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at Vale oollefje. He rei-eived his journalistic trainiiij; un.ier the sjit'c-ial direction of his father, and Ijegan his business career in 1S73, as an assistant in the edi- torial department of the Springfield Re- publican. In 1875 he was made its busi- ness manager, and at the death of his father in 1878 he- came its editor-in- chief and publisher. In his management I he upheld its char- acter and fuUy ob- , served its traditions. Z^^ / He was made a di-

l^cmiTUj^ rector of the Public library association of Springfield, and through his journal advanced the interests of education and jniblic affairs.

BOWLIN, James Butler, diplomatist, was born in Spottsylvania county, Va., in 1804. He was given a common-school education and worked as a mechanic. In 1825 he removed to Greenbrier county, and two j-ears later was admitted to the bar. He practised his profes- sion there for six years, going to St. Louis, Mo., in 1833, where he soon acquired a large practice. He established the Farmers' and Mechanics' Ad- tocate, and became district-attorney and judge of the criminal court. In 1836 he was elected to the state house of representatives, and in 1842 was elected as a representative to the 28th Congress and was re-elected to the 29th, 30th and 31st congresses. He was appointed in 1854 U. S. minister to Colombia by President Pierce, and commissioner to Paraguay in 1858. He diod in St. Louis. Mo., July 19, lVj4.

BOWMAN, Alexander Hamilton, soldier, was bom in Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 15, 1803; son of Capt. Samuel Bowman, who attained distinction during the revf>lutionary war. After graduating at West Point, m 1825, third in his class, he received promotion in the corps of engineers as 2d lieutenant, and remained at the academy a year as assistant professor, when he was ordered to the department of the Gulf of Mexico, as assi.stant engineer of liarbor defences and im- provements. From 1834 to 1839 he was engaged in the con.struction of a military road from Memphis, Tenn., to the St. Francis river. Ark., and in improving the navigation of the Cumberland and Tenne.ssee rivers, after which he engineered the construction and repair of forts and defences in Virginia and South Carolina. In 1851-'52 he was at West Point as in.structor of practical mili- tary engineering. In ia53 he became chief engi-

neer of the construction bureau of the U. S. treasury department and was engaged for eight years in the construction of government build- ings in various jiarts of the country. He re- ceived promotion at regular intervals, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel of engineers March 3, 1863. From March, 1861, to July, 1864, he was superintendent of the U. S. military academy, when he became a member of a com- mission appointed to select sites for naval estab- lishments on western rivers. In June, 1865, he was one of the board of engineers for the im- provement and preservation of the coast defences in the vicinity of Boston, Mass. He died at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 11. 18G5.

BOWMAN, Edward Morris, musician, was born at Barnard, Vt., July 18, 1848. His musical education was begun in early boj'hood. He studied the piano and organ in America mider William Mason and John P. Morgan, and in Eu- rope, in 1872-'74, under Franz Bendel, August Haupt, Edouard Rohde, C. F. Weitzmann and Batiste, and was made an associate of the Royal college of organists in 1881. He aided in the organization of the Music teachers' national as- sociation, and was twice its president, and filled the same office seven terms in the American col- lege of musicians. He was a member of the committee on legislation for music in the public schools, and is the author of several essays, as well as editor of Weitzmann's " Manual of Musi- cal Theory."' In 1891, on the death of Dr. Fred- eric Louis Ritter, he was appointed professor of music at Yas.sar college, a position which he re- signed in 1895, in order to devote himself to pro- fessional duties in New York city. He was elected and served as president of the Virgil Clavier practice company, as associate editor of the Pianist and Organist, as president emeritus of the American college of musicians, and as a member of the Manuscript .society and other musical organizations. In September, 1895, Mr. Bowman undertook the organization of a chorus choir of two hundred voices for the Baptist Temple in Brooklyn. N. Y.

BOWMAN, Francis Caswell, musical critic, was born in New York city, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1831. He was graduated at Brown xmiversitj' in 1852, and practised law in his native city a few years. When the civil war broke out he went to Wash- ington with the 7th regiment N. Y. S. M., and afterwards helped to organize and conduct the United States .sanitary commission. He founded the Mendelssohn glee club of New York city. For several years he was musical critic on the New York Evening Post, and for seventeen years-oc- cupied the same position on the Sun. He was a frequent contributor to musical publications. He died in New York city, Oct. 29, 1884.