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Baldwin (SIMEON EBEN an American public)

SIMEON EBEN, an American public official and jurist, born in New Haven, Conn., in 1840. He graduated from Yale University in 1861 and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1863. From 1869 to 1872 he was instructor in law at Yale, and in 1872 became professor of law at that university. He was associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1893 to 1907, and from 1907 to 1910 was chief justice of the State Supreme Court of Errors. In 1911 and in 1913 he was elected governor of Connecticut on the Democratic ticket. He was a member of commissions to revise the general statutes and the tax laws of the State, president of the American Bar Association in 1890, and a member of many other historical, legal, and economical associa tions. His publications include "Two Centuries' Growth of American Law" (1900); "American Railroad Law" (1904); "The Relation of Education to Citizenship" (1912); etc.

BÂLE. See BASEL.

BALEARIC CRANE (balearica pavonina), a handsome species of crested crane, inhabiting N. W. Africa.

BALEARIC ISLANDS