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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BOWEN BROWNE.) 



of the subject, and his reputation for practical 

 knowledge was widespread. He was a member of 

 the Academy of Science in Chicago, and of the 

 New York Entomological Society. From boy- 

 hood Mr. Bolter's chief pursuit outside of busi- 

 ness hours was the collection of insects. His col- 

 lection of beetles, butterflies, and other insects is 

 said to be the finest on the continent, and one of 

 the most complete private collections in the 

 world. 



Bowen, Anna Maud, educator, born in Chi- 

 cago, 111., in 1872; died there, Jan. 28, 1900. She 

 entered Chicago University in 1891. As a fresh- 

 man, in the philosophical course, she accom- 

 plished twice the amount of work required, and 

 she was graduated in 1894, with the degree of 

 bachelor of philosophy. In 1895 she was made a 

 fellow of philosophy at Cornell, and in two years 

 received the degree of Ph. D. After a course at 

 Leipsic she was made dean of the seminary at 

 Martin's Ferry, Ohio, and then became an editorial 

 writer on the Nation, which place she held until 

 her appointment, in June, 1899, as dean of Wom- 

 an's Hall, Northwestern University. She was 

 the youngest woman ever appointed to that 

 post. , 



Bowman, William Spener, theologian, born 

 in Virginia, Aug. 3, 1830; died at Mount Pleas- 

 ant, N. C., March 26, 1900. His parents were 

 descendants of Germans who settled in the val- 

 ley of Virginia prior to the Revolutionary War. 

 He was educated in the common schools of his na- 

 tive country, studied languages and theology under 

 private tutors, and was ordained to the office of 

 the ministry by the synod of Virginia in 1856. 

 He served parishes in Virginia, South Carolina, 

 and Georgia, having a congregation in Savannah 

 during the last nine years of his life. He received 

 the degree of doctor of divinity from Newberry 

 College in 1870, and was president of the board 

 of the same institution for many years. Besides 

 this, he held many posts of honor and trust in the 

 Southern Church, and received recognition as a 

 literary and scientific scholar. 



Boyd, Belle (Mrs. Nathaniel High), actress 

 and dramatist, born in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 

 MM y. 1843; died in Kilbourne. \Vis., June 11, 1900. 

 During the war she was a Confederate spy, and 

 was commissioned captain. She was captured in 

 1864, and sentenced to be shot, but managed to 

 escape on her promise to go to England. There 

 she married Lieut. Hardinge, a Federal officer who 

 had aided her to escape the death penalty, and 

 after his death, in 1869, she married John Ham- 

 mond, a former officer of the British army. She 

 made her first appearance at the Theater Royal, 

 Manchester, England, in the autumn of 1866, as 

 Pauline, in The Lady of Lyons, under the tutor- 

 ship of Walter Montgomery and Avonia Jones. 

 After a few weeks of popular success with the 

 Manchester company she came to St. Louis, Mo., 

 where she played her second engagement, and im- 

 mediately afterward began a successful starring 

 tour of the Southern States. In 1868 she became 

 a member of the Miles & Bates stock com- 

 pany in Cincinnati, under the name Nina Ben- 

 jamin. In the same year she was engaged as a 

 leading member of the company, playing in Gal- 

 vest on and Houston, Texas, and in 1869 was in 

 a similar place in the St. Charles's Theater, New 

 Orleans. On Feb. 22, 1876, she began at Toledo, 

 Ohio, a highly successful dramatization of her 

 own adventurous career as a Confederate spy, 

 which she played throughout the country for fif- 

 teen years. She married in 1885 Nathaniel High, 

 of Toledo. Boucicault's Belle Lamar is supposed 

 to be a rearrangement of her play Belle Boyd. 



Braden, John, educator, born Aug. 18, 1828; 

 died in Nashville. Tenn., June 10, 1900. Dr. 

 Braden was one of the founders of Central Ten- 

 nessee University, one of the largest institutions 

 in the South for the education of colored youth, 

 and had been its president since 1869. He was 

 graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1853, 

 and taught for a year in Xenia Female Seminary. 

 In 1854 he was admitted to the Cincinnati Con- 

 ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 

 he filled Methodist pulpits and preached in 

 Methodist schools until 1868, when he was ap- 

 pointed principal of the city schools of Nash- 

 ville. One year later he became president of Cen- 

 tral University. Iowa University conferred on 

 him the degree of D. D. in 1873. 



Brown, John Wesley, clergyman, born in Bal- 

 timore, Md., July 7, 1837 ; died in New York 

 city, Nov. 10, 1900. He was graduated at Dickin- 

 son College in 1855, as a civil engineer, and was 

 for two years in the Government service. He 

 then returned to Dickinson Seminary, and in 1858 

 entered the Me'thodist 'ministry, but in 1866 en- 

 tered the Protestant Episcopal Church. His <h>1 

 charge was in Middleton, Del. He was rector of 

 Trinity Church, Philadelphia; Christ Church, De- 

 troit; Trinity Church, Cleveland; and for five 

 years of St. Paul's Church, Buffalo. On June 1 

 he succeeded the Rev. Dr. William F. Morgan in 

 the rectorship of St. Thomas's Church, New York 

 city. While in Buffalo he was president of the 

 Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and 

 was chaplain of the 65th New York Regiment. 

 He was widely interested in the organizations and 

 charities of his denomination. 



Brown, Moses True, elocutionist, born in Deer- 

 field, N. H., March 4, 1827; died in Sandusky, 

 Ohio, Sept. 11, 1900. He was educated at tin- 

 high school, Manchester, N. H. He taught school 

 in his early manhood, and was for six years super- 

 intendent of the public schools of Toledo, Ohio. 

 He was for two years critic and literary adviser 

 for the firm of Van Antwerp Bragg & Co., of Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, and then resigned his place with 

 that house to become a teacher of elocution in the 

 schools and colleges of the country. He met with 

 great success, and was known as one of the fore- 

 most interpreters of Dickens. He finally settled 

 in Boston, and soon afterward became Professor 

 of Oratory in Tufts College, where he remained 

 more than twenty years. During this time In- 

 taught in the Boston School of Oratory, and in 

 1886 became its president. He resigned in IS!) I 

 and removed to Sandusky, Ohio, and devoted his 

 time to lecturing. In 1899 he w r as elected to th- 

 chair of the Philosophy of Expression in Ohio 

 Wesleyan University. He was the author of Th 

 Synthetic Philosophy of Expression. 



* Browne, William Henry, lawyer, born in New 

 York city, June 24, 1828; died in Chai -lesto\\ n. 

 W. Va., Sept. 15, 1900. During the Mexican \Y;iv 

 he enlisted, was made second lieutenant, engaged 

 in all the battles from Vera Cruz to the taking 

 of the city of Mexico, and was promoted first 

 lieutenant and brevetted captain. After the \V:T 

 he returned to New York city, where he became 

 identified with the City Troop, the Fusileers, and 

 the regiment now known as the 7th. When tl>e 

 Republican party was formed he was active in 

 organizing party clubs, and was chairman of tl e 

 meeting that nominated John C. Fremont for the 

 presidency. At the outbreak of the civil war he 

 raised at his own expense 14 companies, which 

 were marched to Albany to fill up' regiments form- 

 ing there. He was commissioned lieutenant col* 

 nel of the 31st Regiment, New York Volunteers, 

 and later was promoted colonel of the 36th New 



