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Boise, James Robinson

educator, author, was born Jan. 27, 1815, in Blanford, Mass. From 1852 to 1868 he was professor of Greek in the university of Michigan, and after 1868 in the university of Chicago. He published in Chicago Xenophon's Anabasis, with English notes; the first six books of Homer's Iliad; Greek Syntax; First Lessons in Greek; and other text-books; and in 1884 Notes Critical and Explanatory on St.

Paul's Epistles.

Bok, Edward William

journalist, author, was born in 1863. He is editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; and the author of The Young Man in Business; Successward; and a Young Man's Book for Young Men.

Bok, William John

journalist, was born May 11, 1861, in Netherlands. In 1881, with his brother, he established the Bok Literary Syndicate Press of New York; and in 1887 was associated with his brother in compiling the Beecher Memorial.

Bokee, David A

naval officer, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1805, in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1851. He died March 16, 1860, in Washington, D. C.

Bolen, David Winton

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Aug. 17, 1851, in Carroll county, Va. He was three times elected to the state legislature; was four years judge of the county court of Carroll county; and two years judge of the fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.

Boles, Thomas

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 16, 1837, in Clarksville, Ark. In 1863 and 1864 he served as a captain in the union army, experiencing many trials from ill-health and military arrests. In 1865 he was chosen judge of the fourth judicial district of Arkansas, which position he resigned early in 1868. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.

Boll, Jacob

naturalist, author, was born May 29, 1828, in Switzerland. He was a pupil of Louis Agassiz, and was employed by Edward D. Cope to go to Texas and examine the fossiliferous and iron deposits of that state, with a view to determining their geological character.

He made many important discoveries in the formations that he explored. He died Sept. 29, 1880, in Wilbarger county, Texas.

Bollan, William

lawyer, author, was born in England. He was an English lawyer who settled in Boston in 1740, and. was subsequently colonial agent in London for Massachusetts. He was active in its behalf and wrote many political tracts for that end, among which The Mutual Interests of Great Britain and the American Colonies Considered, is a favorable example. He died in 1776 in Massachusetts.

Boller, Alfred Pancoast

engineer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an engineer of note whose specialty is bridge construction; and is the author of Practical Treatise on the Construction of Iron Highway Bridges; and Report on Thames River Bridge.

Bolles, Albert Sidney

educator, author, was born in 1845 in Connecticut.

He is a political economist of prominence, and professor in the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Chapters in Political Economy; The Conflict between Labor and Capital; Industrial History of the United States; Financial History of the United States, 1774-1860; and Elements of Commercial Law.

Bolles, Edwin Cortlandt

microscopist, lecturer, was born Sept. 19, 1836, in Hartford, Conn. From 1870 to 1875 he was professor of microscopy in St.

Lawrence university, Canton, N. Y., and since 1870 has lectured on that subject in Tufts college at College Hill, Mass. He has contributed articles on his specialty to periodicals, and published sermons.

HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BICGRAPHY.