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 HBRRINQSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Beers, Cyrus, congressman,

New

City. In 1838-39 he

was bom

in

was a

representative from New York to the twenty-fifth congress as a democrat to fill a vacancy. Beers, Mrs. Ethel Lynn, author, poet, was born Jan. 13, 1837, in Goshen, N.J. She was the author of General Frankie, a juvenile tale; and All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems. The most popular of her other pieces are Weighing the Baby; Which Shall It Be; and Baby Looking Out for Me. She died Oct. 10, 1879, in Orange, N.J. Beers, Henry Augustin, educator, author, was born July 2, 1847, in Buffalo, N.Y. He is a professor of English literature at Yale university, from which institution he graduated in 1867. He is the author of The Ways of Yale; Suburban Pastoral and Other Stories; From Chaucer to Tennyson; Life of N. P. Willis; History of English Romanticism; Initial Studies in American Letters; Verse,

A

Odds and Ends; and The Thankless Muse. Beers, Robert Welsted, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 3, 1860, in Easton, Pa. He is the author of The Mormon Puzzle. Beers, Wayland Lewis, clergyman, theologian, was born Dec. 15, 1867, in Montana;, N. J. In 1890 he graduated from the Peddie institute; in 1895 graduated from Brown university; and subsequently took a partial course at "Union seminary and at Columbia college. He is an eminent clergyman of the unitarian church. He has been pastor at St. John, N.B'.; has been pastor of the unitarian church at Gouverneur, N.Y. has been pastor of the unitarian church at New Castle, Pa.; and is now minister of the First unitarian church at Youngstown, Ohio. He has contributed from time to time valuable articles to religious and educational literature. Beeson, Henry W., congressman, was born

in Pennsylvania. In 1841-43 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty-seventh congress as a democrat. Beeson, Jasper Luther, educator, chemist, was born Aug. 31, 1867, in Keener, Ala. He graduated from the university of Alabama with the degree of M. A.; was assistant professor of physics in

his alma mater; and later chemist to the Alabama state geological survey. In 1893 he

graduated from the Johns Hopkins university in chemistry with the

degree

of

Ph.D.,

whereupon he was

el-

ected professor of agricultural chemistry in the Audubon sugar school of New Orleans. He is the inventor of standard chemical apparatus for agricultural analysis, which are in use both in America and Europe. He is a prominent member of various scientific bodies; and has published several pieces of original investigation work upon sugar and the

sugar cane.

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Beeson, John Wesley, educator, college prewas born March 31, 1866, in Keener, Ala. He received u, thorough education in the public schools of the south and attended the university of Alasident,



bama, from which

in-

stitution he the degrees

received of A.B. and A.M. He has held several in positions different colleges; became president of Arcadia college of Louisiana; and subsequently became president of the Marengo female college at Demopolis, Ala. Since about 1903 he has been president of the Meridian woman's college and conservatory of music, the largest private college in the south, having about one thousand students. Beest, Alvert van, painter, artist, was born June 11, 1830, in Holland. In 1845 he came to the United States, where he made a reputation as a marine painter and teacher, living mainly in Boston and New York. He died Oct. 8, 1860, in New York City. Begole, Josiah W., farmer, educator, business man, congressman, governor, was bom Jan. 30, 1815 in Groveland, N.Y. He received a public school education; removed to Genesee county, Mich, in 1836; taught school during the winter; became a farmer in 1839; and followed that occupation until 1856. He was elected county treasurer from 1856 to 1864. He commenced the lumbering busines.'i in Michigan in 1863. He was elected to the state senate in 1871; was an alderman of Flint for three years; and a delegate to the national rpeublican convention at Philadelphia in 1873. In 1873-75 he was a representative from Michigan to the forty -third congress as a republican. In 1883-85 he was governor of iviichigan. He died June 6, 1896, in Flint, Mich.

Behrend, Bernard Arthur, educator,

electri-

May

9, 1875, cal engineer, author, was born in Germany. He has been lecturer to the McGill college of Montreal lecturer at the uni;

versity of Wisconsin; and lecturer at the Leland Stanford university and various other institutions of learning.

He

is

now

chief

engineer of the Bullock electric manufacturing company of Cincinnati, Ohio; and the chief electrical engineer of the Allis-Chalmers company of Chicago, HI. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science; a member of the American institute of electrical engineers and a member of numerous foreign engineering and sci;