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died Feb. 17, 1864, in Cincinnati,

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Bonebrake, George Henry, soldier, lawyer, merchant, banker. He won brevet as lieutenant-colonel; and later received from the war department the medal of honor. In 1883 he established the Los Angeles national bank, of which he is president. He has also established first national bank in Pasadena, Pomona, Riverside, Santa Ana and Santa Monica; established a state bank in Santa Paula; the Savings bank of Southern California; and the State loan and trust company of Los Angeles, Cal.

Boner, John Henry, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1845, in Salem, N.C. He was one of the editors of the Century Dictionary; and Library of American Literature ; and was on the staff of Appleton's Cyclopsedia. He was the author of Whispering Pines, a volume of poems. He died in Washington, D.C. Bones, Marietta M., philanthropist, social reformer, was born May 4, 1842, in Clarion county, Pa. She was elected vice-president of the national woman's suffrage association; and was annually re-elected for nine years, when Susan B. Anthony with thirty of her friends voted the organization into another. She was secretary of the first nonpartisan national woman's christian tem-

perance union in 1889. She is the wife of Thomas A. Bones, president of the board of commissioners that built the Soldiers' home at

Hot Springs,

S.D.

Boney, Thomas Jefferson, accountant, banker, treasurer, was born July 24, 1881, in Temple, Texas. In 1900 he graduated from Hill's business college of Waco, Texas. He has been bookkeeper and accountant for a mercantile company; and in 1901-04 was bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the banking house of Lee and company at Miami, Texas. Since 1904 he has been assistant cashier of the Bank of Miami. He is also county treasurer for Roberts county, Texas. Bonford, Peter E., lawyer, jurist. In 186364 he was a justice of the supreme court of

sixth congresses. He was a major-general of militia ; and served in Mexico at the head of a battalion of South Carolina troops. He served as major-general in the confederate army in 1861. He was the thirty-sixth governor of South Carolina in 1862-64; and was a delegate to the New York convention of 1868. He died Aug. 28 1890, in White Sulph-

ur Springs, Va. Bonham, Milledge Luke, soldier, was born in South Carolina. He entered the naval academy as a cadet in 1883. He served in the Spanish-American war; was private and and quartermaster-sergeant first sergeant in the first regiment Georgia infantry in 1898; and in 1899-1901 served as private, sergeant and sergeant-major in the twentyninth regiment United States volunteer infantry. In 1901 he became second lieutenant in the twenty-ninth regiment United States volunteer infantry; and was honorably mustered out in the same year from the United States army. Boniface, George C, actor, was born in 1832 in New York City. He has starred throughout the United States in many popular dramas. Bonnar, John Duncan, physician, lecturer, author, was born May 7, 1852, in Canada. Since 1880 he has practiced medicine in Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of James Turnbull or Pioneer Life in Canada. Bonnel, Joseph, lawyer, jurist. In 1739 he

was an associate

justice of the supreme court Jersey. Bonnell, Henry H., author, poet, was born July 14, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Charlotte Bronte; George Eliot; Jane Austen; Studies in Their Works; and Gloria. Bonnell, John Harper, manufacturer, was born Dec. 3, 1850, in New York. In 1876 he began the manufacture of printing Ink; and he has been able to compete successfully with foreign markets.

of

New

Bonnell, John Mitchell, educator, clergycollege president, was born April 16, 1820, in Pennsylvania. He was a minister in Frankfort, Ky. president of several female colleges; and in 1859 accepted an election to the presidency of Wesleyan female college, where he remained for the last eleven years of his life. He died in September, 1871, at the

man,

Louisiana.

college.

Bonham, B. F., lawyer, jurist. In 1873-74 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Oregon; and in 1874-76 he was chief

Bonner, Geraldine, critic, author, was born 1870 on Staten Island, N.Y. For four years she was dramatic critic for the San Francisco Argonaut. She is the author of Hard Pan; The Castlecourt Diamond Case; and other works. Bonner, John, journalist, author, was born June 16, 1828, in Canada./- In 1857 he began his journalistic career; and was the first editor of Harper's Weekly. He is the author of Set of Child's Histories of Rome, Greece, United States, France and Spain. He died May

justice.

Bonham, Edward, soldier, was born in IlliIn 1861 he was a private in the forty-

nois.

seventh regiment Illinois infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

Bonham, Milledge L., soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in South Carolina. In 1857-61 he was a representative from South Carolina to the thirty-fifth and thirty-

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7,

1899, in

San Francisco,

Cal.