Blythe, James – Bogart, Elizabeth
Blythe, James
clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 23, 1765, in Mecklenburg county, N. C.
He was president of Transylvania college for several years, but resigned about 1818 and established a seminary for young ladies. In 1832 he accepted the presidency of South Hanover college, which he resigned in 1836. He died May 2, 1842, in Hanover, Ind.
Boardman, Arthur Edwin
railroad president, was born March 20, 1850, in Macon, Ga. Since 1894 he has been president of the Hendersonville and Brevard railway, at Brevard, N. C.
Boardman, David Sherman
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1768. For several years he was chief justice of the supreme court of Connecticut. He died Dec. 2, 1864, in New Milford, Conn.
Boardman, Elijah
merchant, legislator, United States senator, was born March 7, 1760, in New Milford, Mass. He became a successful merchant; was frequently a member of the legislature; was a member of the council; and was a senator in congress from Connecticut from 1821 to 1823. He died Oct. 8, 1823, in Boardman, Ohio.
Boardman, George Dana
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 18, 1828, in Burmah. He is a prominent baptist clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Coronation of Love; Studies in the Creative Week; Epiphanies of the Risen Lord; Studies in the Mountain Instruction; University Lectures on the Ten Commandments; and The Divine Man.
Boardman, George Nye
clergyman, educator, was born Dec. 23, 1825, in Pittsford, Vt. In 1859 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church in Bingham, N. Y. In 1871 he resigned this pastorate to accept a professorship in Chicago Theological seminary, which post he still holds.
Boardman, Henry Augustus
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 9, 1808, in Troy, N. Y. He was once a noted presbyterian divine of Philadelphia; and the author of The Bible in the Family; The Bible in the Counting-House; The Christian Ministry not a Priesthood; Earthly Suffering and Heavenly Glory; and A Handful of Corn. He died June 15, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Boardman, Samuel Ward
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1830, in Pittsford, Vt. He graduated from the Castleton seminary in 1847, Middlebury college in 1851, and Andover Theological seminary in 1855; and has filled pastorates in the congregational and presbyterian churches. Since 1889 he has been president of the Maryville college of Maryville, Tenn.
Boardman, William W
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1794, in New Milford, Conn. He was at one time judge of probate; for several years in the state legislature, and speaker of the house; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1841 to 1843.
Boarman, Aleck
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 10, 1839, in Yazoo City, Miss. He served throughout the war as an officer in the confederate army. He began to practice law in 1866; and settled in Louisiana. He was a representative from that state to the fortysecond congress to fill a vacancy; judge of the state district court for one term; and in 1881 was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Louisiana. was
Boarman, Charles
naval officer, was born in Maryland. During the civil war he was on special service. He was retired with the rank of commodore on April 4, 1867, and made a rear-admiral on the retired list, Aug. 15, 1876. He died Sept. 13, 1879, in Martinsburg, W. Va.
Boatman, J. Austin
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 7, 1848, in Jessamine county, Ky. He is a graduate of the De Pauw university, and has attained distinction as one of the foremost Iowa clergymen of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled pastorates in Iowa at Newton, Albia, Brooklyn, Washington, Bloomfield, and is now at Fairfield. He is the author of The Holy Mother, a poem; and Paido-Theology, a study of the status of childhood under Christianity.
Boatner, Charles J
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1849, in Columbia, La. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1870; and was elected a member of the state senate in 1876. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses, and received the certificate of election to the fifty-fourth congress, but his seat was declared vacant March 20, 1896. At a special election held June 10, 1896, he was elected to the short term of the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat.
Bockee, Abraham
jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in Northeast, N. Y. He was a member of the state legislature in 1820, a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831, and again from 1833 to 1837. He was a member of the state senate from 1842 to 1845; and also held the position, in 1846, of first judge of the Dutchess county court. He died June 1, 1865, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Bocock, Thomas S
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1815 in Buckingham county, Va. He sat for several terms in the house of delegates, was elected to congress as a democrat in 1846, and sat for seven successive terms, until the ordinance of secession was enacted. In 1861 he was elected to the confederate congress.
Boden, Andrew
congressman, was born in Carlisle, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821.
Bodine, Robert N
educator, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 17, 1837, in Monroe county, Mo. He has held the office of prosecuting attorney and been elected twice a member of the Missouri legislature, in which capacity he was member of the committee on the revision of the statutes. He was a member of the board of regents of the Kirksville a Normal school at the time of his nomination for congress; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Bodine, William Budd
clergyman, college president, was born March 10, 1841, in Burlington county, N. J. He has been rector of the Memorial church of Baltimore, Md.; president of Kenyon college, Ohio; and is now rector of the Church of the Savior of Philadelphia, Pa.
Bodle, Charles
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1835. He died in 1836 in New York city.
BODLEY, RACHEL L., physician, chemist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She was elected dean of the faculty of the Women's Medical college of Pennsylvania, and lecturer on chemistry in the Franklin institute of Philadelphia.
She died in 1888.
Bodman, Edward Cushman
merchant, was born March 22, 1840, in Charlemont, Mass. He was in the grain trade in Toledo in 1865-85, being president of the Northern National bank there, 1873- 82. He went to New York in 1885, and his firm of Milmine, Bodman and Co. have already won a name, ranking as a leading house in the grain trade.
Bodwell, Charles
farmer, legislator, was born in Methuen, Mass. He was a successful farmer and millwright of Dracut, Mass.; and in 1821-zz was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives.
Bodwell, Joseph R
governor of Maine, was born June 18, 1818, in Methuen, Mass. He opened quarries in 1852 on an island in Penobscot bay, and organized the Bodwell, and, in 1870, the Hallowell granite company. He served twice in the legislature, and in 1886 was elected governor by the republicans. He died Dec. 15, 1887, in Hallowell, Maine.
Boedecker, G. a. W
poet, business man. He is a successful business man of Brooklyn, Kan.; and contributes extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Boen, Haldor E
educator, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1851, in Norway. In 1888 he was elected register of deeds and re-elected in 1890; was chairman of fifth congressional district alliance committee in 1890; was chairman of the first congressional committee of the people's party in the seventh district in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as the candidate of the people's party.
Boerum, Simon
congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1724, in New Lots, N. Y.
He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress, from 1774 to 1777.
He died July 11, 1775, in Brooklyn Ferry, N. Y.
Bogardus, Abraham
photographer, was born Nov. 29, 1822, in Fishkill, N. Y. Numerous improvements in the preparations of solutions, processes, and apparatus have been devised by him.
Bogardus, Charles
soldier, legislator, was born March 28, 1841, in Cayuga county, N. Y. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the one hundred and fifty-first New York infantry; and was brevetted to a colonelcy for gallant and meritorious services before Petersburg. He was once severely wounded, and captured by the enemy. He has served with distinction as a member of the Illinois state senate.
Bogardus, James
engineer, inventor, was born March 14, 1800, in Catskill, N. Y. He made important improvements in cotton spinning, invented many useful mechanical instruments, and in 1847 he built in New York city the first iron building in the United States. He died April 13, 1874, in New York city, N. Y.
Bogart, Elizabeth
poet, was born about 1806 in New York city. She contributed to periodicals, chiefly the New York Mirror, under the pen-name of Estelle, her first pieces appearing in 1825.
Specimens of her poetry are reprinted in Griswold's Female Poets of America.
She wrote two prize stories, entitled The Effect of a Single Folly, and The Forged Note, evincing constructive ability; and He Came Too Late, and other poems.