Biographies 589 crat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses 16, 1831; attended the common schools and was graduated (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1937); was not a candidate for from Keene (N.H.) Academy; moved to Wisconsin in 1853 renomination, but was a successful candidate for Governor and settled near Beloit, Rock County; engaged in agricul- of Montana and served in that office from January 4, 1937, tural pursuits; elected alderman and was a member of the until January 6, 1941; resumed his ranching activities; died first city council of Beloit; unsuccessful Democratic candidate in Lewistown, Mont., May 23, 1955; interment in Lewistown for election in 1880 to the Forty-seventh Congress; appointed City Cemetery. postmaster of Beloit by President Cleveland on August 2, 1886, and served until August 17, 1889, when a successor AYRES, Steven Beckwith, a Representative from New was appointed; appointed secretary of the State agricultural York; born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, October 27, 1861; moved society of Wisconsin in 1885 and served until 1899; elected with his parents to Elmira, N.Y., in 1866; attended the as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891- grammar school; moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1873; at- March 3, 1893); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892 tended the Penn Yan Academy and was graduated from to the Fifty-third Congress; retired from public life and ac- Syracuse (N.Y.) University, in 1882; engaged in the pub- tive business pursuits and resided in Beloit, Wis., until his lishing business at Penn Yan and was editor of the Yates death there on March 11, 1907; interment in the Protestant County Chronicle; delegate to the Republican State conven- Cemetery. tion in 1884; moved to New York City in 1893 and engaged in the advertising business; declined the Democratic nomina- BABBITT, Elijah, a Representative from Pennsylvania; tion as candidate for the New York State assembly in 1910; born in Providence, R.I., July 29, 1795; moved with his elected as an Independent Democrat to the Sixty-second parents to New York State in 1805; received an academic Congress (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful can- education; moved to Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., didate for reelection as an Independent Democrat in 1912 in 1816; studied law; was admitted to the bar in March to the Sixty-third Congress; author of several books and 1824 and commenced practice in Milton; moved to Erie, many historical articles; lecturer in the New York University Pa., in 1826 and continued the practice of law; served as Summer School in 1914; engaged in the cultivation of or- attorney for the borough and subsequently for the city of anges at Clearwater, Fla., in winter and in the real estate Erie; prosecuting attorney for Erie County in 1833; deputy business at Woodstock, N.Y., during the summer; died in attorney general for the State in 1834 and 1835; member New York City, June 1, 1929; interment in the Clearwater of the State house of representatives in 1836 and 1837; Cemetery, Clearwater, Fla. served in the State senate 1843-1846; elected as a Repub- lican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses AYRES, William Augustus, a Representative from Kan- (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1863); was not a candidate for sas; born in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ill., April 19, reelection in 1862 to the Twenty-eighth Congress; resumed 1867; moved with his parents to Sedgwick County, Kans., the practice of his profession; died in Erie, Pa., January in 1881; attended the common schools and Garfield Univer- 9, 1887; interment in Erie Cemetery. sity (now Friends University), Wichita, Kans.; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced practice in Wichita, BABCOCK, Alfred, a Representative from New York; Kans.; clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kansas 1897-1901; born in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y., April 15, 1805; prosecuting attorney of Sedgwick County 1906-1910; elected attended the local schools and Gaines (N.Y.) Academy; stud- as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty- ied medicine; moved to Gaines, Orleans County, N.Y., where sixth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1921); unsuccess- he practiced his profession; elected a member of the board ful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh of trustees of the village of Gaines at its first election on Congress; elected to the Sixty-eighth and to the five suc- May 28, 1839; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh ceeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); resumed the prac- his resignation effective August 22, 1934, having been ap- tice of medicine in Gaines, N.Y.; moved to Illinois in 1850 pointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission on June and settled in Galesburg, Knox County, where he continued 30, 1934, in which capacity he served until his death in the practice of his profession until his death on May 16, Washington, D.C., February 17, 1952; interment in Old Mis- 1871; interment in Hope Cemetery. sion Cemetery, Wichita, Kans. BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks (grandson of Joseph Weeks), AYRES, William Hanes, a Representative from Ohio; a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Swanton, Franklin born in Eagle Rock, Botetourt County, Va., February 5, County, Vt., March 6, 1850; moved to Linn County, Iowa, 1916; moved with his parents to West Virginia and later with his parents, who settled near Mount Vernon in 1855; to Lorain County, Ohio; attended the Weller Township High attended the common schools of Mount Vernon and Cedar School; was graduated from Western Reserve University, Falls; moved to Necedah, Juneau County, Wis., in 1872 and Cleveland, Ohio, in 1936; salesman for heating equipment engaged in the lumber business; member of the Wisconsin in Akron, Ohio, 1936-1944; during the Second World War State assembly 1889-1893; chairman of the Republican Na- served as a private in the United States Army until dis- tional Congressional Committee in 1894 and 1902; delegate charged December 17, 1945; president of the Ayres Heating at large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago & Insulation Co., Akron, Ohio, since 1946; elected as a Re- in 1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to publican to the Eighty-second and to the nine succeeding the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1971); unsuccessful 1907); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty- candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Con- fourth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a can- gress; died on December 27, 2000, in Columbia, Md. didate for renomination in 1906; retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there on April 27, 1909; remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in the B monument on the family plot in Rock Creek Cemetery. BABBITT, Clinton, a Representative from Wisconsin; BABCOCK, Leander, a Representative from New York; born in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, N.H., November born in Paris, Oneida County, N.Y., March 1, 1811; was 590 Biographical Directory graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., in 1830; N.J., 1905-1910; member of the State house of assembly studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834; moved to in 1911; delegate to the Republican National Convention Oswego, N.Y., and commenced the practice of law; district at Chicago in 1920; elected as a Republican to the Sixty- attorney for Oswego County 1841-1843; mayor of Oswego fourth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915- in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty- January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); president 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; engaged in the real- of the board of education in 1853 and 1855; died in Richfield estate and insurance business in Atlantic City, N.J., until Springs, N.Y., August 18, 1864; interment in Riverside Cem- his death there on September 5, 1956; interment in Mount etery, Oswego, N.Y. Sinai Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa. BABCOCK, William, a Representative from New York; BACHMAN, Nathan Lynn, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Hinsdale, Westmoreland County, N.H., in 1785; born in Chattanooga, Tenn., August 2, 1878; attended the moved to Penn Yan, N.Y., in 1813 and engaged in mercantile public schools, Baylor Preparatory School for Boys, Chat- pursuits; upon the formation of Yates County was appointed tanooga, Tenn., Southwestern Presbyterian University, by the Governor as the first county treasurer; elected as Clarksville, Tenn., Central University, Danville, Ky., Wash- an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress ington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and the Univer- (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); resumed mercantile pursuits sity of Chattanooga Law School, Chattanooga, Tenn.; grad- and also was engaged as a hotel keeper; died in Penn Yan, uated from the law department of the University of Virginia Yates County, N.Y., October 20, 1838; interment in City at Charlottesville in 1903, admitted to the bar in 1903, Hill Cemetery in Torrey Township, near Penn Yan. and began practice in Chattanooga, Tenn., in the same year; city attorney of Chattanooga 1906-1908; served as judge of BABKA, John Joseph, a Representative from Ohio; born the circuit court of Hamilton County, Tenn.1912-1918; in Cleveland, Ohio, March 16, 1884; attended the public served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ten- schools; was graduated from the Cleveland Law School in nessee from 1918 until his resignation in 1924; unsuccessful