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He helped to found and liberally endowed the American academy of arts and sciences, of which he was iirst president; and the Massachusetts humane society, in part, owed its origin to him. He received the degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh university and was made a fellow of Harvard college and of the Royal societies of London and Edinburgh. He was the author of a poetical paraphrase of Dodsley's " Economy of Human Life "' and of some Latin and English epigrams and poems, which were incorporated in a volume pubhshed by Harvard college, entitled " Pietas et Gratulatio," as well as of several papers on scientiiic subjects. Bowdoin college, so liberally endowed by his son James, was named in his honor. He died in Boston, Nov. 6, 1790.

BOWEN, Clarence Winthrop, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 23, 1852; son of Henry Chandler and Lucy Maria (Tappan) Bowen, grandson of Lewis Tappan, the abolitionist; a great-great-grand-nejihew of Benjamin Frank- lin, and a descendant of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. After graduating from Yale college in 1873, Mr. Bowen took a post-graduate course of study, receiving the degree of M. A. in 1873, and that of Ph.D. in 1882. He then travelled in Europe, where he became a correspondent of The Independent. When he visited Spain in 1883 he had conferences with King Alphonso XII., Cas- telar, the Duke of Veragua, a descendant of Columbus, and other Spanish statesmen, regard- ing the four hundredth anniversary of the dis- covery of America by Columbus. Mr. Bowen was the first one to begin the agitation of the celebration of 1892. Besides pamphlets and magazine articles, Mr. Bowen has written the following books: " Boundary Disputes of Connec- ticut " (1882); " W^oodstock, An Historical Sketch" (1887), and " The Memorial Volume of the Centeim^ial of Washington's Inauguration" (1892). Mr. Bowen was one of the organizers, in 1884, of the American historical association, and was elected its treasurer. In 1896, after the death of his father, he was elected publisher of The Independent.

BOWEN, Francis, educator, was born at Charlestown, Mass., Sept. 8, 1811. He was pre- pared for college at Phillips Exeter academy, and was graduated from Harvard in 1833. Two years later he was made instructor of intellectual philosophy there, and in 1839 resigned, to visit Europe, where he remained for two years engaged in study and travel. In 1843 he assiimed the business and editorial management of the North American Review, and his work did much to gain for the magazine its high reputation. He deliv- ered lectures before the Lowell institute in 1848, '49, '50 and '52. In 1850 he was appointed Mc- Lean professor of history at Harvard college, but

the overseers rejected the appointment, owing to his r)olitical views, as expressed in the North American Review. In 1853 he was named as Al- ford professor of natural religion, moral phil- osophy and civic polity in Harvard, as successor to Dr. Walker, who had been elected president, and the nomination was almost unanimously confirmed by the overseers. Among his published writings are: "Critical Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Phil- osophy " (1842); " Lowell Institute Lectures " (1849); " Docvmients of the Constitution of England and America from Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789 " (1854); the lives of Steuben, Otis, Sir WilUam Phipps, and Ben- jamin Lincoln, in Sparks's " Library of American Biography,"' " Principles of Political Economy " (1856, 4th ed., 1865); "Treatise on Logic" (1864); " American Political Economy" (1870); '•Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Schop- enhauer and Hartmann" (1877); "Gleanings from a Literary Life, 1838-1880" (1880), and "A Layman's Study of the English Bible" (1886). He also edited Georg Weber's " Out- lines of Universal History," "Virgil, with English Notes " (1842); Dugald Stewarfs Mind " (1854); De Tocqueville's " American Institutes," and " Democracy in America" (2 vols., 1862); and Sir William Hamilton's "Metaphysics" (1866). He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 21, 1890.
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BOWEN, George Thomas, chemist, was born at Providence, R. I., March 19, 1803. After his graduation from Yale in 1822 he spent three years in the study of medicine, and was called to the chair of chemistry in the University of NashviUe, Tenn., in 1825. Experiments in chem- istry made by him while in college were pub- lished in two volimies, " On the Electro-Magnetic Effects of Hare's Calorimeter," and " On a Mode of Preserving in a Permanent Form the Coloring Matter of Purple Cabbage as a Test for Acids and Alkahes " (1822). He retained his profes- sorship at Nashville untU his death, which occurred Oct. 25, 1828.

BOWEN, Henry Chandler, journalist, was born in Woodstock, Conn., Sept. 11, 1813. In 1833 he went to New York city as clerk with the dry-goods firm of Arthur Tappan & Co. In 1838 he formed, with another clerk, Theodore McNamee, the firm of Bowen & McNamee. He afterwards was head of the firm of Bowen, Holmes & Co. The outbreak of the civil war compelled the firm to retire from business. He was married June 6, 1843, to Lucy Maria, daughter of Lewis Tappan. At the time of the fugitive slave law excitement, in 1852, Mr. Bowen's firm was bovcotted in the south and