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Boutell, Henry Sherman

lawyer, legislator, was born in 1856, in Boston, Mass. He was graduated from the Northwestern university in 1874; and while there he won the oratorical prize every year. Next he went to Harvard and was graduated in 1876, and was given the degree of A. M. in civil and international law. He was admitted to the bar in 1879.

He has been a state legislator, with a good record, and has been successful as a lawyer.

BOUTELLE, CHARLES ADDISON, naval officer, journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1839, in Lincoln county, Maine. He early adopted the profession of his father, a shipmaster. In 1862 he volunteered and was appointed acting master in the United States navy; and he served in the north and south Atlantic and west gulf squadrons. In 1870 he became managing editor and in 1874 proprietor of the Bangor Whig and Courier. He was elected representative at large to the forty-eighth congress; was elected as representative from the fourth district to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

BOUTELLE, DE WITT CLINTON, artist, was born April 6, 1820, in Troy, N.

Y. After painting in New York and Philadelphia he removed his studio to Bethlehem, Pa., where he lived for many years. He died Nov. 5, 1884.