Boyle, John J – Brackenridge, Henry Marie
Boyle, John J
sculptor, was born in 1853, in New York city. He studied in the art schools of Philadelphia and Paris, and is the professor at the academy of fine arts at Philadelphia, Pa.
Boyle, John W
jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He moved to Dakota, where he was appointed an assistant justice of the United States court for that territory.
Boyle, Joseph
clergyman, was born May 10, 1812, in Baltimore, Md. He served the principal churches of St. Louis as pastor, and as presiding elder and official relation to them all. He died May 3, 1872, in Lexington, Mo.
Boyle, Junius J
naval officer, was born about 1802 in Maryland. After nine years of sea duty on board the frigates Delaware and Congress, most of the time in the Mediterranean, he served from 1843 till 1855 on different store-ships and in the schooner Bonito of the home squadron. He was commissioned commodore in 1862. He died Aug. 11, 1870, in Norfolk, Va.
Boyle, Thomas N
soldier, clergyman, lecturer, was born April 26, 1839, in Blairsville, Ind. In his youth he learned the printing business, and became editor of the democratic whig of Columbus, Ohio. He subsequently attended a theological seminary, and in 1859 became a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. During the fall of 1862 he recruited three hundred men, and enlisted in the one hundred and fortieth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was elected captain of company H. He has received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D.; was presiding elder for nine years; twice a member of the general conference; a member of the Centennial conference in 1884; and a member of the book committee of his church for four years. As a lecturer he has few equals, being a forceful and eloquent speaker. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and also a high degree mason, being grand prelate of the state of Ohio. He is now pastor of the West End methodist episcopal church of Pittsburg, Pa.; and is a constant contributor to current literature.
Boyle, St. John
railroad president, financier, was born Sept. 6, 1847, in Danville, Ky. In 1883 he became president of the Louisville, New Albany and Corydon railway; and is now vice-president and treasurer of that company at Louisville, Ky.
Boylston, Jabdiel
physician, was born in 1684 in Brookfield, Mass. He was the first one to introduce the practice of inoculation for the smallpox, in 1720. He published several pamphlets on the subject of inoculation. He died March 1, 1766, in Brookline, Mass.
Boylston, Nicholas
merchant, was born in 1716 in Boston, Mass. At his decease he bequeathed £1,500 to found a professorship of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard, John Quincy Adams being installed as the first professor in 1806. He died Aug. 18, 1771, in Boston, Mass.
Boynton, Adelbert W
railroad manager, was born Feb. 9, 1852, in Jay, N. Y. He was educated at the University of Vermont. He entered railway service in 1890 as secretary and passenger agent of the Keesville, Au Sable Chasm and Lake Champlain railroad, at Keesville, N. Y., and takes a prominent part in public affairs.
Boynton, Charles Brandon
clergyman, was born June 12, 1806, in Stockbridge, Mass. He took up the study of law, and, after filling one or two local offices, was elected to the Massachusetts legislature. During 1846-77 he was a presbyterian pastor in Cleveland, Ohio, with the exception of his terms of service as chaplain of the house of representatives in the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He died April 27, 1883, in cincinnati, Ohio.
Boynton, Edward Carlisle
soldier, author, was born about 1825 in Vermont. He is a United States army officer and the author of the History of West Foint.
Boynton, Elias
merchant, poet, was born Nov. 30, 1832, in Peterboro, N. H.
He received his education in the Peterboro academy, and for many years was engaged in educational work. He has been a justice of the peace; secretary of the American Boynton association; director of the city school board of New Lisbon, Wis., where he has also filled numerous public offices. He has written extensively for the periodical press, and his poems have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.
Boynton, Henry Van Ness
soldier, was born in Massachusetts. He served in the civil war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious conduct. He is president of the Chickamauga park commission.
Boynton, James S
soldier, governor, was born May 7, 1833, in Henry county, Georgia. de attained the rank of colonel in the civil war; in 1866 was elected judge of county court, and in 1883 was elected governor of Georgia.
Boynton, John Farnham
scientist, inventor, was born Sept. 20, 1811, in Groveland, Mass. He has traveled through every state in the union lecturing on Geology and Natural History of Creation. He has invented a malleable iron and steel and was the original inventor of the oil-well torpedoes. He died Oct. 20, 1890, in Syracuse, N. Y.
Boynton, Julia B
poet. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines.
Boynton, Nathan Smith
founder of the Order of the Knights of the Maccabees, was born June 23, 1837, in Port Huron, Mich. He received his education in the primitive district schools and in 1852 passed through the high schools at Waukegan, Ill. In 1856 he engaged in mercantile business in Port Huron, Mich.; the following year he went to Ohio; thence to Cincinnati, New Orleans and St. Louis, Mo. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in company C, eighth regiment, Michigan cavalry, and was promoted to first lieutenant of company L; in 1863 was promoted to captain, and in the winter of 1864-65 was commissioned major of his regiment, making an honorable record as a soldier. Lieutenant Boynton, at the head of a detachment of one hundred men, cut off the retreat of General John Morgan, whom he finally captured. In 1868 he was elected to the lower house of the Michigan state legislature; in 1874 he was elected mayor of Port Huron, receiving the re-election.
For several years he was editor and owner of the Port Huron Press, and since 1.883 has given his time, energy and ability to building up the Order of the Knights of the Maccabees, of which he is past supreme commander and supreme record keeper and great commander.
Boyton, Paul
nautical adventurer, was born June 29, 1848, in Ireland. He has achieved a world-wide reputation for his exploits, among which are his crossing the English channel in twenty-four hours, on May 28, 1875.
Bozman, John Leeds
lawyer, author, was born in 1757 in Oxford, Md. He was a noted Maryland lawyer and was the author of a Historical Sketch of the Prime Causes of the Revolutionary War; and History of Maryland. He died in 1.823.
Brabb, Marvil I
merchant, banker, was born Oct. 8, 1847, in Romeo, Mich.
He is president of the First National bank of Romeo, Mich., president of the Burt and Brabb Lumber company, and prominently identified with various other business enterprises.
Brabson, Reese B
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-sixth congress. He died September, 1863, in Tennessee.
Brace, Charles Loring
clergyman, philanthropist, author, was born.
June 19, 1826, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a noted clergyman and philanthropist of New York city and founded the Children's Aid society, and gave much of his time to philanthropic work. He was the author of Norsefolk; Home Life in Germany; The Races of the Old World; Gesta Christi; and The Dangerous Classes of New York. He died Aug. 11, 1890, in Switzerland.
Brace, John Peirce
educator, author, was born Feb. 10, 1793, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a prominent educator of Litchfield, Conn., and was the author of Lectures to Young Converts; Tales of the Devil; The Fawn of the Pale Faces, a novel. He died Oct. 18, 1872, in Litchfield, Conn.
Brace, Jonathan
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 12, 1754, in Harrington, Conn. He was elected a judge of probate, chief judge of the Hartford county court, and was a representative in congress from 1798 to 1800. He was also frequently in the state legislature, at one time state attorney for Hartford county, and for nine years mayor of Hartford. He died Aug. 26, 1837, in Hartford, Conn.
Bracken, John
college president, bishop. He was a professor of humanity in William and Mary college. In 18 he became president, and in 1814 was elected bishop of the Episcopal church.
He died July 15, 1818.
Brackenridge, Henry Marie
jurist, author, was born May 11. 1786. in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a noted Florida. jurist and the author of History of the Late War Between the United States and Great Britain (1816); Voyage to South America; Views of Louisiana; Recollections of Persons and Places in the West; Essay on Trusts and Trustees; and History of the Western Insurrection. He died Jan. 18, 1871, in Pittsburg, Pa.