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Bogie, Marcus A., physician, was born December 20, 1841, in Madison County, Ken- tucky. His parents were Daniel HI. and Emeline (Taylor) Bogie, natives of the same State. The father was a successful farmer and trader, whose entire life was passed in Kentucky, where he died at the age of sixty- six years. He was descended from James Bogie, of Scotch ancestry, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Kentucky, and a man of great force of character. The mother died at the age of thirty-six. She was of Scotch ancestry, and descended from Peter Taylor, a Virginian, who served in the Third and Eighth Virginia Regiments during the Revo- lutionary War. Her father, David C. Taylor, was a native of Kentucky, and a first cousin of President Zachary Taylor. Their son, Marcus A., was favored with most excellent educational advantages. Reared upon the home farm, he completed the course provided in the neighborhood schools, after which he entered the scientific department of the Ken- tucky University, from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of doctor of philosophy. Even before the completion of his literary education he had determined upon medicine as his profession, and to this end had already entered upon preparatory studies under the tutorship of a capable local practitioner. Im- mediately after his graduation from the Ken-
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tucky University he became a student in the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and after one session left this school to enter the Long Island College Hos- pital, at Brooklyn, New York, from which he was graduated in 1864. Returning to Ken- tucky he engaged in practice at Kirksville, but shortly afterward went to Mexico, locat- ing at Minatitlan, on the Isthmus of Te- huantepec, where he resided for nearly six years, practicing his profession and giving his principal attention to surgery. Returning to the United States, he paid his relatives a brief visit, and then went on to New York City, where he devoted one and one-half years to further study, and to observation of practice in the leading hospitals. He passed most satisfactory examinations in the Belle- vue Hospital Medical College, and in the medical department of New York University. and received diplomas from both these dis- tinguished institutions. He did not yet con- sider his medical education as completed, and his ambition to excel led him at a later day to intermit a successful practice for a period of six months in order to visit leading medi- cal schools and hospitals in Europe. in oh- servation of methods there in vogue. In 1871 he located in Kansas City, Missouri, and began a practice which has grown to exten- sive proportions, marked with great useful- ness to those whose sufferings he has been called upon to alleviate, and distinguishing him for professional skill and possession of those personal attributes which add to the influence and contribute to the success of the conscientious physician. He is a mem- ber of various professional bodies, among which are the American Medical Association, which he represented as a delegate in various medical associations in Europe in 1883 ; the Missouri State Medical Association, the Kansas State Medical Association, in which he holds honorary membership; the Kansas City District Medical Society, and the Jack- son County Medical Society. He holds miem- bership with the Knights of Pythias. E polities he is a Democrat, and in religion he is a member of the Christian Church. Dr. Bogie was married, November 19, 1872, to Miss Candace E. Park, an amiable and cu !- tured woman and sincere Christian, a mem- ber of the Christian Church, daughter of Joshua D. and Mary A. (Taylor) Park. Her death occurred March 16, 1876. Dr. Bogie
was again married, September 10, 1896, to Mrs. Elizabeth M. Morse, a native of Ohio, and a graduate of Butler College, at Indian- apolis, Indiana.
Bogy, Lewis V., United States Senator from Missouri, and long a distinguished citi- zen of St. Louis, was born April 9, 1813, in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and died in St. Louis, September 20, 1877. He was a de- scendant of one of the early French settlers at St. Genevieve, and was reared at that place. After obtaining a fairly good education he was for some years a clerk in a commercial establishment. In his young manhood he studied law in Illinois and Kentucky, and was graduated from the Lexington Law School in 1835. He then began practicing in St. Lonis, and while thus engaged took an active part in politics and public affairs. He was several times elected to the Missouri Legis- lature, and during the years 1867-8 was com- missioner of Indian affairs at Washington. Familiar from boyhood up with the mineral resources of Missouri, he interested himself in the development of these resources, and was one of the projectors of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad, of which he was president for two years. He did much to build up the iron interests of Missouri, and for years was one of the most prominent busi- ness men of the State. Always a loyal Deni- ocrat, he wielded an important influence in that party, and in 1873 was elected by a Dem- ocratie Legislature to the United States Senate. He served in that body on the com- mittees of Indian affairs, land claims, educa- tion and labor, and was an influential member of the Senate until his death.
Bohon, Albert Bowles, lawyer, was born in Marion County, Missouri, June 11, 1852, son of Benjamin Franklin and Eliza- beth (Bowles) Bohon. His father, who was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, Novem- ber 10, IS18, removed to Missouri in 1832, with his father, William Bohon, and located in Marion County, where he engaged in farm- ing. Later in life Benjamin F. Bohon re- turned to Kentucky, locating in Woodford County, where for some time he was judge of the county court. Subsequently he re- moved to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where his death occurred, February 2, 1882. He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity and a
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man of influence wherever he made his home. Judge Bohon was a son of William Bohon, whose father, Walter S. Bohon, a Virginian by birth, settled in Kentucky in the pioneer days of that State. He was one of the heroes of the War of 1812, serving with Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. His father, An- drew Bohon, a native of Scotland, was one of those patriots who espoused the cause of Robert Bruce, and by reason of his so doing was compelled to come to America to escape the penalty meted out to so many followers of the fallen Scotch leader. The name was originally Bohun. Our subject's mother was a daughter of Isaac Perry and Mary (Perry) Bowles, members of the family of which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was a rep- resentative. The Bowles family is of Irish descent, while the Perrys came of English ancestry. Mrs. Bohon, who was a native of Hanover Courthouse, Virginia, died in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1855. The education of A. B. Bohon was begun in the private seminary conducted by Captain Henry, at Versailles, Kentucky, and his classical course was concluded in 1869, at the Kentucky Military Institute at Farmdale. After leaving the latter institution he read law two years in the office of D. L. Thornton, at Versailles, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. From that time until 1881 he was en- gaged in farming, but in the latter year he removed to Harrisonville, Missouri, where he has resided for the past twenty years. In addition to the practice of his profession he has been interested in the real estate and loan business, in which he has been successful. Though Mr. Bohon has never sought nor held public office, he has always been actively interested in politics, being unswerving in his allegiance to the Democratic party and firm in the faith of its ultimate triumph. No man is more feared by the leaders of the Repub- lican party than he, for he is unrelenting in his efforts to strengthen his party where his influence can most successfully be exerted. For six years he has acted as secretary of the Democratic Central Committee of Cass County, and for a long time has served on the senatorial committee and the judicial dis- trict committee, now acting as secretary of the latter organization. When he organized the county committee the normal Democratic plurality in Cass County was but eight hun- dred. He perfected the organization by road
districts, and so successful have his efforts been that the county now has a safe majority of about eighteen hundred. Fraternally Mr. Bohon is identified with the Woodmen of the World, the National Reserve Association and the Royal Tribe of Joseph, in which bodies he has occupied all the chairs. An active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he has been a member of the Board of Stewards for fifteen years, and is now serving as district steward. Ile has been twice mar- ried, first, in 1876, to Nannie Duerson, of Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. She died at Versailles, Kentucky, in 1880, leaving two children, May, wife of Rev. A. P. Turner, of Marion County, Missouri, and Thornton, now attending school at Lexing- ton, Kentucky. March 2, 1892, Mr. Bohon married Annie Mullins, of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, by whom he has one son, Robert Bohon. Mr. Bohon is recognized as one of the substantial citizens of Harrisonville, where he is a potential factor in public af- fairs. He is liberal in his views, and from every standpoint a useful citizen.
Boiler Inspector .- A city officer pro- vided for by ordinance, whose duty is to inspect all boilers attached to stationary en- gines in the larger cities. He inspects ele- vators also, both for passengers and freight. Boilers are inspected once a year to see if they are in sound and safe condition, the fee charged being five dollars for each. Power elevators are inspected four times a year, and hand elevators twice a year, the fee being one dollar for each.
Bois Brule .- A name given by the French to a small creek in Perry County and also to the bottom lands along the stream. The Bois Brule bottoms, ranging from three to six miles in width, and about eighteen miles in length. are noted for their fertility. The name means "burnt wood."
Bois D'Arc .- A town in Greene County, on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railway, fourteen miles northwest of Spring- field, the county seat. It has a public school, a Christian Church, and lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows, and a large fruit cannery. It was platted in 1878 by Park & Bray, and was named from the extensive Osage orange hedges in the vicinity. In 1900 the popula- tion was estimated at 300.
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Boisliniere, Louis Charles, eminent as physician, author and educator, was born in the island of Guadeloupe, one of the West Indian possessions of France, September 2, 1816, and died in St. Louis, January 13, 1896. His full name was Louis Charles Cherot- Boisliniere, and his father was the owner of a large sugar plantation on the tropical island of Guadeloupe. The son obtained his early education under the guidance of private tu- tors in France, and later took his degree in letters and arts from the University of France. He studied law at the same institu- tion, receiving therefrom the degree and license which entitled him to practice in the French courts. Soon afterward he returned to Guadeloupe, and after arranging certain business affairs he made an extended trip through South America, in the course of which he verified certain observations made by Von Humboldt. Upon his return to Guade- loupe he found the affairs of the island in such an unsettled condition, in consequence of the emancipation of the negroes, that it promised little but turmoil for the immediate future, and on this account he determined to estab- lish his home in the United States. He ar- rived in New Orleans in 1842, and soon after- ward went to Kentucky, bearing letters of introduction to Henry Clay and other distin- guished persons residing in that State. There he entered upon the study of medicine in the medical department of the University of Louisville, under the preceptorship of such eminent physicians and educators as Drs. Gross, Flint, and the elder Yandell, and com- pleted his preparation for the practice of medicine at St. Louis Medical College, hav- ing been persuaded to come to that city by Dr. Henry M. Bullitt, who had been ap- pointed to a professorship in the St. Louis institution. He entered upon the active prac- tice of his profession in the city immediately after his graduation from the medical college, and rendered valuable service to the public during the cholera epidemic of 1849. In 1858 he was elected coroner of St. Louis County, and re-elected to that office in 1860, being the first physician who held that office, and in- angurating important reformns which have since governed its conduct and management. While engaged in a large general practice, he gave special attention to obstetrics and gyn- ecology, and induced the Sisters of Charity to open a lying-in hospital in St. Louis, which
was conducted under the name of St. Ann's Asylum, and was the first institution of its kind established west of the Alleghanies. In 1870 he was called to the chair of obstetrics, gynecology and diseases of children in St. Louis Medical College, and in connection with this professorship conducted a large gynecological clinic at the St. Louis Mul- lanphy Hospital. During the years 1878-9 he was president of the St. Louis Medical So- ciety, and he served several terms also as president of the St. Louis Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. St. Louis Uni- versity conferred upon him the degree of doctor of laws in 1879, and certain scientific communications of which he was the author caused him to be elected an honorary mem- ber of the Anthropological Society of Paris.
Boland, John Lewis, merchant, was born March 2, 1840, at Bolington, Loudoun County, Virginia, third son of Daniel and Eleanor (McElroy) Boland. His father was born in Ireland, but early in the present cen- tury came to this country, and settled first at Savannah, Georgia, where he was engaged for some years in mercantile pursuits. In 1815 Mr. Boland removed to Loudoun County, Virginia, where he became an extensive land owner and planter, with a large number of slaves. John L. Boland received a classical education at Calvert College, Maryland, and was a student at that institution at the begin- ning of the war between the States. Having grown up in the South, he was imbued with a love of its government, its people and its in- stitutions, and when the issues were raised which fired the Southern heart he gave his allegiance to the movement to found a new republic composed of the Southern States. Entering the Confederate Army with all the enthusiasm of an ardent nature, he served to the end of the war. Returning at the close of the war to his old home in Virginia, he found the conditions of his life materially changed. The devastation of war was every- where apparent, and there was little left to encourage him to begin life on his own ac- count in the "Old Dominion." In the west he saw "the rainbow of promise," and turn- ing his steps in this direction, he came to St. Louis at the beginning of the year 1866. There he began his commercial career as a clerk in the wholesale book and stationery trade, and four years later he was admitted
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to a partnership in the house with which he had become connected. Some time later he became sole proprietor of this establishment, which then entered upon a career of pros- perity which has since been continuous. In 1872 Mr. Boland married Miss Catharine M. Thomas, daughter of B. F. Thomas, Esq .. who was a native of Maryland, and a promi- nent member of the St. Louis bar previous to the Civil War. Mrs. Boland is a great-grand- daughter of the distinguished pioneer and philanthropist of St. Louis, John Mullanphy, who was noted alike for his great wealth and his munificent deeds of charity.
Bolckow .- A town in Andrew County, twenty-six miles north of St. Joseph and fif- teen miles north of Savannah. It was laid out in 1868 by John Anderson and Benjamin A. Conrad, and named in honor of one of the officials of the Platte Country Railroad. In 1878 it was incorporated. There are in the place a flouring mill, the Bolckow Savings Bank, with a capital of $18,500, and deposits of $50,000, a Masonic lodge, a lodge of Odd Fellows, a lodge of Good Templars, a Metho- dist and a Baptist Church, and a two-story public schoolhouse. The population is 500.
Bolen, James A., founder of the Bolen Coal Company of Kansas City, is a native of Missouri, born in Greene County in 1846, son of Dr. J. W. Bolen, a native of Georgia, who was married in Tennessee, moved to In- diana in 1834. and from there to Missouri about 1840, and for many years was a practic- ing physician in southwest Missouri. During the Civil War. James A. Bolen served with the Twenty-first Regiment of Kansas troops, and participated in the engagements at Big Blue and Westport. He was for a time a resident of Jasper County, and served four years as county recorder, and as deputy sheriff seven years. While there he became interested in mining properties, and is at the present time president of the Bolen Lead and Zine Company, and president of the Zenith Mining Company, both having extensive plants in the vicinity of Joplin. After the Civil War he served as deputy United States marshal, his duties taking him frequently into the Indian nation, and into Texas, between the years 1865 and 1875. He was noted for resolution and intrepidity, and on occasion arrested outlaws whom he personally con-
veved hundreds of miles on horseback. In 1879 he located in Kansas City, and opened a coal business, which he conducted under his own name until 1886. In that year he in- corporated the Bolen Coal Company, through which his name has become a household word in Kansas City. This corporation, which is one of the oldest and best known in the West, and which owes its origin and de- velopment in great degree to the capable management of Mr. Bolen, handles all de- scriptions of coal, including Pennsylvania anthracite, and, besides supplying its propor- tionate part of the local trade, finds markets wherever the many railways of Kansas City extend. Mr. Bolen is a member of the Com- mercial Club of Kansas City, and in connec- tion with this organization, as well as per- sonally, has contributed his full share to the various public movements which have aided in the establishment of the city as the com- mercial metropolis of the Missouri Valley. He is also prominent in Masonic circles, and holds membership in the most important bodies of the order. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married to Miss Frances Carter, daughter of William Carter, a prominent early settler of Jasper County, Missouri. Four children of this marriage are now living.
Bolivar .- The county seat of Polk County, and the terminus of the Bolivar branch of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, forty miles north of Springfield. It has publie schools, including a high school, and the Southwest Baptist College. The churches are Baptist, Christian, Methodist Episcopal and Methodist, South. Newspa- pers are the "Free Press," Republican, and the "Herald," Democratic. There are two banks, two building and loan associations, a steam flourmill, and a canning factory. In 1899 the population was 1,600. The first house built on the site was by Gustave Gon- ter, in 1832 or 1833. The earliest store- keepers were William Jamieson and Thomas J. Shannon, each claiming priority. When the town became the county seat of Polk County, in 1835, it took its name from that of a town in Tennessee, the home of a por- tion of the Polk family. It was incorporated by the county court in 1840, and by the Leg- islature in 1855. The government lapsed, and was revived in 1876. In 1881 it became a city
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of the fourth class, with John W. Ross as the first mayor.
Bolland, John F., merchant, was born May 14, 1857, in St. Louis, son of John and Rose (Brewer) Bolland. The elder Bolland came to St. Louis when a boy, and in 1839 established the business which is continued by the J. Bolland Jewelry Company. He was prominent as a man of affairs, lived a long and useful life, and died in 1893. John F. Bolland was educated in the public schools and at the Christian Brothers Academy, and obtained his earliest business experience as a clerk in his father's store. When he was nineteen years old he went to New York City, and for seven years thereafter was em- ployed as a traveling salesman for a noted firm of manufacturing jewelers in that city. Returning to St. Louis in 1884 he entered into partnership with his father in the retail jewelry business and the manufacture of jewelry. After the death of the elder Bolland he formed the joint stock company which be- came known as the J. Bolland Jewelry Com- pany, which succeeded to the conduct and management of a business established fifty- four years earlier. Of this corporation, which is widely known to the jewelry trade, and which numbers among its patrons people who come from all parts of the Southwest, Mr. Bolland has been president since its forma- tion. He is an accomplished merchant and a business man of high character, and is promi- nent also in social circles and as a member of the Mercantile and other clubs. He married, February 14, 1891, Miss Mary M. Buck, daughter of Samuel E. Buck, of Reading, Pennsylvania.
Perkins Creeks. Only about 28 per cent of the land is under cultivation, and about 60 per cent is timber, mostly gum, cypress, oak, hickory, some ash, walnut, cottonwood and pine. These woods are valuable, and the lumber industry is increasing, as is shown by the report of the lumber shipments in 1898, which were as follows. Sawed lumber, 3,- 188,800 feet ; logs, 288,000 feet ; black walnut logs, 90,000 feet ; cross-ties, 32,688; staves and barrel heads, 298 cars. The land is well adapted to the growing of the cereals, vege- tables and fruits. In 1898 there were shipped from the county 24.720 bushels of wheat, and 10,870 pounds of grass seed. The different grasses grow abundantly, and stock-raising is one of the most profitable branches of ag- riculture. In 1898 there were shipped to out- side markets 488 head of cattle, 4,200 head of hogs, 9,417 pounds of dressed beef, and 5,542 pounds of hides. There were also exported 235,249 pounds of poultry, 118,260 dozen of eggs, 700 baskets of peaches, 4,452 crates of strawberries, and 2,000 pounds of dried fruits. Minerals found in the county are iron, lead, zinc, kaolin and ochre, but little has been done in the way of development. For some years quantities of hematite iron ore were mined and shipped. Lead and zinc have not been found in such quantities as to make the mining of them profitable. Some deposits of kaolin have been worked, and shipments made to the porcelain factories of the East. Fine limestone, suitable for building pur- poses, is abundant. In the county there are thirty-three miles of railroad, the Iron Moun- tain, which passes southeasterly through the center ; the Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield & Southern, which terminates at Zalma, in the southern part, and connects with the St. Louis Southwestern, which touches the ized by an act of the State Legislature, ap- proved March 1, 1851. It was formed of portions of Wayne, Cape Girardeau and Stoddard Counties, and named in honor of George Frederick Bollinger. Bollinger was born in North Carolina of Swiss parentage. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and was shot at his home by Tories. George Frederick was the fourth son. In 1796 he settled on the White Water River, then in the district of Cape Girardeau. He had a companion named Moose, who re- mained only a short time in this region.
Bollinger County .- A county in the southeastern part of the State, bounded on , southern line. Bollinger County was organ- the north by Perry, on the east by Cape Gir- ardean, on the south by Stoddard and Wayne, and on the west by Wayne and Madi- son Counties : area, 381,081 acres. The sur- face of the county is irregular, broken and hilly, with wide valleys, some swamp land and rolling table lands. The soil is generally clay loam, red and gravelly in the rough sections and exceedingly fertile in the valleys. The county is well drained by the White Water in the northeastern part, the Castor in the south- western, and Crooked Creek in the southern part. Smaller streams are the Hurricane and
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Bollinger became acquainted with Louis Lorimier, commandant of the post at Cape Girardeau, who promised him concessions of land if he would induce settlers to locate in the country. According to the Spanish rules, settlers could locate on 800 arpens of land (about 640 acres) upon payment of fees which amounted to forty-one dollars, but they were required to make improvements and to be- come permanent settlers. Bollinger returned to North Carolina, and came back to Upper Louisiana with his wife and twenty colonists and their families. This party came across the country from North Carolina in wagons. and crossed the Mississippi River at Ste. Genevieve, January 1, 1800. Members of this expedition were Mathias, Jolin, Henry, Wil- liam, Daniel and Philip Bollinger and fami- lies ; Peter and Conrad Stutler, Joseph Nys- wonger, George and Peter Grount. Peter Crytes. John and Jacob Cotner, John and Isaac Miller, Frederick Limbough. Leonard Welker and Frank Slinkard. All were of German or Swiss parentage and members of the German Reformed Church. They all located on land along White Water River, each taking up from three to four hundred arpens. Soon after, by order of Lorimier. the members of the colony were formed into a militia company, under the command of George Frederick Bollinger, and became one of the best mounted and drilled organizations in the Territory. Bollinger built a log mill about 1801, and soon replaced it with a stone one. At this mill, for many years, was ground the bread stuff of the inhabitants. Other settlers on the White Water were Val- entine Lorr, Handel Barks, Elijah Welsh, Daniel Hildebrand and William Patterson, all of whom located on land in 1803. In the section that is now Bollinger County there were other settlers besides those on the White Water. In 1800 Urban Asherbrounar settled on Castor Creek, and before 1804 Ed- ward Haythorn and Joseph Watkins located on the same stream. near the St. Francois County. line. About the same time Thomas Lewis, James Smith and Lemuel Hargrave settled on Hog Creek, and John Lorance on Crooked Creek, and Daniel Hahn on the creek which bears his name, about two miles from the present site of Lutesville. Other early settlers were Henry Barber and John Deck, on Crooked Creek, and Jacob Nifong, Jacob Hinkle and Jacob Clodfelter, North
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