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collected the sick and wounded, forwarding them to northern ports. In October, 1863, he was chief surgeon of the Harewood hospital at Wash- ington, D. C, where he served until it was discontinued in May, 1866. He was brevetted colonel of volunteers March 13, 1865, and in June, 1866, he was mustered out of service. He was a principal contributor to the " Surgical History of the War," and to the " Army Medical Museum." In 1866 he resumed his profession at Troy, N. Y., and was made surgeon to the Marshall infirmary of that city, and attending surgeon to the Watervliet arsenal. Dr. Bon- tecou was elected a member of the New York state medical association; of the American medical association; of the Medical society of the state of New York; of the American surgical association, and was one of the council of the military and naval department of the 9th inter- national medical congress at Washington, D. C. , 1887 ; a delegate to the 10th international medi- cal congress at Berlin, 1890, and in 1891 and '93 president of the Medical society of the county of Rensselaer.

BOOKER, Joseph Albert, educator, was born at Portland, Ark., Dec. 26, 1859; son of Albert and Mary (Punsard) Booker. His father and mother were negro slaves. He was educated at the public schools and at a normal school in Arkansas, and was graduated from the Roger Williams university, NashviUe, Tenn., in 1886, with the degree of A.B. In 1887 he was elected president of the Arkansas Baptist college, an in- stitute for the education of negro youths.

BOOKWALTER, Lewis, educator, was born near Hallsville, Ross county, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1846 ; son of Isaac and Phebe (Johnston) Bookwalter ; grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Landis) Bookwalter, and of Robert and Sophia Johnston ; and a descendant of Francis Bucliwalter, a Mennonite, who emigrated from Switzerland, settled at Phoenixville, Pa., in 1709 and died there, 1723. Lewis was graduated from Western college, Iowa, in 1872, and was licensed in the church of the United Brethren in Christ in 1872. He was professor of ancient languages at Western college, Iowa, 1872-79, and at Westfield college, 111., 1879-'81 ; was a missionary preacher at Knoxville, Tenn., 1881-83 ; and was president of Westfield college, 1883-'85. He was pastor of the Oak Street United Bretliren church at Dayton, Ohio, 1886-'88 ; was graduated from the Union Biblical seminary, Dayton, Ohio, in 1887, and was pastor of the First United Brethren church there, 1888-94. He was elected president of West- ern college, Toledo, Iowa, in 1894. He received the degree of D.D. from Western college in 1890. He is the author of " Do We Need a Revival?" (1887) ; " The Family, or the Home" (1894).

BOOLE, William H., reformer, was born in

Shelburiie, Nova Scotia, April 24, 1827. He was educated in New Yoi'k city ; learned the trade of shipbuilding at East Boston, Mass., and subse- quently entered tiie New York east conference of the M. E. church, and became an active clergy- man. He served for a time as chaplain in Sickles's brigade in the Civil war ; resumed his pastoral duties in New York, and in 1870 opened a rescue "Home for Women " in New York city. He travelled to the Pacific coast preaching to im- mense crowds in 1877, and spoke against Mor- monism before the heads of the JMormon church at Salt Lake city. He subsequently became interested in liquor legislation and lectui'ed ex- tensively on the subject. He was pastor in Brooklyn and New York city. He is the author of •' The Great National Snake Exliibition," a satire on the liquor traffic. He died in Staten Island. X. Y, Feb. 24, 1896.

BOOMER, George Boardman, soldier, was born at Sutton, Ma.ss., July 26, 1832. He learned engineering and the construction of bridges, and followed this occupation in St. Louis, Mo. At the breaking out of the civil war he joined the army, and served gallantly in several important engagements, notably those of luka and Champion Hills. He was colonel of the 22d Missouri volvm- teers and died at Vicksburg, Miss., May 22, 1863.

BOONE, Daniel, pioneer, was born near Bristol, Bucks coimty. Pa., Feb. 11, 1735; son of Squire and Sarah (Morgan) Boone. When he was three years old he was taken by his father to Reading, and from there, in 1748, to the valley of the South Yadkin river, North Carolina. At a log school house he ac- quired the rudiments of education, which embraced nothing more than a slight drill in reading, writ- ing and arithmetic. His new home was a rough frontier set- tlement, aboimding in game and infested by hostile Indians. ' . Here he learned the j secrets of the forests ^ and fields and the /''^^ ^i"/ habits of the animals. ^-^^mz*^ y^^;t^y^.^ He helped his father

to clear the land, build the cabins, and cultivate the farm. He was married in 1755 to Rebecca Bryan, daughter of a neighboring farmer, and took his wife into the wilderness, where he had built a cabin. There they remained vmtil white settlers began to gather on the banks of the Yadkin. Boone's love of solitude made him