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Boone, Richard Ganse – Booth, Henry Matthias

Boone, Richard Ganse

educator, college president, author, was born Sept. 9, 1849, in Spiceland, Ind. He graduated from the Spiceland academy, and has attained success in educational work. He has been superintendent of schools of Frankfort, Ind.; professor of pedagogy in the Indiana university; and is now president of the state normal college of Ypsilanti, Mich. He is the author of Education in the United States; History of Education in Indiana; and other works.

Boone, William F

jurist, was born in Maryland. He resided in Pennsylvania; and was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico.

Boone, William Jones

protestant episcopal bishop, was born in 1847, in Shanghai. He studied theology at the divinity school in Philadelphia. Having been appointed missionary bishop, he was consecrated in Shanghai, Oct. 28, 1884, by Bishop Williams, of Yedo, and Bishops Moule and Scott, English missionary bishops in China.

Boorman, James

merchant, was born in 1783, in England. He was one of the pioneers in the construction of the Hudson river railroad, and was for many years its president. He was also one of the founders of the Bank of Commerce.

The Institution for the Blind, the Protestant Half-Orphan asylum, the Southern Aid society, and the Union Theological seminary were among the recipients of his bounty. He died Jan. 24, 1866, in New York city.

Booth, Agnes

actress, was born in South Wales. She has attained a national prominence as a noted actress; and has played in all the most popular cities in the United States.

Booth, Alfred

business man, was born Feb. 14, 1828, in Glastonbury, England. He became a large dealer in oysters, and, as time wore on, opened stores and packing houses in different parts of Chicago. In 1880 Alfred E. and William V. Booth, sons, came into partnership with their father under the title of A. Booth and Sons, and the concern is now incorporated as The A. Booth Packing Co., capital, $1,000,000.

Booth, Ballington

soldier, Salvation army commander, was born in 1857, in England. He is the second son of General Booth, general of the Salvation army in England. Ballington took command of the training school for the army at Hackney, London, in 1880; established the work in Australia in 1884; and in America in 1886. Being commanded by the general to leave America and go to another field of labor, Ballington resigned his command and organized the Volunteer army.

Booth, Benjamin

merchant, author.

He made known his system of keeping accounts in a volume entitled A Complete System of Book-keeping by an Improved Method of Double Entry, containing also a New Method of stating Factorage Accounts, adapted particularly to the Trade of the British Colonies. It was written humorously, with fanciful entries, under the names of noted persons to illustrate the new method.

Booth, Edwin S

lawyer, legislator, was born March 24, 1865, in Keokuk, Iowa. He graduated from the Keokuk high school, and from the Keokuk college of law. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Butte, Mont., has been an attorney of Silver Bow county; and has served as a member of the fourth legislative assembly of Montana.

Booth, Emma Scarr

author, was born April 25, 1835, in England. She is the author of three volumes, entitled Karan Kringle's Journal; A Willful Heiress; and Poems. She has also composed numerous songs and instrumental pieces.

Booth, Henry Matthias

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 3, 1843, in New York city. He is an eminent presbyterian clergyman and the president of the Auburn Theological seminary of New York. He is the author of The Heavenly Vision and other Sermons; Sunrise, Noonday, and Sunset of the Day of Grace; and First Communion.