legal opinions, he

published an autobiographical volume entitled Reminiscences. He died March 19, 1857, in New York. Beardsley, Nelson, manufacturer, bank president, was born May 30, 1807, in Southbury, Conn. In 1848 he became one of the incorporators of the Oswego starch factory; and in 1883-94 was its president. He gained a fortune of seven million dollars. He died Jan. 15, 1894, in Auburn, N.Y. Beardsley, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1790, in Hoosic, N.Y. He held the post of attorney-general of New York statp. In 1831-37 and 1843-45 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-eighth congresses. He also held the office of state senator in 1823; and was assistant justice and chief justice of the supreme court of the state. He died May 6, 1860, in Utica, N.Y. Beardsley, Samuel Raymond, lawyer, soldier, was bom Dec. 31, 1814, in CJherry Valley, N.Y. He was elected mayor of Oswego in 1852; and appointed Postmaster in 1863.

He was commissioned

lieutenant-colonel in the twenty- fourth regiment New York volunteers In 1861; was wounded at Chancellorsville; and was promoted to the colonelcy in 1863. He died Dec. 28, 1863, in Stevensburg, Va. Beaseley, Nathaniel, pioneer, soldier, state senator, was bom in 1751. He was a large

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high school; and attMassachusetts ended state normal school located at B'ridgewater, Mass. In 1878-87 she was a teacher in the public schools of Massachusetts. She has been superintendent of the Disciples' school at

Boston, Mass. and since 1893 has been director of the children's mission and the Boston equal suffrage association. She is the author of Joys Beyond Joy; and the compiler of Apples of Gold and Forget-Me-Not. Beattie, Francis Robert, clergyman, theologian, author, was born March 31, 1848, in Canada. In 1878-88 he was a presbyterian pastor in Canada. Since 1888 he has been in the service of the presbyterian church south. In 1888-93 he was professor in the

Columbia seminary of South Carolina and in

1903-06 was professor of apologetics and systematic theology at the Presbyterian theo-

ward settled in Chillicothe, Ohio; was a member of the general assembly in 1819-20 from Adams county; and state senator from Brown county in 1820-22.. He was also canal commissioner and major-general of militia. died March 27, 1835, in Knox county. Beasley, Frederick, clergyman, author, was bom in 1777, near Edenton, N.C. He was provost of the university of Pennsylvania. He was the author of An Examination of the

science.

Robert Burns, soldier, insurance president, was born Jan. 26, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the civil war; and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. In 1902 he became president of the national board of fire underwriters. He is the author of History of the Grand Army of the Republic; and Grand Army Blue Book. Beatley, Mrs. Clara Bancroft, educator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 12, 1858, in Shirley, Mass. She graduated from the Ayer Beath,

and powerful man; a noted Indian fighter, and performed valuable services in the St. Clair and Wayne campaigns; and was commander at Fort Mimms in 1813. He after-

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He was the author of Utilitarian Theory of Morals; Methods of Theism; Radical Criticism; Presbyterian Standards; Apologetics; Calvinism and Modem Thought; and Christianity and Modern Evolution. He died in 1906 in Louisville, Ky. ville.