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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BOLTON BRIDGE.) 



firm of R. M. & E. H. Blatchford, and became secre- 

 tary to William H. Seward when the latter was 

 elected Governor of New York. From 1845 till 1854 

 he practiced law in Auburn, N. Y., with the firm 

 of which Gov. Seward and Christopher Morgan 

 were members, and in the latter year returned to 

 New York city, and with Clarence A. Seward and 

 Burr W. Griswold formed the firm of Blatchford, 

 Seward & Griswold. While achieving success in 

 general practice, it was his application to admiralty 

 law that gave him the widest repute. Under appoint- 

 ment by Judge Samuel Nelson as reporter of the 

 United States Circuit Court for the 2d Judicial Cir- 

 cuit, he began in 1852 the compilation of " Blatchtbrd's 

 Reports" of cases in that court, which were continued 

 till 1888. In 1855 he also began the publication of 

 reports of admiralty cases in the United States Dis- 

 trict Court of the Southern District of New York, 

 known as " Blatehford & Howland's Reports." Fur- 

 ther compilations were " Blatchford's Prize Cases," 

 in the district and circuit courts, prepared for the 

 Department of State, " General Statutes of New York," 

 and " New York Civil and Criminal Justice." On 

 May 3, 1867, he was appointed by President Johnson 

 judge of the United States District Court for the 

 Southern District of New York, to succeed Judge 

 Samuel R. Belts, resigned. His opinions while on 

 this bench are given in ' Benedict's District Court 

 Reports." In March, 1878, President Hayes appoint- 

 ed him judge of the United States Circuit Court for 

 the Second Circuit, to succeed the late Judge Alex- 

 ander S. Johnson. His opinions here are given in 

 " Blatchford's Circuit Court Reports," also in the 

 *' Federal Reporter." Judge Blatchford held this 

 office till March, 1882, when, on the retirement of As- 

 sociate-Justice Ward Hunt from the bench of the 

 United States Supreme Court, and the refusal of Ros- 

 coe Conkling to accept the office in succession, Presi- 

 dent Arthur tendered him the vacant seat on the 

 bench, and he accepted it. In this court he continued 

 to give close attention to admiralty cases, and also 

 rendered important decisions on bankruptcy, copy- 

 right, patent, and libel causes. He received the de- 

 gree of LL.D. from Columbia College in 1867, and 

 was a trustee of that institution from that year till 

 his death. 



Bolton, Sarah Tittle, author, born in Newport, Ky., 

 Dec. 18, 1815 ; died in Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 4, 

 1893. She removed with her parents to Madison, Ind., 

 in early life ; began contributing verse to a local 

 newspaper in 1831 ; married Nathaniel Bolton, then 

 an editor; accompanied him to Geneva, Switzerland, 

 where he was United States consul in 1855-'57, and 

 while abroad continued to contribute to American 

 newspapers. Collections of her poems, of which the 

 war song" The Union Forever," " Paddle your own Ca- 

 noe," and " Left on the Battlefield," are the most 

 widely known, were published in New York city in 

 1865, and in Indianapolis in 1886. 



Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon, military officer, born in 

 Baltimore, Md., Nov. 5, 1830 ; died in Beverly, Mass., 

 Sept. 3, 1893. He was a grandnephew of the Em- 

 peror Napoleon I, and grandson of Jerome Bona- 

 parte, King of Wurtemberg, and of Elizabeth Patter- 

 son, of Baltimore. He was graduated at the United 

 States Military Academy in 1852 ; served on the 

 Texas frontier till 1854 ; resigned, and entered the 

 French army as a lieutenant of dragoons ; distin- 

 guished himself at Balaklava, Inkernian, and Sebas- 

 topol ; and received the decoration of knight of the 

 French Legion of Honor, the Crimean medal from 

 Queen Victoria, and the Medjidil order from the Sul- 

 tan of Turkey. In 1856-'57 he took part in the Al- 

 gerian campaign, and in 1859 was in the Italian cam- 

 paign against Austria, receiving both French and 

 Italian decorations for his services. He was in the 

 Empress's Guard in 1867-'70; was promoted colonel; 

 and, escaping with difficulty from the Commune, re- 

 turned to the United States ia 1871. While in France 

 he appealed to the highest tribunals to establish his 

 right to use the name of Bonaparte, and they decided 



in his favor, but dynastic reasons prevented any fur- 

 ther action. 



Bond, Hugh Lennox, jurist, born in Baltimore, Md., 

 Dec. 16, 1828; died there, Oct. 24, 1893. He was a 

 son of the Rev. Thomas Emerson Bond, for many 

 years editor of the " Christian Advocate," and was 

 graduated atthe Universitv of the City of New York 

 m 1848. Returning to Baltimore, he studied law and 

 was admitted to the bar, where he soon gained high 

 rank. From 1860 till 1868 he was judge o"f the crimi- 

 nal court of Baltimore, and since 1869 had been Unit- 

 ed States circuit judge for the 4th Judicial Circuit. 

 While judge of the criminal court he ordered the re- 

 lease of many citizens who had been arrested for dis- 

 playing the American flag, and urged the enlistment 

 of slaves in the Union army. His most signal dis- 

 tinction was his administration of the law in the fa- 

 mous Kuklux trials in South Carolina, over which he 

 presided with great dignity and utter fearlessness. 

 In 1876, when the Supreme Court of South Carolina 

 had imprisoned the presidential electoral board and a 

 writ of habeas corpus had been sworn out for their 

 release, he ordered the discharge of the board on the 

 ground that they had officially exercised a Federal 

 function and were not amenable to State law for its 

 performance. 



Boynton, Edward Carlisle, military officer, born in 

 Vermont, in 1824; died in Newburgh, N. Y., May 13, 

 1893. He was graduated at the United States Mili- 

 tary Academy and appointed brevet 2d lieutenant in 

 the 2d United States Artillery in 1846; took part in 

 the Mexican War, and was wounded at Churubusco; 

 was Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and 

 Geology at the Military Academy in 1848-'55 ; accom- 

 panied the expedition against the Serninole Indians 

 in Florida in 1855-'56 ; and resigned from the army 

 to accept a professorship in the University of Missis- 

 sippi in the latter year. In 1861 he lost this office be- 

 cause of lack of sympathy with the secession move- 

 ment, and on Sept. 23 was reappointed to the army as 

 captain in the llth United States Infantry. lie 'was 

 on duty at the Military Academy through the war, 

 was brevetted major, U. S. A., for services in 18(55, and 

 resigned in 1872. Subsequently he was superintend- 

 ent of the Newburgh water works. He published 

 works on military and philosophical subjects. 



Bragaldi, Marquis Mario, architect, born in Milan, 

 Italy, in 1806; died in New York city, Oct. 24, 1893. 

 He removed to New York city in 1832, bringing with 

 him a reputation as a decorative artist and architect, 

 and was soon established in professional work. Be- 

 sides decorating many private dwellings and design- 

 ing other structures, he prepared the plans for the 

 National Theater, the Richmond Hill Theater, the 

 Eagle Theater in New York city, and the Stewart 

 building on lower Broadway. About 1848 he was 

 summoned to Rio de Janeiro by the Emperor of Bra- 

 zil, where he planned, superintended the erection, 

 and decorated the interior of the new palace. From 

 Brazil he went to Spain, where he built the Theater 

 Royal in Madrid, and the theater in Barcelona; 

 thence to England, and designed the seat of the Duke 

 of Hamilton and other costly edifices ; then to Milan, 

 where he decorated the Arcade of Victor Emmanuel ; 

 and returning to New York city decorated the resi- 

 dence of Alexander T. Stewart. Subsequently the 

 marquis was Col. Mapleson's principal scenic artist 

 during that manager's operatic engagements. 



Bridge, Horatio, naval officer, born in Augusta, Me., 

 April 8, 1806: died in Athens, Pa., March 18,1893. 

 He was graduated at Bowdoin College, in the class 

 with Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfel- 

 low, in 1825 ; was admitted to the bar in 1828, and 

 practiced in Augusta for ten years ; and entered the 

 United States navy as paymaster in 1838. He made 

 a three years' cruise in the Mediterranean in the 

 " Cyane, ' and one of two years off the coast of Africa 

 in the " Saratoga " ; was at the Portsmouth Navy 

 Yard in 1849-'5l ; was chief of the Bureau of Provi- 

 sions and Clothing of the Navy in 1854-'69 ; chief in- 

 spector of provisions and clothing in 1869-'73 ; and 



