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Bovee, Christian Nestell – Bowen, John Eliot

Bovee, Christian Nestell

author, was born Feb. 22, 1820, in New York city. He is an epigrammatic writer, some of whose sayings have been much quoted; and is the author of Thoughts, Feelings, and Fancies; and Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.

Bovee, Matthias J

congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1837.

Bowden, George Edwin

congressman, was born July 6, 1852, in Williamsburg, Va. He was admitted to the bar, but never engaged in the practice. He was collector of customs for port of Norfolk in 1879-85; and was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.

Bowden, John

clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 7, 1751, in Ireland. He took charge of the Episcopal academy at Cheshire, Conn., where he remained six years. In 1802 he was elected professor of moral philosophy and logic in Columbia college. He died July 31, 1817, in Ballston Spa, N. Y.

Bowden, Lemuel Jackson

lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 16, 1815, in Williamsburg, Va. He served three sessions in the Virginia legislature; was a member of the convention for amending the state constitution in 1849; and was a presidential elector in 1861. In 1863 he was elected a senator in congress from Virginia. He died Jan. 2, 1864, in Washington city.

Bowdon, Franklin W

lawyer, congressman, was born in Alabama. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1846 to 1851. He died June 6, 1857, in Henderson, Texas.

Bowen, Andrew Jackson

educator, lawyer, legislator, was born April 16, 1845, in Eastford, Conn. For many years he was engaged in educational work.

In 1880 he served as a representative in the Connecticut legislature from Eastford; and served in the same position in 1895 from Windham. He is now judge of the police court of the city of mantic, where he has an extensive law practice.

Bowen, Eli

author, was born in Lancaster, Pa., in 1824. He was the author of Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pictorial Sketch Book of Pennsylvania; Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; The Creation of the Earth; United States Postoffice System; and Coal Oil.

He died about 1886, in Lancaster, Pa.

Bowen, George Thomas

chemist, was born March 19, 1803, in Providence, R. I. The results of his investigations were published in 1822 under the titles On the Electromagnetic Effects of Hare's Calorimeter and On a Mode of Preserving in a Permanent Form the Coloring Matter of Purple Cabbage as a Test for Acids and Alkalies. He died Oct. 25, 1828, in Nashville, Tenn.

Bowen, Henry Chandler

journalist, was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Woodstock, Conn. In 1848 the New York Independent was founded by five men, of whom Mr. Bowen was one. Unprofitable at first, the property finally came into Mr.

Bowen's ownership, and he has been sole proprietor now for thirty years or more.

Bowen, James

capitalist, soldier, was born in 1808 in New York city. He was the first president of the Erie railway. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1848 and 1849. At the beginning of the civil war he raised six or seven regiments, which were formed into a brigade, and took command of them, receiving his commission as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He died Sept. 29, 1886, in Hastings-on-Hudson.

Bowen, John Eliot

journalist, author, was born in 1858 in New York. He was a New York journalist; and the author of The Conflict of East and West in Egypt; and Songs of Toil, a translation from Carmen Sylva. He died in 1890.