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Bowman, Samuel – Boyd, Alexander

Bowman, Samuel

protestant episcopal bishop, was born May 21, 1800, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1847 he was elected bishop of Indiana, but declined. He was chosen assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, and consecrated in Christ church, Philadelphia in 1858. He died Aug. 3, 1861, near Butler, Pa.

Bowman, Selwyn Zadock

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 11, 1840, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1870, 1871 and 1875; was city solicitor of Somerville, Mass., in 1872 and 1873; and was a state senator in 1876 and 1877. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.

Bowman, Thomas Franklin

lawyer, clergyman, was born May 22, 1857, in Rutherford county, N. C. He received his education at the Cumberland university of Lebanon, Tenn. During President Garfield's administration he was appointed United States commissioner for middle Tennessee. He is entirely a self-made man, and has attained an enviable reputation in the south as an able lawyer and a successful minister of the gospel.

Bowne, Borden Parker

educator, author, was born Jan. 14, 1847, in Leonardville, N. J. He is a philosophical writer and professor of philosophy in Boston university; and the author of The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer; Studies in Theism; Metaphysics: a Study of First Principles; Introduction to Psychological Theory; Philosophy of Theism; and Principles of Ethics.

Bowne, Samuel S

jurist, congressman, was born in 1795. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1834; a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843; and in 1857 was judge of Otsego county. He died July 15, 1865, in Otsego county, N. Y.

Bowne, Walter

grand sachem. He represented New York in the senate for three successive terms, and was appointed mayor by the common council in 1827, and continued to hold that office for the four succeeding years. He died Aug. 31, 1846, in New York.

Box, Charlotte Ann

poet. She is a writer of Greeley, Iowa, and her poems have been given a place in several standard collections.

Box, Henry W

lawyer, philanthropist, was born April 23, 1839, in England. He stands among the leading criminal lawyers of his state, having for more than twenty years given special attention to that class of practice. He is a leader in philanthropic wor and the president of the Buffalo, Bellevue and Lancaster railroad.

Boyce, William H

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 28, 1855, in Sussex county, Del. He is a successful lawyer of Georgetown, Del.; has been president of the board of public education, and of the town commissioners of that place. In 1897 he was appointed secretary of the state of Delaware; and in the same year became an associate judge of the supreme court of Delaware.

Boyd, Adam

congressman. He was an active supporter of the revolution, and a man of strong natural ability. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1808 to 1813. He died in Hackensack, N. J.

Boyd, Adam

printer, preacher, was born Nov. 25, 1738, in Pennsylvania. He served in St. James church, Wilmington, N. C., for several years, and also in Natchez, Miss. He published the second paper ever published in Wilmington, called Cape Fear Mercury. He died in 1803 in Natchez, Miss.

Boyd, Alexander

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1813 to 1815.

BOYD, A. HUNTER, lawyer, jurist, was born July 15, 1849, in Winchester, Va. He graduated from the law school of the Washington and Lee university, and is the associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland.