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Bellamy, Alfred D., physician,.manufacturwas born July 15, 1847, in Watkins, N.Y. In, 1882 he established the Florence wagon company, one of the first wholesale manufacturers of farm wagons in the southern states, and of which he is still president. Bellamy, Mrs. Blanche Wilder, journalist, author. She is the wife of Frederick P. Bellamy, a lawyer and a brother of the late Edward Bellamy. She is vice-president of the Brooklyn hospital training school for nurses. She is the author of Twelve English Poets. Bellamy, Charles Joseph, lawyer, journalist, author, was born May 7, 1852, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He is a member of the Hampden county bar; and a journalist of Springfield, Mass. He is the author of The Breton Mills, a. novel; Everybody's Lawyer; The Way Out; An Experiment in Marriage; er,

Were They Sinners; Return of the Fairies; A Moment of Madness; The Wonder ChildFairy Stories and several school books. Bellamy, Edward, reformer, author, was bom March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was a socialist reformer whose Utopian theories, embodied in the tale Looking Backward, have been very widely read; and have resulted in the formation of several societies and communities that endeavor to put some of them in practice. His other works include Six to One, a Nantucket Idyl; Dr. HeidenhoflF's Process, a novel; and Miss Ludington's Sister, a Romance of Immortality. He died May 22, 1898, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. Bellamy, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield, litterateur, author, was born April 17, 1839, in Quincy, Fla. She was a novelist of Mobile, Ala. She was the author of Four Oaks; Little Joanna; Penny Lancaster Farmer; Old Man Gilbert; and The Luck of the Pendenren

nings. She died in 1900, in Mobile, Ala. Bellamy, John Dillard, lawyer, congressman, author, was bom March 24, 1854, in Wilmington, N.C. He has been state senator and city attorney of Wilmington, N.C.

In 1899-1903 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fifty-sixth and fiftyseventh congresses as a democrat. He is the author of several books and historical essays. Bellamy, Joseph, clergyman, author, was bom in 1719 in Cheshire, Conn. He founded a divinity school in his parish; and trained many men there who were afterwards famous among New England ministers. He was the author of True Religion Delineated; The Law Our Schoolmaster; The Half -Way Covenant; and The Nature and Glory of the Gospel. He died March 6, 1790, in Bethlehem, Conn. Bellamy, Orlando RoUin, educator, poet, was born Aug. 10, 1856, in Vevay, Ind. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Songs by the Wayside. Bellamy, William, author, poet, was born Jan. 25, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He is the

author of A Century of Charades; and A Second Century of Charades. Bellas, Henry Hobart, soldier, lawyer, author, was born June 30, 1846, in Ebensburg. Pa. In 1873-90 he was an officer of the United States army; when he was placed on the retired list as captain of cavalry. He is the author of various genealogical and historical publications.

Bellew, Harold Kyrle Money, actor, dramwas born in 1857 in Calcutta. He came to the United States in 1885; and starred jointly with Mrs. James Brown Potter. He is the author of Yvanne; lolande; Hero and Leander; Charlotte Corday; and several adaptations. Bellinger, Charles Byron, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 21, 1839, in Maquon, 111. He served in the Modoc campaign in the Lava Beds in 1873. He was judge of the state circuit court in 1878-80; and was United States district judge for the district of Oregon in 1903-05. He died in 1905 in Portland, Ore. Bellinger, Joseph, congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a presidential elector in 1809. In 1817-19 he was a representative from South Carolina to the fifteenth congress. He died in South Carolina. Bellingham, Richard, colonial governor, atist, author,

in 1593 in England. He settled in Boston; and in 1641-42 and 1654-55 was colonial governor of Massachusetts. In 1665 he again became chief magistrate of Massachusetts for the remainder of his life, being deputy governor thirteen years and governor ten years. He died Dec. 7, 1672 in Boston, Mass. Bellows, Albert F., painter, artist, was born Nov. 29, 1829, in Milford, Mass. His watercolors are the Notch at Lancaster; Afternoon in Surrey; The Thames at Windsor; The Reaper's Child; and New England Homestead. Ho died Nov. 24, 1883, in Auburndale, Mass. Bellows, Albert Jones, physician, author, was born in 1804 in Massachusetts. He was a prominent physician of Boston, Mass. He is the author of How Not to be Sick; and the Philosophy of Eating. He died in 1869 in Boston, Mass. Bellows, Benjamin, soldier, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1740, in Walpole, N.H. He was a member of the colonial and afterward of the Massachusetts state legislature. He was a member of the state convention that rati-

was born

the federal constitution in 1788. He presided over the New Hampshire electoral college that voted for Washington in 1788; and was a member of the one that voted for John Adams in 1796. He was active in the colonial and state militia, rising from the rank of corporal to that of brigadier-general and served during the revolutionary was as a colonel. He died in June, 1802, in Walpole, fied

Mass. Bellows, Henry Adams, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 25, 1803, in Walpole, Mass. He was appointed associate judge of the supreme