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BELL, Peter Hansbrough, governor of Texas, was born in Virginia about 1820. He went to Texas in 1836, joined Houston's army as a pri- vate, and fought in the battle of San Jacinto. Subsequently he was appointed inspector-general of Texas. He was captain of a company of ran- gers and was noted for his reckless and successful encounters with the Indians. Wlien Texas was admitted to the Union in 1846, he was appointed a colonel of U.S. voUmteers. He was governor of the state, 1849-'.j;j, and made a fierce opposi- tion to the attempts of the Federal government to diminish the territory claimed by Texas. The trouble was settled by the compromise in 1850. He represented his state in the 33d and 34th con- gresses, and was judge of the supreme court. He died in Littleton. N.C., March 11, 1898.

BELL, Samuel, governor of New Hampshire, was born at Londonderry, N.H., Feb. 9, 1770; grandson of John Bell, who emigrated from Ire- land to New Hampshire in 1722. In 1793 he was graduated at Dartmouth, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1796. He was actively interesteil in politics, liis first elective office being that of a member of the state house of represen- tatives in 1804. He served three terms, and was speaker during the last two. In 1809 he was elected a member of the executive council, and later served for three years as judge of the supi'eme court of New Hampshire (1816-'19). He was governor, 1819-23, and U.S. senator, 1823-'35. He received the degree LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1821. He died at Cliester. N.H.. Dec. 23, 1850.

BELL, William Hemphill, soldier, was born in Westchester, Pa., Jan. 28, 1834; son of Thomas S. and Keziah (Ann) Bell; and grandson of Capt. Joseph McClelland, of the Revolution, belonging to Gen. Anthony Wayne's command. He was appointed to the United States military academy from Penns3'lvania, July 1, 1853; was brevetted 2d lieutenant in the 3d infantry, July L 1858; 1st lieutenant. May 14, 1861; and transferred to the commissary subsistence department and pro- moted captain, June 11, 1862. He served during the civil war in the line of the army in the field and in the subsistence department. He was brev- etted major, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meri- torious service in New Mexico; was promoted, major, Aug. 14, 1883; was made assistant com- missary-general with the rank of lieutenant- colonel. Dec. 27, 1892; with tiie rank of colonel, June 10, 1896, and commissary-general of subsis- tence with the rank of brigadier-general, Nov. 14, 1897. He was retired Jan. 28. 1898.

BELLAflY, Edward, reformer, was born at Chicopee Falls, Mass., March 26. 1850; son of the Rev. Rufus K. and Maria L. (Putnam) Bellamy. He studied at Union college, N.Y., and in Ger- many, and was admitted to the bar in Spring-

field, Mass. Preferring journalism he attached himself to the Springfield Union as an editorial writer and later filled a like place on the New York Evening Post. Returning to Springfield he established the Neivs with his brother Charles. He visited the Sandwicii Islands, in 1877. In 1878 he published " Six to One; A Nantucket Idyll," and in 1888 " Looking Backward; 2000-1887." This book was enthusiastically received, four hundred thousand copies being sold in the United States alone, during the first three j'ears of its publication. The work was translated into the German, French, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Rus- sian, Polish, Hungarian, Italian and other tongues, and the sales in Great Britain and Germany were nearly as large as in the United States. Mr. Bellamy became very prominent in a political movement favoring the nationalization of com- merce and of all industries for the equal benefit of the people. The movement also favored an en- largement of the functions of the municipalities, to include compulsory education, the lighting and heating of houses, and the control of all systems of public transit. He also favored a plan whereby the manufacture and sale of intoxicants should be made a public nionopoh', conducted without profit by agents having fixed salaries independent of sales. In 1891 he established and edited TJte New Nation, and The Nationalist. His books in- clude: " Dr. Heidenhoflf's Process "(1880); " Miss Ludington's Sister: A Romance of Immortality " (1884); " How to Employ the Unemployed in Mutual Maintenance" (1893); •' The Progress of the Nationalist " (1894); and " Equality " (1897). He died in Chicopee Falls, Mass., May 22, 1898.

BELLAflY, Joseph, clergj-man, was born in Cheshire, Conn., in 1719. He graduated at Yale in 1735, and was pastor of the Methodist church at Bethlehem, Conn.. 1737-'90, where he founded a theological seminary. Aberdeen gave him the degree of D.D. in 1768. He published: '"True Religion Delineated" (1750): "Tlieron. Pauliuus andAspasia" (1759); "Nature and Gloiy of the Gospel" (1762); " Half- Way Covenant" (1769). He died in Bethlehem, Conn., March 6, 1790.

BELLEW, Frank W. P., " Chip," was born in 1862; son of Frank Bellew, caricaturist. He used the signature " Chip " to indicate that he was a " chip of the old block." The feature of his work by which he became famous was his dog, which under his clever pen assumed expressions of mild surprise, disdain, anger, contempt, contentment and even mirth. Chip's humor also consisted in perverting some familiar quotation or phrase with ludicrus effect. He died in New York city, Nov. 9, 1894.

BELLINGER, Charles Byron, jurist, was born in Maquon, 111., Nov. 21. 1839. He was educated at Willamette university, Salem, Ore.; was ad-