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Oases," eight volumes of " Greenleaf's Reports," 

 " Goddard on Easements," " Benjamin on Sales," 

 " Pomeroy's Constitutional Law," " Indermaur's 

 Principles of Common Law," and five volumes of 

 " Fire Insurance Cases." He contributed frequently 

 to professional journals and was coeditor of the 

 " American Law Register." 



Bennett, Joseph M., philanthropist, born in 

 Juliustown, N. J., Aug. 16, 1816; died in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Sept. 29, 1898. He went to Philadelphia 

 when sixteen years of age, engaged in the clothing 

 business, and was the originator of a unique build- 

 ing known as Tower Hall, where his poems, append- 

 ed to clothing advertisements, were well known. He 

 began his work of philanthropy in 1880, when he 

 gave 40 acres in what is now Fairmount Park, val- 

 ued at $400,000, for the erection of a Methodist 

 orphanage, afterward contributing largely to its 

 support. He also founded the Hays Home, and 

 gave valuable properties to the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and the 

 Methodist deaconesses. His property, which in- 

 cluded the Chestnut Street Opera House, was said 

 to be worth $3,000,000, and it is estimated that his 

 gifts to charity amounted to $1,000,000. (See GIFTS 

 AND BEQUESTS.) 



Bennett, Sandford Fillmore,hymnologist, born 

 in Eden, N. Y., in 1836 ; died in Richmond. 111., 

 June 12, 1898. In 1860 he went to Elkhorn, Wis., 

 and became editor of the " Independent," subse- 

 quently resigning the place to enter the 40th Wis- 

 consin Volunteers, with which he served till the 

 close of the war. On his return he studied medi- 

 cine and engaged in the drug business. In 1867 

 he became associated with J. P. Webster, the com- 

 poser, in preparing a Sunday-school hymn book, 

 " The Signet Ring," to which he contributed nearly 

 100 hymns. One of the first of these was "The 

 Sweet Bye and Bye," which was inspired by a dole- 

 ful chance remark of Mr. Webster's. Mr. Bennett 

 wrote the words at once. Mr. Webster took a violin 

 and soon produced the melody. Within two hours 

 both men were singing the hymn that has become 

 famous. Mr. Bennett composed numerous hymns 

 and songs that were published in sheets. 



Benteen, Frederick William, military officer, 

 born in Petersburg, Va., Aug. 24, 1834; died in 

 Atlanta, Ga., June 22. 1898. He was educated in 

 his native State, and lived there till the beginning 

 of the civil war, when, strongly opposed to seces- 

 sion, he went to Missouri and organized a company 

 of Union volunteers. He was commissioned 1st 

 lieutenant, 10th Missouri Cavalry, Sept. 1, 1861 ; 

 was promoted captain. Oct. 1 following; major, 

 Dec. 18, 1862 ; lieutenant colonel, Feb. 27, 1864 ; 

 colonel 138th United States Colored Infantry, July 

 15, 1865; and was mustered out 'of the volunteer 

 service Jan. 6, 1866. On July 28 following he was 

 commissioned a captain in the famous 7th Cavalry; 

 on Dec. 17, 1882, he was promoted major of the 

 9th Cavalry ; and on July 7, 1888, he was retired. 

 His most distinguished service was after the war, in 

 campaigns against the Indians. He was brevetted 

 major and lieutenant colonel, March 2, 1867, for 

 gallantry in the battle of the Osage and in the 

 charge on Columbus, Ga., respectively; colonel, 

 Aug. 13, 1868. for the engagement with Indians on 

 Saline river, Kan. ; and brigadier general, Feb. 27, 

 1890, for the action against Indians on the Little 

 Big Horn, Mont., known as the Custer massacre, in 

 1870, and for similar action at Canon creek, Mont., 

 in 1877. 



Bogan, Frederick B., military officer, born in 

 Boston, Mass., Feb. 10, 1851 ; died there, Aug. 9, 

 1898. He was educated in the public schools, 

 entered the office of the city architect in 1878, was 

 transferred to the Public Buildings Department in 



1885, and at the declaration of war against Spain 

 was superintendent of the department. His mili- 

 tary career opened in 1866, when he enlisted as a 

 private in the 5th Massachusetts Militia. In 1882 

 he was commissioned major of the 9th Infantry ; in 

 1892 was appointed inspector general of the State 

 militia ; and in 1893 was elected colonel of the 9th 

 Infantry. This regiment was one of the first to 

 enter the United States volunteer army under the 

 President's call after war with Spain was declared, 

 and also one of the first detailed for the campaign 

 in Cuba. Col. Bogan was prostrated by the hard- 

 ships of the service before and after the surrender 

 of Santiago, and was taken home for treatment, 

 but died a few days after his arrival. 



Booth, Henry, jurist, born in Roxbury, Conn., 

 Aug. 19. 1818; died in Minden, Neb., April 29, 

 1898. He was graduated at Yale in 1840 ; spent a 

 year in teaching in Wellsboro, Pa., was graduated 

 at the Yale law school in 1844, and settled in 

 Towanda, Pa., to practice. In 1856 he removed to 

 Poughkeepsie, N. V., and for two years had charge 

 of the law department of the State and National 

 Law School. Thence he was called to assist in 

 organizing a law department in the University of 

 Chicago, of which he had the principal charge till 

 1870, when he was elected one of the judges of the 

 circuit court of Cook County. He served on the 

 bench till 1879, and in the meantime continued to 

 be connected with the law school as its dean. After 

 his retirement he resided in Pasadena, Cal. 



Bowker, Sarah Lamson, benefactor, died in 

 Newton, Mass., July 27, 1898. She was the founder 

 and for twenty-two years president of the Woman's 

 Board of Missions, the first denominational organi- 

 zation specially formed for women's foreign mis- 

 sionary work. Two large buildings in foreign 

 lands bear her name Bowker Hall, in Bombay, In- 

 dia, the American Mission School, and Bowker 

 Hall in Constantinople, one of the two large build- 

 ings of the American College for Girls, which, has 

 done much to educate and elevate women in Tur- 

 key. In 1890, through ill health and increasing in- 

 firmities, Mrs. Bowker was obliged to retire from 

 the presidency of the mission board. Besides this 

 work she was active during the civil war in vari- 

 ous soldiers' relief organizations, was president of 

 the Union Maternal Association, and was con- 

 nected with societies for aiding women. She had 

 passed the greater part of her life in Boston, where 

 she and her husband, Albert Bowker, who survived 

 her but a day, spent con>iderable money in charity. 

 (See also GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) 



Boynton, Albert, journalist, born in Bangor, 

 Me., March 31, 1837; died in Alma, Mich., Jan. 9, 

 1898. He took a partial course at Bowdoin College, 

 leaving on account of failing health and going to 

 Montreal, where he practiced law and entered jour- 

 nalism. In 1857 he removed to Detroit, Mich., en- 

 gaged in practice, and served as city attorney and 

 police judge. In 1872 he acquired an interest in 

 the " Detroit Free Press," and from that time till 

 his death was its principal editorial and political 

 writer. 



Braine, Daniel Lawrence, naval officer, born 

 in New York city, May 18, 1829 ; d. in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Jan. 30, 1898. He was appointed a midship- 

 man in the navy, May 30, 1846; was promoted 

 passed midshipman, June 8, 1852 ; master, Sept. 15, 

 1855; lieutenant, the day following; lieutenant 

 commander, July 16, 1862 ; commander, Julv 25, 

 1866; captain, Dec. 11, 1874; commodore, March 

 2, 1885 ; and rear admiral, Sept. 4, 1887 ; and was 

 retired May 18, 1891. He was on sea duty twenty- 

 one years and one month, and on shore or other 

 duty sixteen years and five months. His first serv- 

 ice was on the sloop " Austin," of the Texas repub- 





