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Bloxam, Henry

physician, lawyer, was born March 17, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa. He received his degree of medicine from the Kentucky school of medicine and attained success as a physician. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, and also attained success in that profession. He was a representative in the county board for several terms; prominent in public affairs, and died Dec. 23, 1889, in Mount Auburn, Ill.

Blunt, Edmond March

author, was born June 20, 1770, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a bookseller of Newbury-- port whose chief work, The American Coast Pilot (1796), is still in use. He died Jan. 2, 1862, in Sing Sing, N. Y.

Blunt, Edmund

hydrographer, inventor, was born Nov. 23, 1799, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1855-56 he furnished the points to determine the exterior line of New York harbor. While he was on the coast survey his attention was directed to the inferiority of the lights in the American lighthouses, and he was the proposer and advocate of the introduction of Fresnel's system of signallights. He also invented the dividingengine. He died Sept. 2, 1866, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Blunt, George William

hydrographer, author, was born March 11, 1802, in Newburyport, Mass. He was the author of Atlantic Memoir; Sheet Anchor; Harbor Laws of New York; and Plan to Avoid the Center of Violent Gales. He died April 19, 1878, in New York city.

Blythe, James

clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 23, 1765, in Mecklenburg county, N. C.

He was president of Transylvania college for several years, but resigned about 1818 and established a seminary for young ladies. In 1832 he accepted the presidency of South Hanover college, which he resigned in 1836. He died May 2, 1842, in Hanover, Ind.

Boardman, Arthur Edwin

railroad president, was born March 20, 1850, in Macon, Ga. Since 1894 he has been president of the Hendersonville and Brevard railway, at Brevard, N. C.

Boardman, David Sherman

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1768. For several years he was chief justice of the supreme court of Connecticut. He died Dec. 2, 1864, in New Milford, Conn.

Boardman, Elijah

merchant, legislator, United States senator, was born March 7, 1760, in New Milford, Mass. He became a successful merchant; was frequently a member of the legislature; was a member of the council; and was a senator in congress from Connecticut from 1821 to 1823. He died Oct. 8, 1823, in Boardman, Ohio.

Boardman, George Dana

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 18, 1828, in Burmah. He is a prominent baptist clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Coronation of Love; Studies in the Creative Week; Epiphanies of the Risen Lord; Studies in the Mountain Instruction; University Lectures on the Ten Commandments; and The Divine Man.

Boardman, Samuel Ward

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1830, in Pittsford, Vt. He graduated from the Castleton seminary in 1847, Middlebury college in 1851, and Andover Theological seminary in 1855; and has filled pastorates in the congregational and presbyterian churches. Since 1889 he has been president of the Maryville college of Maryville, Tenn.

Boardman, William W

lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1794, in New Milford, Conn. He was at one time judge of probate; for several years in the state legislature, and speaker of the house; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1841 to 1843.

Boarman, Aleck

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1839, in Yazoo City, Miss. He served throughout the war as an officer in the confederate army. He began to practice law in 1866; and settled in Louisiana. He was a representative from that state to the fortysecond congress to fill a vacancy; judge of the state district court for one term; and in 1881 was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Louisiana. was