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(1864); "Street Lyrics" ; "Konigsmark, and other 



Poems" (1869); and "The Book of the Dead'" 

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Earth, 



Dirge for a Soldier." His dramatic works are " Calay- 

 nos" (1848), "Anne Bolleyn," "Leonor de Guz- 

 man," " Francesca da Rimini," " The Widow's 

 Marriage," and " The Betrothal/' 



Bomberger, John Henry Augustus, clergyman, born in 

 Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 13, 181V: died in Coilegeville. 

 Pa., Aug. 19, 1890. He was graduated at Marshall 

 College in 1837, and at Mercersburg Theological Sem- 

 inary, in 1838 ; was a tutor in Marshall College while 

 studying there ; was ordained pastor of the German 

 Reformed Church in Lewistown. Pa., in 1838; and 

 held pastorates in Waynesborough. Easton, and Phil- 

 adelphia till 1870, when he was chosen President of 

 Ursinus College, at Coilegeville, and of its theologi- 

 cal department. He received the degree of D.D. 

 from Franklin and Marshall College in 1854. Dr. 

 Bomberger translated and condensed six volumes of 

 Herzog's "Encyclopaedia" into two in 1856-'62, and 

 was prevented from completing the work by the civil 

 war. His publications include " Infant Salvation in 

 its Relation to Depravity, to Regeneration, and to 

 Baptism" (Philadelphia, 1859); " Five Years at the 

 Race Street Church, with an Ecclesiastical Appen- 

 dix" (1860) ; " The Revised Liturgy, a History and 

 Criticism of the Ritualistic Movement in the Reformed 

 Church" (1866); and "Reformed, not Ritualistic, a 

 Reply to Dr. Kevin's 'Vindication'" (1867). He 

 also 'edited " The Reformed Church Monthly " in 

 1868-'77. 



Bonham, Milledge L,, lawyer, born in Edgefield, 

 S. C., Dec. 25, 1813 ; died in White Sulphur Springs, 

 N. C., Aug. 27, 1890. He was graduated at South 

 Carolina College in 1834: served as major and adju- 

 tunt-general of the South Carolina Brigade in the 

 Seminule War in Florida in 1836, and was admitted 

 lo the bar in 1837. In 1840-' 44 he was a Representa- 

 tive in Congress. During the Mexican war he was 

 lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Twelfth United 

 States Infantry. In 1848-'57 he was solicitor of the 

 Southern circuit, and in 1856-'58 was elected Repre- 

 sentative in Congress from the Fourth South Carolina 

 District as a Democrat. He served as a member of 

 the Committee on Military Affairs till the secession of 

 South Carolina, when he resigned. He was appointed 

 a major-general of the South Carolina militia- was 

 commissioned a brigadier-general in the Confederate 

 army, April 19, 1861 ; commanded the center of Gen. 

 Beauregard's army in the first battle of Manassas, and 

 resigned his commission to enter the Confederate Con- 

 gress, Jan. 27, 1862. In December following he was 

 elected Governor of South Carolina, and in January, 

 1865, was again commissioned a brigadier-general in 

 the army. He was serving with Gen. Johnston at the 

 time of 'that officer's surrender. 



Borgess, Casper Henry, clergyman, born in Addrup, 

 Oldenburg, Germany, Aug. 1, 1826; died in Kalama- 

 zoo, Mich., May 3, 1890. When thirteen years old he 

 accompanied his parents to the United States. He 

 was graduated at St. Xavier's College and Seminary, 

 and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest Dec. 8, 

 1 848. For ten years he was pastor of the Church of the 

 Holy Cross, Columbus, Ohio ; was then made rector 

 of the cathedral of Cincinnati and chancellor of the 

 diocese, and after holding these offices for eleven 

 years, was appointed Bishop of Calydon and adminis- 

 trator of tb.3 diocese of Detroit, on Feb. 8, 1870. He 

 was consecrated on April 24 following, assumed at 

 once the direction of the diocese, and became by suc- 

 cession second Bishop of Detroit in December, 1871. 

 He remained in charge of his diocese till May, 1887, 

 when he resigned. 



Boudinot, Ellas C., lawyer, born in the old Cherokee 

 nation, near the present city of Rome, Ga., in 1835 ; 

 died in Fort Smith, Ark., Sept. 27, 1890. He was a 

 son of the Cherokee Indian chief Kill-kee-nah, who 

 in early life assumed the name of Elias Boudinot, of 



New Jersey, who had shown him many kindnesses. 

 The father was killed in a tribal feud when the son 

 was four years old, after the Indians had been re- 

 moved to the Indian Territory. Young Elias was 

 educated in Manchester, Vt., studied civil engineer- 

 ing, and, as his father's murderers had set a price on 

 his head, spent several years in Washington, D. C. 

 He also studied law and was admitted to the bar, and 

 became an accomplished linguist and musician. He 

 settled in Arkansas, and in 1860 was elected chairman 

 of the Democratic State Committee. In the following 

 year he became editor of the " TrueJ)emocrat" in 

 Little Rock, and major of a regiment of Cherokee In- 

 dians that he had recruited for the Confederate serv- 

 ice. He also served in the Confederate Congress 

 Through his influence the Government made the 

 treaty with the Cherokee Indians in 1868. As a poli- 

 tician he was noted for his" persistent advocacy of the 

 theory that the Federal Government should organize a 

 special system for the Indian Territory, divide the 

 land among the Indians in severalty, and extend to 

 them the rights of citizenship, and for his opposition 

 to the John Ross influence in the Cherokee tribe. 



Bowen, Prancis, educator, born in Charlestown, Mass., 

 Sept. 8, 1811 ; died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 21, 

 1890._ He was graduated at Harvard in 1833 ; and was 

 appointed instructor in mathematics in Phillips Ex- 

 eter Academy. In 1835 he returned to Harvard as 

 tutor in Greek, and was soon appointed instructor of 

 the senior class in mental and moral philosophy ; in 

 1850 was appointed to the professorship of History ; 

 and in 1853 was transferred to that of Natural Re- 

 ligion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, which he 

 held until his death. He opposed the doctrines of 

 Darwin, and accepted those of Sir William Hamilton. 

 He was editor and proprietor of " The North Amer- 

 ican Review " from 1843 till 1854, and editor of " The 

 American Almanac" for six years. He translated 

 many French and German philosophical works, and 

 published " Behr's Translation of Weber's Outlines 

 of Universal History, with the addition of a History 

 of the United States " (1853) ; " Documents of the 

 Constitutions of England and America, from Magna 

 Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789 " (1854) ; 

 "The Principles of Metaphysical and Ethical Science 

 applied to the Evidences of "Religion " (1855) ; " Du- 

 gald Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind, re- 

 vised and abridged, with Critical and Explanatory 

 Notes" (1854) ; " The Principles of Political Econo- 

 my applied to the Conditions and Institutions of the 

 American People" (1856); "The Metaphysics of 

 Sir William Hamilton, collected, arranged, and 

 abridged" (1862); "De Tocqueville's Democracy in 

 America, edited with Notes" (1862); "A Treatise 

 on Logic, or the Laws of Pure Thought, comprising 

 both the Aristotelic and the Hamiltonian Analyses of 

 Logical Forms" (1864); "American Political Econo- 

 my " (1870) ; " Modern Philosophy from Descartes to 

 Schopenhauer and Hartmann" (1877); "Gleanings 

 from a Literary Life" (1880); and "A Layman's 

 Study of the English Bible, considered in its Literary 

 and Secular Aspect" (1886). 



Bowen, John Eliot, journalist, born in Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., in June, 1858 ; died there, Jan. 3, 1890. He was 

 a son of Henry Chandler Bowen, proprietor of " The 

 Independent" ; was graduated at Yale University 

 with the highest honors of his class in 1871; soon 

 afterward became an editor on " The Independent," 

 and contributed to various American and European 

 magazines. During the past eight years he traveled 

 extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He received 

 the degree of Ph. D. from Columbia College in 1886. 

 Amono- other works he published " The Conflict Be- 

 tween the East and West in Egypt" and " Songs of 

 Toil." 



Boyd, Bobert, naval officer, born in Portland, Me., in 

 1834 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., July, 30, 1890. ^ He 

 was appointed an acting midshipman in the United 

 States navy on Jan. 14, 1850 ; was promoted midship- 

 man the same day; passed midshipman June 20, 

 1856 ; master, Jan. 22, 1858 ; lieutenant the day fol- 



