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with liis brother. tk liis wife to Europe. They rearlietl LislH>ii in siifety, but there Jerome was arrested and taken to France, his wife not l»oin^ allowed to hind. Her message to the em- jK>ror was: •"Madame Bonajmrte demands her rights as a member of the imi>erial family." She then priH^eetied to England where a lx>y was born to her and christened Jerome Najwleon. The emj>eror refuseen.sion of twelve thous;ind dollars. i)roviding slie would return to America and renovuice the name of Bonaparte, which conditions she accepted. She returned to Euroi)e on occasional visits, where she was the centre of attraction, winning attention, not only from her husl>and"s mother and other members of the family, but also from the Duke of Welling- ton. Madame de Stael, Byron, and even Louis XVII.. who invited her to appear at court, but as slie still received a pension from the exiled emjieror, she declined. Her husband married Catherine, the daughter of the King of Wiirtem- l»erg. and .stxjn after was made King of AVest- plialia. He then sent to America for his son, Jerome Napoleon. Madame Bonaparte refused to give him up. scornfully declining the offer from her husl>anil of a ducal crown with an income of forty thousand dollars a year. The son frequently visited his father's family in Europe, where he was treated as a son and a brother. His .subse- quent marriage with Miss Williams of Baltimore caused his mother great anger. His cousin. Em- peror Naijoleon III. invited him to France, where he was legitimized and received as a member of the family. He decUned a duchy, refusing the condition attached of surrendering the name of Bonaparte. On the death of King Jerome, in 1860, Elizabeth Patterson, as his American wife, un.succe.ssfully contested his will. The last eigh- teen years of her life were spent in Baltimore. She left a fortune of one million five hundred thousand dollars to two grandsons, Jerome NafKileon and Charles J. Bonafiarte. (See " Life and I^etters of Madame Rf>nai)arte,"' by Eugene L Didi.-r.) She died in Haltiinore. April 4, 1879. BONAPARTE, Jerome .Napoleon, was born at Camberwell, England. July 7, 180.5; son of Jerome and Elizabeth (Patterson) Bonaparte. He was gTaduate<l at Harvard college in 1826, and studied law, but never engaged in its prac- tice. His legitimacy was acknowledged by Louis Napoleon, but he preferred a residence in Amer- ica, where he was married to Su.san May Wil- liams, of Baltimore, in opjiosition to the wishes of his mother, who had selected for his wife a daughter of Joseph Bonaparte. By his marriage and his inheritance from his mother he acquired one of the largest estates in Maryland. He died in Baltimore, Md., J\me 17, 1870.

BONAPARTE, Jerome Napoleon, soldier, was l)orn in Baltimore. Md., in 18:32; son of Jerome Napoleon and Susan May (Williams) Bonaparte. He was graduated from the West Point military academy in 1852, and, until his resignation two years later, served on the west- ern frontier with the mounted rifles. In 1854 he entered as 2d lieutenant the seventh dragoons of the Imperial French army. He serveil in the Crimean war in l854-"55, as engineer at Balaklava, Inkermann, Tchernaia and the siege of Se bast ojx)l, and for distinguished services was promoted to a colonelc}', decorated by the Sultan of Turkej- with the Medjidie order, made knight of the Legion of Honor of France, and received the Crimean medal from the Queen of England. He afterwards served with distinction in the Algerian and Italian cam- paigns. Colonel Bonai)arte was in the guard of the Empress of France from 18fi7-"71, but upon the fall of the empire he with difficulty escaped with his life from the Commune in Paris. At the close of the war in 1871 he returned to America, and was married in the same year at Newport, E. I., to Mrs. Caroline Edgar, formerly Miss Appleton, grand-daughter of Daniel Webster. He died at Pride's Crossing. Mass.. Sept. 3. 1893.

BONBRIGHT, Daniel, educator, was born in Youngstown, Pa., in 1831, son of Daniel Bonbright. He attended Dickinson college 1846-8; was graduated at Yale. A.B., 1850, A.M.. 1853, and was a tutor at Yale, 1854-'6. He went abroad, and studied in the Universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Gottingen 1856-'8: became professor of the Latin language and literature in Northwestern uni- versity at Evanston. 111., in 1858. dean of the faculty of liberal arts there in 1899, and acting president of the university in 1900. serving until 1902. He received the degree LL.D. from Law- rence university in 1873; studied and travelled in Europe 1869-70. and was married in 1890 to Alice D. Cummings of Newtonville, Mass.

BOND, George Phillips, astronomer, was born at Dorclicster, Mass., in 1825; son of William Cranch Bond, astronomer. In 1845 he was graduated from Harvard college. His first knowl- edge of astronomy was acquired under the in- struction of his father. In 1859 he was appointed to the chair of astronomy at Harvard, at the same time taking charge of the college observatory. In 1862 he wrote a learned and valuable work on Donati's comet, for which he was awarded a gold medal by the Royal astronomical society of London. He is the author of " A Treatise on the Construction of the Rings of Saturn," "Ele- ments of the Orbits of Hyi)erion and the Satellite of Neptune," having participated in the discov- ery of both, and made extensive contributions to the memoirs of the American academy. He died at Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 17, 1865.