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During the civil war he was breveited irajor July 

 1. 1*62. t"i- -enices in the battle of Mahern Hill'; 

 lieutenant colonel Dec. 13 following, lor Fivder- 

 icksburg: and colonel July 2. l*i!3. f<.r < iettyslmrg. 

 He v. in the siege of Yorktown. the bat- 



tles of Gaines's Mill, second Bull Run. and Chan- 

 cellorsville, and in suppressing the draft riots in 



York city in 1863. His field service was n. 

 as commander of the 6th Infantry. 



Boreman. Arthur Ingrahaiu. jurist, born in 

 Wayncsboro. Pa., July 24. 1*23 : died in Wheeling, 

 W. Va.. April 1!'. 1896. In early youth he accom- 

 panied his parents to West Virginia, where he ac- 

 quired a common-school education, and in 1845 was 

 admitted to the bar and settled in Parkersburg. 

 He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 

 IS")") till the outbreak of the civil war, and was a 

 vigorous opponent of the secession movement. In 

 June, 1861. lie presided over the convention of Un- 

 ionists of the northwestern counties of Virginia, at 

 Wheeling, to form the new State of West Virginia, 

 and in October following was elected a judge of the 

 circuit court. On the admission of the new State 

 into the Union, in 1863, he was elected its first Gov- 

 ernor. He was re-elected twice, but resigned in his 

 third term on being elected United States Senator 

 for the term ending March 3. 1875. After this sen- 

 atorial term he served for eight years as judge of 

 the 4th Judicial Circuit Court. 



Bonrke. John Gregory, military officer, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa.. June 23. 1846 : died there June 

 8, 1896. He served as a private in the 15th Penn- 

 sylvania Cavalry from Aug. 12. 1862. till July 5, 

 1>6.~> : was graduated at the United States Military 

 Academy and commissioned a 2d lieutenant in the 

 3d United States Cavalry, June 15. 1869; and was 

 promoted 1st lieutenant May 17. 1*7(1. and captain 

 June 26. 1882. In March, 1870, he was assigned to 

 duty on the staff of Gen. George Crook, and for 

 several years was almost constantly engaged in 

 campaigns against the Indians in Arizona, Mon- 

 tana, and elsewhere. lie was brevet ted captain 

 and major Feb. 27, 1890. for gallant services in ac- 

 tion against Indians at the Caves. Arizona, De 

 1*72 : in the campaign in Arizona in April. 1873; in 

 the attack on Indians on Powder river. Montana, 

 March 17, 1876 : and in the action on Rosebud creek 

 Montana. June 17. I* 1 76 : and was awarded a medal 

 of honor for gallantry in action at Stone river, Ten- 

 nessee, Dec. 31. 1*62.' and Jan. 1. 1*63. While en- 

 gaged in the Indian country he wrote several eth- 

 nological treatises, and his abilities in this line led 

 Gen. Sheridan to detail him for special duty in 

 Washington, where he performed much work for 

 the Bureau of Ethnology and served as sergeant-at- 

 arms of the Pan-American Congress. In 1892 he 

 rejoined his regiment at Fort Ringgold. Texas, and 

 for his success in suppressing armed violations of 

 the neutrality laws on the Mexican border he was 

 officially commended by the general of the army. 

 He was detailed for special service in the Latin- 

 American Department of the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion in 1893. and was stationed at Fort Ethan 

 Allen in 1895. Shortly before his death he com- 

 pleted a year's service as President of the American 

 Folklore Society. Capt. Bourke was a most unique 

 character: courageous to recklessness, apparent ly 

 fatigue proof, an enthusiastic student, a charming 

 writer, and withal so modest that he declined the 

 brevets of captain and major for his services against 

 the Indians because he felt that he had done noth- 

 ing to merit them. His last paper presented to the 

 American Folklore Society was entitled "Notes on 

 Some Arabic Survivals in 'the Language and Folk 

 L sage of the Rio Grande Valley." Besides many 

 contributions to scientific periodicals, he published 

 " The Snake Dance of the Mouquis " (1884; ; " On the 



Border with Crook 'The Medicine Men 



of the Apache- and "The Folk F-od ,,f 



the Rio Grande Vallev and of Northern Me\ 



Bowen, Henry Chandler, editor and publisher. 



born in \V ;.t. 11, 1813; died in 



Brooklyn. N. Y.. Feb. 24. 1896. He was educated 



at the \V 1-t'ick Academy, and spent four years 



as a clerk in his father's store. In 1833 he went to 

 Xew York city and found employment in the silk 

 house of Arthur Tappan <S; Co. The Tappan broth- 

 ers were well-known antislavery advocates, and 

 their store was one of the many places marked for 

 attack during the negro riots, and young Bowen 

 aided in protecting the property. At the end of his 

 five-years' engagement he went into the wholesale 

 silk and dry-goods business with a fellow-clerk, 

 Theodore McXamee. The young firm prospered 

 till the panic of 1857. when it received of its cred- 

 itors an extension, and Mr. McXamee retired. Mr. 

 Bowen then formed a partnership with Samuel P. 

 Holmes, and again prospered till the beginning of 

 the civil war, when, through inability to make col- 

 lections, the firm closed its business. On D 

 1848, the first issue of " The Independent " ap- 

 peared, under the joint editorship of Leonard 

 Bacon, Richard S. Storrs. Jr., Joseph P. Thompson, 

 and Joshua Leavitt. and the proprietorship of Mr. 

 Bowen. Mr. McXamee. Simeon B. Chittenden, Jona- 

 than Hunt, and Seth B. Hunt. The paper was be- 

 gun as a Congregational, antislavery organ : its 

 proprietors were all engaged in mercantile business, 

 with large Southern connections, and within a 

 brief period the radical opinions expressed in it 

 caused the proprietors to lose their trade in the 

 South. The other owners gradually relinquished 

 their interests in the paper, and it finally became 

 the sole property of Mr. Bowen. On his retirement 

 from mercantile business, in 1861. he applied him- 

 self to publishing the paper, and in six weeks 

 brought it from a losing to a paying condition. 

 Dis. Bacon. Storrs, and Thompson were succeeded 

 in the editorship by Henry Ward Beecher, and he 

 by Theodore Tilton. and on the retirement of the 

 latter Mr. Bowen assumed the editorial as well as 

 the business direction. In 1862 Mr. Bowen was ap- 



Sointed collector of internal revenue for the 3d 

 ew York District, which comprised the greater 

 Rrt of Brooklyn, and he held the office till removed 

 President Johnson because " The Independent '' 

 opposed his reconstruction policy. Mr. Bowen was 

 one of the first members of the Pilgrim Congrega- 

 tional Church, Brooklyn, a founder of Plymouth 

 Church, and for many years an ardent friend of 

 Mr. Beecher. He retained his connection with 

 Plymouth Church till the Tilton-Beecher trial, in 

 1*75. Though on terms of extreme intimacy with 

 both parties. Mr. Bowen was not called as a witness ; 

 but he was tried by a committee of the church on 

 charges of having slandered the pastor, and was 

 expelled from the society because he refused to 

 divulge facts which, he confessed, had come to his 

 knowledge. Mr. Bowen established a beautiful sum- 

 mer estate in Woodstock, known as Roseland Park, 

 where for many years he gave Fourth-of-July cele- 

 brations, with "many of the most eminent public 

 men of the country as speakers. He bequeathed 

 the reversion of $15,000 to Woodstock Academy 

 and the same amount to the trustees of Roseland 

 Pa*k, and created a special trust of 10,000 for the 

 maintenance of the park. 



Brady. Matthew B.. photographer, born in War- 

 ren County. X. Y.. in 1823 : died in Xew York city. 

 Jan. 16, 1*896. While studying to be a portrait 

 painter, he became intimate with Samuel F. B. 

 Morse, who was successfully following that art, and 

 when Daguerre's invention was first made public 



