BO WEN.
BOWEN.
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
- ' Elements of the Philosophy of the Hiunan
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.
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
