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New Philadelphia, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1861, son of Jesse Beal. He was graduated at Scio college in 1884, and at the Cincinnati law school in 1886. He was married Sept. 29. 1886, to Fannie Snyder Young of New York. He became professor of chemistry and pharmacy and dean of the department of pharmacy at Scio college in 1887. and also president of the college. He was chairman of the section of educational legislation of the American pharmaceutical association 1897-98; president of the Ohio state pharmacy association in 1898, and author of a model pharmacy law, adopted by the American pharmaceutical association in 1900.

BEAL, William James, botanist, was born at Adrian, Mich., March 11, 1833. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1859, taught school 1859-'62, and in 1862 entered Harvard university, where he took a post-graduate course under Agassiz and Gray. In 1868 he accepted the professorship of natural history in the University of Chicago, and in 1870 he was given the chair of botany and horticulture in the Michigan agricultural college, which he held until 1883, when he was transferred to the professorship of botany and forestry. He became a member of numerous scientific societies, and contributed many original papers to the American Naturalist, the American Journal of Science, and to the reports of the Michigan board of agriculture and the several state societies. In 1875 he made a collection of grasses and woods for the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia, which received much attention and won two diplomas. He was president of the Michigan state teachers' association in 1881, and president of the society for the promotion of agricultural science in 1880-'81. He published "A New Botany" (1881), and the "Grasses of North America" (vol. i., 1887; vol. ii., 1896), both of which are highly esteemed by scientific men. Speaking of the latter work. Prof. A.J. Cook says: "He is without doubt the best authority on the Gramineæ in the United States and one of the highest authorities in the world. His work on this family of plants is not only scientific and exhaustive, but accurate." He received the degrees, B.S., Harvard, 1865; M.S., University of Chicago, 1876; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1880.

BEALE, Edward Fitzgerald, soldier, was born in Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 1822, grandson of Thomas Truxton, U.S.N. he was appointed a midshipman in the navy and was graduated from the U.S. naval school in Philadelphia in 1842. He saw his first actual service on the Pacific coast under Commodore Stockton during the war with Mexico. He attained distinction for his services in making his way thorough the enemy's lines to procure relief for Kearney's command, and for this gallant exploit was presented with a sword by his fellow officers. At the close of the Mexican war he resigned his commission in the navy and became superintendent of Indian affairs for California and New Mexico. He subsequently attained the rank of brigadier-general, and quelled an Indian insurrection in California. President Lincoln made him surveyor-general of California in 1861, and in 1876 President Grant appointed him minister to Austria. He remained there but one year, returning to devote his remaining years to the care of his California estates. He died April 22, 1893.

BEALE, Joseph, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 30, 1814; son of Joseph and Margaret (McDowell) Beale. He received a classical and medical education in the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in 1832. After practising his profession for a time he entered the United States navy as assistant surgeon in 1837, and afterward rose to the positions of medical director in 1871, and surgeon-general in 1873. He was placed on the retired list in 1876. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 22, 1889.

BEALL, Benjamin Lloyd, soldier, was born in the District of Columbia in 1800; son of Capt. Lloyd Beall of Maryland. He was educated in the common schools and in the U.S. military academy at West Point. He volunteered in the army in June, 1836, and went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians, having the rank of captain. The following year he was given the brevet rank of major, and received the full rank of major of dragoons in February, 1847. He served bravely throughout the war with Mexico, winning the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel for his action at Santa Cruz. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel in March, 1855, and served in California with the rank of general, constructing frontier defences, and later was assigned to duty on Vancouver's Island. In 1861 he served as muster-master in Baltimore, Md., and during the same year was promoted to a colonelcy in the 1st United States dragoons. In 1862 he was retired from active service. He had two sons in the Federal, and one in the Confederate service in the civil war. He died in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 16, 1863.