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BEALL.

NVw Pliil:ulel|>liia, Ohio. Sept. 23. 1861, son of Jesse Real. He w;i.s p:railuatecl at Scio college in 1884. a!ul at the Cincinnati law school in 1886. He was married Sept. 29. 1886, to Fannie Snyder Young of New York. He became professor of cliemistry and pharmacy and dean of the depart- ment of pharmacy at Scio college in 1887. and also president of the college. He was chairman of the section of educational legislation of the American pharmaceutical association 1897-98 ; president of tlie Ohio state pharmacy association in 1898, anil author of a model pharmacy law, adopted by the American pharmaceutii-al associ- ation in 1900.

BEAL, William James, botanist, was born at Adrian. Mich.. March 11. 1833. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1859. taught school 1859-'62, and in 1862 entered Harvard uni- versity, where he took a post-graduate course under Agassiz and Gray. In 1868 he accepted the pro- fessorship of natural history in the Uni- versity of Chicago, and in 1870 he was given the chair of botany and horticul- ture in the Michigan agricultural college, which he held until 1883, when he w^as /! /J i/} /? transferred to the

///- jf CJ -Cj^yC^. professorsliip of bot- any and forestry. He became a member of numerous scientific soci- eties, and contributed many original papers to the American Naturalist, the American Journal of Science, and to the reports of the Michigan board of agriculture and the several state soci- eties. In 1875 he made a collection of grasses and woods for the Centennial exhibition at Phila- delphia, which received much attention and won two diplomas. He was president of the Mi(higan state teachers' association in 1881, and president of the society for the promotion of agri- cultural science in 1880-'81. He published "A New Botany " (1881), and the " Grasses of North America" (vol. i.. 1887; vol. ii., 1896), both of which are highly esteemed by scientific men. SfK-aking of the latter work. Prof. A. J. Cook says : '"He is without doubt the best authority on the Graminece in the United States and one of the highest authorities in the world. His work on this family of plants is not only scientific and exhaustive, but accurate.'" He received the de- grees. B.S., Harvard, 1865; M.S.,University of Chi- cago, 1876; Ph.D.. University of Michigan, 1880.

BEALE, Edward Fitzgerald, soldier, was born in Washington. D. C, Feb. 4, 1822, grand.son of Thomas Truxton, U. S. N. lie was aj)- pointed a midshipman in the navy and was graduated from the U. S. naval .school in Phila- delphia in 1842. He .saw his first actual .service on the Pacific coast under Commodore Stockton during the war with Mexico. He attained distinction for his services in making his way tlirough the enemy's lines to procure relief for Kearney's command, and for this gallant exploit was presented with a sword by his fellow officers. At the close of the Mexican war he resigned his commission in the navy and became superinten- dent of Indian affairs for California and New Mexico. He subsequently attained the rank of brigadier-general, and quelled an Indian insurrec- tion in California. President Lincoln made him surveyor-general of California in 1861, and in 1876 President Grant appointed him minister to Austria. He remained there but one year, re- turning to devote his remaining years to the care of his California estates. He died April 22, 1893.

BEALE, Joseph, surgeon, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., Dec. 80, 1814; son of Jo.seph and Margaret (McDowell) Beale. He received a classical and medical education in the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in 1832. After practising his profes- sion for a time he entered the United States navy as assistant surgeon in 1837, and afterward rose to the positions of medical director in 1871. and surgeon -general in 1873. He was placed on the retired li.st in 1876. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1889.

BEALL, Benjamin Lloyd, soldier, was born in the District of Columbia in 1800; son of Capt. Lloyd Beall of Maryland. He was educated in the common schools and in the U. S. military academy at West Point. He volunteered in the army in June, 1836, and went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians, having the rank of captain. The following year he was given the brevet rank of major, and received the full rank of major of dragoons in February, 1847. He served bravely throughout the war with Mexico, winning the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel for his action at Santa Cruz. He was promoted lieutenant- colonel in March, 1855, and served in California with the rank of general, constructing frontier defences, and later was assigned to duty on Van- couver's Island. In 1861 he served as muster- master in Baltimore, Md., and during the same year was promoted to a colonelcy in the 1st United States dragoons. In 1862 he was retired from active service. He had tviro sons in the Federal, and one in the Confederate service in the civil war. He died in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 16, 1863.