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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Riverside church of New York. In 1863-69 he was chaplain of the twenty-second regiment New York national guard. He was the author of The Place of Missions in Modern Christianity; Christian Union and Denominational Loyalty. He died in 1905 in New

York

City.

Booth, Walter, soldier, merchant, manufacturer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1791, in Weadbridge, Conn. For eighteen years he was president of the Meriden bank. He was a member of the Connecticut general assembly; was a member of the state senate; and in 1834 was an associate judge of the county court. He was major-general of militia. In 1849-51 he was representative from Connecticut to the thirty-first congress. Booth, Walter Sherman, educator, lawyer, publisher, genealogist, author, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in Bridgewater, Conn. He was admitted to the bar in 1861. In 1862-65 he had charge of the Rochester City Post. For many years he was court commissioner and city and ward justice of Rochester, N.Y. In 1876 he sold his interest in the Rochester Post and engaged exclusively in law publications. He is the author of Justice's Manual; Con.

Manual; Notary's and ConveyancManual; Township Manual; Highway Manual; Village Manual; and Genealogy of the Booth Family. Boothman, M. M., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1846, in Williams county, Ohio. In 1887-91 he was a representative from Ohio to the fiftieth and fiftystable's

er's

first

congresses as a republican.

Booth-Tucker, Frederick Saint George De Latour, evangelist, author, was born March 21, 1853, in the East Indies. Since 1896 he has been commander of the salvation army in the United States. He is the author of The Life of Catherine Booth; Life of General William Booth; and In Darkest India

and the

Way

Out.

Boott, Kirk, manufacturer, was bom Oct. 20, 1790, in Boston, Mass. He was a man of tireless energy, original and a born leader. The possibilities of Lowell as a manufacturing centre were just unfolding; and Boott at once threw himself into the developing of his particular company and of the town as well. His training as military engineer enabled him to take every mechanical advantage of the water-power offered by the Merrimack river; and mills, machinery, locks and canals all received his attention. He died April 11, 1837, in Lowell, Mass.

Booze, William

S.,

Borah, William Edgar, lawyer. United States senator, was born June 29, 1865, in Fairfield, 111. In 1889 he began the practice of law in Boise, Idaho. In 1907 he was elected a representative from Idaho to the United States senate for the term of 1907-13. Borden, Enoch R., journalist, was born in 1823. For twenty years before his death he was editor of the Daily State Gazette of Trenton, N.J.; except while serving as aidede-camp to General Newell and as secretary to the New Jersey state senate in 1865-66. He died May 16, 1870, in Trenton, N.J. Borden, Gail, manufacturer, inventor, was

born Nov. 6, 1801, in Norwich, N.Y. He was the inventor of a condensed milk. He died Jan. 11, 1874, in Borden, Texas. Borden, George Pennington, soldier, was born April 24, 1844, in Ft. Wayne, Ind. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in company C, one hundred and twenty-first regiment New York volunteer infantry. In 1907 he was

promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. Borden, Henry Lee, manufacturer, was born about 1837 in Texas. He is president of the New York condensed milk company. Although his principal business interests are in New York City he lives in Chicago, his com-

pany operating an extensive plant at Elgin, Recently, one shipment from his Elgin factory to San Francisco freighted an entire

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railway train. Borden, James Wallace, lawyer, jurist, diplomat, was born Feb. 5, 1810, in Beaufort, N.C. In 1841 he was elected judge of the twelfth Indiana judicial district; and in 1852 became judge of the court of common pleas. In 1857-63 he was United States minister to the Sandwich Islands. Borden, Joseph, soldier, patriot, was born Aug. 1, 1719, in Bordentown, N.J. In 1765 he was a representative from New Jersey to the stamp act congress in New York. He served in the revolution and attained the rank of colonel. He died April 8, 1791. Borden, Matthew Chaloner Dufree, merchant, manufacturer, philanthropist, was born July 18, 1842, in Fall River, Mass. The mills of his firm contain about two hundred

thousand spindles and more than five thousand looms, producing thirty-five thousand pieces

ans of the third congressional district in 1894 against Harry Welles Rusk, whose election to the house of representatives he contested unsuccessfully. In 1897-99 he was a representative from Maryland to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican. He is president of the league of republican clubs of Maryland.

of

print

cloth

weekly, or about onehalf the whole amount requred by the American printing company.

physician, congressman,

was born Jan. 9, 1862, in Baltimore, Md. He was nominated for congress by the republic-

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The

two

companies

are of enormous value to Fall River, Mass. prominent part in public affairs; He takes a with various philanthropic and is identified

movements

in his

town and

state.

Borden, Nathaniel B., state senator, congressman, was born April 15, 1801, in Fall River, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature in 1831, 1834 and