Brief Biographies from the Jackson/Van Buren Era (B) :

Babbitt, Benjamin Talbot 1809-1889:

A successful businessman, partly due to shrewd advertising, and a friend of P.T. Barnum's.  Besides manufacturing and improving all kinds of steam engines, farm equipment, and ordinance for the Civil War, he made his "Babbitt's best soap" a household name (one of his strokes of advertising genius was to make his soap factory in New York, with its huge soap vats a tourist attraction.

He also involved his relative, Isaac Babbitt, in soap manufacturing towards the end of the latter's life.

Babbitt, Isaac 1799-1862:

In 1834, he went to Boston as superintendent of Alger's Foundry and Ordnance Works, or the South Boston Iron Works, where he achieved great success, casting the first brass cannon made in the United States. His biggest success was the invention of a journal box (for enclosing train axles, ball bearings, and lubrication), U.S. Patent #1252, 7/17/39, for which he received large royalty fees. His suggestion of an alloy to be used for the bearings, made parenthetically, was more important than the invention itself (he is not regarded as the actual inventor or the alloy, and presumably got no royalties from it).

Was committed to the McLean Asylum in Somerville, MA towards the end of his life, and died there.

Source: DAB, Oxford Universal Dictionary.

Bache, Alexander Dallas 1806 - 1867:

Bache, Benjamin Franklin 1769 - 1798 :

Bachman, John 1790 - 1874:

Bacon, Delia Salter 1811 -  1859

Her father was a Connecticut Congregational minister who moved to the edge of the frontier in Ohio as a missionary to the Indians. He later tried, unsuccessfully, to establish a sort of New England colony in Ohio (later, others succeeded in this sort of endeavor). He died in 1817, and his children had to be raised by various relatives.

For Delia, this meant growing up in Hartford CT, in the home of a leading lawyer. At the age of 14, she spent a year in Catharine Beecher's Hartford Female Seminary, which accellerated her intellectual development, and probably lead to the sort of intense Calvinist conversion experience which Beecher (who struggled with her inability to have such an experience) promoted among her pupils.

In 1847, as the unfortunate affair with Alexander MacWhorter was simmering, she came strongly under the influence of her former teacher. Catherine Beecher and brother Leonard.

Bacon, Francis 1561 - 1626:

Bacon, Leonard (1802-1881):

Several contributions from Bacon; footnotes and passages of text, appear in the Autobiography of Lyman Beecher (largely the work of Beecher's children).

Bailey, Gamaliel 1807-1859:

Bainbridge, William 1774 - 1833:

Baker, Benjamin A. 1818-1890:

Baker, Benjamin Franklin 1811-1889:

Baker, Geroge Augustus 1821-1880:

Baldwin, Henry 1780 - 1844:

Baldwin, Joseph Glover 1815 - 1864:

Baldwin, Matthias William 1795-1866:

Ball, Thomas 1819-1911:

Ballou, Adin 1803-1890:

Ballou, Hosea 1771-1852:

Bancroft, Aaron 1755 - 1839:

Bancroft, George 1800-1891:

Banvard, John 1815-1891:

Barbour, James 1775 - 1842:

Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo 1811-1889:

Barbour, Philip P. 1783-1841:

Barker, James Nelson 1784-1858:

Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter 1809-1889:

Barnard, Henry 1811-1900:

Barnes, Albert 1798-1870:

Barney, Nathaniel:

Barnum, Phineas T. 1810-1891:

Born in Bethel, CT.

Barnum, Zenus 1810-1865:

Barry, William Taylor 1785 - 1835:

Bartlett, Enoch 1779 - 1860:

Bartlett, John Russell 1805-1886:

Bartlett, Samuel Colcord 1817-1898:

Bates, Edward 1793-1869:

Bates, Frederick 1777 - 1825:

BATES, Isaac Chapman, 1779-1845

Born in Granville, Mass., January 23, 1779; tutored privately; was graduated from Yale College in 1802; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., in 1808. interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Mass.

Bates, Joshua 1788 - 1864:

BAYLOR, Robert Emmett Bledsoe, 1793-1874

Source: Biog. Dir. of Am. Congress.

Beach, Moses Yale 1800-1868:

Beale, Edward Fitzgerald 1822-1893:

Beard, James Henry 1812-1893:

Beaumont, Gustave De La Bonniere 1802-1866:

Beaumont, William 1785 - 1853:

Beck, Theodric Romeyn 1791 - 1855:

Becknell, William 1790 - 1832:

Beecher, Catharine Esther (1800-1878):

The Daughter of Lyman Beecher, and sister of Catherine Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, Catherine lost her fiance at sea, but received by his will a small fortune, which she used to found the Hartford Female Seminary in 1823. The school was a celebrated success, and she went on to found more schools, to write prolifically on education and woman's place in society.

Source: Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Catharine Beecher

Beecher, Edward (1803 - 1895):

In 1831, became president of Illinois College, in Jacksonville where he remained until called back to Boston to the Salem St. Church in 1844.

Like many of his generation, he was an enthusiast for many kinds of reform, especially abolitionism.

He was close to Elijah Lovejoy during the series of abolitionist agitations, and anti-abolitionist riots that led to Lovejoy's shooting (defending his printing press). Beecher's rather naive way of thinking permitted anti-abolitionists to attend and totally disrupt the abolitionist convention which Lovejoy promoted in his town of Alton, IL, and it is quite likely that this had a decisive impact on the whole affair. After Lovejoy's death, Beecher was a leading force in generating outrage at the event, especially among anti-slavery people of all degrees of commitment, and proponents of freedom of speech.

Beecher also developed some very peculiar and controversial theological ideas, which he put forth in his 1853 Conflict of Ages. He explained man's depravity by a fall during our preexistence (a notion somewhat akin to Mormon thinking), and claimed that the present world promised the possibility of redemption for individuals and society as a whole, indeed of building a perfect society.

He edited The Congregationalist from 1849 to 1852, and preached in Illinois from 1855 to 1871.

[key facts taken from footnote to p 98 in the Autobiography of Lyman Beecher].

Beecher, Henry Ward (Jun. 24, 1813 - Mar. 8, 1887):

An 1834 graduate of Amherst College, he first preached in the west, but in 1847, received a call to be pastor over Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn NY, where he remained until his death, gaining a tremendous (and controversial) fame.

Beecher, Lyman (Oct. 12, 1775 - Jan. 10, 1863):

Born and raised in Connecticut, Lyman Beecher was the son and grandson of a blacksmith. He studied theology at Yale under Timothy Dwight and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Between 1799 and 1810, he ministered in E. Hampton, Long Island, NY. Long Island, opposite Long Island Sound from Connecticut, was at the time, an outpost of New England culture.

In 1806, he wrote a very celebrated sermon against dueling - largely in reaction to the death of Alexander Hamilton in a duel with Aaron Burr. The sermon was shortly published, and had a wide influence throughout the country. It was directed squarely against a concept of "honor" which made dueling a necessary recourse in certain situations. An excerpt from the sermon:

The honor of a dueling legislator does not restrain him in the least from innumerable crimes ... He may be ... in passion a whirlwind; in cruelty to tenants, to servants, and to his family, a tiger. He may be a gambler, a prodigal, a fornicator, an adulterer, a drunkard, a murderer, and not violate the laws of honor. Nay, honor not only tolerates crimes, but, in many instances, it is the direct and only temptation to crime.

From 1810 until 1826, he preached in Litchfield Connecticut. There he was close to New Haven and the Yale professors of the "New Haven Theology", which injected some optimism into the pessimistic Calvinist doctrines. Nathaniel Taylor in particular influenced him. He was appalled by, and fought against the disestablishment of the church in Connecticut, around 1820, but later came to view it as a benefit to the church to be separated from the government.

In helped found the American Bible Society and, in 1825, founded the American Temperance Society, and so greatly influenced the strong temperence movement that picked up steam in the 1830s and thereafter.

He was also appalled by the drift of Congregationist churches, especially around Boston, towards Unitarianism, and some time in the 1820s(???) started the magazine Spirit of the Pilgrims, which tried to bring these "sons of the pilgrims", among others, to the true light of his liberalized Calvinism. In 1826, eager to battle the Unitarians in urbane Boston, he answered the call to start a new Congregationalist church there.

He started out fighting the "New School" methods of Charles G. Finney and his fellow evangelists, but came to respect Finney and his methods, and later was accused of being a "New School" man himself.

In 1832, the wealthy reformers Arthur and Louis Tappan of New York City, former New Englanders themselves, wanted to establish a seminary in the west, and got Beecher to be the first president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnatti, the "Queen City of the West".

In 1835, Beecher was tried by the Presbytery due to his supposed "new school" theological heresies. In his "Autobiography" (actually consisting of Beecher's biographical notes and correspondence, tied together by much text written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and his other children), one of his children asserts that the trial "constituted the first shock of absolutistic theology thoroughly aroused and reacting against the theology of moral government". Perhaps this is a good statement of the confusing conflict between the "new school", or "new lights", interesting in saving as many souls as possible, and turning the newly saved onto a path of good works, and the more traditional Presbyterians.

From 1850 until his death, he lived in retirement, in Brooklyn NY, with his son, the famous minister Henry Ward Beecher.

Beecher's "Autobiography"throws a strong light on many of the tendencies in human thought and action in his time, and many exciting events. It also gives a wonderful sense of the vitality, the plain down-to-earth communication style, the dedication and the lovability of Dr. Beecher.
 

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Bell, James, 1804-1857

(son of Samuel Bell, uncle of Samuel Newell Bell, and cousin of Charles Henry Bell), a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Francistown, Hillsboro County, N.H., November 13, 1804; attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1822; studied law at Litchfield Law School, Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Gilmanton, N.H.; moved to Exeter in 1831 and to Gilford in 1846; member, New Hampshire house of representatives 1846-1850; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Hampshire in 1854 and 1855; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 4, 1855, and served from July 30, 1855, until his death in Laconia, Belknap County, N.H., May 26, 1857; interment in Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, N.H.

Pictured op. p238, Cleaveland and Packard.
Born in 1804 in Francestown, NH was the third son of Samuel Bell (see also Luther Bell, his younger brother Bowdoin 1823, p257 C&P, and pictured opposite that page) a distinguished citizen of NH, having been a judge of the Superior Court, governor of the State (1819-23), and senator in Congress (1823-35).  His great-grandfather, John was one of that famous Irish colony that settled Londonderry.  His grandfather, John, ended an honored and useful life at the age of ninety-five.  Maternally, James Bell came from the Danas.  In college he was distinguished by substantial scholarship and by his staid demeanor.  His brother, Samuel D. Bell of Concord, NH,  now a judge of the Superior Court, directed his early reading in the law, after which he attended the once celebrated law school in Litchfield, CT.  His  first law office was opened with characteristic modesty in Gilmanton, a small town of Stafford County.  But he could not keep concealed.  His business soon became extensive and important, and he removed in 1831 to Exeter.  He had not been here long before he took rank among the ablest lawyers in the State.  For several years scarcely a case of importance that came within the range of his professional employment was tried in NH in which he was not engaged.  While he was thus in the full tide of success, he accepted a proposition which led to a change of residence, and in some measure, of pursuit.  The manufacturing towns of Lowell, Lawrence, and Manchester had for some time suffered much inconvenience and loss from the diminished supply of water in the Merrimac during the dry season of the year.  To remedy this it was resolved to dam up the outlet of the Winnipisaukee and other lakes, thus raising and retaining the waters in these reservoirs of nature, to be let down at pleasure in time of need.  [ ....]

<elected to the senate in 1855, along with John Parker Hale (2nd time for Hale) .  They were both selected by the Native American caucus, which dominated the NH legislature at that time.  Bell's willingness to sign a pledge to the Native American Party nearly derailed Hale's effort (Hale would not get too close to the Native American Party) to get back into the Senate, but a deal was worked -- there being two seats open, a long-term one and a short-term one -- Hale got the short-term seat.  Bell died in 1857

Bell, John 1797 - 1869:

From Biog. Directory of American Congress:
Years of Service: 1847-1855; 1855-1857; 1857-1859
Party: Whig; Opposition; American (Know-Nothing)

BELL, John, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born near Nashville, Tenn., February 15, 1797; was graduated from the University of Nashville in 1814; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Franklin, Tenn.; member, State senate 1817; declined to be a candidate for reelection and moved to Nashville; elected to the Twentieth, and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1841); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twenty-third Congress); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-first through Twenty-sixth Congresses, except for Twenty-third), Committee on Judiciary (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses); appointed by President William Henry Harrison as Secretary of War March 5, 1841, and served until September 12, 1841, when he resigned; member, State house of representatives in 1847; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate in 1847; reelected in 1853, and served from November 22, 1847, to March 3, 1859; unsuccessful candidate in 1860 for President of the United States on the Constitutional Union ticket; investor in ironworks at Cumberland Furnace in Chattanooga, Tenn.; died at his home on the banks of the Cumberland River, near Cumberland Furnace, September 10, 1869; interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, near Nashville, Tenn.

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Bell, Samuel, 1770-1850

Years of Service: 1823-1825; 1825-1829; 1829-1835 Party: Adams-Clay Republican; Adams; Anti-Jackson

(father of James Bell, grandfather of Samuel Newell Bell, and uncle of Charles Henry Bell), a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Londonderry, N.H., February 9, 1770; attended the common schools and New Ipswich Academy; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1796 and commenced practice in Francestown, N.H.; moved to Amherst, N.H., in 1810 and to Chester, N.H., in 1812 and continued the practice of law; member, State house of representatives 1804-1807, serving as speaker 1805-1807; member, State senate, serving as president of that body 1807-1809; member, state executive council 1809-1811; judge of the State supreme court 1816-1819; Governor of New Hampshire 1819-1823; elected to the United States Senate in 1823; reelected in 1829, and served from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1835; was not a candidate for reelection in 1834; chairman, Committee on Claims (Twenty-third Congress); affiliated with the Whig Party upon its formation in 1834; retired to his farm; died in Chester, N.H., on December 23, 1850; interment in the Village Cemetery.

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DAB.

Bellows, Henry Whitney 1814 - 1882:

Beman, Nathan Sidney Smith 1785 - 1871:

Presbyterian (New school) minister.

Benedict, Erastus Cornelius 1800 - 1880:

Benjamin, Ashre 1773 - 1845:

Benjamin, Judah P. 1811 - 1884:

Benjamin, Park 1809-1864:

Bennett, James Gordon (Sep. 1, 1795 - June 1, 1872):

He was born in Scotland, came to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1819, and Boston in 1822 (where he became a proofreader). He spent some of the next couple of years in Charleston, SC, making translations from the Spanish for the Charleston Courier.

Proprietor of the New York Courier, in 1825 but not successful with that.

Benson, George W. :

In 1841, he and others founded the Northampton Association, a commune which tried to support itself by silk production (in what became Florence, MA, near Northampton).

source: Painter, Sojourner Truth; Christopher Clark, Communitarian Moment.
 

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Benson, Samuel Page, 1804 -1876

Bent, Charles 1799 - 1847

Bentham, Jeromy 1748 - 1832:

Benton, Thomas Hart (Mar. 14, 1782 - Apr. 10, 1858):

Born in Hillsboro, NC, and educated at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, he went to Tennessee to make a career of law. During the War of 1812, he became a Colonel of militia, but a quarrel and eventual gunfight with Andrew Jackson led to the end of his military career.

He moved then to St. Louis, in the then territory of Missouri. He practiced law there, and established a newspaper, the Missouri Inquirer. He, partly through the paper, actively advocated statehood, and in 1821 or 22 became one of the state's first Senators. He remained in the Senate for 30 years, after which, in 1854, he published his Thirty Years View, describing his experences and observations, and later, an Abridgement of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, in 8 volumes.

Bergh, Christian 1763 - 1843:

Berrien, John Macpherson 1781 - 1856:

Bethell, John:

Betts, Samuel Rossiter 1786 - 1868:

Bibb, George Mortimer 1776 - 1859:

Biddle, James 1783 - 1848:

Biddle, Nicholas 1786 - 1844:

Bidlack, Benjamin Alden 1804 - 1849:

Bigelow, Erastus Brigham:

Bigelow, Jacob 1786 - 1879:

Bigelow, John 1817 - 1911:

Bingham, George Caleb 1811 - 1879:

Bingham, Caleb 1757 - 1817:

Born Salisbury, CT. Dartmouth College 1779-1782 (Valedictorian, at age 25). Kept an Indian charity school which was connected to Dartmouth, then conducted a private school for "young ladies" in Boston.

First textbook - 1785, was The Young Lady's Accidence or a Short and Easy Introduction to English Grammar: Designed Principally for the Use of Young Learners, more especially of the Fair Sex, though Proper for Either. This enjoyed a long and wide popularity.

1789(-96?) - spent 7 years working for Boston public schools.

Two of his books, in particular: The American Preceptor (1794), and The Columbian Orator (1797), had a major effect on American education, replacing bible-reading as the primary instructional reading matter, and "for a quarter of a century, especially in the district schools, ... surpassed in popularity all their competitors".

The Columbian Orator went through many editions in which its content continually changed. Frederick Douglass obtained a copy early in his youth, having learned to read semi-secretly, and gave it much credit for developing his style, and inspiring him to be an orator.

Source: DAB; McFeely, Douglass.

Bingham, Hiram 1789-1869:

Binney, Horace 1780 - 1875:

Bird, Robert Montgomery 1806 - 1854:

Birkbeck, Morris 1764 - 1825 :

Birney, James Gilespie (1792 - 1857):

Bissell, George H. 1821-84:

Black Hawk 1767 - 1838:

Black, Adam 1784 - 1874:

Blair, Francis Preston

Blair, Montgomery 1813 - 1883:

Blanchard, Thomas 1788 - 1864:

Blatchford, Samuel 1820 - 1983:

Blenkinsop, John 1783 - 1831:

Bloomer, Amelia Jenks 1818 - 1894:

Blount, William 1749-1800:

Bogardus, James 1800 - 1874:

Boggs, Lillburn W. 1792 - 1860:

Bolivar, Simon 1783 - 1830:

Bond, Shadrach 1773? - 1832:

Bond, William Cranch 1789 - 1859:

Bonneville, Benjamin Louis De 1796 - 1878:

Boone, Daniel 1734 - 1820:

Booth, John Wilkes 1838 - 65:

Booth, Junius Brutus 1792 - 1852:

Borden, Gail 1801 - 1874:

Bouboulina, Laskarina 1783 - 1825:

Boucicault, Dion 1820 - 1890:

Source: DAB.

Bourne, Hugh 1772 - 1852:

Bouvier, John 1787 - 1851:

Bowditch, Nathaniel 1773 - 1838:

Bowen, Francis 1811 - 1890:

Bowen, George 1816 - 1888:

Bowie, James 1799 - 1836:

Bowles, Samuel 1797 - 1851:

Boyden, Seth 1788 - 1870

Boye, Martan Hans 1812 - 1909:

Boyer, Jean Pierr 1776 - 1850:

Brace, Charles Loring 1826 - 1890:

Bradburn, George (anti-nativist) ? - ?:

Bradbury, James Ware 1802-1901:

Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, June 10, 1802; attended the common schools and Gorham Academy; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1825; principal of Hallowell Academy and founder of the first normal school in New England, at Effingham, N.H., in 1829; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta, Maine, in 1830; prosecuting attorney 1834-1838; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, until March 3, 1853; declined to be a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Printing (Thirtieth Congress), Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses); trustee of Bowdoin College 1861; president of the Maine Historical Society 1867-1887; practiced law in Augusta, Maine; died in Augusta, Maine, January 6, 1901; interment in Forest Grove Cemetery.

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DAB.

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Brewster, Benjamin Harris 1816 - 1888:

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Brigham, Amariah 1798 - 1849:

Brisbane, Albert 1809 - 1890:

Bronson, Tillotson ? - ?

Brooks, Peter Chardon 1767 - 1849:

Father-in-law of Charles Francis Adams and of Edward Everett, whose public careers, Brooks' money helped to support.

Source: DAB.

Brooks, Preston Smith (Aug 5, 1819 - Jan 27, 1857):

Brooks was born in Edgefield district, SC, in the upcountry, graduated South Carolina College (Now U. of SC) 1839, and was admitted to the bar in Edgefield in 1845. He served as captain in the Mexican-American War.

In 1841, he and another eventually well-known Southern fire-eater named Louis Wigfall shot each other in a duel. Both survived.

Brown, Benjamin Gratz 1826 - 1885:

Brown, Francis 1784 - 1820:

Brown, Goold 1791 - 1857:

Brown, Henry Kirke 1814 - 1886:

Brown, James 1800 - 1855:

Brown, John (1800 - 1859):

October 16-17 1859, he seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (in Virginia, now West Virginia), with some of his sons and a handful of black men, and a plan, of sorts, to unleash a war of slaves against their owners. Captured by Colonel Robert E. Lee.

In his trial for treason (for which he was hung Dec. 2, 1859), he used the defense to make highly effective propaganda, and was seen by many in the north as a martyr, which in turn infuriated many in the south.

Brown, Joseph Rogers 1810 - 1876:

Brown, Nicholas 1729 - 1791:

Brown, Solymann 1790 - 1876:

Browne, Charles Farrar 1834-1867:

Browning, Orville Hickman 1806 - 1881:

Brownlow, William Gannaway 1805 - 1877:

Brownson, Orestes (1803-1876):

He was a universalist minister from 1826-29, and a Unitarian minister from 1832-44.

He participated in the Brook Farm experiment.

Sources:

• Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, A Pilgrim's Progress: Orestes A. Brownson,

Bryant, William Cullen 1794 - 1878:

Buchanan, Franklin 1800 - 1874:

Buchanan, James 1791 - 1868:

When Abraham Lincoln ran for Senator against Douglas in 1858, he kicked off his campaign with the rousing "House Divided" speech, in which he warned that the half slave and half free division of the country would have to be resolved some day, and that Buchanan and others "Steven (Douglas), Franklin (Pierce), Roger (Taney), and James (Buchanan)", appeared to be erecting for us an all-slaveowning "house". When Lincoln was elected president two years later, and southern states prepared to leave the union, Buchanan appeared to accept the nation's splitting apart, and did nothing to try to prevent it.

Buckley, Samuel Botsford 1809 - 1883:

Buckner, Simon Bolivar 1823 - 1914:

Buckstone, John Baldwin 1802 - 1879:

Buell, Don Carlos 1818 - 1898:

Bulkeley, Peter 1583 - 1659:

Bullfinch, Charles 1763-1844:

Bullock, James Dunwody 1823 - 1901:

Bulmer, William 1757 - 1830:

Bunting, Jabez 1779 - 1858:

Burchard, Samuel Dickinson 1812 - 1819:

Burleson, Edward 1798 - 1851:

Burlingame, Anson 1820 - 1870:

Burnett (Or Burnet), Peter Hardeman 1807 - 1895:

Burney, Fanny 1752 - 1840:

Burns, Anthony (runaway slave in Boston)? - ?:

Burnside, Ambrose Everett 1824-1881:

Burr, Aaron 1715/16 - 1757

He was acting president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) from late 1747, and officially so, from 1748, at which time the college was moved to Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), NJ to his pastorage in Newark.

Burr, Aaron 1756 - 1836:

Burritt, Elihu 1810 - 1879:

Bushnell, David 1742 - 1824:

Bushnell, Horace 1802 - 1876:

Butler, Andrew Pickens 1796 - 1857:

Butler, Benjamin Franklin 1818 - 1893:

Butler, Elizur ? - ?:

Butler, Pierce 1744 - 1822:

Butler, Pierce 1810 - 1867:

Butler, William Orlando 1791 - 1880:

Butterfield, Daniel 1831 - 1901:

Bynum, Turner ? - 1832: