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 BECK WITH.

BECKWOURTH.

He was elected lieutenant-governor of tliest:it<' on the tieket with (Jov. William (Joebel in IMi'.t. anil «>n Keb. ^^, liMH>. one iiour after the deatii of Gov. CJoehel he was sworn in as governor of the state. He was married Nov. 21, 1900. to Jean Raphael Fiiqua of Owensboro. Ky. He was the Denioei-atif candidate for governor iu lUOU, and was .•lected for I lie term 1!»01-'0;J.

BECKWITH, Amos, soldier, was born in Vermont. Oct. 4, 1^25. He was graduated at West Point, July 1, 18r)0, and began his career as brevet 2d lieutenant of artillery. From liSoO to IS."):} he served in the Seminole war, and from Is'tS to 1801 he was engjxged in garrison duty at Forts Monroe, McHenry, Key West, Barrancas and Leavenworth. In 18154-'6.1 he was in active field service under General Sherman, and after the close of the war was engaged in commissary duty in the western and southern .states. For active and efficient services in the commissary dejtartment during the civil war he was regularly promoted until on March 13, 1865, he was given the brevet ranks of major-general and of briga- dier general. He died Oct. 20. 1894.

BECKWITH, Edward Griffin, soldier, was born at Cazenovia, N. Y., June 25, 1818. After graduating from West Point, in 1842, he served in garrison at Savannah, as 2d lieutenant of 3d artillery, until 1846, when he was apiwinted for recruiting service. He was promoted 1st lieu- tenant Jime 18, 1846, and took an active part in the Mexican war; was present at Tampico and Vera Cruz, and was engaged in the Pacific rail- rf«id survey from 1853 to 1857, and in constructing military roads in Nebraska and Kansas, 1857-"59. He was promoted captain May 12, 1855, and dm-ing the civil war served in the commissary depart- ment from 1801 to 1805, with the exception of a few weeks (Sept. 16 to Nov. 16, 1803), when he acted as provost-marshal-general of the depart- ment of the Gulf, and again when placed for a short time (from August, 1863, to January, 1864) in command of the defences of New Orleans. On Feb. 8, 1864, he was promoted major, and on March 13, 1805, was bre vetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general of volunteers. He was continued in the service of the commissary deyiartment and was mu-stered out May 31, 1806. He died at Clifton, N.Y., June 22, 188L

BECKWITH, James Carroll, artist, was born at Hannil>al. Mo., Sept. 23, 1852; son of N. M. lieckwith, U. S. commissioner-general at the Paris exfKisition of 1867. He studied at the Academy of design in Chicago, and in 1871 began to study at the National academy. New York. In 1873 he went t<^> Paris, where he studied ff)r five years under Car- olu.s Duran, and in the Paris school of arts under Yvon. He returned to the United States in 1878, organized a class for the Art students' league.

New York, for drawing from the antique, and oix'ned a studio. In 1879 he exhibited at the National academy of design, and at the exhibi- tions of the American society of artists. In 1^77 " Head of an Old Man '" appeared at the Salon in Paris, and he exhibited at the same place " Girl Reading," and in 1890, "Mr. Isaacson." "The Falconer " was shown at the Paris exix)sition in 1878, and tliree portraits appeared at the exposi- tion of 1889, for which he received a bronze medal; he also exhibited at the Royal academy in 1892. He was a member of most of the Amer- ican art clubs; president of tiie National free art league, and a National academician.

BECKWITH, John Walrus, 2d P. E. bishop of Georgia, and sotli in sucvession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 9, 1831. He was graduated at Trinity college, Hartford, in 1852, was ordained a deacon in 1854, and was admitted to the priesthood May 20, 1855. His first charge w\as at Calvary church, Wades- boro, N. C., but he soon removed to Maryland and became rector of All Hallows parish, Washington coiinty. At the opening of the civil w^ar he went to Alabama as rector of Trinity church, Demop- olis, and in 1865 accepted the rectorship of Trinity church. New Orleans, where he remained until he was elevated to the episcopac}^ He receiveil the degree of S.T.D. from Trinity college, Hartford, in 1867, and from the University of Georgia in 1868. He was consecrated bishop of Georgia in St. John's church, Savannah, April 2, 1868. Bishop Beckwith was untiring in his labors for the spiritual and material development and pros- perity of his see, and wielded no small influence in the councils of the church, as well as in its jurisdiction. Besides his addresses, Lenten charges, and controversial discourses, Bishop Beckwith contributed an interesting monograph on Bethesda college to the " History of the Ameri- can Episcopal Church." by Bishop Perry of Iowa. He died at Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 23, 1890.

BECKWOURTH, James P., pioneer, was born at Fredericksburg. Va., April 26, 1798. His father was a major in the revolutionary army, and his mother a negro slave. About the year 1805 lie removed to St. Louis, Mo., and .settled on the spot afterwards known as " Beckwourth's Settle- ment." When young Beckwourth was about ten years old he was sent to St. Louis, where he at- tended school for four years, and was then apjirenticed to a blacksmith in that city. At the age of nineteen he joined an expedition of about one hundred men to go up the P'ever river and negotiate a treaty with the Sac Indians; and that being dime, lie remained in the vicinity for more than a year. He next became connected with General Ashley's Rocky Mountain fur company. In 1823 he carried important despatches to the