=Baylor, Frances Courtenay.= _See Barnum, Mrs._ =Beach, David Nelson.= _N. J._, 1848- ----. A prominent Congregational clergyman of Cambridge, and, since 1895, of Minneapolis. The Newer Religious Thinking; How we Rose; Plain Words on Our Lord’s Work; The Intent of Jesus. _Lit. Rob._ =Beal, William James.= _Mch._, 1833- ----. A botanical professor in the Michigan Agricultural College from 1870. The New Botany; The Grasses of North America. =Beale, Mrs. Maria [Taylor].= _Va._, 1849- ----. A novelist of Arden, North Carolina. Jack O’Doon. _Ho._ =Beard, George Miller.= _Ct._, 1839-1883. A New York physician. American Nervous Diseases: Causes and Consequences; The Scientific Basis of Delusions; Clinical Researches in Electro-Surgery; Medical Uses of Electricity; Physiology of Mind-Reading; Stimulants and Narcotics; Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft and its Practical Application in Our Own Time. Some works of lesser note. _Har. Wo._ =Beardsley, Eben Edwards.= _Ct._, 1808-1891. An Episcopal clergyman of New Haven. History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut; Lives of Samuel Johnson, the First President of King’s College, New York, William Samuel Johnson, President of Columbia College, and Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut. _Hou._ =Beasley, Frederick.= _N. C._, 1777-1845. An Episcopal clergyman who was provost of the University of Pennsylvania. An Examination of the Oxford Divinity; Search of Truth in the Science of the Human Mind; Reply to Dr. Channing. =Beck, Theodric Romeyn.= _N. Y._, 1791-1855. A medical writer of Albany. Elements of Medical Jurisprudence (with J. B. Beck). =Becker, George Ferdinand.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A geologist in the United States service. Geology of the Comstock Lode; Atomic Weight Determinations; Geometrical Value of Volcanic Cones; A New Law of Thermo-Chemistry; Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope. Several lesser works. =Beckett, Sylvester Breakmore.= _Me._, 1812-1882. An author and publisher of Portland, Maine. Hester, the Bride of the Islands, a Poem; Guide Book of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence. =Bedell= [bē-dĕll´], =Gregory Thurston.= _N. Y._, 1817-1892. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Ohio, and a valued writer of the evangelical school. The Divinity of Christ; The Profit of Godliness; Pastoral Theology; Principles of Pastorship; The Age of Indifference; Episcopacy; Fact and Law. A few minor works. =Bedell, Gregory Townsend.= _N. Y._, 1793-1834. Father of G. T. Bedell, _supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, once famous as a preacher. Renunciation; Ezekiel’s Vision; Sermons were his chief works. _See Life by Tyng, 1836._