Bond, Shadrack – Book, John W
Bond, Shadrack
legislator, congressman, governor, was born in Maryland. He was a member of the first legislative council of Ohio in 1799; was elected a delegate to congress from the territory of Illinois from 1811 to 1815; and was the first governor under the state constitution. In 1814 he was appointed receiver of public moneys in Kaskaskia, Ill. He died April 13, 1832, in Kaskaskia, Ill.
Bond, Thomas
physician, lecturer, was born in 1712 in Maryland. He was a distinguished practitioner of Philadelphia, delivered the first clinical lectures in the Pennsylvania hospital, and was associated with Dr. Franklin and Dr. John Bartram, the botanist, in a literary society of that city. He died in 1784 in Philadelphia, Pa.
Bond, Thomas Emerson
clergyman, physician, author, was born in 1782 in Baltimore, Md. In 1827 he published an Appeal to Methodists, directed against the proposed changes, in 1828 a Narrative and Defence of the Church Authorities , and in 1831 and 1832 he defended the polity of episcopal methodism in a journal printed in Baltimore called the Itinerant, of which he was editor. He subsequently edited for twelve years the Christian Advocate and Journal, the leading methodist organ, of which he assumed charge in 1840. He died March 14, 1856, in New York.
Bond, Thomas Emerson
clergyman, journalist, was born in 1813 in Baltimore, Md. He became a local methodist preacher, and also studied medicine and took his degree in Baltimore. His father was editor of the Baltimore Christian Advocate and Journal, and young Bond became his efficient assistant, distinguished for humor and sarcastic power. After the close of the war he was one of the originators of the Episcopal Methodist, the organ of the southern church, but subsequently severed his connection with that paper and established another journal in the same interest. After publishing that for a short time he consolidated it with the Southern Christian Advocate, published simultaneously in Baltimore and St. Louis, of which he was associate editor. He died Aug. 18, 1872, in Harford county, Md.
Bond, William Cranch
astronomer, was born Sept. 8, 1789, in Portland, Maine. He distinguished himself by his observations on Saturn and celestial photography. He, with his son, discovered a satellite of Neptune and the eighth satellite of Saturn. He died Jan. 29, 1859, in Cambridge, Mass.
Bond, William Key
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in St. Marys county, Md. He emigrated to Ohio in 1812; studied law and settled in the practice of the profession at Chillicothe, and subsequently at Cincinnati. He was at one time a colonel of militia; and was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1835 to 1841. He died Feb. 17, 1864, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bonebrake, George Henry
soldier, lawyer, merchant, banker. He won brevet as lieutenant-colonel, and later received from the war department the medal of honor. In 1883 he established the Los Angeles National bank, of which he has since been president to date. He has also established first national banks in Pasadena, Pomona, Riverside, Santa Ana, and Santa Monica, a state bank in Santa Paula, and the Savings bank of Southern California and the State Loan and Trust Co. in Los Angeles.
Boner, John Henry
poet, was born in 1845 in North Carolina. He is a poet and littérateur of New York city; and the author of Whispering Pines, a volume of poems.
Bones, Marietta M
philanthropist, social reformer, was born May 4, 1842, in Clarion county, Pa. Mrs. Bones was elected vice-president of the National Woman's Suffrage association, and annually re-elected for nine years, when Susan B.
Anthony with thirty of her friends voted the organization into another. In 1882 she made her first appearance as a public speaker in Webster, S. D., where she now resides. She is an active temperance worker, and was secretary of the first Non-Partisan National Woman's Chris- Woman's Christian Temperance union in 1889; and she has taken great interest in all reform and charitable institutions. She is the wife of Hon. Thomas A. Bones, the president of the board of commissioners that built the Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs, S. D.
Bonham, Milledge L
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in South Carolina. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from his native state, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was a majorgeneral of militia, and served in Mexico at the head of a battalion of South Carolina troops; and served as a major-general in the confederate army in 1861. He was governor of South Carolina from 1862 to 1864; and was a delegate to the New York convention of 1868. He died Aug. 28, 1890, in White Sulphur Springs, Va.
Bonnell, John Mitchell
college president, was born April 16, 1820, in Pennsylvania. He was a minister in minister in Frankfort, Ky.; president of several female colleges; and in 1859 accepted an election to the presidency of Wesleyan Female college, where he remained for the last eleven years of his life. He died He died at the college in September, 1871.
Bonner, Edward L
merchant, banker, was born Aug. 18, 1834, in Orwell , N. Y. He is the principal owner of the present Missoula Mercantile Co., the largest and most influential house of wholeof wholesale and retail grocers in the northwest.
Bonner, Robert
publisher, was born April 28, 1824, in Ireland. In 1839 he was employed in the office of the Hartford Courant, where he gained the reputation of being the most rapid compositor in Connecticut. In 1844 he removed to New York, and in 1851 purchased the Ledger, at that time an insignificant sheet. By printing the most popular class of interesting stories, he gave the paper a wide circulation, which was further extended by the contributions of Fanny Fern, Edward Everett, Henry Ward Beecher, and other eminent authors and clergymen. He has made large gifts of money to Princeton college, and to various charities.
Bonneville, Benjamin L. E
explorer, soldier, was born about 1795 in France. He was made brevet brigadiergeneral in 1865. He was the author of a Journal of an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, edited by Washington Irving.
He died June 12, 1878, in Fort Smith, Ark.
Bonney, Charles Carroll
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 4, 1831, in Hamilton, N. Y. He is a lawyer of Chicago, and the author of Rules of Law for Carriage and Delivery of Persons and Property by Railway; summary of the Law of Marine, Fire and Life Insurance; and Our Remedy in the Laws.
Bonnycastle, Charles
educator, mathematician, author, was born in 1792 in England. He was first professor of natural philosophy in the University of Virginia, and in 1827 was, at his own request, transferred to the chair of mathematics. He was the author of a treatise on Inductive Geometry, and several memoirs on scientific subjects. He died October, 1840, in Virginia.
Bonsall, Henry Lummis
journalist, was born March 24, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. He established the New Republic in Camden, N. J., which he published for ten years; then left it to issue the Post as a daily in 1875.
Bonwill, William G. A
surgeon, inventor, was born Oct. 4, 1883, in Camden, Del. In 1871 he moved to Philadelphia, where he soon took rank with the most skillful and accomplished of his profession. He gave to the world two inventions of the very highest utility, the surgical engine and the artificial tooth crown.
Boody, Azariah
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirtythird congress.
Boody, David Augustus
banker, was born Aug. 13, 1837, in Jackson, Maine.
Several large corporations have secured his interest, and he has been elected president of the Louisiana and Northwestern railway; and vice-president of the Sprague National bank.
Boody, Henry Hill
business man, legislator, was born in November, 1816, in Jackson. In 1842 he graduated from the Bowdoin college; and in 1845 was elected to the chair of rhetoric and oratory, which position he held for nine years.
He was then elected to the senate of the Maine state legislature, and subsequently represented his town in the house of representatives. Since 1855 he has been concerned in railroad enterprises, and has held positions of great responsibility requiring administrative skill.
Boogher, John Hogan
lawyer, lecturer, was born July 16, 1867, in St. Louis, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; and graduated from the University of Virginia and the Washington University Law school. He is a fluent linguist and public speaker, and a noted law writer and lecturer; but is best known as an orator and skillful trial lawyer of St.
Louis, Mo.
Book, John W
catholic priest, author, was born Oct. 21, 1850, in Clark county, Ind. In 1873 he was ordained a catholic priest; and in 1886 was made dean of the Cannelton district, Indiana.
He is the author of Short Line to the Roman Catholic Church; Side Switches of the Short Line; Thousand and One Objections to Secret Societies; Mollie's Mistake, or Mixed Marriages; The Book of Books; and other works.