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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bowman, Francis Caswell, soldier, lawyer, was born Dec. 39, 1831, in New York City. At the beginning of the civil war he joined the seventh New York regimusician,

ment; and subsequently became engaged in the organization and service of the united States sanitary commission at Washington. He founded the Mendelssohn glee club of New Y'ork City; and was its president for five years. For seventeen years he was musical editor of the New York Sun. He died Oct. 39, 1884, in New York City. Bowman, Obadiah, congressman, was born in New York. In 1851-53 he was a representative from New Y'ork to the thirty-sec-

Bowman, Roland Claude, artist, author, Since poet, was born in 1870 in Michigan. 1897 he has been cartoonist on the Minneapolis Tribune. He is the author of Freckles and Tan, u, volume of illustrated verse. Bowman, Samuel, clergyman, bishop, was born May 21, 1800, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. In 1847 he was elected bishop of Indiana, but declined; and was consecrated bishop of

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Pennsylvania in 1858. near Butler, Pa.

Bowman, Samuel

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died Aug.

soldier,

3,

1861,

was born

in

Pennsylvania. In 1861 he became major in the fourth regiment Illinois cavalry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

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and was postmaster in 188589 and again in 1894. In 1891-93 he was a representative from Iowa to the fifty-second congress as a democrat. Bowman, Thomas Franklin, lawyer, clergyman, was born May 22, 1857, in Rutherford county, N.C. He received his education at the Cumberland university at Lebanon, Tenn. During President Garfield's administration he was appointed United States commissioner for middle Tennessee. He is entirely a self-made man; and has attained an enviable reputation in the south as an able lawyer and a, successful minister of the gosBlufls in 1882;

pel.

Bowne, Andrew, lawyer,

ond coneress.

died June

4,

1885.

Bowman, Selwyn Zadock,

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 11, 1840, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1870, 1871 and 1875; was city solicitor of Somerville in 1872-73; and was a state senator in 1876-77. In 1879-83 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. Bowman, Thomas, clergyman, bishop, was born July 15, 1817, in Berwick, Pa. He attenf'.pd the Wilbraham academy of Massachusetts; studied in Caze-

novia seminary; and graduated from the Dickinson college of Pennsylvania. In 184858 he was principal of the Dickinson seminary of Williamsport,Pa then in 1858-72 he was president of the De Pauw university of Greencastle, Ind.; and in 1864-65 was chaplain of the United States senate. Since 1872 he has been a bishop of the methodist episcopal church. In this office he has attended all the conferences in the United States and in Europe, India, Japan, China and Mexico.

Bowman, Thomas, merchant, congressman, was born May 25, 1848, in Wiscasset, Maine; and is a descendant of John Bridge, the puritan. He moved to Council Bluffs in 1868; and was treasurer of Pottawattamie county in 1875-81. He was elected mayor of Council

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jurist.

In 1705 he

was an

associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. Bowne, Borden Parker, educator, author, was born Jan. 14, 1847, in Leonardville, N.J. He was professor of philosophy in Boston university. He is the author of The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer; Studies in Theism; Metaphysics: a Study of First Principles; Introduction to Psychological Theory; Philosophy of Theism; Principles of Ethics; and Theory of Thought and Knowledge. Bowne, Samuel S., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1795. He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1834. In 1841-43 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-seventh congress. In 1857 he was judge of Otsego county. He died July 15, 1865, in Otsego county, N.Y. Bowne, Walter, grand sachem. He represented New York in the state senate for three successive terms; and was mayor of the common council in 1827-31. He died Aug. 31, 1846, in New York. Bownocker, John A., educator, geologist, was born March 11, 1865, in St. Paul, Ohio. He was .educated at the Ohio university; studied in the university of Chicago; and graduated from Yale university. He is professor of inorganic geology in the state university of Ohio and state geologist of Ohio. Bowser, Edward Albert, educator, author, was born June 18, 1845, in Canada. Since 1870 he has bepn professor of mathematics at Rutgers college. Since 1875 he has been in charge of the geodetic survey of New Jersey. He is the author of Academic Algebra; College Algebra; Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Analytic Geometry; Differential and Integral Calculus; Analytic Mechanics;

Hydromechanics; Logarithmic Tables; and Roofs and Bridges. Bowyer, Eli, soldier, was born in Ohio. In 1861 he became major in the eleventh regiment Missouri infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died March 6, 1886. Boyce, Henry, lawyer, jurist. He was judge of the United States district court in 1884 or some time prior to that year. Boyce, James, clergyman, educator, college president, was born Jan. 25, 1860, in Gaston