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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. traveler, author, was 1865, in Illinois. She has traveled extensively in America and abroad; and her Sketches of English Places of Note were

Bowen, Helen M.,

born Deo.

5,

among her

first

efforts.

Short stories

fol-

lowed this series of descriptive articles, including A Breath From a Cuban Battlefield; A Gypsy Musician; and A Summer Vacation. Her most representative worls is A Daughter of Cuba. Bowen, Henry, soldier, farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 36, 1841, in Maiden Spring, Va. He entered the confederate army at the outbreak ^f the civil war; was promoted to a captaincy; and was taken prisoner in 1864 and confined in Fort Delaware until the close of the civil war. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1869-71. In 1883-85 and 1887-89 he was a representative from Virginia to the fortyeighth and fiftieth congresses. Bowen, Henry Chandler, journalist, philanthropist, .was born Sept. 11, 1813, in Woodstock, Conn. In 1848 the New York Independent was founded by five men, of whom he was one. Unprofitable at first, the property finally came into his ownership, and he was its sole proprietor for forty years or more. He bequeathed sums of money to the Academy and to the Roseland park of Woodstock, Conn., where he maintained a summer residence. He died Feb. 24, 1896, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Bowen, Herbert Wolcott, lawyer, diplomat, author,

N.Y.

was born Feb.

He

Brooklyn, received a thorough education; and studied at the Brooklyn polytechnic institute and in Europe. He was a member of the Yale class of 1878; and in 1903 that institution awarded him the honorary degree of II.A. He received the degree LL.D. from Col29, 1856, in

school; and practiced law in New

umbia law

York City. In 1890 he was appointed conbecame consul-general at Barwas the last to leave when war broke out with Spain. In 1899 he was United States minister to Persia and in 1901-05 sul; in 1893

celona; and

to Venezuela. He is the author of Losing Ground; In Divers Tones; International Law; and other works. Bowen, J. E., clergyman, genealogist. He He is the is a clergyman of Westport, N.Y.

author of The

Bowen Genealogy.

Bowen, Jabez, lawyer, jurist, was born June 3, 1839, in Providence, R. I. In 177678 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and the latter year he was chief justice. In 1878-86 he was chosen deputy-governor; and he was active in securing the vote of Rhode Island for the adoption of the constitution of the United States.

He

died

May

8,

1875, in Providence.

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Bowen, James, soldier, railroad president, was born in 1808 in Mew York

capitalist,

City. He was the first president of the Brie railway. He was a member of the New York state legislature in 1848-49. At the beginning of the civil war he raised six or seven regiments, which were formed into a brigade; and he took command of them as brigadierHe died Sept. 29, general of volunteers. 1886, in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Bowen, Jedediah, founder. He is credited in some histories with being the founder of the republican party. He died Nov, 17, 1891, in Ripon, Wis. Bowen, John Eliot, journalist, author, 'was

born June 28, 1858, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a New York journalist; and connected with the Independent, of which his father was proprietor. He was the author of The Conflict of East and West in Egypt; and Songs of Toil, a translation from Carmen Sylva. He died Jan. 3, 1899, in Brooklyn, Bowen, John H., congressman. In 1813-15 he was a representative from Tennessee to the thirteenth congress as a democrat. He died in Tennessee. Bowen, John S., soldier, was born in 1829 in Georgia. He was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, where he commanded a brigade in Breckinridge's corps; and stubbornly resisted Grant's advance near Port Gibson in 1863. He was in all the battles

around Vieksburg; and took a prominent part in the negotiations for its surrender. died July 13, 1863, in Raymond, Miss.

He

Bowen, John Wesley Edward, educator, college president, author, was born Dec. 3, Orleans, La. He was educated 1855, in at the university of New Orleans ; and at the Boston university school of theology and the In 1882-92 he filled school of all sciences. pastorates in Boston, Newark, Baltimore and Washington. Since 1893 he has been professor of historical theology and is now president of Gammon theological seminary at Atlanta, Ga. He is editor of the Voice of Atlanta, Ga.; and editor of the Steward Mis-

New

sionary Magazine. He is the author of National Sermons; Discussions in Philosophy and Theology; The United Negro; The Educational History of the Negro; Appeal to Caesar; and numerous Monographs. Bowen, Nathaniel, clergyman, bishop, was born June 29, 1779, in Boston, Mass. In 1818 he was elected bishop of South Carolina, and also rector of St. Michael's church of Charleston. Two volumes of his Sermons were published after his death. He died Aug. 25, 1839, in Charleston, S.C. Bowen, Nicholas, soldier, was born in New

York. In 1860 he graduated from the United States military academy; and was brevetted second lieutenant topographical engineers. He served throughout the civil war; and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonell He died July 11, 1871. Bowen, Oliver, naval officer, was born in the last century. He was a revolutionary patriot of Augusta, Ga. and was successful