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In 1868 he graduated from the univerand the following year graduated with the degree of C.E. from the same institution. In 1869 he was engaged in the United States coast survey. In 1870 he became assistant-editor of the Railroad Gazette of iNew York City; and since 1886 has been president and editor of that publication. He established and still owns the London Railway ^azette; and is now president and editor of the Railroad Gazette of *iew York City. He is the author of Lovers of the 111.

sity of Michigan;

Woods; and numerous

Woods and Fish

of

stories

Life

in

Culture.

Boardman, William W., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1794, in New Milford, Conn. He was at one time judge of probate; for several years was a member of the state legislature; and was speaker of the house. In 1840-43 he was a representative from Connecticut to the twenty-sixth and twenty- seventh congresses. He died in Connecticut.

Roarman, Aleck, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was bom Dec. 10, 1839, in Yazoo City, Miss.

He

attended schools at Shreveport, La.;

and

for

several

years he attended the Kentucky military college. He served as major on the staff in the field

Manassas

from

Appomatox

in the confederate states army in Virginia; and participated in numerous battles and skirmishes. He began the practice law in af 1886; and settled in Louisiana. In 1871-73 he was a representative from Louisiana to the forty-second congress to fill a vacancy. He was judge of the state district court for one term; and for four years was United States district judge for the western district of Louisiana. Boas, Emil Leopold, general manager Hamburs-American line, was born Nov. 15, 1854, in Goerlitz, Germany. He was educated at the Royal Frederick

to

William gymnasium in B'reslau at the Sophia

new channel to the sea; and was treasurer and chairman of the finance committee of the Greater

New York

canal association.

Boannan, Charles, naval officer, was born in Maryland. During the civil war he was on special service; was retired with the rank of commodore in 1867; and was made rearadmiral on the retired list in 1876. He died Sept. 13, 1879, in Martinsburg, W.Va. Boas, Franz, anthropologist, author, was born July 9, 1858, in Germany. In 1901 he became curator of the American museum of natural history. He is the author of The Central Eskimo. Boatman, J. Austin, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 7, 1848, in Jessamine county, Ky. He has filled pastorates in Iowa at Newton, Albia, Brooklyn, Washington, Bloomfield and is now at Fairfield. He is the author of The Holy Mother, a poem and PaidoThcology, a study of the status of childhood under Christianity. Boatner, Charles J., lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 33, 1849, in Columbia, La. He was elected a member of the Louisiana state senate in 1876. In 1889-95 he was a representative to the fifty-first,

fifty-second and fifty -third congresses; and received the certificate of election, but his seat was declared vacant March 30, 1896. At a special election held June 10, 1896, he was elected to th-e short term of the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. He died March 21, 1903, in New Orleans, La.

Boatwright, Frederic

William, educator,

college president, author, was born Jan. 38, 1868, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Since 1895 he has been president of Richmond college. He is the author of Syllabi French and

German

Literature.

Bobb, Dwight St. John, lawyer, lecturer, scientist, was born July 19, 1876, in Dakota, 111. In 1899 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Northwestern university took post-graduate

work at Harvard

university, receiving the degree of A.M. the following year; and in

1903

graduated from



gymnasium and

in Berlin; graduated in 1872.

in 1873 he became connected with the Ham-

burg-American line; and the same year came to the United

Harvard

law school with the degree ofLL. B. Since then he has practiced law in Chicago, 111.; making a

presi-

specialty of corporation law. Since 1904 he has been lecturer on public service corporations in the northwestern university law school; and since 1906 has also been lecturer on muncipal corporations in the John Marshall law school*

dent of the Atlas line steamship company; and has taken a prominent part in all efforts to improve transportation facilities by water. He was on the committee for the extension of pierhead lines was on the committee before congress to secure appropriation for a

Bocher, Maxine, educator, mathematician, author, was born Aug. 28, 1887, in Boston, Mass. In 1881 he graduated from Harvard university; and in 1888-91 studied mathematics at Harvard university; and since 1896 has been one of the editors of Annals

States. Since 1893 he has been general man-

ager of the Hamburg-

American



line;