om Vermont to the Thirty-Seventh Congress, and was
re-elected to the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Congresses. He was
succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Worthington C. Smith.

FERNANDO C. BEAMAN was born in Chester, Vermont, June 28, 1814, and
was removed in boyhood to New York. He received an English education
at the Franklin County Academy, and studied law in Rochester. In 1838
he removed to Michigan, and engaged in the practice of his profession.
He served six years as Prosecuting Attorney for the county of Lenawee,
and four years as Judge of Probate. In 1856 he was a Presidential
Elector. In 1860 he was elected a Representative from Michigan to the
Thirty-Seventh Congress, and was successively re-elected to the
Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-Ninth, and Fortieth Congresses.--447.

JOHN F. BENJAMIN was born in Cicero, New York, January 23, 1817. After
having spent three years in Texas, he settled in Missouri, in 1848,
and engaged in the practice of law. He was a member of the Missouri
Legislature in 1851 and 1852, and was a Presidential Elector in 1856.
He entered the Missouri Cavalry as a private, in 1861, and by a series
of promotions reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He resigned to
accept the appointment of Provost-Marshal for the Eighth District of
Missouri. He was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention of 1864, and
was the same year elected a Representative from Missouri to the
Thirty-Ninth Congress, and in 1866 was re-elected.--366.

_TEUNIS G. BERGEN_ was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 6. 1806, He
received an academical education at Flatbush, and engaged in surveying
and horticulture. He served the town of New Utrecht as supervisor for
twenty-three years. He was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention of 1846. In 1860 he was a member of the Democratic
Conventions of Charleston and Baltimore. In 1864 he was elected a
Representative from New York to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. At the
close of his Congressional term he was elected a member of the New
York Constitutional Convention of 1867. He was succeeded in the
Fortieth Congress by _Demas Barnes_.

JOHN BIDWELL was born in Chautauqua county, N. Y., August 5, 1819. In
1829 he removed with his father to Erie, Pennsylvania, and two years
after to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where, through his own exertions he
obtained an academical education. In 1838 he taught school in Darke
County, Ohio, and subsequently taught two years in Missouri. In 1841
he emigr