Botkin, Jeremiah D – Bouligney, Dominique
Botkin, Jeremiah D
clergyman, congressman, was born April 24, 1849, in Logan county, Ill. He has filled leading pulpits in his conference; served six years as presiding elder; was delegate to the general conference held in New York city in 1888, and to the ecumenical conference in Washington, D. C., 1891; was early imbued with abolition sentiments and was a republican until recent years. He made three attempts to enter the army during the last year of the war, but being under age and size was rejected. He was prohibition candidate for governor of Kansas in 1888; and having early espoused the populist cause, that party nominated him for congress in the third district in 1894, but he was defeated; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist on the fusion ticket, as congressman at large.
Botsford, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in April, 1763, in New Haven, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in 1795; was a judge of admiralty in New Brunswick in 1802-7; was elected to the assembly in 1812, and for every succeeding term until 1823, holding the office of speaker from 1817 to 1823; and in the latter year became judge of the supreme court. He died May 8, 1864, in Sackville, N. B.
Botta, Mrs. Anne Charlotte
[LYNCH], author, was born in 1820, in Bennington, Vt. She was a well-known New York writer whose weekly receptions were for many years the nearest approach in New York city to a salon. She was the author of Handbook of Universal Literature; Leaves from the Diary of a Recluse; and Poems. She died March 23, 1891, in New York city.
Botta, Vincenzo
educator, author, was born Nov. 11, 1818, in Italy. He was an Italian educator who came to the United States in 1853, and was for a long period a professor of Italian literature in the university of New York. He was the author of The System of Education in Piedmont; Life of Cavour; Historical Account of Modern Philosophy in Italy; and Dante as Philosopher, Patriot, and Poet. He died in 1894.
Bottom, Norphie Ernest
journalist, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1869, in Anna, Ill. He is the editor and owner of The Enterprise, of Ong, Neb.; and his poems have been given a place in several standard works. 1
Botts, John Minor
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1802, in Dumfries, Va. He served in the legislature from 1833 to 1839, when he was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, and occupied that position until 1843. He was also elected to the thirtieth congress.
During the rebellion he remained faithful to the government of the United States; and was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. He was the author of Letters on the Nebraska Question; and The Great Rebellion. He died Jan. 7, 1869, in Culpeper, Va.
Bottsford, Sheldon E
clergyman, poet, was born Nov. 15, 1868, in Edinburgh, Mo. For many years he was engaged in educational work; then became a lawyer; and subsequently was ordained a clergyman.
Botty, Henry C
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1854, in New York city.
He has been engaged in the general practice of law in all its branches in his native city. In 1895 he was appointed chief justice of the city court of New York.
Boucicault, Dion
playwright, actor, was born Dec. 26, 1822, in Ireland. He was a successful actor; and among his dramatic writings are Rip Van Winkle; Led Astray; Colleen Bawn; and many other noted plays. He died Sept. 18, 1890, in New York city.
Bouck, Gabriel
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Fulton, N. Y. He was attorneygeneral of the state of Wisconsin in 1858- 59; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1860. He entered the union army in 1861 and rose to the rank of colonel. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1868 and 1872; was again a member of the assembly in 1874, and was speaker. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.
Bouck, Joseph
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1833.
Bouck, William C
state senator, governor, was born in 1786, in Schoharie county, N. Y. He was a member of the state assembly in 1813, 1815 and 1817; state senator in 1820; canal commissioner from 1821 to 1840; and governor of the state from 1843 to 1845. In 1846 he was a member of the constitutional convention; and from 1846 to 1849 was assistant treasurer of the United States in New York city. He died April 19, 1859, in Schoharie, N. Y.
Boude, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1803.
Boudinot, Elias
philanthropist, author, was born May 2, 1740, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a philanthropist of Burlington, N. J., and the first president of the American Bible society. He was the director of the mint of Philadelphia in 1796-1805. He was the author of The Second Advent of the Messiah; The Age of Revelation, a reply to Paine; and The Star in the West, an attempt to identify the American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. He died Oct. 24, 1821, in Burlington.
Boughton, George Henry
artist, was born in 1836, in England. His works are popular and meet with a ready sale.
They are marked by simplicity, tenderness, and subdued, but not weak, coloring. He excels in delineating Puritan life in New England. Among his pictures on American subjects are The Scarlet Letter; Return of the Mayflower; Puritans Going to Church; and Rose Standish. The Testy Governor is in the Corcoran gallery at Washington, D. C.
Boughton, Martha Arnold
author, was born Feb. 18, 1857, in Corunna, Mich. In 1880 she graduated from the university of Michigan with the degree of Ph. B. She taught school in Detroit, Mich., until 1884, when she married Willis Boughton, an eminent educator and author. In 1895 she was one of the Ohio delegates to the international convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, held in London, England. She is the author of Memoir of John Motte Arnold (her father); and a volume of poems, entitled Stars Through Cypress Trees.
Boughton, Willis
educator, author, was born April 17, 1854, in Victor, N. Y.
In 1873-74 he was a student of the university of Illinois; taught school in western Illinois for three years before going to the university of Michigan, from which institution he graduated in 1881. During 1881-82 he was editor of the 'Ann Arbor Courier; in 1886-88 was employed as writer for Allen's History of Civilization; and in 1890-92 was jointeditor of the Journal of Pedagogy. In 1889 he was instructor in the technical school of Cincinnati, Ohio; during 1889-91 filled the chair of history and English literature in the Ohio university; in 1891- 92 was lecturer on English in the university of Pennsylvania; and since 1892 has filled the chair of rhetoric and English literature in the Ohio university. He is the author of Mythology in Art; History of Ancient Peoples; and other works.
Bouic, William Veirs
lawyer, was born July 20, 1846, near Rockville, Md.
He attended the Rockville academy until seventeen years of age; then attended the Columbian university of Washington, graduating therefrom in 1868 as A. B., afterward receiving the degree of A. M. from the same university. He studied law under the instruction of his father, the late Judge William Veirs Bouic, and since his admission to the bar in 1870 has been engaged continuously in that profession, and is now the vice-president of the Maryland Bar association. For seventeen years he was mayor of Rockville, Md.; chairman of the judicial and congressional conventions of the sixth district of Maryland; and presidential elector in 1892.
Bouldin, James W
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1833 to 1839, having been elected to the twenty-third congress in place of his brother, T. T. Bouldin, deceased.
Bouldin, Powhatan
journalist, author, was born May 24, 1830, in Charlotte county, Va. For thirty years he was editor and proprietor of The Weekly Times of Danville, Va. He is the author of Home Reminiscences of John Randolph; and The Old Trunk, or Sketches of Colonial Days, which latter work has gone through two editions.
Bouldin, Thomas T
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a member of congress from Virginia from 1829 to 1833. Before entering congress he had been a lawyer of high rank, and an able and upright judge, highly respected for his talents and integrity. He died Feb. 11, 1834, in Washington, D. C..
Bouligney, Dominique
lawyer, United States senator, was born in Louisiana. He was a lawyer by profession; and was a senator in congress from that state from 1824 to 1829. He died March 5, 1833, in New Orleans, La.