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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Boyden, Seth, manufacturer, inventor, was born Kov. 17, 1788, in Foxborough, Mass. He engaged in the leather manufacture in Newarli in 1813; invented a machine for splitting leather; and began the manufacture of patent leather in 1819. He made the first malleable iron in 1826; perfected the first locomotive with the driving-rod outside the wheel; and produced the first daguerreotype in Am-

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, educator, founwas born Sept. 23, 1848, in Norway. He was a writer of Norwegian birth, long resident in New York; and a proder, author, poet,

fessor in Columbia college at the time of his death. He was one of he founders of the Authors' club of New York City. He was the nuthor of Gunnar;

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mens exhibited at the Centennial exposition of Philadelphia in 1876 received the first premium. In 1845-59 he was professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Central high school of Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Pneumatics, or the Physics of Gases ; and Chemistry, or the Physics of Atoms.

Beyer, Benjamin M., lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 22, 1833, in Montgomery county, Pa. He was district attorney for his native county in 1848-50. In 1865-69 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-ninth and the fortieth congresses as a democrat. Boyer, Charles Clinton, educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 6, 1860, in Lewiston, Pa. Since 1898 he has been professor of pedagogy in the state normal school at Kutztown. Pa. He is the author of Concrete Psychology; Principles and Methods of Teaching; and Waymarks of General History. Beyer, Emanuel Keth, educator, author, was born April 15, 1857, in York, Pa. In 1890-1900 he was instructor of biology and principal in the Chicago high schools. He was the author of A Textbook on Elementary Biology. He died in 1900 in Chicago, 111. Beyer, Solomon B., lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 4, 1829, in Northumberland county. Pa. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar; and in 1863 became mayor of Sunbury, Pa. He is the author of Beyer's Criminal Digest.

Boyesen, Algernon, journalist, author, was born Oct. 13, 1881, in New York City. In 1902-03 he was managing editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. He is the author of the play entitled A Passion in the Suburb, produced in 1907 in New York City. Boylan, Mrs. Grace DufSe, journalist, author, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1861, in Kalamazoo, Mich. She was a sketch writer for the Chicago Journal and a writer of dialect poetrv and patriotic verse. She is the author of If Tam O'Shanter 'd Had a Wheel; and Other Poems and Sketches.

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Boyden, Uriah Atherton, inventor, was born Feb. 17, 1804, in Foxborough, Mass. He succeeded in improving the construction of turbines so that ninety-five per cent of the total power of the water expended was utilized. He died Oct. 17, 1879, in Boston, Mass. Boye, Martin H., chemist, author, was bom Dec. 6, 1813, in Denmark. In 1845 he discovered and with others applied the first process of refining cotton seed

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age; Tales from Two FalconHemispheres berg; A Daughter of the Philistines; Queen Titania Ilka on the Hill Top and Other Stories; Goethe and Schiller, their Lives and Works Literary and Social Silhouettes ; The Story of Norway, an historical work; Social Strugglers; Essays on Scandinavian Literature; Essays on German Literature; Idylls of Norway and Other Poems; the Norseland series of books for boys, including: Norse;





land Tales; Boyhood in Norway; The Modern Vikings; Against Heavy Odds; and The Golden Calf. He died Oct. 4, 1895, in New

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Boylan, William Maye, merchant, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1859, in Hardin county, Iowa. He is a poet of rare genius; and lives in Hubbard, Iowa. He is the author of a brochure entitled Life's Purest Gold. Many of his poems have been given a place in The Local and National Poets of America and in standard publications. Boyland, George Halsted, physician, auth-

was born Jan. 19, 1845, in Cincinnati, During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 he served in the surgical corps of the French array; and was decorated for his services. He was the first to introduce salicylic or,

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Boyle, Charles E., lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in Uniontown, Pa. He was editor of the Genius of Liberty newspaper in 1856-61. He was district attorney for Fayette county in 1863-65; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1865-66. In 1883-87 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. He died Dec. 15, 1888, in Seattle, Wash. Beyle, Jeremiah Tilferd, soldier, lawyer, military governor, was born May 33, 1818, in Mercer county, Ky. In 1849 he advocated with great zeal the emancipation of the slaves. For meritorious conduct on the field in 1863 he was promoted brigadier-general. He was soon after placed in command of the department of Kentucky, assuming the direction of military affairs in the state; and in 1863-64 was military governor of Kentucky. Under his direction the first street railway was built in Louisville, of which he was pre-