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Economics; Primer for Political Education ; Economics for the People ; The Library List; Electoral Reform; and other works. Bowler, Metcalf, patriot, congressman, jurwas born about 1730. He was a delegate in 1765 ft-om Rhode Island to the colonial congress held in New York City. In 1768-76 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and in 1776-77 was chief justice. He was speaker of the Rhode Island state assembly in 1774 when the obnoxious royal decree reached Boston closing the port and transferring the board of customs to Marblehead, and the seat of government to Salem, he died in Rhode Island. ist,

Bowles, Francis Tiffany, civil engineer, naval architect, was born Oct. 7, 1858, in Springfield, Mass. In 1879 he graduated from the United States naval academy. He has been associated with the building of the new navy since its beginning; was in the naval advisory board in 1883; for fourteen years was head of construction and repairs in the navy yards of Norfolk and New York; and was two years chief constructor in the United States navy. He then became president of the Fox river ship and engine company of Quincy, Mass. Bowles, Pinckney Downie, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born July 7, 1835, in Edgefield, During the civil war he attained the S.C. rank of brigadier-general. For ten years he was state's prosecuting attorney; was postmaster of Evergreen, Ala.; and in 1887-98 was judge of probate. Bowles, Samuel, journalist, genealogist, founder, was born June 8, 1797, in Hartford, Conn. In 1824 he established the Springfield Republican, of which he was editor and proHe was the author of The Bowles prietor. Genealogy. He died Sept. 8, 1851, in Springfield, Mass. Bowles, Samuel, journalist, author, was bom Feb. 9, 1826, in Springfield, Mass. He was editor of the Springfield Republican. He was the author of Across the Continent; and Our New West. He died Jan. 16, 1878, in Springfield, Mass. Bowles, Samuel, journalist, publisher, author, was born Oct. 15, 1851, in Springfield, Mass. He received his education at Yale college and at Berlin university. He is the editor and proprietor of the Springfield Republican; and director of the city library association of Springfield, Mass. Bowles, William Augustus, Indian agent, was born in 1763 in Frederick county, Md. He joined the Creek Indians and was paid bv the British to excite the savages to greatest excesses. He became the chief of the Creeks. The Spaniards ofltered six thousand dollars

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his capture.

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trayed into their hands and died confined in Morro castle. He died Dec. 23, 1805, in Cuba. Bowlin, James Butler, lawyer, diplomat.

congressman, was born in 1804 in Spottsylvania county, Va. In 1835 he was elected a member of the state legislature; and in 1837 1839 he was elected judge of the criminal court. In 1843-51 he was a representative from Missouri to the twenty-eighth, twentyninth, thirtieth
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thirty-first congresses.

In 1854 he was appointed minister resident to New Granada; and in 1858 was appointed commissioner to Paraguay. He died July 19, 1875, in St. Louis,

Mo.

Bowling, William Kirkman, physician, founder, was born June 5, 1808, in Westmoreland county, Va. In 1836 he began the practice of medicine in Logan county, Ky.; where In 1851 he he started a medical college. founded the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery; and sustained it for twentyIn 1874-75 he was president of five years. the American medical association. Bowlware, William, lawyer, diplomat, was born in 1805 in Newton, Va. He was an instructor in the Columbian university of Washington, D.C. and then began the practice of law. In 1841-45 he was United States He died Aug. 7, minister to the Sicilies. 1870, near White Sulphur Springs, Va. Bowman, Alexander Hamilton, soldier, civil engineer, was born May 15, 1803, in Wilkesbaijre. Pa. In 1826 he was appointed assistant engineer in the construction of the defenses and in the improvement of harbors and rivers on the Gulf of Mexico. He was promoted to first lieutenant in 1835; and served throughout the civil war. He died Nov. 11, 1865, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. Bowman, Alpheus Henry, soldier, was born Feb. 28, 1842, in Loudon county, Va. He served in the civil war; and in 1866 was appointed captain in the ninth infantry. In 1903, after more than forty years of service, he was retired as brigadier-general United States army. Bowman, Clellan Asbury, educator, col;

lege president, psychologist, was bom Aug. 29, 1861, in Dauphin, Pa. He was educated at Harvard and at the university of Berlin; and has received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. In 1890-95 he was president of Lafayette seminary of Oregon; in 1896-1902 was president of Albright collegiate institute; and since 1897 has been president of Albright college of Myerstown, Pa.

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Jt!;dward Morris,

musician, author,

was born July 18, 1848, in Barnard, Vt. He was president for eight years of the American college of musicians, and its founder. He was founder of the American guild of organists; was founder and music-director and organist in 1888-94 of the Cecilian choir of Newark, N.J. in 1887-89 was music director of the Newark harmonic society; and

now director and organist of Temple choir of Brooklyn, N.Y., of which he was the fouHe is the author of Harmony; and nder. other works. He was editor of Weitzmann's Manual of Music Theory; and essays on

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