Bowditch, Charles P – Bowen, Rees T
Bowditch, Charles P
capitalist, was born Sept. 30, 1842, in Boston, Mass.
Having inherited means from his father, he invested them in corporations, and is president of The Pepperell Manufacturing Co., and The Laconia Co., which operate large cotton mills in Biddeford, Maine. He is also an owner in The Merrimack Manufacturing Co., The Nashua Manufacturing Co., The Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co., The American Telephone and Telegraph Co., The Jackson Co., and The Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Co.
BOWDITCH, HENRY INGERSOLL, physician, author, was born Aug 9, 1808 in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent physician of Boston; and the author of Life of Nathaniel Bowditch for the Young; The Young Stethoscopist; and Public Hygiene in America. He died in 1892.
Bowditch, Henry Pickering
soldier, physician, was born April 4, 1840, in Boston, Mass. Soon after the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned second lieutenant in the first Massachusetts cavalry, and rose gradually until he attained the rank of major in the fifth Massachusetts cavalry, which office he resigned in 1865. In 1871 he became assistant professor of physiology at Harvard Medical college, and in 1876 was elected to the full chair.
BOWDITCH, JONATHAN INGER- SOLL, merchant, financier, was born Oct. 15, 1806, in Salem, Mass. By will he gave $10,000 for the maintenance of the Bowditch collection in the Boston library and the purchase of works on mathematics and astronomy.
Bowditch, Nathaniel
mathematician, was born March 26, 1773, in Salem, Mass. He was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the corporation of Harvard university. He was twice elected to the state executive council of Massachusetts and held many offices of trust and honor.
He was a famous mathematician of Salem, Mass., whose translation of La Place's Mécanique Cèleste, with extensive commentary, was his greatest work. The New American Navigator was his original work of note. He died March 16, 1838, in Boston, Mass.
Bow Ditch, Nathaniel Inger- Soll
conveyancer, author, was born Jan. 17, 1805, in Salem, Mass. He became noted for accuracy and industry, and it is said that scarcely a transfer of real estate was made in Boston without his examination and approval of the title. He wrote altogether fifty-five folio volumes of landtitles, containing 30,000 pages, besides He published Suffolk plans and maps.
Surnames. This work contains curious surnames met with by Mr. Bowditch in his business. Its peculiarity is in the author's system of classification by the derivation of the names. He died April 16, 1861, in Brookline, Mass.
Bowdoin, James
statesman, philanthropist, was born Aug. 8, 1727, in Boston, Mass. In 1756 he was state senator and councilor; in 1769 was removed by the governor from the position of councilor, for his opposition to the royal government, and was at once elected representative. In 1785-86 was governor of Massachusetts. He was the author of a volume of poems. Bowdoin college, of Brunswick, Maine, was named in his honor, but endowed by his son James. He died Nov. 6, 1790, in Boston, Mass.
Bowdon, Franklin W
lawyer, congressman, was born in Alabama. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1846 to 1851. He died June 6, 1857, in Henderson, Texas.
Bowen, Andrew Jackson
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born April 16, 1845, in Eastford, Conn. For many years he was engaged in educational work.
In 1880 he served as a representative in the Connecticut legislature from Eastford; and served in the same position in 1895 from Windham. He is now judge of the police court of the city of mantic, where he has an extensive law practice.
Bowen, Asa B
physician, surgeon, was born April 12, 1842, in Eastford, Conn. After a preparatory course in the Mexico academy, New York, he taught several terms in the district schools of that town. In 1864-65 he served one year the American man-of-war Neptune, in the medical department, nearly all the time cruising about the West Indies. In 1868 he on graduated from the Albany Medical college, then devoted some time to clinical study in New York city; and since 1869 has practiced his profession in Maquoketa, Iowa. He is a member of the Iowa State.
Medical society; of the American Medical association; of the National Association of Railway Surgeons; and of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery. During 1878-92 he was as United States pension examining surgeon; in 1872-85 commissioner of insanity for Jackson county; for three years a member of the school board; and local surgeon for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad.
He is the author of Typhoid Fever and Its Treatment; Management of Compound Fractures; Scarlatina; and other valuable medical papers.
Bowen, Christopher Colum- Bus
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1832, in Rhode Island. He settled in Charleston, S. C., in 1862; was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867; and was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forueth and forty-first congresses.
Bowen, Eli
author, was born in Lancaster, Pa., in 1824. He was the author of Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pictorial Sketch Book of Pennsylvania; Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; The Creation of the Earth; United States Postoffice System; and Coal and Coal Oil.
He died about 1886, in Lancaster, Pa.
Bowen, Francis
journalist, educator, author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a professor of philosophy at Harvard university for many years, and eminent both as philosopher and political economist; and for eleven years he was the editor of the North American Review. He opposed the systems of Kant, Fichte, Cousin, Comte, and Mill, and was answered by the latter in a third edition of his Logic. He was the author of Critical Essays in Speculative Philosophy; Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann; Treatise on Logic; American Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; A Layman's Study of the English Bible Considered in ts Literary and Secular Aspects; and Gleanings From a Literary Life. He died Jan. 22, 1890, in Boston, Mass.
Bowen, George Thomas
chemist, was born March 19, 1803, in Providence, R. I. The results of his investigations were published in 1822 under the titles On the Electromagnetic Effects of Hare's Calorimeter and On a Mode of Preserving in a Permanent Form the Coloring Matter of Purple Cabbage as a Test for Acids and Alkalies. He died Oct. 25, 1828, in Nashville, Tenn.
Bowen, Helen M
author, was born She Dec. 5, 1865, in northern Illinois. received her education in the high schools of Chicago and Englewood. She has traveled extensively in America and abroad, and her Sketches of English Places of Note were among her first efforts. Short stories followed this series of descriptive articles, including Breath From a Cuban Battlefield; Gypsy Musician; and A Summer Vacation. Her most representative work is A. Daughter of Cuba, a story dealing win the great question of Cuban freedom, interwoven with romance. A A
Bowen, Henry
soldier, farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in Maiden Spring, Va. He was educated at Emory and Henry college, Va.; entered the confederate army at the outbreak of the civil war; was promoted to a captaincy; and was taken prisoner in 1864 and confined in Fort Delaware until the close of the war. He was elected a representative in the state legislature in 1869, and reelected in 1871; and was elected a representative from Virginia to the fortyeighth and fiftieth congresses.
Bowen, Henry Chandler
journalist, was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Woodstock, Conn. In 1848 the New York Independent was founded by five men, of whom Mr. Bowen was one. Unprofitable at first, the property finally came into Mr.
Bowen's ownership, and he has been sole proprietor now for thirty years or more.
Bowen, James
capitalist, soldier, was born in 1808 in New York city. He was the first president of the Erie railway. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1848 and 1849. At the beginning of the civil war he raised six or seven regiments, which were formed into a brigade, and took command of them, receiving his commission as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He died Sept. 29, 1886, in Hastings-on-Hudson.
Bowen, John Eliot
journalist, author, was born in 1858 in New York. He was a New York journalist; and the author of The Conflict of East and West in Egypt; and Songs of Toil, a translation from Carmen Sylva. He died in 1890.
Bowen, John H
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1813 to 1815.
Bowen, Oliver
naval officer, was born in the last century. He was a revolutionary patriot of Augusta, Ga., and was successful, in the early days of the war, in seizing a large quantity of powder stored on Tybee island, near Savannah, July 10, 1775. He was a member of the provincial congress in 1775, and of the council of safety. He died August, 1800, in Providence, R. I.
Bowen, Rees T
farmer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 10, 1809, in Tazewell county, Va. He received an academic education; and was a farmer and grazier.
He was a representative in the legislature of Virginia in 1863 and 1864; a magis trate for several years prior to the war; and the presiding justice of the county court a portion of the time. He was elected to the forty-third congress.