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Bowman, Francis Caswell

soldier, lawyer, musician, was born Dec. 29, 1831, in New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he joined the seventh New York regiment, and subsequently became engaged in the organization and service of the United States sanitary commission at Washington. He was an accomplished musician, founded the Mendelssohn Glee club, of New York, and was its president for five years. He contributed frequently to periodicals, and for seventeen years was musical editor of the New York Sun. He died Oct. 29, 1884, in New York city.