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Boerum, Simon – Boies, Henry M

Boerum, Simon

congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1724, in New Lots, N. Y.

He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress, from 1774 to 1777.

He died July 11, 1775, in Brooklyn Ferry, N. Y.

Bogardus, Abraham

photographer, was born Nov. 29, 1822, in Fishkill, N. Y. Numerous improvements in the preparations of solutions, processes, and apparatus have been devised by him.

Bogardus, Charles

soldier, legislator, was born March 28, 1841, in Cayuga county, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the one hundred and fifty-first New York infantry; and was brevetted to a colonelcy for gallant and meritorious services before Petersburg. He was once severely wounded, and captured by the enemy. He has served with distinction as a member of the Illinois state senate.

Bogardus, James

engineer, inventor, was born March 14, 1800, in Catskill, N. Y. He made important improvements in cotton spinning, invented many useful mechanical instruments, and in 1847 he built in New York city the first iron building in the United States. He died April 13, 1874, in New York city, N. Y.

Bogart, Elizabeth

poet, was born about 1806 in New York city. She contributed to periodicals, chiefly the New York Mirror, under the pen-name of Estelle, her first pieces appearing in 1825.

Specimens of her poetry are reprinted in Griswold's Female Poets of America.

She wrote two prize stories, entitled The Effect of a Single Folly, and The Forged Note, evincing constructive ability; and He Came Too Late, and other poems.

Bogart, G. Henri

educator, journalist, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has attained success as an educator and journalist. He is the author of about five hundred poems, including songs and recitation pieces.

Bogart, William Henry

author, was born Nov. 28, 1810, in Albany, N. Y.

He was the author of Life of Daniel Boone; and Who Goes There? or Men and Events. He died Aug. 21, 1888, in Aurora, N. Y.

Boggs, George Brenton

civil engineer, was born Jan. 8, 1844, in Somerville, N. J. He entered the railroad service in 1862; and is now chief engineer and comptroller of the Perkiomen railroad at Norristown, Pa.

Boggs, Julius E

railroad president, was born Feb. 14, 1854, in Pickens county, S. C. Since 1891 he has been president of the Pickens railroad.

Boggs, L. W

pioneer, governor, was born in 1798 in Kentucky. He was governor of Missouri in 1836, and took a prominent part in the expulsion of the Mormons. In 1846 he migrated to California, and in the years 1847-49 was alcalde of the Sonoma district. He died in 1861 in California.

Bogue, George Marquis

capitalist, was born Jan. 21, 1842, in Norfolk, N. Y. From 1875-76 he was a member of the Illinois legislature; in 1876 a member of the railroad and warehouse commission for the state of Illinois; in 1889-90 was president of the Chicago real estate board; and is also president of the presbyterian hospital and director of a number of business corporations.

Boies, Henry M

soldier, manufacturer, philanthropist, author, was born in 1837, in Lee, Mass. In 1882 he was chosen president of the Dickson Manufacturing company. He invented a new and improved steel-tired car wheel, now manufactured by the Boies Steel Wheel company, of which company he is president. He is the author of a work entitled Prisoners and Paupers.