Bowles, Samuel – Boyce, William W
Bowles, Samuel
journalist, was born June 8, 1797, in Hartford, Conn. In 1824 he established The Republican, of which he was editor and proprietor. He died Sept. 8, 1851, in Springfield, Mass.
Bowles, Samuel
journalist, author, was born Feb. 9, 1826, in Springfield, Mass. He was a journalist of Springfield, Mass., and editor of the Springfield Republican. He was the author of Across the Continent; and Our New West. He died Jan. 16, 1878, in Springfield, Mass.
Bowles, Samuel
journalist, was born Oct. 15, 1851, in Springfield, Mass.
He received his education at Yale college and the Berlin university. He is the editor and proprietor of the Springfield Republican, and director of the City Library association of Springfield, Mass.
Bowles, Thomas Henry
underwriter, was born Oct. 16, 1854, in Fluvenna county, Va. He is president of the Life Underwriters' association of Louisiana; delegate from Louisiana to the Trans-Mississippi congress at Denver, Colo.; and has written on the science and practice of life insurance.
Bowlin, James Butler
lawyer, congressman, diplomatist, was born in 1804 in Spottsylvania county, Va. In 1835 he was elected a member of the legislature; in 1837 was made district attorney for St. Louis; and soon after attorney for the Bank of St. Louis. In 1839 he was elected judge of the criminal court; and was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1843 to 1851. In 1854 he was appointed minister resident to New Granada, and in 1858 was appointed commissioner to Paraguay.
Bowman, Alexander Hamilton
soldier, was born May 15, 1803, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1826 he was appointed assistant engineer in the construction of the defenses and in the improvement of harbors and rivers on the Gulf of Mexico. He was promoted first lieutenant in 1835, and served with distinction through the civil war. He died Nov. 11, 1865, in Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Bowman, C. A
educator, college president, was born Aug. 29, 1861, in Dauphin, Pa. This eminent educator and teacher of psychology was president of the Fayette seminary, Oregon, and in 1896 became president of the Albright Collegiate institute of Myerstown, Pa.
Bowman, Charles Wesley
journalist, educator, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in Cape Girardeau county, Mo. He received his education in the private and public schools of Iowa and Missouri.
He served nearly four years as Union soldier during the civil war, and won a first lieutenant's and adjutant's commission. Nearly a a quarter of a century of his life was spent in journalistic work, as editor and publisher; and in 1873 he moved to Colorado, settled in Bent county, where he has filled the offices of superintendent of public instruction and probate judge. For three years he was secretary of the Pueblo board of trade; and for six years has filled the office of county superintendent of public schools, with rare ability and satisfaction.
Bowman, Ed. Morris
musician, was born July 18, 1848, in Barnard, Vt. He has been president for eight years of the American college of musicians; the editor of Weitzmann's Manual of Music Theory; and from 1887-89 was conductor of the Newark Harmonic society.
Bowman, Francis Caswell
soldier, lawyer, musician, was born Dec. 29, 1831, in New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he joined the seventh New York regiment, and subsequently became engaged in the organization and service of the United States sanitary commission at Washington. He was an accomplished musician, founded the Mendelssohn Glee club, of New York, and was its president for five years. He contributed frequently to periodicals, and for seventeen years was musical editor of the New York Sun. He died Oct. 29, 1884, in New York city.
Bowman, James Clayton
educator, was born June 11, 1862, near Roan Mountain, N. C. He received his education at the Globe academy, N. C., and at the Grant Memorial university of Athens, Tenn. He built the Bowman academy of Bakersville, N. C., where he is now engaged in educational work. He has been superintendent of public instruction, and has filled various positions of trust in his county and state.
Bowman, Obadiah
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.
Bowman, Samuel
protestant episcopal bishop, was born May 21, 1800, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1847 he was elected bishop of Indiana, but declined. He was chosen assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, and consecrated in Christ church, Philadelphia in 1858. He died Aug. 3, 1861, near Butler, Pa.
Bowman, Selwyn Zadock
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 11, 1840, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of the state house of representatives in 1870, 1871 and 1875; was city solicitor of Somerville, Mass., in 1872 and 1873; and was a state senator in 1876 and 1877. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.
Bowman, Thomas
bishop, was born July 15, 1817, in Berwick, Pa. He attended the Wilbraham academy, Massachusetts; Cazenovia seminary; and graduated from the Dickinson college, Pennsylvania. During 1848-58 he was principal of the Dickinson seminary of Williamsport, Pa.; during 1858-72 president of the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind.; and in 1864-65 was chaplain to the United States senate.
Since 1872 the Rt. Rev. Thomas Bowman has been bishop of the methodist episcopal church. In this office he has attended all the conferences in the United States and in Europe, India, Japan, China and Mexico. was
Bowman, Thomas
merchant, congressman, was born May 25, 1848, in Wiscasset, Maine. He is a descendant of John Bridge, the puritan. He moved to Council Bluffs in 1868, where he engaged in commercial business; was elected treasurer of Pottawattamie county in 1875, and re-elected in 1877 and 1879. He was elected mayor of Council Bluffs in 1882; and was appointed postmaster in 1885 and served until 1889. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. He was again appointed postmaster of Council Bluffs in 1894.
Bowman, Thomas Franklin
lawyer, clergyman, was born May 22, 1857, in Rutherford county, N. C. He received his education at the Cumberland university of Lebanon, Tenn. During President Garfield's administration he was appointed United States commissioner for middle Tennessee. He is entirely a self-made man, and has attained an enviable reputation in the south as an able lawyer and a successful minister of the gospel.
Bowne, Borden Parker
educator, author, was born Jan. 14, 1847, in Leonardville, N. J. He is a philosophical writer and professor of philosophy in Boston university; and the author of The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer; Studies in Theism; Metaphysics: a Study of First Principles; Introduction to Psychological Theory; Philosophy of Theism; and Principles of Ethics.
Bowne, Samuel S
jurist, congressman, was born in 1795. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1834; a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843; and in 1857 was judge of Otsego county. He died July 15, 1865, in Otsego county, N. Y.
Bowne, Walter
grand sachem. He represented New York in the senate for three successive terms, and was appointed mayor by the common council in 1827, and continued to hold that office for the four succeeding years. He died Aug. 31, 1846, in New York.
Box, Charlotte Ann
poet. She is a writer of Greeley, Iowa, and her poems have been given a place in several standard collections.
Box, Henry W
lawyer, philanthropist, was born April 23, 1839, in England. He stands among the leading criminal lawyers of his state, having for more than twenty years given special attention to that class of practice. He is a leader in philanthropic wor and the president of the Buffalo, Bellevue and Lancaster railroad.
Boyce, James
capitalist, was born April 7, 1833, in Belfast, Ireland. He is senior member of James Boyce and Co., manufacturers of baskets and D and long handles for shovels and spades, and the owner of large investments in real estate and other prosperous interests, treasurer of the Boyce Rivet company, makers of rivets and machinists, and the Tappan Shoe Manufacturing company, and president of the National Gas Lines Heat, Light and Power company, and the Citizens' Enterprise company. He has filled numerous public positions of honor in his city, county and state.
Boyce, William H
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 28, 1855, in Sussex county, Del. He is a successful lawyer of Georgetown, Del.; has been president of the board of public education, and of the town commissioners of that place. In 1897 he was appointed secretary of the state of Delaware; and in the same year became an associate judge of the supreme court of Delaware.
Boyce, William W
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1819, in Charleston, S. C. He was a member of the legislature of South Carolina in 1842; and was a representative in congress from 1853 to 1860, when he resigned. He took part in the rebellion as a member of the confederate congress. When re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress he served as a member of the committee on elections, and at the time of his leaving congress was a member of the committee of thirty-three on the rebellious states.