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Boyer, Benjamin M – Bozman, John Leeds

Boyer, Benjamin M

lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1823, in Montgomery county, Pa. He was district attorney for his native county from 1848 to 1850; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth and the fortieth congresses as a democrat.

Boyer, Henry Kline

lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 19, 1850, in Evansburg, Pa. He was admitted to practice at the Philadelphia bar in 1837, and practiced with success in the civil courts. In 1882 he was elected as a republican to the state legislature, securing a reelection in 1884 and 1886, and was chosen speaker in the session of 1887. He became the choice of republicans and democrats alike for the speakership in the session of 1889.

Boykin, John T

physician, surgeon, was born April 17, 1869, in Troup county, Ga. He received the rudiments of his education in the West Point public schools, Ga.; and graduated in medicine from the Atlanta medical college. He has attained success as an eminent physician and surgeon of Carrabelle, Fla., where he owns a drug store and takes a leading part in the public affairs of his county and state.

Boylan, Will Mai

merchant, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1859, in Hardin county, Iowa. He is a poet of rare genius and the author of a brochure entitled Life's Purest Gold. Many of his poems ems have been given a place in standard publications.

Boyle, Charles E

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in Uniontown, Pa. He was editor of the Genius of Liberty newspaper from 1856 to 1861. He was elected district attorney for Fayette county, in 1862, and served three years; and was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1865, and re-elected in 1866. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress, as a democrat.

Boyle, Frank E

lawyer, was born Aug. 31, 1871, in Dunmore, Pa. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the common schools, he attended the Mount St. Mary's college of Emmettsburg, Md.; and has since attained success as a prominent lawyer of Scranton, Pa.

Boyle, John J

sculptor, was born in 1853, in New York city. He studied in the art schools of Philadelphia and Paris, and is the professor at the academy of fine arts at Philadelphia, Pa.

Boyle, John W

jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to Dakota, where he was appointed an assistant justice of the United States court for that territory.

Boyle, Joseph

clergyman, was born May 10, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. He served the principal churches of St. Louis as pastor, and as presiding elder and official relation to them all. He died May 3, 1872, in Lexington, Mo.

Boyle, Junius J

naval officer, was born about 1802 in Maryland. After nine years of sea duty on board the frigates Delaware and Congress, most of the time in the Mediterranean, he served from 1843 till 1855 on different store-ships and in the schooner Bonito of the home squadron. He was commissioned commodore in 1862. He died Aug. 11, 1870, in Norfolk, Va.

Boyle, St. John

railroad president, financier, was born Sept. 6, 1847, in Danville, Ky. In 1883 he became president of the Louisville, New Albany and Corydon railway; and is now vice-president and treasurer of that company at Louisville, Ky.

Bozman, John Leeds

lawyer, author, was born in 1757 in Oxford, Md. He was a noted Maryland lawyer and was the author of a Historical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War; and History of Maryland. He died in 1.823.