Boudinot, Elias
philanthropist, author, was born May 2, 1740, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist of Burlington, N. J., and the first president of the American Bible society. He was the director of the mint of Philadelphia in 1796-1805. He was the author of The Second Advent of the Messiah; The Age of Revelation, a reply to Paine; and The Star in the West, an attempt to identify the American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. He died Oct. 24, 1821, in Burlington.