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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. In 1872-73 he was in the battles of the Modoc Indian campaign; and was recommended for distinguished service; and in 1878 was in the engagement with hostile

Bannocks and Pi-Ute Indians. In 1898 he was in the battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba, and was recommended brevet for distinguished service; and in 1899 was also recommended for brevet for distinguished service in the Philippine Islands. In 1900 was retired from active service; and since 1902 has been professor of military science and tactics at the Montclair military academy of iMew Jersey. Boylston, Nicholas, merchant, philanthropist, was born in 1716 in Boston, Mass. At his decease he bequeathed ten thousand dollars to found a professorship of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard, John Quincy Adams being installed as the first professor in 1806. He died Aug. 18, 1771, in Boston, Mass. Boylston, Zabdiel, physician, surgeon, was born in 1680 in Brookfield, Mass. He was the first one to introduce the practice of inoculation for the smallpox in 1730. He published several pamphlets on the subject of inoculation. He died on March 1, 1766, in Brookline, Mass. Boynton, Charles Brandon, clergyman, chaplain, was born June 13, 1806, in Stockbridge, Mass. He was elected to the Massachusetts state legislature. In 1846-77 he was a presbyterian pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the exception of his terms of service as chaplain of the house of representatives in the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. He died April 37, 1883, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Boynton, Edward Carlisle, soldier, author, was born about 1835 in Vermont. He served in the civil war; and received at its close the brevet of major for faithful services. He was the author of History of West Point; Guide to est Point and the United States Military Academy; and Register of Cadets Admitted to the Military Academy From its Origin to 1870. He died May 13, 1893, in

Newburg, N.Y. Boynton, Elias, educator, merchant, poet, 30, 1833, in Peterboro, N.H. Ho received his education in the Peterboro

was born Nov.

academy; and for many years was engaged work. has been a justice of the peace; and secretary of the American Boynton association. He has been diin

educational

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rector of the city school board of New Lisbon, Wis., where he has also filled numerous public offices of trust and honor. He has written extensively for the periodical press; and his poems have been a valuable acquisition to current literature. Boynton, Frank David, educator, author, was born April 39, 1863, in Potsdam, N.Y.

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In 1893-1900 he was director of the Ithaca con rvatory of music. He is the author of Plane and Solid Geometry; Syllabus of Civics; Manual of Civics; School Civics; and Civics of

New York

State.

Boynton, George Mills, clergyman, author, was born May 13, 1837, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1858 he graduated from Yale university; and in 1863 from union theological seminary. Since 1864 he has filled pastorates in Riverdale, N.Y.; in Guilford, Conn.; in Newark, N.J.; and in Boston, Mass. Since 1888 he

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been secretary of the

congregational

Sunday school and publication society of Boston, Mass. In 1888 he was president of the congregational club of Boston and vicinity. He is the author of The Pilgrim Church Register; The Model Sunday School; The Pilerim Pastors' Manual; and The Congregational

Way.

Boynton, Henry, soldier, was bom in Maine. In 1861 he became captain in the eighth regiment Maine infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died in 1904. Boynton, Henry Van Ness, soldier, jour-

was born July 33, 1835, in West Stockbridge, Mass. He served in the civil war, and attained the rank of lieutenantcolonel commanding the thirty-fifth Ohio volunteers. In 1865-98 he was Washington correspondent for prominent dailies. During the war with Spain in 1898 he became brevet brigadier- General of volunteers for gallant and meritorious conduct. He was chairman of the Chickamauga park commission; and member of the board of brevets and medals of honor. He died June 3, 1905, in Atlantic City, N.J. Boynton, Henry Walcott, educator, author, was born April 23, 1869, in Guilford, Conn. In 1893 he graduated with the degree of A. M. from Amherst college. In 1892-1901 he was head of the department of English literature at Phillips academy of Andover, Mass. He is the author of Life of Washington Irving; and The Golfers Rubaiyat. nalist,

Boynton, James Stoddard, soldier, lawyer was born May 7, 1833, in Henry county, Ga. H" attained the rank of colonel in the civil war, having risen from Georgia regiment. private in the thirti In 1866 he was elected judge of the county court; in 1880-84 was president of the Georgia state senate; and in 1883 was governor of Georgia to fill a vacancy. He died in 1903 jurist, governor,

in Griffin, Ga.

Boynton, John Farnham, lecturer, scieninventor, was born Sept. 30, 1811, in Groveland, Mass. He traveled through every state in the union lecturing on geology and tist,

natural history of creation. He invented a malleable iron and steel; and was the original inventor of the oil-well torpedoes. He died Oct. 30, 1890, in Syracuse, N.Y. Boynton, Julia B., author, poet. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines.