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Bender, John S., civil engineer, lawyer, was bom Jan. 36, 1837, near Carlisle, Pa. He was a miller by trade until 1853; a land surveyor and civil engineer from choice un-

club-houses,

churches and large residences in Chicago, 111. Beman, Wooster Woodruff, mathematician, author, was born May 38, 1850, in Southington, Conn. Since 1887 he has been professor of mathematics in the university of Michigan. He is the author of Higher Arithmetic; and High School Algebra. Bemis, Edward Webster, educator, statistician, author, was born April 7, 1860, in Springfield, Mass. He was a professor of economics in the University of Chicago in 1892-95. He is the author of History of Cooperation in the New England States; and Municipal Monopolies. Bemis, George Pickering, journalist, business man, was born March 15, 1838, in Boston, Mass. He is a descendant of Timothy Pickering,

of

1856; during 1856was clerk and auditor of Stark county, Ind.; and since that time has been engaged in the practice of law. Since 1854 he has taken great interest in politics; was contingent elector for Mr. supported Douglas Lincoln during me civil war of 1861; and in 1878 joined the independent movement for reform; was elector at large in Indiana for Butler; and has held many other prominent offices in his county and state for the furtherance of the movement. In 1896 he was nominated by the Populists as a candidate for congress. He is a member of the Plymouth commandery. Knights Templars. He is the author of Hoosier's Experience in Europe; Money, Its Definition; and other works. til

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tionary fame. In 1861 he enlisted in the second battalion of Massachusetts light infantry, serving about seven months. -He then joined George Francis Train in London city, where that gentleman was introducing street railways; and for over twenty years he was his

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private

secretary.

became general manager and editor of the London American, the only American newspaper in Europe during the civil war. In 1893 he became mayor of Omaha, Neb., and was re-elected, serving two terms each in 1893-96, during which time he defended the interests of the taxpayers, and saved also

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millions of dollars.

Bemise, John Harrison, physician, educator, college president, was born in 1856 in Louisville, Ky. In 1878-83 he made a study of leprosy on the island of Maui, on which he prepared several valuable papers. He was the first president of the New Orleans polyclinic. He died in 1897 at Ocean Springs,

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Bendire, Charles Emil, soldier, educator, author, was born in 1836 in Georgia. He was honorary curator of the department of zoology in the United States National museum and a captain and brevet major in the United States army. He was the author of Life Histories of North American Birds. He died in 1897.

Bendix, John E., soldier, business man, was

born Aug. 38, 1818. He participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and the Wilderness; and was promoted brigadiergeneral in 1865.

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died Oct.

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1877, in

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Benecke, Louis, soldier, lawyer, legislator, founder, was born May 1, 1843, in Brunswick, Germany. He received his education in the common schools in

Blankenburg Germany; and

Miss.

Bemiss, Samuel Merrifield, physician, sur geon, author, was born Oct. 15, 1831, In Nelson county, Ky. In 1863-65 he was a surgeon in the confederate army. After the war he settled in New Orleans; and in 1866 he became professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the university of Louisiana. He is the editor of the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. Benade, Andrew, clergyman, bishop, was born Feb. 30, 1769, in Saxony. In 1833 he was made bishop, with charge of the southem district of Salem, N.C; and four years later was transferred to Bethlehem, Pa. He died in Bethlehem, Pa. Bender, Prosper, physician, author, was bom in 1844 in Quebec, Canada. Since 1883 he has practiced his profession in Boston. He is the author of Old and New Canada and Literary Sheaves.

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City.

college,

in the high schools of Brunswick, Mo. He served during the civil war in the eighteenth and forty-ninth regiment of the Missouri volun-

teers; and was captain of company I.

For fourteen years he was mayor of Brunswick, Mo.; for thirtyfive years president of the board of education of that city; and a director of the First National bank of Brunswick. For four years served as a member of the Missouri state senate; and in 1908 was a delegate to the national republican convention. He organized the Federal Soldiers home at St. James; and was its president for four years

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