Booze, William S – Botkin, Alexander Campbell
Booze, William S
physician, congressman, was born Jan. 9, 1862, in Baltimore, Md. He was educated at the public schools and at the Baltimore City college; graduated from the latter in 1879; and studied medicine and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1882. He was nominated for congress by the republicans of the third congressional district in 1894 against Harry Welles Rusk, whose election to the house of representatives he contested unsuccessfully; and was renominated and elected in 1896 to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican. He is also president of The League of Republican clubs of Maryland.
Borden, Joseph
congressman. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the colonial congress held in New York in 1765.
Borden, Matthew Chaloner Dufree
merchant, manufacturer, was born July 18, 1842, in Fall River, Mass.
Their mills contain about 200,000 spindles and more than 5,000 looms, producing 35,000 pieces of print cloth weekly, or about one-half the whole amount required by The American Printing. Co.
The two companies are of enormous value to Fall River.
He takes a prominent part in public affairs, and is identified with various philanthropic movements.
Borden, Nathaniel B
legislator, state senator, congressman, was born April 15, 1801, in Fall River, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature in 1831, 1834, and 1851; and was a representative in congress from the Fall River district, in that state, from 1835 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. He was a state senator from 1845 to 1848. He died April 10, 1865, in Fall River, Mass.
Borden, Simeon
inventor, was born Jan. 29, 1798, in Freetown, Mass. He devised and constructed, in 1830, an apparatus for measuring the base line of the trigonometrical survey of Massachusetts, which was found to be more accurate and convenient than any instrument of the kind then in existence. He was employed as surveyor in the case of Rhode Island vs. Massachusetts, tried before the United States supreme court in 1844. After the case was decided he surveyed and marked the boundary line between the two states.
He died Oct. 28, 1856, in Fall River, Mass.
Bordley, John Beale
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 11, 1727, in Annapolis, Md. He was judge of the provincial court in 1766 and of the admiralty court in 1767-76, and a commissioner to fix the boundary-line between Maryland and Delaware in 1768. He was one of the few members of the provincial councils who sympathized with the movement for independence. Removing to Philadelphia in 1793, he established there the first agricultural society in the United States. By his experiments upon his estate in Wye island, Chesapeake bay, and by his writings, he was instrumental in diffusing a knowledge of the art of husbandry. He published Forsyth on Fruit-Trees, with Notes; On Rotation of Crops; Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs, with Plates; and A View of the Courses of Crops in England and Maryland. He died Jan. 26, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Boreman, Arthur Inghram
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, governor, was born July 24, 1823, in Waynesburg, Pa. In 1855 he was elected to the house of delegates of Virginia, and was re-elected until 1860. He was also a member of the extra session of the legislature in 1861, taking an active part against the secession movement. He was president of the Wheeling convention of 1861, to reorganize the government of Virginia. He was elected a judge of the circuit court, and held the office until 1863, when he was elected governor of West Virginia. He was twice re-elected, and was still in that office when elected a senator in congress from West Virginia, for the term commencing in 1869, and ending in 1875. In 1888 he was elected judge of the fifth circuit of West Virginia; and died April 19, 1896, while serving in that office.
Boreman, Jacob E
journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1831, in Middletown, W. Va. He was elected city attorney of Kansas City, Mo., in 1861; assisted in raising troops for the war; and in 1862 was appointed a judge of common pleas, and elected to the same by the people. He was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature in 1869. He subsequently purchased an interest in the Kansas City Bulletin and became its editor. In 1873 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Boren, Samuel Hampson
pioneer, soldier, planter, was born Dec. 3, 1811, in Tennessee. In 1838 he removed to the republic of Texas; volunteered in 1846, and served in the Mexican war with distinction as a lieutenant of cavalry under Gen. Zachary Taylor, and was in the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista. As a planter and cotton merchant he amassed a fortune. He died Sept. 28, 1881, and lies buried in Tyler, Texas, where his descendants live.
Borie, Adolph E
merchant, public official, was born in 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. Though not an active politician, he was one of the originators, and moneyed supporters, of the Union league in Philadelphia, and was elected vice-president of that body. In 1869 he was appointed to a seat in the cabinet as secretary of the navy. He died Feb. 5, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa. i
Borland, Charles
congressman, was born in Orange county, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1820; a representative in congress from that state from 1821 to 1823; and was again elected to the assembly in 1836.
Borland, Solon
soldier, United States senator, was born in Virginia. He served in the war with Mexico as a volunteer; was a presidential elector in 1844; and was a senator in congress from Arkansas from 1848 to 1853. He was appointed, by President Pierce, minister to Central America. He took part in the rebellion of 1861 as a brigadier-general, and before the state had seceded raised troops and captured Fort Smith. He died Jan. 31, 1864, in Texas.
Borst, Albert
composer, was born July 22, 1841, in Liverpool, England. He graduated in Zurich, Switzerland. He has composed pianoforte and church music, and an operetta He is prominent in the musical affairs of Philadelphia, Pa.
Borst, Peter I
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Schoharie county, N. Y., from 1829 to 1831.
He died Nov. 14, 1848, in Middleburg, N. Y.
Borum, William Drake Lech- Ler
lawyer, philanthropist, was born :
Aug. 4, 1862, in Strasburg, Va. He graduated from the Randolph Macon college, and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Baltimore, Md. During 1884-88 he was journal clerk of the Virginia house of delegates. He is the assistant counsel to the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Railroad company, and to the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad company.
He devotes much of his time to christian education and the reformation of children.
Bosler, Charles H
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 8, 1866, in Dayton, Ohio. Since 1873 he has practiced law in Dayton, Ohio. He was elected to the house of representatives of the seventyfirst Ohio general assembly as a republican, re-elected to the seventy-second general assembly, and served as speaker pro tempore of the house. In April, 1896, he represented Ohio at the Tennessee centennial exposition of 1897.
Bosler, James Williamson
merchant, was born April 4, 1833, in Hoguestown, Pa. He was the organizer and president of The Palo Blanco Cattle Co. of New Mexico. The election of President Garfield was due to him as much as to any other man in the United States, the financial part of that campaign being organized by him, when it had begun to droop. The handsome James W. Bosler memorial building, of Dickinson college, perpetuates his name. He died Dec. 17, 1883, in Carlisle, Pa.
Boss, John L
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1815 to 1819.
Bossier, Peter E
state senator, congressman. After serving ten years in the state senate, he was elected a member of the twenty-eighth congress from that state. He died April 24, 1844, in Washington, D. C.
Bostwick, David
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 8, 1721, in New Milford, Conn. He was pastor of the church at Jamaica, L. I., from 1745 to 1756, and of the presbyterian church in New York from 1756 till his death. He published a sermon, Self Disclaimed, and Christ Exalted; a Life of President Davies, prefixed to his sermon on the Death of George II.; and a Vindication of Infant Baptism. He died Nov. 12, 1763, in New York city.
Bostwick, Mrs. Helen Louise
poet, was born in 1826, in Charleston, N.
H. She is the author of Buds, Blossoms and Berries.
Boswick, William L
politician, regent, was born March 15, 1837, in Enfield, N. Y. He was elected regent of the university of New York in 1876, and served the state as canal appraiser from 1879 to 1882. He was appointed cashier of the United States custom house in 1889, which position he still holds.
Boteler, Alexander R
congressman, was born May 16, 1815, in Shepherdstown, Va. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Virginia to the thirtysixth congress. During a part of the rebellion he served as a representative in the so-called confederate congress; and in 1875 was appointed a commissioner to the centennial exhibition.
Botkin, Alexander Campbell
lawyer, statesman, was born Oct. 13, 1842, in Madison, Wis. He was a graduate of the university of Wisconsin, and from the law department of the university of Albany. From 1878 to 1885 he was United States marshal of Montana; from 1893 to 1897 was lieutenant-governor of Montana; and in 1896 was republican candidate for governor of that state.