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Two later tragedies, ' • The Betrothal " and " Fran- cesca de Rimini," met with equal success. In 1871 President Grant appointed Mr. Boker minis- ter to Constantinople, where he remained four years, and during that time secured redress for wrongs done American subjects by the Syr- ians, and successfully negotiated two treaties, one having reference to the extradition of crimi- nals, and the other to the naturalization of sub- jects of either power in the dominions of the other. In 1875 he resigned the Turkish mission to accept that of minister to Russia, remaining at St. Petersburg two years. In 1877 he resigned and returned to the United States. He was one of the founders of the Union league club in Philadelphia, and served as its secretary and presi- dent. His pubhshed works include: "Poems of the War" (1864) ; "Street Lyrics " (1869) ; " Kon- igsmark, and Other Poems" (1869); "The Book of the Dead" (1883), besides many short poems and sonnets. He died Jan. 2, 1890.

BOLLER, Alfred Pancoast, civil engineer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 23, 1840, son of Henry John and Anna Margaretta (Pancoast) Boi- ler. In 1 858 he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of A.M., and con- tinued his studies at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, at Troy, N. Y., from which he received the C.E. degree in 1861. The following year he was employed in the Lehigh coal and navigation company as assistant engineer, and until 1885 was connected with some of the largest railroads in the United States as engineer. He afterwards contracted to build several large bridges in New York, at Newark, N. J., and at New London, Conn. He was elected a member of the Ameri- can institute of civil engineers, and of the Amer- ican institute of mining engineers. He published " Practical Treatise on the Construction of Iron Highway Bridges."

BOLLES, Albert S., editor, was born at Montville, Conn., March 8, 1845. He was fitted for college, studied law at the Albany law school, and was admit- ted to the bar at the age of twenty. He im- mediately formed a partnership with his preceptor, John T. Wait, of Norwich, Conn., which was con- tinued until he was elected judge of the probate court for the district of Norwich in 1869. In 1862 he was elected to represent Norwich in the state legislature, and soon after-

ward became editor of the Norwich Daily Bulletin, and was appointed lecturer on political economy in the Boston university. He then became editor of the Bankers' Magazine, New York, and was elected professor of mercantile law and practice in the Wharton school of finance and economy. University of Pennsylvania; still, however, re- taining editorial control of the Bankers' Maga- zine. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Middlebury college, Vt., in 1882. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the bureau of industrial statistics of Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Financial History of the United States " (3 vols. ) , " Practical Banking," " Industrial History of the United States," "Conflict Between Labor and Capital," and several legal works on banking. In 1896 Lafayette college conferred upon him the degree of LL.D.

BOLLES, John Augustus, lawyer, was born at Ashfoid, Conn., April 16, 1809. He was gradu- ated from Brown university with the degree of A.M., in 1829, and became principal of the prepar- atory department of Colvmibia college. In 1833 he practised law in Boston. In 1843 and 1844 he was secretary of state of Massachusetts, and after- wards was a member of the Massachusetts board of education, and in 1852 a commissioner of Bos- ton harbor. He served in the civil war, gaining the brevet rank of colonel, and from 1865 to 1878 was solicitor and judge-advocate of the navy de- partment at Washington. He contributed to the North American Review, Christian Review. Chris- tian Examiner, New England Magazine and At- lantic Monthly; also edited the Boston Daily Journal for some time, and wrote " A Treatise on Usury and Usury Laws " (1837), and " Essay on a Congress of Nations" (1839). He died in Washington, D. C, May 25, 1878.

BOLTON, Charles Edward, lecturer, was born at South Hadley Falls, Mass., May 16, 1841. He was graduated at Amherst college in 1865, and the same year engaged in business pursuits in Cleveland, Ohio. He made several journeys to Europe, and in 1873 organized the " Cleveland Educational Bureau," which was originated to give lectures and concerts of a high character to the people at a nominal price. He gave illus- trated lectures, descriptive of his travels in Europe and in America, in the various cities from Maine to California. He was married to Sarah Knowles, the author. He died in East Cleveland. Ohio, Sept. 23, 1901.

BOLTON, Charles Knowles, author, was born at Cleveland. Oliio, Nov. 14. 1867 : son of Charles Edward and Sarah (Knowles) Bolton. In 1890 he was graduated from Harvard college, and. after spending some months in foreign travel, he was assistant at Harvard college library, 1893- '94; librarian of tlie Brookline, Mass., publicli-