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Boarman, Charles

naval officer, was born in Maryland. During the civil war he was on special service. He was retired with the rank of commodore on April 4, 1867, and made a rear-admiral on the retired list, Aug. 15, 1876. He died Sept. 13, 1879, in Martinsburg, W. Va.

Boatman, J. Austin

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 7, 1848, in Jessamine county, Ky. He is a graduate of the De Pauw university, and has attained distinction as one of the foremost Iowa clergymen of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled pastorates in Iowa at Newton, Albia, Brooklyn, Washington, Bloomfield, and is now at Fairfield. He is the author of The Holy Mother, a poem; and Paido-Theology, a study of the status of childhood under Christianity.

Bockee, Abraham

jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in Northeast, N. Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1820, a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831, and again from 1833 to 1837. He was a member of the state senate from 1842 to 1845; and also held the position, in 1846, of first judge of the Dutchess county court. He died June 1, 1865, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

Bocock, Thomas S

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1815 in Buckingham county, Va. He sat for several terms in the house of delegates, was elected to congress as a democrat in 1846, and sat for seven successive terms, until the ordinance of secession was enacted. In 1861 he was elected to the confederate congress.

Boden, Andrew

congressman, was born in Carlisle, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821.

Bodine, Robert N

educator, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1837, in Monroe county, Mo. He has held the office of prosecuting attorney and been elected twice a member of the Missouri legislature, in which capacity he was member of the committee on the revision of the statutes. He was a member of the board of regents of the Kirksville a Normal school at the time of his nomination for congress; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Bodine, William Budd

clergyman, college president, was born March 10, 1841, in Burlington county, N. J. He has been rector of the Memorial church of Baltimore, Md.; president of Kenyon college, Ohio; and is now rector of the Church of the Savior of Philadelphia, Pa.

Bodle, Charles

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. He died in 1836 in New York city.

BODLEY, RACHEL L., physician, chemist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.

She was elected dean of the faculty of the Women's Medical college of Pennsylvania, and lecturer on chemistry in the Franklin institute of Philadelphia.

She died in 1888.

Bodman, Edward Cushman

merchant, was born March 22, 1840, in Charlemont, Mass. He was in the grain trade in Toledo in 1865-85, being president of the Northern National bank there, 1873- 82. He went to New York in 1885, and his firm of Milmine, Bodman and Co. have already won a name, ranking as a leading house in the grain trade.

Bodwell, Charles

farmer, legislator, was born in Methuen, Mass. He was a successful farmer and millwright of Dracut, Mass.; and in 1821-zz was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives.

Boen, Haldor E

educator, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1851, in Norway. In 1888 he was elected register of deeds and re-elected in 1890; was chairman of fifth congressional district alliance committee in 1890; was chairman of the first congressional committee of the people's party in the seventh district in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as the candidate of the people's party.