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Boude, Thomas – Bourne, Edward Emerson

Boude, Thomas

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1803.

Boughton, George Henry

artist, was born in 1836, in England. His works are popular and meet with a ready sale.

They are marked by simplicity, tenderness, and subdued, but not weak, coloring. He excels in delineating Puritan life in New England. Among his pictures on American subjects are The Scarlet Letter; Return of the Mayflower; Puritans Going to Church; and Rose Standish. The Testy Governor is in the Corcoran gallery at Washington, D. C.

Bouldin, James W

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1833 to 1839, having been elected to the twenty-third congress in place of his brother, T. T. Bouldin, deceased.

Bouldin, Powhatan

journalist, author, was born May 24, 1830, in Charlotte county, Va. For thirty years he was editor and proprietor of The Weekly Times of Danville, Va. He is the author of Home Reminiscences of John Randolph; and The Old Trunk, or Sketches of Colonial Days, which latter work has gone through two editions.

Bouldin, Thomas T

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a member of congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1833. Before entering congress he had been a lawyer of high rank, and an able and upright judge, highly respected for his talents and integrity. He died Feb. 11, 1834, in Washington, D. C..

Bouligney, Dominique

lawyer, United States senator, was born in Louisiana. He was a lawyer by profession; and was a senator in congress from that state from 1824 to 1829. He died March 5, 1833, in New Orleans, La.

Bouligney, John Edward

congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1824, in New Orleans, La., of creole descent. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the thirty-sixth congress; and of the representatives of twelve millions of people, he was the only one who refused to abandon his state to the leaders of the secession movement, and continued in congress until the close of his term. He died Feb. 20, 1864, in Washington, D. C.

Bound, Franklin

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1829, in Milton, Pa. He was elected a state senator in 1860, and served three years, declining a renomination. He was a delegate to the republican gubernatorial convention of the state in 1864; was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1868; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.

Bourgeois, Charles A

planter, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1853, in New Orleans, La. He graduated from the Staright university of his native city.

He is a successful lawyer and planter of Killona, La., and since 1879 has represented the parish of St. Charles in the general assembly of the Louisiana state legislature.

Bourke, John Gregory

soldier, author, was born in 1846, in Pennsylvania.

He was a United States army officer; and the author of The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, a valuable contribution to ethnology; An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre; and On the Border with Crook. He died in 1896.

Bourne, Benjamin

jurist, gressman, was born Sept. 9, 1755, in Bristol, R. I. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1790 to 1796, when he resigned, and was appointed judge of the United States district court of Rhode Island. He died Sept. 17, 1808.

Bourne, Edward Emerson

lawyer, jurist, was born March 19, 1797, in Kennebunk, Maine. He was state's attorney for York county in 1838 and 1841, and judge of the probate court from 1857 till 1872. He was also for several years president of the Maine Historical society. He died Sept. 23, 1873, in Kennebunk, Maine.