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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Boggs, Sara E., translator, author, was born Nov. 27, 1843, in Lewistown, Pa. She translated Little Countess; The Mistress of Ibichstein;

The Hungarian

Girl;

and other

works. She is the author of Sandpeep. Boggs, William Ellison, soldier, educator, clergyman, was born May 12, 1838, in India. In 1861 he served in the civil war. He filled several pastorates; and in 1888 accepted the chancellorship of the university of Georgia. Boggs, William Robertson, soldier, educator, architect, was born March 18, 1829, in Augusta, Ga. He attained the rank of brigadier-general in the confederate service during the civil war. Bogle, James, painter, artist, was born in 1817 in Georgetown, S.C. He came to New York in 1836 and entered the studio of Professor Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the founder of the national academy of design. He executed portraits of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Chief Justice Jones, De Witt Clinton and Rev Dr. Budington. Among his later pictures were portraits of General John A. Dix and Henry I. Eavmond. He died Oct. 11, 1873, in Brook-

N.Y. Bogue, George Marquis, capitalist, was born Jan. 21, 1842, in Norfolk, N.Y. In 187576 he was a member of the Illinois state legislature; in 1876- was a member of the railroad and warehouse commission for the state of Illinois; and in 1889-90 was president of the Chicago real estate board. Bogue, Virgil Gay, civil engineer, was born July 20, 1846, in Norfolk, N.Y. He has made a specialty of railroad work reporting on their physical and financial conditions. For many years he was employed on the Union lyn',

He served as consulting engineer of the department of public works in New York City. Bogy, Lewis Vital, lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was bom April 9, 1813, in St. Genevieve, Mo. In 1835 he began the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo. He was several times elected to the state legislature; and was commissioner of Indian aflFairs in 1867-68. He was one of the projectors and friends of the St. Louis and iron mountain railroad, of which he was president for two years. In 1873-79 he was United States senator. He died Sept. 20, 1877, in St. Louis, Mo. Bohlen, Henry, soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 22, 1810, in Germany. He was a liquor merchant in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1861 he was made colonel in the Pennsylvania volunteers; and became a brigadier-general in 1862. He died Aug. 22, 1862, near Rappahannock Station, Va. Bohmer, John George, educator, college president, was born Nov. 9, 1848, in Rich Fountain, Mo. He received his education in the parish and public schools, from private tutors, and at the Jones commercial college. He is one of the most prominent educators of the west has filled the chairs of penmanship, bookkeeping, commercial law and English; and is now the president and proprietor of pacific railroad.



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the Jones commercial college of St. Louis, Mo., which was established in 1841 by Professor Jonathan Jones. This college is the only institution in St. Louis that teaches bookkeeping by actual business practice; and their system is protected both by patents and copyright. Professor Bohmer has made his college the leading institution of its kind west of the Mississippi. Boies, Henry Martyn, soldier, manufacturinventor, philanthropist, author, was born Aug. 18, 1837, in Lee, Mass. In 1882 he was chosen president of the Dickson manufacturing company. He invented a new and improved steel-tired oar wheel, now manufactured by the Boies steel wheel company, of which company he was president. He was the author of Prisons and Paupers; and The Science of Penology. He died in 1903 in Scranton, Pa. Boies, Horace, lawyer, governor, was bom Dec. 7, 1827, in Aurora, N.Y. In 1857 he was a member of the New York state assembly; and later resided in Builalo, N.Y. Soon after the close of the civil war he removed to Waterloo, Iowa, where he quickly obtained a profitable law practice. In 1890-94 he was the thirteenth governor of Iowa. In 1892 he was a prominent western candidate for the nomination to the presidency of the United States. Boise, James Robinson, educator, author, was born Jan. 27, 1815, in Blauford, Mass. In 1852-68 he was professor of Greek in the university of Michigan; and after 1868 in the university of Chicago. He was the author of Xenophou's Anabasis, with English notes; the first six books of Homer's iiiad; Greek Syntax; First lessons in Greek; and other text-books; and in 1884 Notes Critical and Explanatory on St. Paul's Epistles. He died Feb. 9, 1895, in Chicago, 111. Boise, Otis Bardwell, musician,, composer, was born Aug. 13, 1845, in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1864-70 he was an organist and a teacher in Cleveland, Ohio; and in 1870-76 in New York City. He is the author of Symphonies and Overtures; and Music and Its Masters. Boise, Reuben, lawyer, jurist. In 1860-80 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Oregon; and during that time was twice chief justice in 1862-64 and 1868-70. Boisot, Louis, lawyer, author, was born May 23, 1856, in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1877 he graduated from Hamilton college; and in 1879 from Columbia college with the degree of LL.B. He now practices law in Chicago, 111. ; and is trust officer of the first trust and savings bank. He' is the author of By-Laws of Private Corporations and Treatise on the Law of Mechanics' Liens. Bok, Edward William, journalist, author, was born Oct. 9, 1863, in Holland. He is editor of the Ladies' Home JoumaT of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of The Young Man in Business; Successward; and a Young Man's Book for Young Men. Bokee, David A., naval officer, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1805, in New York. In er,



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