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pacity from private to lieutenant-colonel. For four years he was United States consulgeneral for Italy. Bourne, Benjamin, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1755, in Bristol, R.I. In 1789-95 he was a representative from Rhode Island to the first. Second and third congresses, when he resigned, and was appointed judge of the United States district court of Rhode Island. He died Sept. 17, 1808, in

Rhode

Island.

Bouine, Edward Emerson, lawyer, jurist, was born March 19, 1797, in Kennebunk, Maine. He was state's attorney for York county in 1838-41; and judge of the probate court in 1857-72. He was also for several years president of the Maine historical society. He died Sept. 23, 1873, in Kennebunk, Maine. Bourne, Edward Gaylord, educator, author, was born June 34, 1860, in Strykersville, N.y. In 1895-98 he was professor of history at Yale. He was the author of The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837; and Spain in America. He died Feb. 33, 1908, in New Haven, Conn. Bourne, George, clergyman, author, was born June 13, 1780, in England. He was an ardent and learned controversialist; and wrote works on Romanism and slavery. His principal works were The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable; and Sketches of The Reformation. He died Nov. 30, 1845, in New

York

City.

Bourne, Henry Eldridge, educator, authwas born April 13, 1862, in East Hamburg, N.Y. In 1888-89 he was associate editor of the Congregationalist of Boston, Mass. In 1889-93 he was professor of history and psychology at the free academy of Norwich, Conn.; and since 1893 he has been or,

professor of history at the college for women of the Western reserve university. In 1897 he was secretary of the Cleveland mnnicipal association. He is the author of The Teaching of History and Civics.

Bourne, Jonathan,

merchant,

capitalist,

was bom March 35, 1811, in Sandwich, Mass. At one time he was the largest owner of whaling tonnage in New Bedford, possibly in the United States. In 1884-85 he was a member of the governor's council of Massachusetts. He died Aug. 7, 1889, in New

Bedford, Mass. Bourne, Jonathan, lawyer. United States senator, was born Feb. 23, 1855, in New Bedford, Mass. In 1906 he was elected from Oregon to the United States senate for the term 1907-13. Bourne, Richard, missionary, was bom in England. He acquired a knowledge of the Indian tongue; and in 1670 was ordained pastor of an Indian church at Marshpee. In 1660 he obtained at his own expense a deed securing to those under his charge the possession of Marshpee. His son Shearjashub, his grandson Ezra, and his great-grandson

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Joseph, had charge after him of the settlement at Marshpee. He died in 1682 in Sandwich, Mass. Bourne, Shearjashub, lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was a graduate of Harvard college in 1764; in 1776-78 was associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and in 1778-81 was chief justice of the court of common pleas for Suffolk county, Mass. In 1791-95 he was a representative to the second and third congresses. He died in 1806. Bourzade, Peter, clergyman, bishop, was born in 1845. He was archbishop of the Roman catholic church for the diocese of Santa Fe, N.M. Be died May 17, 1908, in Chicago, 111.

Boutell, Henry Sherman, lawyer, congressman, was born March 14, 1856, in Boston, IMass. In 1884 he state legislature;

was

elected to the Illinois in 1899-1911 he was Illinois to the fiftysixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Boutell, Lewis Henry, lawyer, author, was born in 1836 in Massachusetts. He was a lawyer of Chicago, 111. He was the author of Life of Roger Sherman. He died in 1899 in

and a representative from

Chicago,

111.

Boutelle, Charles Addison, naval officer, journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 9J 1839, in Damariscotta, Maine. He early adopted the profession of his father, a shipmaster. In 1863 he volunteered and was appointed acting master in the United States navy; and he served in the north and south Atlantic and west gulf squadrons. In 1870

he became managing editor and in 1874 proprietor of the Bangor Whig and Courier. In 1883-1901 he was a representative from Maine to the forty-eighth to the fifty-sixth congresses as a republican. He died May 21, 1901, in Waverly, Mass. Boutelle, Charles Miles,, educator, author, was born July 23, 1851, in Antrim, N.H. In 1874-83 he was a professor in the normal school of Boston, Mass. Since 1898 he has been superintendent of the public schools of Marshall, Mich. He is the author of The Man Outside; An Artificial Fate; The Grave Between Them; Beyond the End; and The

Man

of Mount Moriah. Boutelle, De Witt Clinton, painter, artist, was born April 6, 1820, in Troy, N.Y. After painting in New York and Philadelphia he removed his studio to Bethlehem, Pa., where he lived for many years. Among his best works are: Trout Brook Shower; Morning in the Valley of the Batterkill; Niagara; and a life-size portrait of Asa Packer. He died Nov. 5, 1884, in Bethlehem, Pa. Bouton, Charles Leonard, educator, scientist, was born April 25, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo. Since 1904 he has been assistant professor of mathematics in Harvard college. Bouton, Emily St. J., journalist, author, was bom in New Canaan, Conn. Since 1877 she has been on the editorial staff of the