The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . Sept. 12,1864. His father was anative of Connecticut, butcarried on business inDemerara. The son wasvery lame, and at an earlyage was sent to New Eng-land for education andmedical treatment. Hestudied at Harvard andTrinity; was admitted tothe bar in 1832, but hisinclinations were in favorof literature. He wentto New York and wasassociate editor on the American Mon/hly Magazine,and afterwards was with Horace Greeley on the NewYorker. He w^as on the staff of several other publi-cations, most of which were uns
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . Sept. 12,1864. His father was anative of Connecticut, butcarried on business inDemerara. The son wasvery lame, and at an earlyage was sent to New Eng-land for education andmedical treatment. Hestudied at Harvard andTrinity; was admitted tothe bar in 1832, but hisinclinations were in favorof literature. He wentto New York and wasassociate editor on the American Mon/hly Magazine,and afterwards was with Horace Greeley on the NewYorker. He w^as on the staff of several other publi-cations, most of which were unsuccessful. He was acontributor to various periodicals and the author ofthe pocins The Mci/ifa/ion of Nature; Poetry; ASatire; Infatuation; The Nautilus; To One Beloved;The Defarteil; and The Old Sexton. BF^, Samuel Wheeler, author;born in Argos, Greece, Feb. 12, 1837; graduatedfrom Williams College in 1859; assistant librarianof the New York State Library from 1861 to 1864;United States minister to Persia from 1883 to has published many books, among them Con-. PARK BENJAMIN. stantinople. Isle of Pearls, and other Poems; What isArt? Art in America; Troy; Its Legend, Literatureand Topography; and Persia and the Persians. Healso acquired a considerable reputation as an his paintings are Porta da Cruz, Madeira;The Wide, Wide Sea; and In the Roaring Forties BENJAMIN-CONSTANT. See Constant, Ben-jamin, in these Supplements. BENKELMAN, a village, the capital of DundyCounty, southwest Nebraska, on the RepublicanRiver, 41 miles W. of Culbertson, and on the Bur-lington and Missouri River railroad; has good pub-lic schools and several churches. Population 1890,357; igoo, 296. BEN LAWERS, a mountain in Perthshire, Scot-land, about 32 miles from Perth, on the west side ofLoch Tay. This mountain is easy of ascent, andrich in specimens of alpine plants. A magnificentview is commanded from its summit, which has anelevation of 3,945 feet. Ore of titanium is fo
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