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band together. In 1741 he visited Europe, and, after preaching and teaching with great effect, he again sailed for America in March, 1742, ac- companied by a large colony of Moravians. He resumed his pastoral duties at Bethlehem and soon a new settlement was founded at Nazareth, Pa. In 1748 he was chosen a bishop, and made a pilgrimage to Herrnhut for the purpose of consecration. He was appointed overseer of the church in England, Ireland and Wales, and spent some five years there. In 1753 he returned to America, where he remained until 1764, mean- while visiting Herrnhut to attend the general synod of the church, where he was appointed as- sistant superintendent of the American province. In 1764 he returned to Europe, where he was a delegate to the Marienborn synod, a member of the old directory, and in 1769 became a mem- ber of the new board called the vmity's elders' conference. (See " Memorials of the Life of Peter Boehler" (London, 1868), by T. P. Lockwood.) He died in London, England, April 27, 1774.

BOEHM, Henry, clergyman, was born in Conestoga, Pa., June 8, 1775; son of Martin Boehm, a Methodist preacher. He joined the Methodist ministry and began itinerant preach- ing in 1800. A few years later he went with Bishop Asbury, then in ill-health, on his tom-s. Mr. Boehm did successful work among the Ger- man settlers. At one time he was presiding elder of the Schuylkill district, and later accom- panied Bishops George and McKendree in their travels. It is said that he rode more than one hvmdred thousand miles on horseback during his itinerant life. He lived to be one himdred years old, retaining possession of his faculties up to the last. A month after his one hundredth birthday he wrote a preface to a new edition of his " Rem- iniscences of Sixty-four years in the Ministry," first published in 18i35. He died Dec. 28, 1875.

BOQQS, Charles Stewart, naval officer, was born at New Brunswick, N, J., Jan 28, 1811. He joined the United States navy at the age of fif- teen and saw service in the Mediterranean, West Indies, and the Pacific ocean. Beginning as a midshipman, he won promotion to the rank of lieutenant in 1837, and to that of commander in 1855. In 1858 he was appointed light-house in- spector on the Pacific coast, and at the outbreak of the civil war he commanded the Variina, one of the two vessels in the Gulf squadron upon which the Confederate gunboats made their prin- cipal attacks in the battle below New Orleans, one of the most desperate and daring in the war. Captain Boggs was afterwards assigned to tlie navy yard at Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1866 he re- ceived promotion to the rank of commodore, and in 1870 was commissioned rear-admiral. After serving as commander of the European squadron.

and for a short time as inspector of light-houses, he was placed on the retired list in 1873. He died in New Brunswick. N.J., April 23, 1888.

BOQCiS, William Ellison, educator, was born in Ahmednugar, Hindostan, May 12, 1838 ; son of the Rev. George Washington and Isabella (Elli- son) Boggs ; grandson of Joseph and Mary Boggs and of William and Mary (Harrison) Ellison ; and great-grandson of Maj. Robert Ellison of Pleasant Valley, Fairfield district, S.C. He was graduated from South Carolina college in 1859 and was a student at the Columbia theo- logical seminary, 1859-'61. He was licensed in 1860, entered the Confederate army as a private in 1861, was ordained by the Presbytery of Har- mony and made chaplain of the 6th South Caro- lina volunteers in 1862 and served in the army of Northern Virginia. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Columbia, S.C, 1866-71 ; of the Second Presbyterian church, Memphis, Tenn., 1871-79. and of the Central church, Atlanta, Ga., 1879-'82. He was professor of ec- clesiastical history at Columbia theological sem- inary, S.C, 1882-85 ; pastor of the Second church, Mempliis, Tenn., 1885-'88, and was elected chan- cellor and professor of metaphysics and ethics at the university of Georgia in 1888, to fill the vac- ancy caused by the death of Chancellor Patrick H. Mell. D.D., LL.D., and served till 1900. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from South- we.stern Pre.sbyterian University, Tenn., in 1873 and that of LL.D. from Central university, Rich- mond, Ky., in 1889.

BOGLE, James, artist, was born at George- towm, S. C, in 1817. When nineteen years of age he removed to New Y'ork city, and for some time studied portrait jsainting under Prof. S. F. B. Morse. He achieved success in this branch and painted the portraits of many of the great men of the time, among them being Calhoun, Webster, Clay, John A. Dix and Henry J. Ray- mond. In 1850 he was made an associate of the National academy, and in 1861 he was elected an academician. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y'. , Oct. 11, 1873.

BOGY, Lewis V., senator, was born at St. Genevieve, Mo., April 9, 1813. At the age of twenty-tw^o he was graduated from the Lexing- ton, Ky., law school, and, after practising for some time in St. Louis, Mo., was elected to the legislature of that state. In 1867 and 1868 he was commissioner of Indian affairs. He was instru- mental in developing the mineral resources of the state and in the establishment of the St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad, of which he was president for two years. In 1873 he was elected to a seat in the United States senate as a Democrat, and remained there until his death, which occurred at St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 20, 1877.