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Rh P»., where he accepted a pastorate. In 1820 he was called to Sing Sing. X. Y.. and in addition to his printing he had charge of the acase(jnently continued under the name of "Protestant V'indicator." In addition to his pas- toral work, he was associateon Woman " (Boston. 18:^4); "Text-Book of I'ojicry " (1837): and "The Ke- fonners — Sketches of the Keforination " (1838).

BOVER, Martin Henry, reformer, b. in Am- stenlam. X. Y.. 5 Jan.. 1827; d. in Whitewater, Wis., 7 Mav, 1888. He received an academic edu- cation in his native town, and in 184^1 went with bis father to Kagic, Wis. In 1852 he was there elected chairman of the lK>ani of sii|iervisors. and in the name year he was chosen to the Wisconsin senate, where he introduced and carried to a successful issue the bill to alHilish capital punishment. In 1858 he securol the vags»ge of a similar law in Illinois, and in the following winter he made a public caiiva. is in its lM>half in the state of Xew York. Mr. Bovee rapidly ac<|uired a national rcji- utation. and Tiuml>ereii among his friends Henry Ward Beeclier. William Lloyd (iarrisfin. Henry W. I»ngfelliiw, and Uerrit .Smith. Through his efforts capital punishment was abolished, or the taw so motlifled that it was rarely inflictetl, in Wis- consin, Illinois, New York. Minnesota. Iowa, and other states. During his late years .Mr. liovee was de«>ply interested in theestablishtneiit of industrial schools for the young, a work when'in he was quite successful. He was an effusive public s|>eaker. and for many years his services were called into re<|ui- silion by the DenuK-ratic [>arty in jiolitical emer- eencies. During the presidential canvass of 1884 he made mon- than 100 spee<'hes in Ohio and Xew York. He pidilishe<l "Christ and the Gallows, or lieason for the Aljolilioh of Capital Punishment" (Xew Ynrk. 18fl!t). which was widely circulatwl.

BOWEN, George, missionary. b. in .Middle- burv. Vt.. 13 Aj)ril. 1816: <1. in' Bombay. Inilia, 8 I-'eb.. 1888. He left school in 1828 aiidengaged in mercantile life. In 18:12 he became a skeptic. but the death of a Christian woman to whom Mr. Bowen was engaged led to his conversion. He was graduated at I nion theological seminary, and onlaini-il as a mi.ssionary in Xew York city in 1847. Sailing for India under the authority of the Araerican Ixmril of commissioners for foreign mis- sions, he rea<'hed Bombay in 184**. Afters|M'nopulation. until he was retpiested to Ih?- come sei'retary to the Heligious tract society, at whose defiot fie afterward n-sided. managing its affairs without [lay in addition to his other labors. In 187:1 he was a member of the missionary staff of the Methfslist K|>iscopal church, ami at the time of his death he was iiresiding elder of the Ilonibay district. Ho was called "the nestor of the .Metho- dist conference in India." Jlr. Bowen edited " The Bombay Guanlian " from ia54 until his death, and was the author of "Daily Meditations," "The -Vinens of Christ." and " Love Revealed."

BOWEN, Henry Chandler, editor, b. in Wood- stock. Conn.. U Sept., 1813 : d. in Brooklyn. N. Y., 24 Feb., 1886. He was educate<l at Wootlstock academy, and after four years in his father's store removed to New York, where he became a mer- chant. In 1848 he assisted in establishing "The Independent" as a Congregational, antislavery paper, and later he became its sole proprietor, re- tiring from mercantile business in 1861. After this date he acted as the paper's publisher, and, on the retirement of Thetxlore Tilfon, as its editor. In 1862 he was made collector of internal revenue for the 2d New York district, but President John- son removed him because "The Independent" opposed the president's policy of reconstruction. Mr. Bowen was a founder of Plymouth church, and for many years an ardent friend of Henry Ward Beecher. At the tinieof the Beecher-Tillon trial he was tried by a committee of the church for having slandered his pastor, and was ex|ielled because he refused to divulge facts that he con- fessed haeakers. He l>e- c|ueatlu'ark. — His son. Clarence Winthrop, b. in Br(H)klyn, 22 May, 1852, was graduated at Yale in 1873. He has >ven con- necteil with "The Independent." and in 181(6 siic- cee<led his father as its publisher. In 1880 he was secretary of the committee of arrangements for the celefiration of Washington's first inauguration in New York city. Yale gave him thc<legreeof Ph. D. in 1882. He has published "Boiin<Iary Disputes of Connecticut "(Ilost on, 1882); " WihhI- st<K-k, an Historical Sketch" (Xew York, 1886); and the memorial volume of the centennial of Washington's inaugurali'm (1802). — .Aiiother son, Herbert Wolrott. b. in Br<K)klvii. 20 Feb., 1856, was e<lucaled in I'aris. in Berlin, and at Yale, where he was graduated in 1878. He stmlied law at Columbia and l)egan practice, but in 18)M) was made U. S. consul at Barceloua. Spain, and in 1804 became consul-general at that place. Five years later he was apiiointed minister to Persiiu )le has publishe<l "Verses" (Boston. 1884); "In Divers Tones" (1800); " Losing (iround," sonnets (1802); " De CJenere Huinano" (1893): and a work on "International Law" (Xew York. 18iH!). — An- other son, John Eliiit, b. in BriHiklvn. 2t^ June, 18.58: d. there. 3 Jan.. 1800. was graduated at Yale, and liocame connected with "The Independ- ent." Columbia gave him the degree of Ph. D. He published "The Conflict Iwtween the Fast and West in Fgypt " (Xew York, 1887), and translated Carmen Svlva's ".Songs of Toil " (1888).

BOWLES, Samuel. editor, h. in Springfield. Mass., 15 Oct., H')l, He Btudieditr>rial department of the Springfield " Re- publican." founded by his grandfather in 1824 and continued by his fattier for thirty-five years, the business manager two years later, and since 1878 has lieen the publisher and editor-in-chief. Mr. Bowles is a director of the Springfield city library ass<x.'iation and son-in-law of Judge Hoar.