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Bowditch, Charles P

capitalist, was born Sept. 30, 1842, in Boston, Mass.

Having inherited means from his father, he invested them in corporations, and is president of The Pepperell Manufacturing Co., and The Laconia Co., which operate large cotton mills in Biddeford, Maine. He is also an owner in The Merrimack Manufacturing Co., The Nashua Manufacturing Co., The Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co., The American Telephone and Telegraph Co., The Jackson Co., and The Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co.

BOWDITCH, HENRY INGERSOLL, physician, author, was born Aug 9, 1808 in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent physician of Boston; and the author of Life of Nathaniel Bowditch for the Young; The Young Stethoscopist; and Public Hygiene in America. He died in 1892. BOWDITCH, HENRY PICKERING, soldier, physician, was born April 4, 1840, in Boston, Mass. Soon after the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned second lieutenant in the first Massachusetts cavalry, and rose gradually until he attained the rank of major in the fifth Massachusetts cavalry, which office he resigned in 1865. In 1871 he became assistant professor of physiology at Harvard Medical college, and in 1876 was elected to the full chair.

BOWDITCH, JONATHAN INGER- SOLL, merchant, financier, was born Oct. 15, 1806, in Salem, Mass. By will he gave $10,000 for the maintenance of the Bowditch collection in the Boston library and the purchase of works on mathematics and astronomy.