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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. as Philosopher, Patriot and Poet. He died Oct. 5, 1894, in New York City. Bottom, Norphie Ernest, journalist, publisher, lecturer, author, poet, was born Nov. 14, 1869, i 1 Anna, 111. He received a thorough education in the public and private schools.

For many years he was the editor and owner of the Enterprise of

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publisher and proprietor of the Chronicle of Deshler, Neb. He has successfully taught school; and has lectured on various topics. He has been depfilled

uty postmaster; and various other public positions in his

county and state. His poems have been given a place in Local and National Poets of America and other standard works. Bottome, Mrs. Margaret, journalist, author, was born Dec. 29, 1827, in New York City. She was president of the international order of king's daughters; and editor of the department in the Ladies' Home Journal. She was the author of Crumbs from the King's Table; A Sunshine Trip to the Orient; and other works. She died in 1906 in city,

New York

City.

Botts, Charles T., journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1809 in Virginia. He went to the territory of California as naval storekeeper at Monterey in 1848; and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1849. For some time he was a district judge in Sacramento, Cal. He died in 1884 in San Francisco, Cal. Botts, John Minor, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1802, in Dumfries, Va. He served in the Virginia state legislature in 1833-39. In

1839-43 and 1847-49 he was a representative from Virginia to twenty-sixth, twentyseventh and the thir-

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Bouck, Gabriel, soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born on Dec. 16, 1828, in Fulton, N.Y. He was attorney-general of the state of Wisconsin in 1858-59; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1860. He entered the union army in 1861; and rose to the rank of colonel. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1868 and 1872; was again a member of the state assembly in 1874, and was speaker. In 1877-81 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat. He died Feb. 20, 1904, in Oshkosh, Wis.

Bouck, Joseph, congressman, was born in York, in 1831-33 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-second congress. He died in New York.

New

Bouck, William C, state senator, goverwas born in 1786 in Schoharie county, N.Y. He was a, member of the New York state assembly in 1813-19; and was state nor,

senator in 1820. He was the thirteenth governor of New York in 1843-45. In 1846 he was a member of the constitutional convention; and in 1846-49 was assistant treasurer of the United States in New York City. He died April 19, 1859, in Schoharie, N.Y. Boude, Thomas, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1801-03. He died in Pennsylvania. Boudinot, Elias, lawyer, jurist, congressman, philanthropist, author, was born May 2, 1740, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1777-78 and 1781-84 he was a delegate from New Jersey to the continental congress; and in 1782-83 was president of the continental congress. In 1789-95 he was representative to the first, second and third congresses. In 1798 he was

an associate justice of

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New Jersey. He was a philanthropist of Burthe first president of

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remained faithful to the government of the and United States was a delegate to the

Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. He was the author of Letters on the Nebraska Question; and The Great Rebellion. He died Jan. 7, 1869, in Culpepper, Va. Betty, Henry C, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1854, in New York City. He has been engaged in the general practice of law in In 1895 all its branches in his native city. he was appointed chief justice of the city court of New York City. Boucicault, Dion, actor, playwright, was born Dec. 26, 1822, in Ireland. Among his dramatic writings are Rip Van Winkle; Led

lington, N.J. and the American bible society. He was director of the mint of Philadelphia in 1796-1805. He was the author of The Second Advent of the Messiah; The Age of Revelation, a reply to Paine; and The Star in the West, an attempt to identify the American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. He died Oct. 24, 1831, in Burlington, N.J. Boudinot, Jane J., historian, author, was born in Newark, N.J. She is a member of the historical society of New Jersey; and is second vice-president 6f the colonial dames of America. She is the author of Life and Letters of Eli s Boudmot, in two volumes. Boughton, George Henry, artist, author, was born in 1836 in England. In 1871 he be;