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=Boudinot= [boo´de-not], =Elias.= _Pa._, 1740-1821. A philanthropist
of Burlington, New Jersey, and the first president of the American
Bible Society. The Second Advent of the Messiah; The Age of Revelation,
a reply to Paine; The Star in the West, an attempt to identify the
American Indians with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. _See Life, edited
by J. J. Boudinot, 1896._
=Boughton, Willis.= _N. Y._, 1854- ----. An educator, professor of
English literature in Ohio University from 1892. A History of Ancient
Peoples; Mythology in Art. _Put._
=Bourke, John Gregory.= _Pa._, 1846-1896. A United States army officer.
The Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, a valuable contribution to
ethnology; An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre; On the Border with
Crook. _Scr._
=Bouton, John Bell.= _N. H._, 1830-1902. Son of N. Bouton, _infra_. A
New York littérateur. Loved and Lost: essays; Round the Block, a novel;
Treasury of Travel and Adventure; Memoir of General Bell; Roundabout to
Moscow, an Epicurean Journey; Uncle Sam’s Church. _Ap. Lam._
=Bouton, Nathaniel.= _Ct._, 1797-1878. State historian of New
Hampshire. He is best known for his edition of ten volumes of
Provincial Records and for a History of Concord, New Hampshire.
=Boutwell, George Sewall.= _Ms._, 1818- ----. A Massachusetts
statesman; Governor of the State, 1852-53; Secretary of the Treasury,
1869-73. Thoughts on Educational Topics; Manual of the Direct and
Excise Tax System of the United States; The Taxpayer’s Manual; Speeches
and Papers relating to the Rebellion; Why I am a Republican: a History
of the Republican Party; The Lawyer, the Statesman, the Soldier; The
Constitution of the United States at the end of the First Century. _Ap.
He._
=Bouvé, Edward Tracy.= 18-- - ----. A Boston writer of fiction.
Centuries Apart. _Lit._
=Bouvet, [Marie] Marguerite.= _La._, 1865- ----. A writer of excellent
juvenile books. Sweet William; Prince Tip-Top; Little Marjorie’s Love
Story; My Lady; A Child of Tuscany; Pierrette. _Mg._
=Bouvier= [boo-veer´], =Hannah.= Daughter of J. Bouvier, _infra_. _See
Peterson, Mrs._
=Bouvier, John.= _Iy._, 1787-1851. A jurist of Philadelphia. Law
Dictionary; Institutes of American Law. _Lip._
=Bovee, Christian Nestell.= _N. Y._, 1820-1904. An epigrammatic writer,
some of whose sayings have been much quoted. Thoughts, Feelings, and
Fancies; Intuitions and Summaries of Thought.
=Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll.= _Ms._, 1808-1892. Son of N. Bowditch,
_infra_. An eminent physician of Boston. Life of Nathaniel Bowditch for
the Young; The Young Stethoscopist; Public Hygiene in America.
=Bowditch, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1773-1838. A famous mathematician of
Salem, Massachusetts, whose translation of La Place’s Mécanique
Céleste, with extensive commentary, was his greatest work. The New
American Navigator was his only original work of note. _See Memoir, by
H. I. Bowditch._
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