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not until 1856 thai he succeeded in demonstrating to the Silt islact ion of the connnissioner of juitents that there was any ditfereuce between milk evaporated in the oi>en air and " the production of concentrated sweet milk by evai)oration in vacuo, the sjime having no sugar or other foreign substance mixed with it.' Lie next produced a conden>^ed meat juice. Uo .lied Jan. 11, 1874.

BORDEN, Nathaniel Brlggs, representative, wjis born in Freetown, Mass., April 15, 1801, son of Simeon and Amey (Briggs) Borden, and a descendant of Richard Borden who settled in Portsmouth, R. I., in 163^. He removed to Tiverton. R. I., with his parents in 1806; was educated in the district schools and at Plainfield academy. Conn., and in 1821 became a purchaser of mill sites in Fall River; an organizer of the Pocasset manufacturing company and its treas- urer until 18:3S. He became a charter member of the AVatiipixi River reservoir company of Fall River in 1825; was a representative in the Mas- sachusetts legislature 1831, 1834, 1851. and 1864, and a state senator 1845 and 1847. He was a re- presentative in the 24th. 25th and 27th congresses; president of the Fall River railroad company 1847-54. and mayor of that city in 1856. He died in Fall River. Mass., April 10, 1865.

BORDEN, Simeon, inventor, was born at Free- town. Mass.. Jan. 20. 1708. He joined the survey of Massachu-setts in 1831, becoming its chief in 1834, and completed the work in 1841. He established the boundary line between Massa- chiLsetts and Rhode Island in 1844, and was sub- sequently engaged in connecting the palisades on one side of the Hudson with Fort Washington on the other by telegraph line.s. He invented an appliance by which the measurement of the base line in surveying could be determined (1831) and published " Useful Formulae Adapted to the oper- ations of Locating and Constructing Railroads'' (1851) and reports. He died Oct. 28, 1856.

BOREINQ, Vincent, representative, was born in Washington cunty. Tenn., Nov. 24, 1839. He removed to Kentucky in 1847; was educated in Laurel Seminary. London, Ky..an<l at Tusculum college, Greenville, Tenn., and entered the Union army as a j)rivate in the 24th Kentucky infantry, Nov. 1, 1861. He attained the rank of 1st lieutenant and was wounded at the battle of Resaca, Ga.. in May, 1863. He served as county superintendent of public schools in Kentucky 1868-70; e.stablished the Moinitain Echo, a Republican newspaper at London. Ky., in lM75,and became a county judge in 18^S6; president of the Cumberland Valley Land Co., in 1887, and president of the First National bank of London, Ky., in 1888. He was elected a Republican representative from the 11th Kentucky district in the 56th. •57th and 5Hth con- 1899-1905.

BOREMAN, Arthur Ingraham, governor of West Virginia, was liorii al Wayuesburg Pa., July 24, 1S23. Early in life he went to western Virginia, where, at the age of twenty-two, he was admitted to the bar, and while practising his profession at Parkersburg, Va., he became interested in ixjlitical matters, and was elected a member of the house of delegates of Virginia in 1855, serving in that body by successive re- elections imtil 1861. At the extra session of that year he opposed the secession of the state, and was president of the Union convention which met at Wheeling, and helped to organize the state of West Virginia, He was appointed judge of the circuit court in October of that year, and held that office two years. In 1863 he was elected governor of the state, holding that office by re-election until 1869, when he resigned, hav- ing been elected U. S. senator, 1869-'75. He died at Wheeling, W.Va., April 19, 1896.

BORGESS, Caspar Henry, R.C. bishop, was born at Koppeuberg, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Aug, 1, 1824. He was brought to America in 1834 and settled in Philadelphia where his early education was acquired. He pursued his clas- sical course at St. Charles seminary and his the- ological at St. Xavier's college, Cincinnati, Ohio. He was ordained a priest, Dec. 8, 1847, and la- bored in Columbus until 1858. He was rector of St. Peter's cathedral, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1859-"70. He was consecrated titular bishop of Calydon and coadjutor and administrator of Detroit, April 24, 1870, succeeding Bishop Peter Paul Lefevre, who had died March 4, 1869. He re- signed his bishopric April 16, 1888, and died at Kalamazoo, Mich., May 3, 1890.

BORIE, Adolph Edward, cabinet officer, was born in Philadelpliia, Pa., Nov. 25, 1809; son of John Joseph and Sophia (Beauveau) Borie. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1825, and then went to Europe where he studied at the universities of France and Germany and travelled. After his return to his native country he entered commercial life in his father's counting-room, and subsequently became a mem- ber of the firm of McKean, Borie & Co. He was president of the bank of commerce, Philadelphia, from 1848 till 1860. Mr. Borie was a stanch Unionist during the civil war, and was an organ- izer and officer of the Union club (afterwards the Union league club, of Philadelphia), the first founded in America. His generous donations during the war were of material assistance to the country. He was secretary of the navy to which office he was appointed by President Grant, March 5, 1869, and which he resigned after three months' service, owing to the de- mands of his private Inisiness. He was elected a trustee of Pennsylvania university in 1858,