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 HEHRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Ledyard, farmer, author, legislator, 14, 1836, in Ledyard, Conn. entered the publishing business in Louisville, Ky.; and subsequently in New York. _ He served one term in ,^^_ ^^* the house and two in the state senate with the most honorable record. He started the

Bill,

was born May

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Rush medical

college. In 1903 he was elected president of the American medical association. He is the author of Your Book of Medicine.

Billings, Edward Everett, civil engineer, miner, stock raiser, author, was bom in 1855, in New York City. He was educated in Vir-

ginia;

and favorably known

He

is

the author

Winter in Florida; A Work on MinnesA Genealogy of His Family; and a History of Paxton, He was an enthusiastic antiquarian, and discovered that the ancient bell in the village church of Paxton was made by of ota;

Paul Revere. Mass.

He

died in 1907 in Paxton,

a

civil

ry; and

A Redman

past twenty-five years has been engaged in mining and stock raising. He is prominently identified with the business and public affairs of Helena, Mont. He is the author of Marking the Boundaof Quality; and other

works.

Frank Seaver, pathologist, foundauthor, was bom Jan. 15, 1845, in Boston, Mass. In 1875-80 he graduated from the veterinary school and the medical department of the university of BerBillings,

er,

Billinghurst, Charles, lawyer, congressman,

was born July 27, 1818, in Brighton, N.Y. He was a member of the first state legislature of Wisconsin in 1848 and was a presidential elector in 1852. In 1855-59 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died

Aug.

is

by

professor. He is a successful business man of Helena, Mont.; and for the

free public library; it at his sole expense that the soldiers' monument of his native town was erected; and his name is well

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and

engineer

was

throughout Massachusetts.

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18, 1865, in

He was brought up in the American merchant service; for awhile was engaged in farming and stock lin.

Juneau, Wis.

Billings, Albert Merritt, manufacturer, financier, was born April 21, 1814, in Royalton,

Vt. He was engaged in the manufacture of yeast in New York until 1860 when he moved Chicago and soon after built the St. Lou;

Kansas City and Colorado railroad. He sustained mission work in churches of Chicago, New York and other cities. He died Feb. 7, 1897, in New York City. is,

Billings, Cornelius K., business ^president, capitalist, was Sept. 17, 1862, in Sara-

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toga Springs, N.Y. In 1862 he moved to Chicago with his father. Albert M. Billings, who was president of the People's gas light and coke company. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, 111.; and in 1879 graduated from Ravine college. He then entered the office of the People's gas light and coke company of Chicago, 111.; and after various promotions succeeded his father as president in 1887. In 1889 he was a west park commissioner ; was a director in the World's Columbian exposition; and was a director of the Home national bank and the Home savings bank of Chicago, HI. Billings, Edward C, lawyer, jurist, was born in Massachusetts. He practiced law in New Orleans, La.; and in 1876-94 was United States district judge for the eastern district of Louisiana. He died Dee. 1, 1893, in New Orleans, La. Billings, Frank, physician, surgeon, authHe or, was born in 1854 in Highland, Wis. has practiced medicine for nearly a quarter of a century in Chicago, HI.; and is dean of



then studied medicine in Europe in 1875-85. He has not practiced medicine; but has become widely known as a pathologist and bacteriologist. In 1886 he founded the pathological institute of the university of Nebraska. He is the author of Relation of Animal Diseases to Public Health; How Shall the Rich Escape? and Reports of the Pathological Institute University of Nebraska during 1887-

93. Billings, Frederick, lawyer, philanthropist,

was born Sept. 27, 1823, in Royalton, Vt. His gifts to the university of Vermont amounted to a quarter of a million dollars. He gave fifty thousand dollars to D. L. Moody's Mount Hermon school for boys; and fifty thousand dollars to Amherst college. He died Sept. 30, 1890, in Woodstock, Vt. Billings, George Herrick, metallurgist, inFeb. 8, 1845, in Taunton, ventor, was

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the general manager of the Norway iron and steel company of Boston, Mass. He has invented improved forms of machinery for the manufacture of iron and steel, principally appliances for drawing iron and steel bars for shafting and finishing rods.

Mass.

Billings,

born Nov.

is

Hammatt,

designer, architect,

14, 1784, in Boston,

Mass.

He

was de-

signed numerous churches and public buildings throughout the United States. The Pilgrims' monument at Plymouth, and the case of the great organ in Boston music hall were