Bomford, George
military officer, was born in 1780 in New York. The cannons invented by him were further developed by Dahlgrén, but were superseded by the Rodman type about the beginning of the civil war. In July, 1841, he conducted experiments to ascertain the expansive force of powder in a gun by firing bullets through tubes inserted in the sides. He died March 25, 1848, in Boston, Mass.
BONAPARTE, JOSEPH CHARLES, lawyer, was born June 9, 1851, in Baltimore, Md. He graduated from Harvard in 1871, and at the Harvard Law school in 1874, was admitted to practice, and has attained a respectable rank at the Baltimore bar.