Bolles, Frank – Bond, Lester L
Bolles, Frank
author, was born in 1856 in Massachusetts. He was a writer of nature studies of the school of Jefferies and Thoreau, though with important differences from either. He was the author of From Blomidon to Smoky; At the North of Bearcamp Water; Land of the Lingering Snow; and Chocorua's Tenants, a volume of verse. He died in 1894.
Bolles, John A
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 16, 1809, in Eastford, Conn. He was graduated at Brown in 1829, admitted to the bar in Boston in 1833, and in 1843 chosen secretary of state under Gov. Marcus Morton. He was a member of the harbor and back bay commission in 1852. From 1862 till 1865 he served as judge-advocate on the staff of Gen. John A. Dix, who was his brotherin-law. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1865, and appointed naval solicitor the same year. He died May 25, 1878, in Washington, D. C.
Bolles, Joshua A
journalist. He is the editor and owner of The Gazette of New Milford, Conn. His paper was established in 1872; and is fearless and independent in all that it advocates. He has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Bollinger, Albert C
lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 22, 1870, in Steelville, Ill. In 1892 he declined the nomination for state's attorney of Randolph county, Ill.; and subsequently served as a member of the Illinois state senate.
Bolster, William Wheeler
lawyer, author, was born in 1823 in Maine.
He is a lawyer of Auburn, Maine; and the author of Digest of the Law of Tax Titles; and The Authority and Duty of Town Officers.
Bolton, Channing Moore
soldier, civil engineer, was born Jan. 24, 1843, in Richmond, Va. He served in the civil war; and from 1863-65 was commissioned officer in the engineers corps, Confederate States of America; from 1874-75 he located several small railroads in Virginia and North Carolina; and in 1876-79 was engineer in charge for the United States government. In 1887-88 he was president and manager of the Richmond City railroad.
Bolton, Charles Edward
lecturer, author, was born May 16, 1841, in South Hadley Falls, Mass. He has attained a national reputation as a brilliant lecturer; and is the author of a work entitled Realistic Travels.
Bolton, Charles Knowles
author, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1887 he published a volume of poems entitled From Heart and Nature; and has also published genealogy of the Bolton Family. He has traveled extensively in Europe, and has given art entertainments a of one thousand brilliant views throughout America. other works His are:
Gossiping Guide to Harvard; Saskia the Wife of Rembrandt; Notes on Special Collections in American Libraries (with W. C. Lane). Verse: Poems: from Heart and Nature; The Wooing of Martha Pitkin; and the Love Story of Ursula Wolcott.
Bolton, Henry Carrington
educator, scientist, author, was born Jan. 28, 1843, in New York city. He is a scientist and professor of chemistry at Trinity college; and the author of Application of Organic Acids to the Examination of Minerals; Literature of Uranium; Literature of Manganese; Student's Guide in Quantitative Analysis; and Counting-out Rhymes of Children: their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution.
Bolton, James
physician, surgeon, was born June 5, 1812, in Savannah, Ga.
In 1855 he opened a private hospital in Richmond, Va.; was president of the Virginia State Medical society; and published many articles on subjects pertaining to surgery and medicine. He died May 15, 1869.
Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Knowles
author, was born Sept. 15, 1841, in Farmington, Conn. She is a miscellaneous writer of Cleveland whose successive collections of biographical sketches have been extremely popular. She is the author of Famous Givers and Their Gifts; How Success Is Won; Poor Boys who Became Famous; Girls who Became Famous; Famous American Authors: Famous American Statesmen; Successful Women; Social Studies in England; Famous Types of Womanhood; Famous voyages and Explorers; Famous Leaders Among Men; and The Inevitable, a collection of pleasing, unpretentious verse.
Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Tittle
author, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1815, in Newport, Ky. She was a writer whose name is kept in mind by her oft quoted poem, Paddle Your Own Canoe. She was the author of The Songs of a Life Time; and Life and Poems. She died in 1893.
Boltwood, Henry L
educator, author, was born Jan. 17, 1831, in Amherst, Mass. In 1853 he graduated from the Amherst college; and taught in the academies of Pembroke and Drury, N. H. During the war he was in the sanitary commission; was ordained an army chaplain, but never served. In 1865 he moved to Illinois, and two years later organized the first township high school in Illinois at Princeton. He is the author of several school books, and is still engaged in educational work at Evanston, Ill.
Bombaugh, Charles Carroll
physician, author, was born Feb. 10, 1828, in Harrisburg, Pa. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the army and served as a medical officer in Gen. Stone's division on the Potomac, and afterward in Gen. Sedgwick's division. In 1865 he established and has since successfully conducted the Baltimore Underwriter.
Bomberger, John Henry Augus- Tus
theologian, college president, author, was born Jan. 13, 1817, in Lancaster, Pa.
He was a German Reformed theologian, president of Ursinus college, 1870-90; and the author of Infant Salvation and Baptism; Revised Liturgy; and Reformed not Ritualistic. He died in 1890.
Bomford, George
military officer, was born in 1780 in New York. The cannons invented by him were further developed by Dahlgrén, but were superseded by the Rodman type about the beginning of the civil war. In July, 1841, he conducted experiments to ascertain the expansive force of powder in a gun by firing bullets through tubes inserted in the sides. He died March 25, 1848, in Boston, Mass.
Bonaparte, Joseph Charles
lawyer, was born June 9, 1851, in Baltimore, Md. He graduated from Harvard in 1871, and at the Harvard Law school in 1874, was admitted to practice, and has attained a respectable rank at the Baltimore bar.
Bond, Elizabeth Powell
educator, author, was born Jan. 25, 1841, in Clinton, N. Y. During 1865-70 she was director of physical culture in Vassar college; since 1880 has been a member of the faculty of Swarthmore college, Pennsylvania; and dean of that institution since 1890. She is the author of Words by the Way, and other works.
Bond, Frank Stuart
was born Feb. 1, 1830, in Sturbridge, Mass. In 1886 he was elected vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company, and has since then represented that company in the city of New York.
Bond, George Phillips
educator, astronomer, author, was born in 1825 in Massachusetts. He was an astronomer of note, and a professor in Harvard university. He was the author of On the Construction of the Rings of Saturn; The Method of Least Squares; and Mathematical Memoirs upon Mechanical Quadrations. He died Feb. 17, 1865, in Cambridge, Mass.
Bond, Henry
physician, genealogist, author, was born March 21, 1790, in Watertown, Mass. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, studied medicine, and practiced in Concord, N. H., and from November, 1819, till his death, in Philadelphia. For several years he was president of the Philadelphia board of health. Besides numerous contributions to medical and other journals, he published a remarkably thorough genealogical work entitled Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass., including Waltham and Weston. He died May 4, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bond, Henry Herrick
lawyer, journalist, was born June 2, 1847, in Canterbury, Conn. He was treasurer of the Florence Savings bank; and with his brother-in-law he established the Northampton Journal. He died Oct. 22, 1881, in Millboro, Va.
Bond, Hugh Lennox
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Baltimore, Md.
In 1860 he was appointed judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, and in 1861 was elected to the same position, and served until 1868. In 1870 he was appointed United States circuit judge for the fourth judicial circuit, and soon after assuming the duties of his office he was called upon to preside in the famous Ku Klux trials.
Bond, John R. S
journalist, was born in 1822 in Ohio. In his youth he traveled on horseback through the wilderness to Kankakee river, and then in a skiff down that river and the Mississippi to St.
Louis. He owned at different times as many as eight western newspapers, was the founder of the Louisville Courier- Journal, and at the time of his death was editor of the Scioto Gazette. He died December, 1872, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Bond, Lester L
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 27, 1829, in Ravenna, Ohio.
During 1862-66 he was a member of the city council of Chicago; was presidential elector in 1868; and for two terms during 1866-70 was a member of the Illinois state legislature. He was one of the founders of the West Chicago park system; a member of the Chicago board of education; and in 1872 was acting mayor of Chicago.
He was past commander of the Chicago commandery, Knights Templars; and in 1897 was elected vice-president of the Union League club.