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BONNAFFON, Sylvester, Jr .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Private Ninety-ninth Pennsyl- vania Infantry, Dec. 14, 1861; Corporal. April 1, 1862; Sergeant, May 1, 1862; Second Lieutenant, Aug. 1, 1662; First Lieutenant. June 18, 1864; Captain, Oct. 10, 1564; honorably mustered out, July 1, 1865; Second Lieutenant, Thirty-first United States Infantry, May 22. 1867; brevetted Maior United States Volun- teers, March 19, 15, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of
Boydtown Plank Road, Va .; Lieutenant Colonel, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. Awarded the Medal of Honor under res- olution of Congress "for having checked the rout and rallied the troops of his com- mand in the face of a terrible fire of musketry in the battle of Boydtown Plank Road, Va., Oct. 27. 1864"; elected May 5, 1880. Address, 3439 Walnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
BONSALL, Amos:
Farmer; son of Benjamin and Anne Heacock Bonsal; born Jan. 20, 1830, in Delaware County, Pa .; was educated at the Bolmer Academy, Westchester, Pa., and from 1847 to 1848 in the Medical De- partment at the University of Pennsyl- vania; in 1860 received degree of A. M. at the Lafayette University. In May, 1853, accompanied Dr. Kane as Master's Mate of the United States Navy to Arctic regions in search of Sir John Fran- klin. returning in Oct., 1855. At Elwyn, Delaware County, Pa., he has been thirty- two years on Board of Managers at the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children; also Manager for twen- ty-two years of the Philadelphia House of Refuge, now at Glen Mills, Delaware County, Pa. Residence, 3731 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BOOK, George Milton:
Rear Admiral United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Acting Midshipman, Nov. 23, 1861; was graduated September, 1865; Ensign. Dec. 1, 1866; Master, March 12, 1Sos; Lieuten- ant, March 26, 1869; Lieutenant Com- mander, May 28, 1581; Commander, Dec. 16, 1591; Captain. March 29, 1899. Re- tired with rank of Rear Admiral, March S. 1900. Address, 100 Front St., New- castle, Pa.
BOOKER, John G .:
Pastor of the Berean Baptist Church; born Feb. 2, 1853, at Nottingham, Eng- land; was educated at Nottingham. Pas- tor of the Great Valley Baptist Church, Chester County, Pa .; Allegheny Avenue Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa .; and Berean Baptist Church, Reading, Pa .; married Sarah Henson, Nov. 24. 1875. Began business on his own account, 1875; relinquished the same and was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1893; he is a in politics.
Address, 712 North Ninth St., Reading. Pa.
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BOOZ, Albert:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal egion; private Eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry,, April 24, 1861; mustered out. Aug. 7, 1861; private, Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, Oct. 13, 1861; Sergeant, Oct. 17, 1861; discharged for promotion, May 27, 1863; Second Lieu- tenant, Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania In- fantry, May 27, 1863; honorably dis- charged for disability, June 20, 1563; elected Feb. 2, 1SS7. Address, 1414 North 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BOPE, Henry P .:
Vice President and General Manager of the Carnegie Steel Company; born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, Sept. 19, 1858; educated in the public schools of Lancaster and finished his studies privately.' His first venture in life was as a clerk in the State Agency of A. S. Barnes & Co., Columbus, Ohio; subse- quently studied short-hand and became an expert reporter; he reported the Ohio Legislature sessions of 1STS-1879, and gained much knowledge and experience; after the session of 1879 retired from public life and returned to his Sales Agency, going to Chicago as a repre- sentative of his old firm, A. S. Barnes & Co .; shortly afterward removed to Pittsburg and began his long connection with the Carnegie interests. Mr. Bope's advance was rapid and sure; he was suc- cessi ely with Carnegie Brothers & Co., Carnegie, Phipps & Co., the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, and the Na- tional Steel Company. His work was in the sales department. and he was moved to a leading position when the United States Steel Corporation became an ac- complished fact; in April, 1900, he was Assistant General Sales Agent, and in the following year he was made First Vice President; to-day he is First Vice President and General Sales Manager of the Carnegie Steel Company, the National Steel Company. and the American Steel Hoop Company. Mr. Bope married Miss Katherine Spencer, of Columbus, Ohio. His promotion was attained by ability and faithful service. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
BORCHERS, Lyman Tait:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Lieutenant, Sixty-seventli
Pennsylvania Infantry, Jan. 4, 1862; Cap- tain, Feb. 1, 1803; honorably mustered out, May 15, 1865; elected Feb. 6, 1895. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Le- gion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BORIE, Beauvean:
Banker and broker; born in Philadel- phia, May 9, 1846; was graduated from the College Department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1865, and en- tered the banking and brokerage firm of his father, the firm name becoming C. & H. Borie; as senior partner of this prominent firm he has long been a lead- ing element in the financial interests of Philadelphia. For many years an active member of the Philadelphia Stock Ex- change; has served on important com- mittees, has been several times its Vice President, and was made President of the Exchange in October, 1900; he is a Director of the Legigh Valley Railroad Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company, the American Dredging Company, and che Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives; Vice President of the Philadel- phia Warehouse Company, and a member of the Real Estate Trust Company. He is a member of the Union League, the Art Club, and the Philadelphia Club. Address, 1035 Spruce St., Philadelphia.
BORING, Edwin MeCurdy:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private, First Pennsylvania In- fantry, April 20, 1861; mustered out, July 26, 1861; First Sergeant, Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, Sept. 17, 1861; discharged for promotion, June 19, 1864; First Lieutenant. Seventy-ninth Pennsyl- vania Infantry, June 19, 1864; honorably mustered out, July 12, 1865; elected, Oct. 16. 1SS9. Member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Pennsylvania, Chickamau- gua and Chattanooga Battle Field Com- mission. Address, 933 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
BORLAND, John W .:
Captain, Sixteenth Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania; born in Mercer, Pa., Sept. 30, 1574; received his military instruction at Grove City Col- lege in 1821; Fifteenth Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, 1893: Corporal, 1895: Sergeant, 1897; discharged, 1898. at Mt. Gretna, Pa .: First Sergeant, Fifteenth Regiment Infantry, Pennsyl- vania Volunteers, 189S; mustered out with
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the Company, 1899, at Athens, Ga .; en-
listed as a private in Company F, Fif-
teenth Regiment Infantry, National Guard Pennsylvania, 1899; First Sergeant,
1899; elected First Lieutenant, 1900; elected Captain of the Sixteenth, 1902; Republican. Address, Grove City, Pa.
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BORTHWICK, John Livingston Din- widdie :
Lieutenant Commander United States Navy; born in Philadelphia, August 11, 1840; educated in that city and received the degree of M. A .; is a member of the First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, and with it served in the First Shenan- doah Valley Campaign of 1861; was pres- ent at the engagement of Falling Waters, Virginia; entered the Navy as a Third Assistant Engineer, Oct. 8, 1861, and was ordered to the Itasca; in that vessel par- icipated in the preliminary engagements below Forts Jackson and St. Philip. the removal of the obstructions below those forts; the passage of the forts and the capture of New Orleans; also in the en- gagements at Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, East Feliciana. Port Hudson, Baton Rogue, Pass Manchac, Donaldsonville, College Point and Red Church, all on the Mississippi River; at Velasco. Coast of Texas, and in the preliminary engage- ments and passage of Forts Morgan and Gaines, Mobile Bay; promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, Aug. 3. 1863; to a First Assistant Engineer, Oct. 11, 1866; `to a Passed Assistant Engineer, Feb. 24. 3874; to Chief Engineer, with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, Sept. 7, 1885; Michigan, November, 1892; Amphitrite, April, 1895-1896; Navy Yard, New York, June, 1896 to date of retirement, October, 1896. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
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BOSBYSHELL, Oliver C .:
Oliver C. Bosbyshell. soldier, enjoys the honorable distinction of having been the first Union soldier hurt by the enemy in the War of the Rebellion; he enlisted in April, 1861, and served his country until Oct. 1864; on the 18th day of April. 1861, as a Private in the Wash- ington Artilleryists of Pottsville, Schuyl- kill County -- the first command to re- spond to President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand men-he was marching with his comrades through Baltimore. en route to Washington, when the memorable attack was made upon
them by Southern sympathizers; Private Bosbyshell was struck on the head with a brick. Colonel Bosbyshell was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the 3rd of January, 1839; his father and mother, however, were natives of Philadelphia; he grew up in Schuylkill County, receiv- ing a fair education in the public schools, and was a student in the law office of his uncle, W. L. Whitney, when the war broke out, and he immediately enlisted as a private in the Washington Artillery and served continuously throughout the Civil War, having attained the rank of Major; was mustered out of service Oct. 1, 1864. Returning to Pottsville, the war being virtually ended, Major Bosbyshell engaged in business; always a devoted Republican. he was nominated by his party in Schuylkill County in 1866 for Prothonotary; the county being Demo- cratic, he was not elected, yet he re- ceived the highest vote of any Repub- lican candidate of the party that year. In 1867 he became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and organ- ized Post 23, of Pottsville; he was its first commander; afterward he became Dis- trict Commander of Schuylkill County: in 1869 he was elected Department Com- mander of Pennsylvania. In the same year he was made Register of Deposits in the United States Mint in Philadel- phia; soon afterward he was made As- sistant Coiner; he removed to Philadel- phia and has lived in that city ever since. In January, 1877, he was appointed Coiner by President Grant and served as such until in February, 1885, he was appointed by Colonel Dechert, the City Controller, to the position of Chief Clerk in the Con- troller's Office; it was a tribute to Major Bosbyshell's worth that he, a Republican. should be selected for the next most im- portant position in a Democratic Con- troller's office. Colonel Bosbyshell was appointed Superintendent of the Mint of the United States at Philadelphia by President Harrison on Oct. 17, 1809, and served a full term in that office, or until April. 1903. when he was made Vice President, and subsequently Treasurer of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., a position he still holds. Has been particu- larly interested in the National Guard of Pennsylvania for many years, having been Major of the Second Regiment in December. 1878, promoted Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, serving in all posi- tions with credit. In August. 1893. re- signed and was placed on the retired roll
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of officers. However, when the late war with Spain absorbed the National Guard, Colonel Bosbyshell was called again into the ranks of the National Guard. and by Gov. Hastings's direction, organized the Nineteenth Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, becoming its Colonel, a position he held until the mus- tering out of the regiment at the close of the war with Spain. Director of the Mu- sical Fund Hall; Chairman of the trus- tees of University Lodge, No. 610, F. and A. M .; Companion of Pennsylvania Com- mandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution; treasurer of the Penn- sylvania Commandery and Treasurer Gen- eral of the National Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars: a mem- ber of the Union League, Historical So- ciety and Old Guard of the Second Regi- ment, United States Volunteers, and Past Commander of the Department of Pennsylvania Grand Army of the Repub- lic, being a Comrade in Post 2, of this lic, being a Comrade in Post 2, of Phila- delphia. Address, 236 South 44th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BOSWELL, Russell Thomas:
Lawyer; born in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., Nov. 27, 1863; attended the A. D. Bache, Thomas Wood and Thad- deus Stevens public schools and the Protestant Episcopal Academy; graduated A. B. Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., Jun. 26, (Latin Salutatory), and A. M. on June 30, 1SS7, from same college; after three years' course, the last two at the Law Department, graduated LL. B. at the University of Pennsylvania June S, 1887 and he was admitted to practice same year; visited Europe in 1889; Jan. 22, 1895, married Martha West, daught- er of Adam S.
and Elizabeth F. Bare; Jan. 1, 1903, with Walter E. Buck- ley, Esq., he formed law firm of Boswell & Buckley; member of Law Academy, Law Association of Philadelphia, and charter member of the Pennsylvania Bar Associa- tion. Address, 604 Drexel Building, Phila- delphia, Pa.
BOSWORTH, Giles B .:
Coke manufacturer, capitalist; born in Pittsburg. Feb. 2. 1856; son of Mahlon M. and Adelia L. Bosworth; educated in pub- lic schools; employed as Post Librarian at the Allegheny Arsenal at the age of
15; Auditor. Secretary, Treasurer and Vice President of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, retaining the Vice Presidency after the Frick Company merged with the Carnegie Steel Company, and later with the United Steel Corporation; with- drew from the latter in 1901; has since resided in Pittsburg and at Colorado Springs, Col .; married in 1878 to Melzena A. Reed, of Pittsburg; contributed ex- tensively to newspaper publications and compiled statistics of the coke trade. Clubs: Union, Pittsburg, El Paso, Colo- rado Springs. Address, Union Club, Pittsburg; and Colorado Springs, Colo.
BOUDINOT, William Bradford Stock- ton:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; First Lieutenant, Ninth New Jersey Infantry, Oct. 15. 1861; Captain, May 16, 1862; resigned and honorably dis- charged, Feb. 17, 1864; elected April 13, 1867. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
BOUGHTER, Francis:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Naval Cadet, May 17, 1883; Ensign, July 1. 1899; Lieutenant (junior grade), Sept. 26, 1897; Lieutenant, March 3, 1899; Portsmouth, 1889; Thetis, 1893; Marble- head, 1897; Yosemite, 1897; Naval Proving Ground, 1901; Rainbow, Feb. 1, 1902; Wis- consin. Aid on staff of Rear Admiral Cooper. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
BOUGHTON, John Wesley:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Regimental Quartermaster-Ser- geant, First Wisconsin Cavalry, Sept. 1, 1861; discharged for promotion, July 12. 1864; First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, First Wisconsin Cavalry, July 13, 1864; honorably mustered out, Jan. 5, 1865; elected Oct. 14. 1891. Ad- dress care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BOULTON, Harry:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Clearfield County; was born in England in 1872; educated in the public schools of Arizona Terri- tory and Pennsylvania; worked in the coal mines of Clearfield County; studied
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law while supporting himself as a sten- ographer, and was admitted to practice as an attorney in 1897; was appointed Secretary of the Clearfield Republican County Committee in 1894. in which ca- pacity he served until 1838; was elected chairman of the County Committee in 1899, which position he held until 1902, when he resigned to make a can- vass for the Republican nomination for the office of Assembly, to which ofice he was elected in November, 1902. Address, 404 Briggs St., Harrisburg, Pa.
BOUTON, Joseph W .:
Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Mckeon County. Address Smethport. Pa.
BOVARD, Forrest J .. B. S., M. D .:
Born in Tionesta, Pa., in 1874; was graduated from Grove City College in 1892: completed one year in Pittsburg College of Pharmacy; graduated from Jef- ferson Medical College in 1997; has prac- ticed medicine in Tionesta, Pa., since 1897: served three years as physician to the Forest County. Pennsylvania, Home; surgeon to Pennsylvania Railroad; Ex- aminer for Equitable. Mutual Benefit, New York Mutual Life. Home Life. Aetna. Metropolitan. Penn. Mutual. State Life, Northwestern, Security Life & Trust. Fidelity, Pittsburg Trust & Life, Pro- tected Home Circle, Modern Woodmen. Address, Tionesta, Pa.
1 BOVARD. George W .:
Merchant; President Tionesta Board of Health; Surgeon Major Fourth Regiment. Tons of Veterans Reserve of Pennsylva- nia; member Olive Lodge F. and A. M., Tionesta, Pa., Venango County and Penn- sylvania State Medical Society and Am- crican Medical Association; son of John- son and Lydia Adams Bovard; was born in Butler County, Pa., May 12, 1841; reared and educated in his native coun- ty. In 1862. enlisted in Company F. 137th Pennsylvania Volunteers and served nine months, when he was honorably dis- charged. After that he engaged in mer- cantile business at Sherman Well, Venan- go County, where he was postmaster five years. In 15;1 removed to Tionesta, Where he established his present business. being also a member of the firm of E. Berlin & Company. merchants, at Whig Hill, Pa. In 1962. married Miss Sarah Stewart, of Butler County. They have three children: Charles Stewart. Forest Johnson, M. D., and Roy. a student at
the State College of Pennsylvania. Is a member of George Stowe Post, Grand Army of the Republic, No. 274, of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. Address, Tion- esta, Pa.
BOWEEN, Edward Roscoe:
Insurance official; born Oct. 16, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa., son of William Ezra and Elizabeth (Kirtley) Bowen: educat- ed at schools in Philadelphia; graduated, 1856. from Classical and Commercial High School, Lawrenceville, N. J .; served dur- ing Civil War, and promoted to rank of Lieutenant Colonel. 114th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1864; Compan- ion Military Order Loyal Legion, Penn- sylvania Commandery; member Merion Cricket Club; now with Equitable Life Assurance Society; April 4, 1872. mar- ried Katherine Moore, daughter of Joseph Thomas and Ann Williams (Moore) Ma- ther. Address, 23S Drexel Building, Phil- adelphia, Pa.
BOWEN, Edward Roscoe, Jr .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of Companion Lieut. Col. Edward R. Bowen; elected May 4, 1898. Address, 23S Drexel Building, Phila- delphia, Pa.
BOWEN, George Altheus:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: private, Twelfth New Jersey In- fantry, August 11, 18#2: Sergeant. Sept. 4. 1862; First Sergeant, July 6, 1863; dis- charged for promotion. April 24, 1864; First Lieutenant. Twelfth New Jersey In- fantry, April 25, 1864: Captain, Nov. 12, 1864; honorably mustered out. June 4. 1865: elected, May 1. 1895. Address, care of Recorder of Loval Legion, 1535 Chest- nut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
BOWER. Frank:
Meat curer; born in Philadelphia. Nov. 1. 1840: educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from the Central High School: he engaged in business as a butcher in 1858, and in 1865 joined the meat-curing firm of John Bower & Co. John Bower, his consin. died in 1975, and the other partner. William Enterman. re- tired in 1890, leaving the business to Mr. Bower, and the estate of John Bower. represented by Charles Bower: the busi- ness has grown into one of enormous di-
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mensions, and is one of the largest and most complete meat-packing and curing houses in the City of Philadelphia, being fitted with every facility for the curing and packing of beef and pork, it having a capacity for handling three hundred hogs a day; Mr. Bower was President for six years of the German Fire Insurance Company, is a Director of the Guarantee Company, is prominently identified with the Trades' League, the Commercial Ex- change, and other organizations; he is an ardent horseman, and for ten years was President of the Belmont Driving Club. Address, 802 North 24th St., Philadelphia.
BOWER, Thompson:
President of Watsontown National Bank Address, Watsontown, Northumberland County, Pa.
BOWERSOX, Francis Clouser:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Snyder County, was born in Franklin Township, Snyder County, Pa., Nov. 9, 1867; educated in the public schools, and Central Pennsylvania College, at New Berlin, Pa., since con- solidated with Albright College; is now a Trustee of Albright College; taught public school threc terms; served as clerk to the County Commissioners for two and a half years, which position he resigned in July, 1893, to accept the office of County Superintendent of Public Schools, to which he had been elected the pre- vious May, and served in said capacity for three terms; elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Ad- dress, Middleburg, Pa.
BOWMAN, Charles C .:
Mining President and Director; born in Troy. N. Y., Nov. 14, 1852; educated in the High School of Lansingburg, N. Y., but at 14 was apprenticed to the wood- working trade; while thus engaged he saved money for a college course, and subsequently entered Union College, from which he graduated in 1875, with a diplo- ma for civil engineering. During the fol- lowing Summer he was employed in con- structing the State Insane Asylum at Danvers, Mass., and early in 1876 became engaged in the Pittston coal region, in the employment of the Pennsylvania Coal Company: served in this situation till July. 1962. when he entered the firm of C. P. Matthews & Co., operating the Florence Colliery, of which he became
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the Manager, and afterward the selling agent, for this and other collieries, in which service he built up a successful trade; his business connections extended till he became the President of the Avoca Coal Company, Secretary and Treasurer of the Franklin Coal Company, Director of the Raub Coal Company, Treasurer of the Luzerne County Fair Association, etc. In 1896 he was elected Mayor of Pitts- ton. Address, Pittston, Pa.
BOWMAN, E. W .:
Assistant Cashier, Citizens National Bank, Tionesta, Pa .; son of James Clin- ton and Elizabeth Walters Bowman; born at Tylersburg, Clarion County. Aug. 14, 1871; attended the Edinboro State Normal School; graduated with first honors from the Clarion State Normal School in 1892. After spending some time in teaching, he attended the Indiana State University; in 1894 took the position of Registrar in the Clarion State Normal School; in 1896 went to Tionesta, where he has been As- sistant Cashier in the Citizens' National Bank ever since. Was married to Miss Minnie Landers. of Tionesta, in 1997. Address, Tionesta, Pa.
BOWMAN. James Clinton:
Banker, lumberman and oil producer; son of David and Ellen Robertson Bow- man; was born near Newmansville, Clar- ion County, Jan. 31, 1847; reared on his father's farm and educated in the local schools of his district. Embarked in the. lumber business in 1869, and for almost thirty years conducted a successful busi- ness as a manufacturer of lumber in For- est and Clarion Counties. Became an oil operator in 189S, and has extensive in- terests in Forest and Venango Countics. Was married to Miss Elizabeth Walter, of Newmansville, and to them were born three children: Ernest W., of the Citizens National Bank, Mrs. Ethel May Proper and Fern. In 1889 was made cashier of the Second National Bank of Clarion, which position he held till 1896, when he removed to Tionesta, where he has since been cashier of the Citizens' National Bank. Address, Tionesta, Pa.
BOWMAN, John J .:
Principal of the Ezra F. Bowman Tech- 'nical School: born in Lancaster, Aug. 10, 1378; educated in public schools of Lan- caster and Academy of Franklin and Marshall College. Author: "The Manipu-
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lation of Steel in Watchwork," (Jewelers' Circular Publishing Co., 1903). Served in National Guard of Pennsylvania. Ad- dress, Lancaster, Pa.
BOYCE, James C .:
Lawyer; was born Oct. 7, 1939, at Old- town, Maine, the son of Michael and Ruth IJ. (Dyer) Boyce; Was educated at the public schools of Bangor, Me .. and Holy Cross College, Wooster, Mass .; was tadmitted to the bar in the City of New York, Nov. 19, 1860; to the Venango County bar, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1872; to the Allegheny County bar, Pennsyl- vania, April 29, 1$30; before moving to Pittsburg he practiced in Venange and Mckean Counties, Pa .; for twenty-five years he has been the General Attorney for the Oil Well Supply Company. Ad- dress, 215 Water St., Pittsburg, Pa.
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