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Buxton,

Albert, educator, clergyman,

was bom June He was educated at West River

college president, author, poet, 16, 1861, in Londonderry, Vt.

academy, Londonderry academy, Leland and Gray seminary, Colby university. Brown university, Harvard university, and at Bonn and Heidelberg universities of Germany. He has been a teacher of church history in the Drake university of

Iowa. He was president of the Northwestern christian college of Minnesota; president and chancellor of the Texas christian university; and president of the Nebraska christian ministerial association. He is now chancellor of Add-Ran university of Waco, Texas and president of the Nebraska ministeriaj association. He is the author of Just for Those That Love Me, a volume of poems. Byars, William Vincent, journalist, author, was born June 21, 1857, in Covington, Tenn. In 1877-98 he was the editor of several papers. He is the a.uthor of Tanhaussar, a Mystery; and The Tempting of the King. Byerly, William Elwood, educator, author

bom

Dec. 13, 1849, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is professor of mathematics at Harvard university. He is the author of Elements of Differential Calculus; Elements of Integral Calculus; and Treatise on Flourier's Series and Spherical Harmonics.

was

Byers, Alex McBumey, was born Sept. 6, 1827, in Greenfield, Pa. In 1870 he was president and owner of a furnace at Girard, Ohio. He was also president of the Iron City national bank. He died Sept. 19, 1900, in New kork City. Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall, soldier, diplomat, author, poet, was born July 23, 1838, in Pulaska, Pa. For many years he was consul at Zurich; and later was consulgeneral to Italy and to Switzerland. He served four years in the civil war; part of the time was on General Sher-

Byers,

Noah Ebersole, educator, college was born July 26, 1873, in SterHe received the degree of B.S. from

president, ling, 111.

the Northwestern university; and received the degree of A.M. from Harvard university In 1896 he began teaching school; and in 1898 was principal of the Elkhart institute. In 1903 he became president of Goshen college of Indiana. Byers, William Newton, civil engineer, journalist, state legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1831, in Madison county, Ohio. He has been United States deputy surveyor in Iowa, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska and Colorado. He was a member of the first Nebraska state legislature; was a member of the first Colorado constitutional convention; and postmaster of Denver in 1864-66 and 1879-83. He founded the Rocky Mountain News in 1859, of which he was editor and publisher for twenty years. He became president of the Colorado state forestry association. He died March 10, 1903, in Denver, Col. Byfield, Nathaniel, jurist, author, was born in 1653, in England. He was a jurist of note in Massachusetts in the colonial period; and was at one time speaker of the Massachusetts house of representatives. He was the author of Account of the Late War in England, 1689. He died June 6, 1733, in Boston,

Mass.

Byf ord, Henry Turman, educator, physician, author, was born Nov. 12, 1853, in Evansville, Ind. He is a professor of gynaecology in the College of physicians and surgeons of v^.iicago; professor of clinical gynaecology in the Woman's medical school of the Northwestern university; and surgeon to the Woman's hospital of Chicago, 111. ; and other hospitals. He is the author of Manual of Gynaecology; Diseases of Women; joint author of American Text Book of Gynaecology; Keating and Coe's Clinical Gynaecology; Kelly and Noble's Operative Gynaecology. Byington, Ezra Hoyt, clergyman, librarian, author, was born Sept. 3, 1828, in Hinesburg, Vt. He was educated at Hinesburg academy; in 1852 he from the

graduated state

song that gave that campaign its name. He is the author of three volumes of poetry entitled.

The Happy Isles; The March to the The Honeymoon. He is also the Twenty Years in Europe; A Pris-

Sea; and author of

on Diary; Switzerland and the Swiss; and Iowa in War Times.

of

dover theological seminary. torates

He

filled

pas-

Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts. For a number of

staff;

he escaped after many adventures inside the army of the enemy. He wrote Sherman's March to the Sea, the

university

Vermont; and in 1857 he graduated from An-

and was a prisoner of war and

man's

523

in

years he was librarian of the New England historical and genealogical

society.

He

The Puritan in England and New England; and a large number of

was the author

of

and biographies. He died May Newton, Mass. Byford, William Heath, physician, author, was born March 20, 1817, in Eaton, Ohio, in 1862 he became president and professor local histories

16, 1901, in