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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Magazine, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, the Yankee Blade and other publications. He is the author of two valuable papers read before the Connecticut editorial association entitled The Country Editor of To-day; and Country Journalism as an Art. BoUey, Henry L., educator, scientist, was born Feb. 1, 1865, in Manchester, Ind. Since 1890 he has been professor of botany and zoology in the North Dakota agricultural college. He is a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He has discovered the parasite cause of potato-scab and its prevention; the prevention of smuts in cereal grains a method of spraying to eradicate mustard; and breeding plants for resistance to disease. Bollman, Wendell, designer, inventor, was born June 21, 1814, in Baltimore, Md. He has invented an iron bridge and has constructed nearly two hundred bridges on the Baltimore and Onio railroad. He designed the pivot drawbridge over the Mississippi river at Clinton, Iowa; and Harper's ferry iron bridge. He built the first iron bridge in Mexico. He died in Baltimore, Md. Bolmar, Jean Claude Antoine Bowninde, educator, author, was born in 1797 in Burgundy. He taught in several colleges; in 1840



bought an institution at Villa Maria; and organized a boarding school for boys. He was the author of Key to a selection of M. Perrin's Fables and other works. He died Feb.

27, 1861, in

West

Chester, Pa.

William Wheeler, lawyer, statesman, author, was born July 6, 1823, in RumBolster,

ford, Maine. In 1869-70 he served as state senator; and in 1885-93 was mayor of Auburn, Maine. He is the author of Digest of the Law of Tax Titles; The Authority and Duty of Town Officers; and Tax Collector and

Form Book. Bolton, Charles Edward, lecturer, author, 16, 1841, in South Hadley

was born May

Mass. He was author of A Few Civic Problems. He died in 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio. Bolton, Charles Knowles, librarian, author, was born Nov. 14, 1867, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1894-98 he was librarian at Brookline; Falls,

and

is

now

librarian of

the Boston athenseum library. He is the author of Gossipping Guide to Harvard; Saskia the Wife of Rembrandt Notes on Speci;

al Collections in

Ame-

rican Libraries; From Heart and Nature'; The Wooing of Martha Pitkin; The Love Story of Ursula Woleott; The Reign of the Post-

and Genealogy of the Bolton Family. Bolton, Channing Moore, soldier, civil engineer, was born Jan. 34, 1843, in Richmond, Va. He served In the civil war; and in 186365 was commissioned officer in the engineers er;

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corps confederate service. In 1874-75 he located several small railroads in Virginia and North Carolina; and in 1876-79 was engineer in charge for the United States government. In 1887-88 he was president and manager of the Richmond city railroad. Bolton, Edwin Bradford, soldier, was born in Mississippi. In 1875 he graduated from the United States military academy; was made second lieutenant in the twenty-third regiment United States infantry; and in 1844 attained the rank of first lieutenant. In 1891 he became captain; in 1900 became major; and is now colonel in the fourth infantry. Bolton, Mrs. Ethel Stanwood, genealogist, author, was born in 1873 in Massachusetts. She is the author of History of the Stanwood

Family. Bolton, Frederick Elmer, educator, author, 9, 1866, in Tomah, Wis. In 1885 he began teaching school; and since 1901 has been head of the department of ed-, ucation in the state university of Iowa; -He is the author of The Secondary School Sys-

was born May

tem

of

Germany.

Bolton, Henry Carrlngton, educator, scientist, author, was born Jan. 28, 1843, in New York City. In 1877-87 he was professor of chemistry at Trinity college of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1889-99 professor of the history and bibliography of chemistry in Columbian university of Washington, D.C. He was the author of Application of Organic Acids to the Examination of Minerals; Literature of Uranium; Literature of Manganese; Student's Guide in Quantitative Analysis; The

Family of Bolton

in England and America; Scientific Correspondence of Joseph Priestley; and Select Bibliography of Chemistry, in three volumes. He died in 1903 in Washington, D.C.

Bolton, J. Gray, clergyman, founder, was born March 17, 1849, in Ireland. He was the founder of Hope presbyterian church at Philadelphia, Pa.; and has been its only pastor for thirty-four years.

James, physician, surgeon, was June 5, 1812, in Savannah, Ga. In 1855 he opened a private hospital in Richmond, Va.; and was president of the Virginia state Bolton,

bom

medical society.

He

published

many

articles

on subjects pertaining to surgery and medicine. He died May 15, 1869, in Richmond, Va. Bolton, Reginald Pelham, civil and mechanical engineer, was born Oct. 5, 1856, in England. He drew the plans for the remodeling of the Grand central station and Teachers' college; and designed the Royalton, Lorraine and Ansonia hotels of New York City. He is the author of Family of Bolton; and Motive Powers and Their Practical Selection. Bolton, Mrs. Sarah Knowles, author, poet, was born Sept. 15, 1841, in Farmington, Conn. Her successive collections of biographical sketches have become popular. She is the author of Famous Givers and Their