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1851. In 1835-39 and 1841-43 he was a representative from the Fall Eiver district in Massachusetts to the twenty-fourth, twentyfifth and twenty-seventh congresses. He was a state senator in 1845-48. He died April 10, 1865, in Fall Kiver, Mass. Borden, Richard, soldier, manufacturer, banker, was born Aprn 12, 1795, in Fall River, Mass. He attained the rank of colonel in the war of 1812. In 1847 ne established the Fall River steamboat line. He was president of the Fall River national bank. In 1864 he was a presidential elector. He died Feb. 25, 1874, in Hall River, Mass. Borden, Simeon, civil engineer, inventor, was born Jan. 29, 1798, in Freetown, Mass. In 1830 he devised and constructed an apparatus for measuring the base line of the trig-

onometrical survey of Massachusetts, which was found to be more accurate and convenient than any instrument of the kind then in existence. He surveyed and marked the boundary line between Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In 1851 he accomplished the feat of stringing a telegraph wire, suspended on masts over two hundred feet high, across the Hudson river to Fort Washington. He died Oct. 28, 1856, in Fall River, Mass, Borden, William Cline, army surgeon, au-

was born on May 19, 1858, in Watertown, N.Y. In 1883 he graduated from the medical department of Columbia university at Washington, D.C. and the same year was appointed first-lieutenant and assistant surgeon in the United States army. In 1888 he became captain; in 1898 was major and brigade-surgeon in the united States volunteers and in 1901 became major and surgeon in the United States army. During the SpanishAmerican war he was commander of the general hospital at Key West, Fla.; and afterward was transferred to command the army general hospital at Washington, D.C. In 1899 he was professor of surgical pathology and military surgery in the medical department of Georgetown university; and in 1901 became professor of military surgery in the army medical school at Washington, D.C. He is the author of Use of the Roentgen Ray by the Medical Department of the United States in the War with Spain; and many Monographs on medical, surgical and military subjects. Borders, Joseph H., business man, publisher, author, Avas born Oct. 4, 1858, in Lawthor,



rence county, Ky.

He

aided in building sever-

towns in Oklahoma. He is the author of Queen of Appalachia. Bordley, John Beale, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 11, 1727, in Annapolis, Md. al

He was

judge of the provincial court in 1761 of the admiralty court in 1767-76: and a commissioner to fix the boundary lire botwpen Marvland and Delaware in 1768. Tn 1793 he estahli'i'hpd in Philadelphia the first asriculturnl society in the United States. By his experiments upon his estate and by his writings he was instrumental in diffusing

a knowledge of the art of husbandry. He was the author of Forsyth on Fruit-Trees, with Notes; On Rotation of Crops; Essays iMotes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs, with Plates; and A View of the Courses of Crops in England and Maryland. He died

and

Jan. 26, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa. Boreing, Vincent, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1839, in Washington county, Tenn. In 1861-63 he served in the civil war. In 1886 he was elected county judge. In 1899-1903 he was a representative from Kentucky to the fifty-sixth and fiftyseventh congresses as a republican. He was elected to the fifty-eighth congress, but his seat was not filled on account of his death, which occurred Sept. 16, 1903, in New London, Ky.

Boreman, Arthur Inghram, lawyer, jurist. United States senator, governor, was born July 34, 1823, in Waynesburg, Pa. In 1855 he was elected to the house of delegates of Virginia; and was re-elected until 1860. He was also a member of the extra session of the legislature in 1861, taking an active part against the secession movement. He was president of the Wneeling convention of 1861 to reorganize the government of Virginia. He was a judge of the circuit court in 186163; was the first governor of West Virginia in 1861-69. In 1869-73 he was United States senator. In 1888-96 he was judgcof the fifth circuit of West Virginia. He died April 19, 1896, in Parkersbnrg, W.Va. Boreman, Jacob E., journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 4, 1831, in Middletown, W.Va. In 1861 he was elected city attorney of Kansas City, Mo.; he assisted in raising troops for the civil war; and in 1862 became a judge of common pleas. He was elected a member of the Kansas state legislature in 1869. He subsequently purchased an interest in the Kansas City Bulletin and became its editor. In 1873 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah. Boren, Samuel Hampson, pioneer, soldier, planter, was born Deo. 3, 1811, in Tennessee. In 1838 he removed to the republic of Texas; served in the Mexican war as a volunteer; and won distinction as a lieutenant of cavalry under General Zachary Taylor in the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista. As a, planter and cotton merchant he amassed a fortune. He died Sept. 28, 1881, and lies buried in Tyler, Texas, where his descendants live. Borgess, Caspar H., clergyman, bishop, was born in 1826 in Germany. In 1859 he was appointed rector of St. Peter's cathedral of

Cincinnati, where he remained until he was promoted to the see of Detroit. He was con-

secrated titular bishop of Caledonia in 1870

and succeeded to the bishopric of Detroit in 1871. He died May 3, 1890, in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Borglum, John Gutzon De La Mothe, sculptor, artist,

was bom March

25, 1867, in Id-