Bogart, G. Henri – Bolles, Edwin Cortlandt
Bogart, G. Henri
educator, journalist, poet, was born Oct. 26, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has attained success as an educator and journalist. He is the author of about five hundred poems, including songs and recitation pieces.
Bogart, William Henry
author, was born Nov. 28, 1810, in Albany, N. Y.
He was the author of Life of Daniel Boone; and Who Goes There? or Men and Events. He died Aug. 21, 1888, in Aurora, N. Y.
Boggess, Caleb
lawyer, was born April 29, 1822, in Lumberport, W. Va. In 1842 he was appointed a cadet in the Virginia Military institute, from which he graduated three years later with the highest honors. He then returned to Clarksburg and studied law, and practiced his profession for more than thirty years. He was elected as a union candidate to represent Lewis county in the convention of Richmond. He was the chief counsel for West Virginia of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He possessed a rare legal and mathematical mind; had a large practice in the supreme court of appeals of the state, and argued a number of important cases in the supreme court of the United States.
He died April 14, 1889.
Boggs, Charles Stuart
naval officer, was born Jan. 28, 1811, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was promoted to the rank of captain on July 16, 1862, and was made a commodore July 25, 1866. He commanded the steamer De Soto, of the North Atlantic squadron, in 1867-68. In 1869-70 he was assigned to the European fleet, and prepared a report on the condition of steam-engines afloat. On July 1, 1870, he received promotion to rear-admiral, and was appointed lighthouse inspector of the third district. He was placed on the retired list in 1873. He died April 22, 1888, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Boggs, George Brenton
civil engineer, was born Jan. 8, 1844, in Somerville, N. J. He entered the railroad service in 1862; and is now chief engineer and comptroller of the Perkiomen railroad at Norristown, Pa.
Boggs, Julius E
railroad president, was born Feb. 14, 1854, in Pickens county, S. C. Since 1891 he has been president of the Pickens railroad.
Boggs, L. W
pioneer, governor, was born in 1798 in Kentucky. He was governor of Missouri in 1836, and took a prominent part in the expulsion of the Mormons. In 1846 he migrated to California, and in the years 1847-49 was alcalde of the Sonoma district. He died in 1861 in California.
Bogle, James
painter, was born in 1817 in Georgetown, S. C. He came to New York in 1836 and entered the studio of Prof. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the founder of the national academy of design. He executed portraits of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Chief Justice Jones, Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, De Witt Clinton, and Rev.
Dr. Budington. Among his later pictures were portraits of Gen. John A. Dix and Henry I. Raymond. He died Oct. 11, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bogue, George Marquis
capitalist, was born Jan. 21, 1842, in Norfolk, N. Y. From 1875-76 he was a member of the Illinois legislature; in 1876 a member of the railroad and warehouse commission for the state of Illinois; in 1889-90 was president of the Chicago real estate board; and is also president of the presbyterian hospital and director of a number of business corporations.
Bogy, Lewis V
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born April 9, 1813, in St. Genevieve, Mo. He was several times elected to the state legislature; and was commissioner of Indian affairs in 1867 and 1868. He was one of the projectors and friends of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad, of which he was for two years president. He was elected to the United States senate for the term commencing in 1873 and ending in 1879.
He died Sept. 20, 1877, in St. Louis, Mo. now
Bohmer, John George
educator, college president, was born Nov. 9, 1848, in Rich Fountain, Mo. He received his education in the parish and public schools, from private tutors, and at the Jones Commercial college. He is one of the most prominent educators of the west; has filled the chairs of penmanship, bookkeeping, commercial law and English; and is the president and proprietor of the Jones Commercial college of St. Louis, Mo., which was established in 1841 by Prof. Jonathan Jones. This college is the only institution in St.
Louis that teaches bookkeeping by actual business practice; and their system is protected both by patents and copyright.
Prof. Bohmer has made his college the leading institution of its kind west of the Mississippi.
Boies, Henry M
soldier, manufacturer, philanthropist, author, was born in 1837, in Lee, Mass. In 1882 he was chosen president of the Dickson Manufacturing company. He invented a new and improved steel-tired car wheel, now manufactured by the Boies Steel Wheel company, of which company he is president. He is the author of a work entitled Prisoners and Paupers.
Boies, Horace
lawyer, governor, was born Dec. 7, 1827, in Aurora, N. Y.
In 1857 he was a member of the state assembly, and later resided in Buffalo. Soon after the close of the war Mr. Boies removed to Waterloo, Iowa, where he quickly obtained a profitable law practice. In 1884 he left the republican party and became a democrat, being elected by them governor of Iowa in 1890, to which office he was re-elected. In June, 1892, he was a prominent western candidate for the nomination to the presidency, and he is the democratic leader in his state.
Boise, James Robinson
educator, author, was born Jan. 27, 1815, in Blanford, Mass. From 1852 to 1868 he was professor of Greek in the university of Michigan, and after 1868 in the university of Chicago. He published in Chicago Xenophon's Anabasis, with English notes; the first six books of Homer's Iliad; Greek Syntax; First Lessons in Greek; and other text-books; and in 1884 Notes Critical and Explanatory on St.
Paul's Epistles.
Bok, Edward William
journalist, author, was born in 1863. He is editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; and the author of The Young Man in Business; Successward; and a Young Man's Book for Young Men.
Bok, William John
journalist, was born May 11, 1861, in Netherlands. In 1881, with his brother, he established the Bok Literary Syndicate Press of New York; and in 1887 was associated with his brother in compiling the Beecher Memorial.
Bokee, David A
naval officer, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1805, in New York. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1851. He died March 16, 1860, in Washington, D. C.
Boker, George Henry
diplomatist, author, poet, was born Oct. 6, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a poet and diplomat of Philadelphia, and United States minister to Turkey and Russia. He is the author of four tragedies, Calaynos; Anne Boleyn; Lenor de Guzman; Francesca da Rimini, the first and last are the finest, the last having been revived with success in very recent years. His volumes of verse include The Lesson of Life; Poems of War: The Book of the Dead; Königsmark; Street Lyrics; Our Heroic Themes. Plays of lesser rank are The Widow's Marriage; and The Betrothal.
He died Jan. 2, 1890, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bolen, David Winton
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Aug. 17, 1851, in Carroll county, Va. He was three times elected to the state legislature; was four years judge of the county court of Carroll county; and two years judge of the fifteenth judicial circuit of Virginia.
Boles, Thomas
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 16, 1837, in Clarksville, Ark. In 1863 and 1864 he served as a captain in the union army, experiencing many trials from ill-health and military arrests. In 1865 he was chosen judge of the fourth judicial district of Arkansas, which position he resigned early in 1868. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.
Boll, Jacob
naturalist, author, was born May 29, 1828, in Switzerland. He was a pupil of Louis Agassiz, and was employed by Edward D. Cope to go to Texas and examine the fossiliferous and iron deposits of that state, with a view to determining their geological character.
He made many important discoveries in the formations that he explored. He died Sept. 29, 1880, in Wilbarger county, Texas.
Bollan, William
lawyer, author, was born in England. He was an English lawyer who settled in Boston in 1740, and. was subsequently colonial agent in London for Massachusetts. He was active in its behalf and wrote many political tracts for that end, among which The Mutual Interests of Great Britain and the American Colonies Considered, is a favorable example. He died in 1776 in Massachusetts.
Boller, Alfred Pancoast
engineer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is an engineer of note whose specialty is bridge construction; and is the author of Practical Treatise on the Construction of Iron Highway Bridges; and Report on Thames River Bridge.
Bolles, Albert Sidney
educator, author, was born in 1845 in Connecticut.
He is a political economist of prominence, and professor in the university of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Chapters in Political Economy; The Conflict between Labor and Capital; Industrial History of the United States; Financial History of the United States, 1774-1860; and Elements of Commercial Law.
Bolles, Edwin Cortlandt
microscopist, lecturer, was born Sept. 19, 1836, in Hartford, Conn. From 1870 to 1875 he was professor of microscopy in St.
Lawrence university, Canton, N. Y., and since 1870 has lectured on that subject in Tufts college at College Hill, Mass. He has contributed articles on his specialty to periodicals, and published sermons.
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