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=Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel.= _Pa._, 1874- ----. A journalist and
publisher of Philadelphia. A Dual Role, and Other Stories; An Allegory
and Three Essays; The Madeira Islands; The Froggy Fairy Book.
=Biddle, Charles John.= _Pa._, 1819-1873. Son of N. Biddle, _infra_.
An officer in the United States Army, and afterwards a journalist in
Philadelphia, who is best known by his careful monograph, The Case of
Major André.
=Biddle, Nicholas.= _Pa._, 1786-1844. A financier of Philadelphia
famous in political history as the president of the United States Bank.
A Commercial Digest; History of the Expedition under Lewis and Clark to
the Missouri River. _See Memoir, by Conrad._
=Biddle, Richard.= _Pa._, 1796-1847. Brother of N. Biddle, _supra_. A
lawyer of Philadelphia. Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a Review of the
History of Maritime Discovery.
=Bigelow, Mrs. Edith Evelyn [Jaffray].= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. Wife of P.
Bigelow, _infra_. Diplomatic Disenchantments, a novel. _Har._
=Bigelow, Erastus Brigham.= _Ms._, 1814-1879. A noted New England
inventor of carpet looms. The Tariff Question considered in regard to
the Policy of England and the Interest of the United States; The Tariff
Policy of England and United States Contrasted.
=Bigelow, Jacob.= _Ms._, 1787-1879. A famous physician of Boston
who established Mount Auburn cemetery. History of Mount Auburn; A
Brief Exposition of Rational Medicine; Modern Inquiries, classical,
professional, and miscellaneous; Remarks on Classical and Utilitarian
Studies; American Medical Botany; Nature in Disease. _See Memoir, by
Ellis._
=Bigelow, John.= _N. Y._, 1817- ----. A prominent New York journalist,
at one time United States Minister to France. Life of Benjamin
Franklin; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Life of Samuel Tilden; Jamaica
in 1850; Les États Unis d’Amérique en 1863; Some Recollections of
Antoine Pierre Berryer; France and Hereditary Monarchy; Wit and Wisdom
of the Haytiens; Molinos the Quietist; France and the Confederate Navy:
an International Episode; The Mystery of Sleep. He has edited complete
editions of the works of Franklin and Tilden. _Har. Hou. Lip. Scr._
=Bigelow, John, Jr.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. Son of John Bigelow,
_supra_. A United States cavalry officer. The Principles of Strategy,
illustrated chiefly from American Campaigns. _Lip._
=Bigelow, Melville Madison.= _Mch._, 1846- ----. A lawyer and law
lecturer of Boston. The Law of Bills; English Procedure in the Norman
Period; The Law of Fraud; Elements of Equity; Elements of the Law of
Torts; Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard
I.; Law of Wills, Notes, and Cheques; The Law of Fraud on its Civil
Side; The Law of Estoppel and its Application to Practice; Leading
Cases in the Law of Torts, comprise his principal works. He has also
edited the 8th edition of Story’s Conflict of Laws, and published a
volume of original verse, Rhymes of a Barrister. _Hou. Lit._
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