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Bonneville, Benjamin L. E – Boone, Enoch

Bonneville, Benjamin L. E

explorer, soldier, was born about 1795 in France. He was made brevet brigadiergeneral in 1865. He was the author of a Journal of an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, edited by Washington Irving.

He died June 12, 1878, in Fort Smith, Ark.

Bonney, Charles Carroll

lawyer, author, was born Sept. 4, 1831, in Hamilton, N. Y. He is a lawyer of Chicago, and the author of Rules of Law for Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by Railway; summary of the Law of Marine, Fire and Life Insurance; and Our Remedy in the Laws.

Bonnycastle, Charles

educator, mathematician, author, was born in 1792 in England. He was first professor of natural philosophy in the University of Virginia, and in 1827 was, at his own request, transferred to the chair of mathematics. He was the author of a treatise on Inductive Geometry, and several memoirs on scientific subjects. He died October, 1840, in Virginia.

Bonsall, Henry Lummis

journalist, was born March 24, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. He established the New Republic in Camden, N. J., which he published for ten years; then left it to issue the Post as a daily in 1875.

Bonwill, William G. A

surgeon, inventor, was born Oct. 4, 1883, in Camden, Del. In 1871 he moved to Philadelphia, where he soon took rank with the most skillful and accomplished of his profession. He gave to the world two inventions of the very highest utility, the surgical engine and the artificial tooth crown.

Boody, Azariah

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirtythird congress.

Boody, David Augustus

banker, was born Aug. 13, 1837, in Jackson, Maine.

Several large corporations have secured his interest, and he has been elected president of the Louisiana and Northwestern railway; and vice-president of the Sprague National bank.

Boody, Henry Hill

business man, legislator, was born in November, 1816, in Jackson. In 1842 he graduated from the Bowdoin college; and in 1845 was elected to the chair of rhetoric and oratory, which position he held for nine years.

He was then elected to the senate of the Maine state legislature, and subsequently represented his town in the house of representatives. Since 1855 he has been concerned in railroad enterprises, and has held positions of great responsibility requiring administrative skill.

Boogher, John Hogan

lawyer, lecturer, was born July 16, 1867, in St. Louis, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; and graduated from the University of Virginia and the Washington University Law school. He is a fluent linguist and public speaker, and a noted law writer and lecturer; but is best known as an orator and skillful trial lawyer of St.

Louis, Mo.

Book, John W

catholic priest, author, was born Oct. 21, 1850, in Clark county, Ind. In 1873 he was ordained a catholic priest; and in 1886 was made dean of the Cannelton district, Indiana.

He is the author of Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church; Side Switches of the Short Line; Thousand and One Objections to Secret Societies; Mollie's Mistake, or Mixed Marriages; The Book of Books; and other works.

Boon, Ratliff

congressman, was born in 1781, in Franklin county, N. C.

He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1839. He died Nov. 20, 1844, in Louisiana.

Boone, Enoch

was born in 1777, in Boonesborough, Ky. He was the first white male child born in Kentucky. Daniel Boone's wife, with her daughters, went to live with her husband in his palisaded fort in 1776; but after Boone's capture his family returned to North Carolina.

He died March 8, 1862.