Benjamin, Marcus

A.M., Ph.D., editor and scientist, was bornjat San Francisco, on Jan. 17, 1857, being ninth in descent from John B., who came from England to Benne, n. ( Bot . ) See SESAMUM. Benneck'enstein, or Ben ken stein, a town of Pru ia, prov. of Saxony, reg. Erfurt, on the Rapbosie, at the foot of the Hartz, in an enclave situated in the duchy of Brunswick, 13 m. N.N. W. of Nordhausen. Manf. Iron, nails, baskets. Pop . 4,645. Ben'ner, in Pennsylvania, a township of Centre coun- ty. Ben'nersville, in Pennsylvania, a village of Centre co., situated in Half-Moon Valley, 12 m. S.W. of Belle- fonte, and 98 m. N.W. of Harris burg. Ben'net, n. [Fr. benoite ; Ger. benedictenkraut .] ( Bot .) An old name of the Avens. See GEUM. Ben'net's Creek, in Md . , in Frederick co., flows W. into the Monocacy River. Bennett Island, in Arctic Circle, discovered by the "Bennett Expedition" of the N. Y. Herald , under De Long, in 1881, lat. 76° 41′ N., long. 153° 30′ Ε. Ben'nett, JAMES GORDON, one of the most celebrated journalists in the U. States, B. at New Mill, Keith, in Scotland, about 1800. He was educated for the priest- hood at a Roman Catholic seminary at Aberdeen, but God not follow out the intention of his parents. In April, 1819, during a period of great commercial depres- sion, he left his native land for America, where he at- tempted to earn his living as a teacher, but with very indifferent succe . In 1822 he obtained a situation on a Charleston newspaper, which he did not hold long, and repaired to New York, where he became an active mem- ber of the Fourth Estate. The first number of the New York Herald , of which he was the founder, appeared May 5, 1835. This speculation proved most succe ful, and Mr. B. ama ed a very large fortune. He was in- contestably a man of great abilities, penetration, and judgment. D. June 1, 1872. Bennett, JAMES GORDON, son of the foregoing, born in 1841, succeeded his father as publisher of the Herald ; has been prominent in public enterprises, as the Jean- nette Arctic expedition, and Stanley's search for Living- stone; part owner Bennett-Mackav cable lines, d Ben'nett, JOHN HUGHES, an English physician and author, B. at London, 1812. He received his degree at the University of Edinburgh, in 1837, and soon alter founded in Paris the "Paris i an Medical Society," of which he was the first president; and afterwards spent two years in Heidelberg. On returning to Edinburgh, in 1841, he published a work on Cod - liver Oil , . In 1843 he was appointed Pathologist to the Royal Infir- mary, and commenced a long series of investigations in histology, morbid anatomy, and clinical medicine, which appeared in various medical journals, and in separate works. In 1848, Dr. B. was appointed Profe or at the Institute of Medicine of the Edinburgh University. In 1856 he published a work on Clinical Medicine , which has reached three editions in our country. Dr. B. was a member of many medical societies in Europe and America. In addition to the works already mentioned, he also wrote. On Inflammation of the Nervous Centres: Treatise on Inflammation; Cancerous and Canceroid Growths; Principles and Practice of Medicine; On the Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary Consumption ; Lectures on Molecular Physiology ; Pathology and Thera- peutics, . D. 1875. Ben'nett, WILLIAM Cox, a popular English poet, в. 18:20. His best known works are, Poems (1850); War Songs (1855); Queen Eleanor's Vengeance, dc. (1859); Our Glory Roll, National Poems (1866). A collective edition of his poems appeared in 1862.