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Kansas house of representatives; and was judge of the district court for twelve years. In 1906 he was appointed United States senator to iill a vacancy, which term expired in 1907. In 1907 he was appointed justice of the supreme court of Kansas to fill a vacancy; and at the election in 1908 was chosen for the full term beginning Jan. 11, 1909. Benson, Egbert, lawyer, jurist, congress-

man, was born June

21, 1746, City. He was attorney-general in 1780-89. In 1784-88 he was the continental congress. In

in of

New York New York

a delegate to

Benson, Lawrence Sluter, mathematician, was born in 1832. He was a wellknown novelist, philosopher and mathematician. He was the author of The Sunny South, a novel; Philosophic Thought, a scientific work; and Benson's Geometry. He died In 1893 in Newark, N.J. Bent, George P., manufacturer, was born June 16, 1854, in Dundee, 111. In 1870 he entered the employ of David C. Cook of Chicago, 111.; and eight years later bought out Mr. Cook's business. He first engaged in the manufacture of sewing machines and then of organs; and now his Crown pianos and organs are known throughout America. author,

1789-93 and 1813-15 he was a representative from New York to the first, second and thirteenth congresses. He was a judge of the state supreme court in 1794-1801. He was again elected to congress in 1813. He died Aug. 34, 1833, in Jamaica, L.I.

Harvard law school; and now practices his

Benson, Eugene, artist, author, was born in 1837 in Hyde Park, N.Y. He established his studio in Florence in 1871; and removed

American editor of the Swiss Times of Geneva; and editor of the Messenger of Paris.

to Rome in 1883. Among the better known of his pictures are Cloud Towers; Strayed Maskers; Bazaar at Cairo; Study of Girl in Blue; Art and Love; Afternoon on the Lag-

oon; and Ariadne. He is the author of Gaspara Stampa; the Story of Her Life; and

Art and Nature in Italy. Benson, Frank Weston, painter, artist, was born March 24, 1862, in Salem, Mass. In 1900 he received a silver medal at the Paris exposition; and in 1904 received two gold medals at the Louisiana purchase exposition at St. Louis, Mo. He is an associate of the national academy. Benson, Henry C, clergyman, author, was born in 1815 near Xenia, Ohio. In 1864-68 he was editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate of Portland, Ore.; and in 1868 he became editor of the California Advocate. For several years he labored among the Gioctaw Indians as a missionary and he has related his experiences in a book called Life Among the Choetaws. Benson, Samuel Page, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1804 in Winthrop, Maine. In 1825 he graduated from Bowdoin

Bent, Samuel Arthur, educator, journalist, lawyer, author, was bom July 1, 1841, in Boston, Mass. In 1865 he graduated from profession in Brookline, Mass.

college.

He

Bent, Silas, civil engineer, lawyer, jurist,

was born May 16, 1768, in Rutland, Mass. In 1807 he was acting governor of Louisiana. In 1813 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of Missouri territory. His to a well-known frontier post and military fort. He died Nov. 20, 1827, in St. Louis, Mo.

name was given

Benteen, Frederick William, soldier, was born Aug. 24, 1834, in Petersburg, Va. He served in the civil war in 1861-65; was colonel of the United States volunteers; and be served gallantly in numerous battles and skirmishes. He was a brigadier-general of the Missouri militia; and he was brevetted a brigadier-general of the United States army. He resided in Atlanta, Ga. where he was prominent in the business and public He died about 1898 in

acquired

prominence as one of the leading lawyers of New England. He was elected

a

member



of

the Maine state legislature; served in the state senate; and for several years was secretary of the state of Maine. In 1853-57 he was a representative from Maine to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses as a republican. He died Aug. 12, 1876, in Maine. Bent, Allen H., business man, genealogist, was born June 5, 1867, in Gardner, Mass. He is engaged in business at Boston, Mass. He is the author of The Bent Family.

has been

In 1878-83 he was superintendent of schools at Nashua, N.H., and at Clinton, Mass. He has been secretary of the Bostonian societjr; and a member of the Boston school committee. He is the author of Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men; Hints on Language; and Notes to the Golden Legend.



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aflfairs of that city. Atlanta, Ga. Bentley, Charles Eugene, clergyman, prohibitionist, was born April 30, 1841, in Warners, N.Y. He was a candidate for governor and for United States senator; and was formally endorsed as Nebraska's choice for president in the campaign of 1896. He died Feb. 4, 1905, in Los Angeles, Cal.

Bentley, Edwin, physician, surgeon, was 3, 1834, is Connecticut. He served in the civil war as a surgeon; and in 1886 was post-surgeon at Fort Brown, Texas. He was professor of surgery in the Industrial

born July