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 BELLI NTi HAM.

BELLOWS.

mitted to the bar in 1803, aiul eiigaRed in practice at PorthuuL Ore. He was clerk and official re- porter of the state supreme court. 1874-'78 ; judge of the state circuit court, 1878-'80. and U.S. dis- trict jiid'^e for the district of Oref,'on. from 1893.

BELLINOHAM, Richard, colonial governor of Mas.sjti-husett.s, was born in England about 1592. lie was one of the [Kitentees named in the charter of the colony, and came to America in 1634. The f«)llowing year he was elected deputy governor of Massiichasetts. and in lt)41 a majority of six votes over John Winthrop made hiin governor. The choice was not agreeable to the general court, and the first order they made was to repeal a standing law for allowing one luindred pounds annually to the governor. In 1G.j4 he was again elected gov- ernor; in 1(>64 lie was made assistant major- general, and in the same year was summoned with several others to England for an examination of the management of their affairs. They refused to obey the summons, and the government gave them no further trouble, the king having been appea.sed by a shipload of masts sent from Massa- chusetts. In 1641 Governor Bellingham married for his second viife Penelope, sister of Herbert Pelhani under very peculiar circvmistances. The young lady, but sixteen years old, was engaged to be married to a friend of the governor's, with his consent, " when on a sudden the governor treated with her and obtained her for himself." The marriage ceremony he performed himself without previously publishing the banns. He was charged with a breach of the order of court, but refused to leave the bench to answer to the charge, and there being but few magistrates present he escaped without public cen.sure. Hubbard says: "He was a great judiciary, a notable hater of bribes, firm and fixed in any reso- lution he entertained." In 1656 his sister, Mrs. Ann Hibbin.s, was burned as a witch. In 1665 he was, upon the death of Governor Endicott, elected governor, and held the office up to the time of his death. Governor Bellingham lived to be the only surviving patentee named in the charter. By his will he bequeathed his property after the decease of his wife, a .son, and his grand-daughter, to the use "of godly ministers and preachers " of the Congregational faith. The will was set aside by the court as depriving his family of their rights. Ilis death occurred Dec. 7, 1672.

BELLOWS, Albert F., painter, was born at Milford, Ma.s.s., Nov. 29, 1829. His childhood was passed in Salem, Mass., and in 1845 he obtained a position in the office of a Boston architect. His taste and aptitude for drawing made him emi- nently fitted for this business, and at the age of nineteen he liecame a ])artner in a firm of good standing. After remaining in business a short time he adopted painting for a profession, and was

for some years principal of the New England school of design. He soon after went abroad and divided his time between New York and the art centres of Europe. He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1859, academician in 1861. He was one of the first members of the American society of painters in water colors, and in 1868 was made an honorary member of the Royal Belgian society of water colorists, which honor cannot be given without a unanimous vote of the members of the institution. Before going abroad he confined his work chiefly to oils, in which he was less successful than in his later water colors. Among the best of these are : " Study of a Head " (1876) ; " Autumn Woods " (1876); " Svmday Afternoon in New England" (1876); "New England Homestead" (1878); " The Willow Wagon," " Sunday in Devon.shire," and " The Village ELm." Several of his pictures have been reproduced in steel or copper-plate engravings. The Art Journal for March, 1877, says: "Bellows' soft river banks, his trees trem- bling with light, and the quiet skies of simimer have long made his paintings loved, and they have also served to develop the taste for water colors among us." He died at Aubumdale, Mass., Nov. 24, 1883.

BELLOWS, Benjamin, soldier, was lx)rn at Walpole, N. H., Oct. 6, 1740. When quite a young man he became prominent in local politics, and in 1759 he was elected town clerk, holding the office for seventeen years. He served in the legislature several terms, and in 1781 refused an election to the Continental Congress. As presi- dent of the state electoral college in 1788 he cast his vote for George W^ashington, and in the same year sat in the state convention which ratified the Federal constitution. As presidential elector in 1796 he voted for John Adams. He rendered brave and efficient service throughout the war of the revolution, in which he held the rank of colonel, and in the state militia made his way from corporal to brigadier-general. He died in Walpole, N. H., in June, 1802.

BELLOWS, Henry Adams, jurist, was born at Walpole, N. H., Oct. 25, 1803; son of Joseph and Mary (Adams) Bellows. He was educated at the academy at Windsor, Vt., studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1826. He practised in his native town, removing to Littleton, N. H., two years later, where he practised until 1850, when he removed to Concord, N. H. He gained a high reputation as a lawyer. On Sept. 23, 1859, he was apiMiinted associate justice of the supreme judicial court, to succeed Judge Perley, and was appointed chief justice, Oct. 1, 1869. He served two terms in the state legislature, but did not hold other political office. He died in Concord, N. H., March 11, 1873.