Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 01.djvu/255

 BAYLIES.

BAZIN.

of anatomy at Columbia college, and in 1793 be- came professor of surgery in the same institu- tion. He delivered several courses of lectures on surgery, and published the results of his experi- ence in practice in "A View of the Croup '' (1781), and " An Account of the Epidemic Fever which Prevailed in New York in 1795" (1796). As health officer of the port of New York he established stringent laws of quarantine, and made general miprovements in sanitary matters under his control. He maintained, in 1797, that yellow fever was not contagious, but due entirely to local causes. He died of ship fever on Staten Island, N. Y.. Aug. 17, 1811.

BAYLIES, Francis, lawyer, was born at Taunton, Mass., Oct. 16, 1783; son of William Baj^lies, M.D., one of the founders of the Massa- chusetts medical society. He received an academic education, and after studying law was admitted to the bar and began practice. He was made register of probate for Bristol county in 1812, holding the office for eight years. In 1820 he was elected a representative from Massachu- setts in the 17th U. S. Congress, and was re-elected to the 18tli and 19th congresses. On his return home he was made a member of the house of rep- resentatives in the state legislature, and held his seat by re-election until 1832, when he was ap- pointed by President Jackson as charge d'affaires to the Argentine Republic. In 1835 he was again elected to the state legislature, and served one term. He is the author of " Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth " (2 vols., 1830). He died Oct. 28, 1852.

BAYLIES, William, physician, was born at Uxbridge, Mass., Dec. 5, 1743. He was graduated from Harvard university in 1760, and after study- ing medicine established a large practice at Dighton, Mass. He was a man of progress and activity, aiding in establishing the Massachusetts medical society, and holding membership in the Massachusetts state historical society and the Academy of arts and sciences. He was also prom - inent in politics, being elected in 1775 a mem- ber of the Massachusetts provincial congress, and a member of the state convention which adopted the Federal constitution. In 1783 he represented* his district in the State senate, and was a repre- sentative in the 9th and 10th U. S. congresses from 1805 to 1809. He died at Dighton, Mass., June 17, 1826.

BAYLOR, Frances Courtenay, author, was born at FayetteviUe, Ark., Jan. 20, 1848. She travelled in Europe from 1865 to 1867, when she returned to the United States and wrote for the periodicals. In 1873-'74 she resided in England, gathering literary material. Her book. ' ' On Both Sides," brought her fame, and she afterwards published " Juan and Juanita " (1886), and " Be-

hind the Blue Ridge" (1887), and "Tlie Ladder of Fortune (1899). She was married in 1896 to George Slieni'aT) Bnrnum.

BAYLOR, George, soldier, was born at New- market, Va., Jan. 12, 1752. He joined the revolu- tionary army at the beginning of the war, serving first as aide-de-camp to General Washington. He was given a horse by Congress, in appreciation of his services both in the attack on the Hessians at Trenton, N. J., and in his prompt announce- ment to Congress of the news of the victory. In Janviary, 1777, he was promoted colonel, and in 1778 was captured by General Grey at Tajjpan, N. Y., with his entire command, after sixty- seven had been killed, and he was held a pris- oner for some time. Subsequently he was placed in command of the Virginia cavalry, and served until the end of the war. A serious lung wound, received at Tappan, finally resulted in his death in Bridgetown, Barbadoes, W. I., whither he had gone in search of health. He died in March, 1784.

BAYLOR, Robert Emmett Bledsoe, jurist, was born in Lincoln comity, Ky. , May 10, 1793. Several of his ancestors were military officers in the Continental army. His law studies were in- termitted by the war of 1812, in which he took an active part, but upon the restoration of peace he resumed them, was admitted to the bar, and soon enjoyed a comfortable practice. He became a member of the Kentucky state legislature in 1819, but resigned the office in 1820, upon his removal to Alabama. In 1824 he was elected to the Alabama legislature, and from 1829 to 1831 represented his district in the 21st Congress. As commander of a regiment of Alabamians he ren- dered brilliant service in quelling the disturb- ances on the state borders during the Creek war. Later he removed to Texas, then a republic, and was made a judge of the district and supreme courts. After annexation he took an active interest in the growth and development of the state and its institutions, and was a member of the convention which formulated the state con- stitution, and for a quarter of a century he was one of the district judges of the new state. Bay- lor county and Baylor university were both named in his honor, and to the latter he gave a large tract of land and a handsome sum of money. He died at Gay Hill, Texas, Jan. 6, 1874.

BAZIN, John Stephen, R.C. bishop, was born at Duerne (Rhone), France, Oct. 15, 1796. He was ordained at Lyons, July 22, 1822, removed to America and was assigned to the diocese of Mobile, Ala., imder Bishop Portier, where his benevolence and urbanity procured him the es- teem and respect of all classes of the commimity, regardless of sect or creed. After his apjroint- ment as vicar-general of Mobile he devoted his time largely to the founding of charitable institu-