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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bird, Mrs. Anna M. Pennock, educator, psychologist, author, was born in Drumore, Pa. For many years she was a school teacher; and in 1883 open-

ed a kindergarten in Lancaster City, Pa. In 1894 she began teaching psychology in Toledo, Ohio; and has lectured extensively on practical psychology. In 1903 she married Mr. Charles L. Bird of Toledo, Ohio. She is the author of Creative Forces in the Vegetable, Animal and Human World; Inside Our Own Doors; Key to Success; Thoughts and Words; and The Thought Circle. Bird, Arthur, musician, composer, was born July 23, 1856, in Cambridge, Mass. He studied music in Berlin under the best masters. In 1886 he conducted a musical festival in Milwaukee, Wis. He founded the first male

chorus in

His 1886

Nova

Scptia.

concert in at Berlin was successful. He is the author of the comic first

opera Daphne ; and the

composer of many piano, harmonium, organ works, symphony, carnival,

three

suites

and the ballet Ruhexahl. He won the Paderewski prize for chamber music and decimet for wind instruments. Bird, Charles, soldier, was born June 17, 1838, in Wilmington, Del. In 1861 he enlistfor orchestra,

ed as first lieutenant in the first regiment Delaware infantry; and in 1901 was made hrigadier-general of volunteers. Bird, Frederick Mayer, clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an episcopal clergyman widely known as an hymnologist. In 1881-86 he was professor in Lehigh university; and in 1893-98 was editor of Lippineott's Magazine. He edited the Lutheran Ministerium Hymns; Songs of the Spirit; and Charles Wesley Seen in His Finer and Less Familiar Pieces. He died April 3, 1908, in South Bethlehem, Pa. Bird, John, lawyer, congressman, was born in Litchfield, Conn. He was early distinguished at the bar of New York state and in the state legislature. In 1799-1801 he was a representative from New York to the sixth congress. He died in 1806 in Troy, N.Y.

John T., lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 16, 1839, in Hunterdon county, N. J. In 1863-68 he was prosecuting attorney for Hunterdon county, N.J.; in 1869-73 he was a, representative from New Jersey to the forty-first and forty-second congresses. Bird,

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Bird, Robert Mongomery, author, was bom Feb. 5, 1805, in Newcastle, Del. In 1848-54 he was editor of the North American. His Nick of the Wood was his most popular work. He was the author of Peter Pilgrim, a collection of t8.1es and sketches, notable as containing almost the earliest description of the Mammoth Cave; The Gladiator; Sheppard Lee; The Hawks of Hawk Hollow; Adventures of Robin Day; Calavar; The Fall of Mexico; and three successful dramas. He died Jan. 22, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. Bird, Winfield Austin Scott, agriculturist, lawj'er, legislator, was born Aug. 31, 1855, in Addison, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of his native state ;and at the

Teachers' normal school of Meyersdale, Pa. For eight years he was city attorney of Topeka, Kan.; and for two years was judge advocate-general of the Kansas national guards. He is a member of the improved order of red men. For four years he was a representative in the Kansas state legislature from the thirty-eighth district.

Ausburn, congressman, was bom York. In. 1847-49 he was a representative from New York to the thirtieth congress. He was subsequently appointed naval storekeeper in New York City. He died in Birdsall,

in

New

New York

City.

Benjamin P., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 36, 1858, in Weyauwega. Wis. He was admitted to the bar in 1878; and in 1893-1900 was district judge of the eleventh judicial district of Iowa. In 1903-09 he was a representative from Iowa to the fifty-eighth, .fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses as a republican. Birdsall, James, statesman, congressman. In 1815-17 he was a representative from New York to the fourteenth congress. He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1837. Birdsall, Samuel, statesman, congressman. In 1837-39 he was a representative from Birdsall,

New York

to the twenty-fifth congress. William Randall, physician, author, was born Jan. 1, 1853, in Greene, N.Y. He was a clinical teacher on nervous diseases. Besides articles in medical journals and cyclopedias, he was the author of Elctro-Therapeutics and Electro-Diagnosis. He died June 17, 1892, in New York City. Birdsall, William Wilfred, educator, college president, was bom April 5, 1854, in Richmond, Ind. He began teaching in 1876; and in 1898-1903 was president of Swarthmore college. Since 1903 he has been principal of the Philadelphia high school for girls. Birdsell, John Comly, farmer, manufacturer, inventor, was born March 31, 1815, in Birdsall,

Westchester county, N.Y. In 1839-64 he was a farmer of Monroe county, N.Y. He invented the combined threshing and hulling machine. In 1859 he began the manufacture of the machine and was engaged in this work the rest of his life. He died July 13, 1894, in New York.