Bird

Charles, an American military officer, born in Delaware, June 17, 1838. On March 2, 1867, he was brevetted First Lieutenant and Captain in the United States army for gallantry in the battle of F'red ericks burg, Major for Spottsylvania, and Lieutenant-Colonel for Petersburg, Va. He was appointed a Second Lieutenant, 14th United ‘States Infantry, in 1866; promoted to Major and ‘Goatitoanliee in 1895; and commi ioned a Colonel of United States Volunteers for the war with Spain, in 1898. _ Bird, Frederic Mayer, an American clergyman, born in Philadelphia, June 28, 1888; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1857, and at the Union Theological Seminary in 1860. He was rector at Spots wood, N. J., in 1870-1874; Chaplain and Profe or of Psychology, Christian Evidences and Rhetoric, at Lehigh University in 1881-1886; and_ acting ehaplain there in 1893-1898. He was noted as a hymnologist, and as the collector of one of the most complete and valuable musical libraries in the United States. Died April 2, 1908.