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City, in charge of the art department. a member of the Long Island historical society. He is the author of Step Across th^ Gulf to Cuba; The Rise of the Book

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Plate; James MacNeill Whistler, the Man and His Work; The Little Girl and Her Doll; Jack and Jill modernized The Bunch of Violets; and The Jewelled Dagger. Bowdon, Franklin W., lawyer, congressman, was born in Talladega, Ala. In 1846-51 he was a representative from Alabama to the twenty-ninth, thirtieth and thirty-first congresses. He died June 6, 1857, in Hender;

son, Texas.

Bowen, A. 0., governor. In 1883-84 he was governor of Rhode Island. Bowen, Andrew Jackson, merchant, lawyer, statesman, was born April 16, 1845, in Eastford, Conn. For many years he was engaged in educational work; then engaged in mercantile pursuits ; and has served as postmaster, constable, bank director, school visitor and justice of the peace. In 1880 he was a representative in the Connecticut state legislature from Eastford; and served in the same position in 1895 from Windham. Since 1895 he has been judge of the police court of the city of Willimantic. Bowen, Asa B., physician, surgeon, was born April 12, 1842, in Eastford, Conn. After a preparatory course in the Mexico academy of New York, he taught several terms in the district schools of that town. In 186465 he served one year on the American manNeptune, in of-war the medical department, nearly all the time cruising about the West Indies. In 1868 he was graduated from Albany medical college, then devoted some time to clinical study in New York City; and since 1869 has practiced his profession in Maquoketa, Iowa. He is a member of the Iowa state medical society; of the American medical association of the national association of railway surgeons and of the masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery. In 1878-93 he was United States pension examining surgeon; in 1873-85 was commissioner of insanity for Jackson county; for three years was a member of the school board; and is local surgeon for the Cnicago and northwestern railroad. He is the author of Typhoid Fever and Its Treatment Management of Compound Fractures; Scarlatina; and other valuable medical papers.



Bowen, Benjamin Lester, educator, author, was born July 5, 1860, in Chili, N.Y. Since 1890 he has been professor of romance languages in the Ohio state university. He is the author of First Italian Reading; First Scentific French Reader; and several Monographs.

Bowen, Christopher Columbus, lawyer, congressman, was born on Jan. 3, 1832, in Rhode Island. In 1863 he settled in Charleston, S.C; in 1867-71 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867. In 1867-71 he was a representative from South Carolina to the fortieth and fortyfirst

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Bowen, Clarence Winthrop, publisher, author, was born on May 33, 1853, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He became connected with the Independent of New York City; and on the death of Henry C. Bowen, his father, succeeded as its publisher. He is the author of Boundary Disputes of Connecticut; and Memorial of the Centennial of Washington's Inauguration.

Bowen, Edwin Winfield, educator, author,

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Oct. 20, 1866, in Prince Frederick,

Md. Since 1894 he has been professor of latin in the Randolph-Macon college. He is the author of Historical Study of the EVowel in English; Makers of American Literature; and other works. Bowen, Eli, author, was born in 1824 in Lancaster, Pa. He was the author of Coal Regions of Pennsylvania; Pictorial Sketchof Pennsylvania; Rambles in the Path of the Iron Horse; The Creation of the Earth; United States PoStoffice System; and Coal and Coal Oil. He died about 1886 in

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Lancaster, Pa. Bowen, Francis, journalist, educator, author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a professor of philosophy at Harvard university for many years; and for eleven years was the editor of the North American Review. He opposed the systems of Kant, Fichte, Cousin, Comte and Mill; and was answered by the latter in a third edition of his Logic. He was the author of Critical Essays in Speculative Philosophy; Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann; Treatise on Logic; American Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; A Layman's Study of the English Bible Considered in its Literary and Secular Aspects; and Gleanings From a Literary Life. He aied Jan. 33, 1890, in Boston, Mass.

Bowen, George, missionary, author, was 13, 1816, in Middlebury, Vt. He called the nestor of the methodist conference in India. He edited the Bombay uuardian from 1854 until his death. He was the author of Daily Meditations; The Amens of Christ; and Love Revealed. He died Feb. 3, 1888, in India.

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Bowen, George Thomas, educator, chemist, was born March 19, 1803, in Providence, R.L In 1835-38 he was professor of chemistry in the university of Nashville. The results of were published in 1823 under the titles On the Electromagnetic Effects of Hare's Calorimeter and On a Mode of Preserving in a Permanent Form the Coloring Matter of Purple Cabbage as a Test for Acids and Alkalies. He died Oct. 25 ' 1838, in Nashville, Tenn.

his investigations