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BONAPARTE 103 BOND THE BONAPARTE FAMILY Charles Bonaparte (1) Joseph, (2) Napoleon I. King of 1804-1814, Spain, died 1821. died 1844, (3) bucien, Prince of Canine, died 1840. (4) Louis, King of Holland, died 1846. Duke of Reichstadt (Napoleon 11.), died 1832. Charles, died 1857. Paul, died 1827. I I Louis IMerre, Lucien, died died 1881. 1891. I Napoleon Louis Charles, Napoleon died 1807. (Napo- (3) Jerome, Kii^ of Westphalia, died 1860. I Prince Napoleon, died 1891. I I Lucien, Charles, Cardinal, died 1899. died 1895. Roland Jeanne leon III.), Victor. Louis Marie. 1850-1870; I died 1873. Prince I Hum- Napoleon bert. Louis (Prince Impe- rial, died 1879. Prince Charles Napoleon, brother of the late Cardinal Bonaparte, who died Feb. 12, 1899, was the last representa- tive of the eldest son of Napoleon's brother, Lucien, in the male line. He was born in 1839; was married and had two daughters — Marie, wife of Lieuten- ant Giotti, of the Italian army, and Eu- genie, unmarried. He had three sisters, mari'ied, respectively, to the Marquis of Roccagivione, Count Primoli, and Prince Gabrelli. Prince Roland Bonaparte is the only living male cousin of Prince Charles Na- poleon. He is a son of the late Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte; was born in 1858; married in 1880, the daughter of Blanc, iJie proprietor of the Monte Carlo gambling establishment. His wife died in 1882, leaving him a daughter and a fortune. He has one sister, Jeanne, born in 1861, and married to the Marquis de yilleneuve. BONAPARTE, CHARLES JOSEPH, American jurist; born in Baltimore, June 9, 1851. He is the grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia; a grad- uate of Harvard in the class of 1871, and of its law school three years later. Since 1874 he has been engaged in the practice of the law in Baltimore, where he soon became prominent in all move- ments for reform in the affairs of city, State, and nation. He served as a mem- ber of the Board of Indian Commission- ers from 1902 to 1904, and was Repub- lican Presidential elector and chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League during the latter year. From 1891 to 1901 he was an overseer of Harv- ard University. In 1904 he became a trustee of the Catholic University at Washington, and in May, 1905, entered the Cabinet of President Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy, and was made At- torney-General the following year; serv- ing until 1909. He was a member of many learned societies, and in 1917 was made a member of advisory board <5f the Council of National Defense. BONAR, HORATIUS, a celebrated Scotch hymnist, born in Edinburgh, Dec. 19, 1808; wrote "Hymns of Faith and Hope," many of which have been taken into the hymnals of most of the Protes- tant Churches. He also wrote more than 20 volumes on theological and religious subjects. He died July 31, 1889. BONAVENTURA, ST., an Italian friar of the Order of St. Francis, born in Tuscany in 1221. He was sent by his superiors to Paris, where he, as well as Thomas Aquinas, of the Dominican Order, became involved in contentions with the university, which denied the academical honors to individuals of the mendicant orders. It was not till 1257 that he received his doctor's degree. He had already been elected General of his Order. He retired to the convent of Mt. Alvernia in Tuscany, where he wrote "Vita Santi Francisco," and "Itinerarium mentis in Deum," for which last he re- ceived the appellation of the "Seraphic Doctor." He died July 15, 1274, from sheer ascetic exhaustion. Dante, who wrote shortly afterward, places him among the saints of his "Paradiso." In 1482, lie was formally canonized by Six- tus IV., and in 1587 was ranked by Six- tus V. as the 6th of the great doctors of the Church. BONA VISTA, a bay, cape, and town on the E. coast of Newfoundland. The town is a port of entry, and one of the oldest settlements in the island. BOND, a written acknowledgment or binding of a debt under seal. The person who gives the bond is called the obligor, and he to whom it is given the obligee. A bond is called single when it does not con-