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Boston, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. He removed to Bristol, R. I., in 1(374, and ac- quired a proprietary interest in one-fourth of the land of that town after King Philip's war. He took an active interest in the growth, devel- opment and government of the town, served as speaker of the house of representatives for a season, and as judge of the Bristol county court of common pleas for thirty-eight years. He was judge of the vice-admiralty from 1T04-"15, and again in 1720. He returned to Boston in 1734, was appointed judge of the court of common pleas of Suffolk county, and later became a member of the Massachusetts council, retaining the latter office for many years. He was the author of an Account of the late Revohition in Neiv England; together witJi the Declaration of the Gentlemen, 2Ierchants and Inhabitants of Bos- ton (1689). He died in Boston. Mass., June 6, 1733.

BYFORD, William Heath, physician, was born in Eaton, Preble county, Ohio, March 20, 1817. He was graduated at the Oliio medical school in 1844, and practised at Mt. Vernon, Ind. In 1852 he became professor of anatomy, and in 1854 professor of theory and practice in the Evansville medical college. In 1857 he was called to the chair of obstetrics in the Rush medi- cal college, Chicago, and in 1859 to the chair of obstetrics in the Chicago medical college. He returned in 1879 to the Rush medical college to fill the chair of gynaecology, which had been cre- ated for him. He was one of the founders of the Woman's medical college of Chicago, and for many years its president, and its professor of obstetrics and gyngecology. His published works are: Chronic Inflammation of the Cervix (Philadelphia 1864): Treatise on the Chronic Inflammation and Displacement of the Uterus (1864, new ed., 1871): Practice of Medicine and Surgery applied to Diseases of Women (1865; new ed., revised, 1871); Philosophy of Domestic Life (1868); and a Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Obstetrics (1870). He died in Clii- cago. m.. May, 1890.)

BYINQTON, Ezra Hoyt, clergpnan, was born at Hinesburg, Vt., Sept. 3, 1828. He was gradu- ated from the University of Vermont in 1852, and from Andover theological seminary in 1857. For more than thirty years he was a parish min- ister: at Royalston, Vt., 1857-"58; at Windsor, Vt., 1858-"69; at the American Presbyterian church in Montreal, 1870; at the College church in Brunswick, Me., 1871-'78, and at Monson, Mass., 1880-'87. After that time he made his home at Newton, Mass., and preached in the vicinity of Worcester and Boston; served for many years as an active member of the New England historic genealogical society, the American society of church history and a number of other societies

of the same character. From 1890 to 1894 he was engaged in teaching theology. In 1855 he received the degree of A.M. and in 1890 that of D.D. from the University of Vermont. He pub- lished in 1896 The Puritan in England and New England." Mr. Byington died at Newton, Mass., May 16, 1901.

BYINQTON, Swift, clergyman, was born at Bristol, Conn., Feb. 4, 1825. In his boyhood he studied with A. Bronson Alcott in Philadelphia, Pa., and was graduated from Yale college in 1847, and from Andover theological seminary in 1850. From 1850 to 1852 he was resident licenti- ate at Andover, and after his ordination to the Congregational ministry in 1852 he preached for several years at West Brookfield, Mass. In 1859 he preached at the North Avenue church in Cambridge; in 1861-'62 at North Woburn; in 1862-'63 at the Old South church in Boston; from 1864 to 1871 in Stoneham, and from 1871 to 1894 in Exeter, N. H. He retired from active work Feb. 15, 1894, and died May 26. 1895.

BYLES, Mather, clergyman, was. born in Boston, Mass., March 15, 1707. He was descended on his mother's side from Richard Mather and John Cotton. After graduating from Harvard in 1725 he studied for the ministry, and was or- dained pastor of the Congregational church, Hollis street, Boston, in 1733, where he officiated for forty-three years. He was an eloquent preacher, and manj- of his sermons are preserved in the public libraries. He was a Tory, and this brought about his dismissal from the Hollis street church in 1776. He was denounced in town meeting, and, after a trial, sentenced to imprisonment for forty days and then to be deported with his family to England. This sen- tence was commuted to confinement to his own house and subsequentlj" remitted altogether. He published: Poem on the Death of George 1. (1727); A Poetical Epistle to Governor Belcher on the Death of his Lady (1736). and Miscel- laneous Poems (1744): also The Comet, The Conflagration and The God of the Tempest. He died in Boston, Ma.ss., July 5, 1788.

BYNUM, John Qray, jurist, was born in Gil- bertown, Rutherford county, N. C, Feb. 15, 1846; son of John Gray and Mary Moffate (McDowell) Bynum. His mother was a grand- daughter of Major Joseph McDowell, who com- manded the right wing of the American forces at the battle of King's mountain. At the age of sixteen he volunteered as a private in the Con- federate army. After the Mine Run campaign in 1863 he was discharged for disability. Gov- ernor Vance, in 1804, appointed him clerk on the blockade-runner Ad Vance, and he was cap- tured with the vessel in September, 1864, by the United States steamer Santiago de Cuba, and