=Ayres, Anne.= _E._, 1816-1896. The first member of an American sisterhood in the Protestant Episcopal Church, becoming a sister of the Holy Communion in 1845. Evangelical Sisterhoods; Life of W. H. Muhlenberg, _infra_. =Azarias, Brother.= _See Mullany._ B =Bache= [baych], =Alexander Dallas.= _Pa._, 1806-1867. A scientist who was superintendent of the United States Court Survey, 1843-67. His annual reports to Congress are works of great value. _See Commemorative Address by B. A. Gould, infra, 1868._ =Bache, Franklin.= _Pa._, 1792-1864. Cousin of A. D. Bache, _supra_, and like him a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, _infra_. A Philadelphia physician, professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College, 1841-64. A System of Chemistry for Students in Medicine; The Dispensatory of the United States (with _G. B. Wood_). _See Memoir, by G. B. Wood, infra._ =Bacheller, Irving.= _N. Y._, 1859- ----. A journalist and littérateur of New York city. The Master of Silence, a romance; The Still House of O’Darrow; Eben Holden. _Cas. Lo._ =Bachman= [bäk´man], =John.= _N. Y._, 1790-1874. A naturalist of Charleston, where he was pastor of a Lutheran church, 1815-74. He assisted Audubon, preparing the greater part of the text of The Quadrupeds of North America, and wrote several religious and scientific works. Two Letters on Heredity; Defence of Luther and the Reformation. _See American Lutheran Biographies._ =Backus, Isaac.= _Ct._, 1724-1806. A Baptist clergyman of Rhode Island. A History of New England, with Particular Reference to the Baptists. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._ =Bacon, Delia Salter.= _O._, 1811-1859. The earliest exponent of the Baconian theory of the authorship of Shakespeare. Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded; Tales of the Puritans; The Bride of Fort Edward: a Drama. _See Hawthorne’s Recollections of a Gifted Woman; Mrs. Farrar’s Recollections of Seventy Years; Life, by Theodore Bacon; Saturday Review, vol. 67._ =Bacon, Edwin Munroe.= _R. I._, 1844- ----. A journalist of Boston. Dictionary of Boston; Boston of To-Day. _Hou._ =Bacon, Henry.= _Ms._, 1839- ----. An artist who has lived principally in Paris. A Parisian Year; Parisian Art and Artists. _Hou. Rob._ =Bacon, Leonard.= _Mch._, 1802-1881. Brother of D. S. Bacon, _supra_. The pastor of a Congregational church in New Haven, Connecticut, 1825-81, and a prominent figure in the denomination to which he belonged. Historical Discourses; Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays; Genesis of the New England Churches; Christian Self-Culture. _See Century Magazine, vol. 3._ _Har._ =Bacon, Leonard Woolsey.= _Ct._, 1830- ----. Son of L. Bacon, _supra_. A Congregational clergyman. A Life Worth Living; Church Papers; Sermons; The Simplicity that is in Christ. _Fu._