BIDDLE, CHARLES J. 



BOGLE, JAMES. 



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dem Scliauspielerleben " (Scenes in the Lives 

 of the Comedians), 2 vols., 1847 ; a series of 

 personal histories, "Auseinander," 1850; a 

 comedy, "Junker Otto." and a drama entitled 

 "Die Stiefmutter," both published in 1859. 



BIDDLE, CIIABLES JOHX, a soldier, lawyer, 

 journalist, and political leader, born in Phila- 

 delphia in 1819; died there, September 28, 

 1873. lie was a son of the late Nicholas Biddle, 

 graduated from Princeton College in 1837, 

 studied law and was admitted to the bar in 

 1840; served as a captain of the Voltigenrs in 

 the U. S. Army in the Mexican War, and was 

 in the actions of Contreras, Churubusco, Mo- 

 lino del Key, Chapultepec, and the taking of 

 the city of Mexico, and was brevettod major 

 for gallant and meritorious services. At the 

 close of that war he resumed the practice of 

 his profession in his native city. In 1861 he 

 was appointed a colonel in the Pennsylvania 

 Reserve Volunteer Corps, and in October, 1861, 

 was elected a member of the Thirty-seventh 

 Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 resignation of Hon. E. J. Morris. Before quit- 

 ting the field to take his seat in Congress he 

 was tendered a commission as brigadier-gen- 

 eral, but declined it. After the war he became 

 one of the proprietors and editor-in-chief of 

 the Philadelphia Age. His associates in that 

 paper rendered him a tribute of praise as elo- 

 quent as it was true : " His scholastic attain- 

 ments were of the highest order of excellence. 

 He was a bold, vigorous thinker, and a clear, 

 concise, forcible writer. In all he said and did 

 he was conscientious and earnest. He defend- 

 ed truth and denounced error with unflinch- 

 ing bravery. He was insensible to fear when 

 in the discharge of duty. His love of truth, 

 justice, and fair dealing, was of the pure, chiv- 

 alrous type. Ho know but one path to reach 

 an object, and that was tho straight road of 

 open, honest word and deed. He was a stran- 

 ger to gaile, duplicity, or deceit. Selfishness 

 was no part of his character. Ho was entirely 

 free from the taint of worldliness, and, as hus- 

 band, father, brother, he was ever willing to 

 sacrifice himself for the welfare of others." 



BIGSBY, ROBERT, LL. D., F. R. S., F. S. A., 

 an English historian and archaeologist, born in 

 Nottingham, England, in 1806 ; died in Lon- 

 don, October, 2, 1873. He was educated at 

 K--[>ton School, and was intended for the law; 

 but, being disappointed in regard to this, turned 

 his attention to antiquarian subjects, and be- 

 gan to gather materials for a history of the 

 town of Repton, which was not finally pub- 

 lished till 1854. From 1829 to his death he 

 hud devoted himself with great ardor to liter- 

 ary, historical, and antiquarian studies, and had 

 published a great number of works on these 

 subjects. His first book was "A Collection 

 i>t' Original Epigrams," published in 1829. In 

 1839 he issued a poem, entitled " Tho Triumph 

 '( Drake;" in 1842, a volume of "Miscella- 

 neous Poems and Essays ; " in 1848, " Visions 

 of the Times of Old, or tho Antiquarian Enthu- 



siast;" in 1853, a drama in twelve acts, 

 founded on the slave conspiracy at Malta, in 

 the time of the Knights of St. John, and en- 

 titled " Ombo ; " the same year, " Boldon Dela- 

 val," "The Delaval Correspondence," "My 

 Cousin's Story," and " Scraps from my Note- 

 Book ; " in 1855, " Remarks on the Expedi- 

 ency of a National Order of Merit ; " a year 

 or two later, "Observations on the Expedi- 

 ency of founding a National Institution in 

 Honor of Literature ; " " Irminsula, or the 

 Great Pillar, a Mythological Research," 1864 ; 

 " A Tribute to the Memory of Scanderbeg the 

 Great," 1866; "National Honors, and their 

 Noblest Claimants," 1867; "A Memoir of 

 the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, from the 

 Capitulation of Mnlta in 1798." Dr. Bigsby 

 received the degree of LL. D. from the Uni- 

 versity of Glasgow for literary merit ; was 

 granted a pension on the civil list for literary 

 services of $500 per annum, from 1860 to his 

 death ; was an honorary and corresponding 

 member of most of the foreign literary so- 

 cieties; secretary and registrar of the English 

 " Langue " of the Order of St. John of Jerusa- 

 lem ; and had received the decoration of sev- 

 eral foreign orders of merit. 



BIRTHS, REGISTRY OF. See MABBIAGB LI- 

 CENSES. 



BOGLE, JAMES, N. A., an American painter, 

 born in Georgetown, S. 0., in 1817; died in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., October 11, 1873. Mr. Bogle 

 came to Now York in 1836, when but nine- 

 teen years of age, and entered the studio of 

 the late Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse, the invent- 

 or of the telegraph, but then a painter of dis- 

 tinguished reputation, and the founder of the 

 National Academy of Design. After a period of 

 careful instruction, in which he proved himself 

 an apt pupil, Mr. Bogle opened a studio of his 

 own, and, confining himself to portrait-paint- 

 ing, soon achieved a merited distinction in 

 that department of the art. In 1850 he was 

 elected an Associate of the National Academy, 

 and in 1861 an Academician. For many years 

 his pictures occupied a prominent position at 

 the recurring exhibitions of the Academy, but 

 for a few years past his health compelled him 

 to spend much of his time in the South, and 

 his works appeared less frequently at the an- 

 nual exhibitions. From a long list of distin- 

 guished men whose portraits Mr. Bogle has 

 executed, those deserving of particular men- 

 tion are Hon. John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, 

 Daniel Webster, Chief-Justice Jones, Bishop 

 Atkinson, DeWitt Clinton, Rev. Dr. Buding- 

 ton, and many others. As an artist, Mr. Bo- 

 gle excelled in the accuracy of his drawings, 

 and in achieving that happy medium between 

 strength and vigor of touch, and that delicacy 

 of treatment which, in portraiture, while giv- 

 ing a sufficiently literal representation of the 

 face, always furnished a pleasing picture, even 

 from unpromising subjects. As a colorist, his 

 portraits exhibit thorough knowledge of art in 

 delicacy of gradation or mellowness of tone. 



