Poor and The Charity Organization Society; born in Windsor county, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1876; son of Vernon C. and Emma (Kent) Blachtly; educated at Windsor, N.Y., High School, Regent's Diploma, Binghamton, N.Y. High School; gaduated from Lowell Business College, student College City of N.Y., N.Y. School of Philantropy; married, Jan. 18, 1905, Laura B. Nevins. Was with New York State Board of Charities in charge of the New York office of the State and Alien Poor Department for three years; resigned to become superintendent of Joint Application Bureau Dec. 1, 1907. Assistant secretary 1st City Conference of Charities and Corrections. Presbyterian. Member Executive Commitee of the 19th Assembly District Direct Primaries Association. Member New York Probation Association, Broome County Association. Recreations: Tennis, boating. Clubs: Republican (19th Assembly District, New York), New York Monday (treasurer), Caroline Country, Hartsdale, N.Y. (president).

Bleakie, Robert, manufacturer, banker, was born in Scotland, Aug. 1, 1833; on of John and Mary (Maxwell) Bleakie; educated in Scotland and came to the United States in 1857; married, first, Dec. 1, 1860, Isabella Henderson (died 1880); married, second, Oct. 12, 1882, Mary A. Wetherell. Engaged as mill hand and manager 1847-1860; proprietor of cotton batting mill, Tolland, Conn., 1861-1862, Riverside Mill, Providence, R.I., 1862; manager of Hyde Park Mill, 1863-1873; president and general manager Robert Bleakie and company, since 1875, and Webster Woolen company (Sabbattus, Maine). President Hyde Park Savings Bank, Hyde Park Water company. Was chairman Board of Selectmen. Member Woolen Goods Association of New York. Vicepresident Massachusetts Tariff Reform League.

Blease, Coleman Livingston, governor of the state of South Carolina, was born in October, 1886, in Newberry County, S.C. He receiped his collegiate education at Newberry College; and graduated from the Georgetown law sesool at Washington, D.C. In 1894-1900 he served three terms as a representative in the South Carolina state legislature; and was twice elected speaker protem. He has been county chairman; a member of nearly all the state convention; and for the past ten years has been a member of the State Democratic executive Committee. He has also served three terms as city attorney of Newberry; and is a prominent member of the Improved Order of Red Men; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; and Woodmen of the World. In 1905-09 se was member of the South Carolina state senate; and was the president protem of that body. He was elected governor of South Carolina for the term of 1911-13; and resides in Columbia, S.C.

Blochman, Lucien A., banker, was born in San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 9, 1865; son of A. and Marie (Sarassin) Blochman; educated in public chools of San Francisco, grammar and high, also learned.

French, German and Spanish privately; married San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1898, Haidee Goldtree; one son and daughter. Served as assistant cashier of Commercial Bank, San Luis Obispo, had charge of Bank of Cayucos, Cal., 1893; started Blochman Banking company, Nov., 1893, cashier since that time; now appointed by California Bankers Association, member Legislative Committee that drew up present Bank Act; member of Clearing House Committee. President of New Pedrara Onyx company, New Pedrara Mexican Onyx company, Pennsylvania company, California National Life Insurance company; secretary East Puente Oil company; director and treasurer San Diego-Coalinga Oil company and San Diego Mantle Lamp company; director U. S. Grand Hotel company; director Panama-California Exposition. Served two years in Cadet company, over twelve years in National Guard of California, and captain of Wheelmen Rifles during Spanish-American war; two years in City Council, and four years as alderman in San Diego, Cal., also in various city, country and congressional conventions, and as fire commissioner. Now cemetery commissioner. Member American Geographical Society; vice-president San Diego branch, Archaelogical Institute of America; member Water and Forest Association, River and Harbor Association; Associated Charities; treasurer San Diego Chapter American Red Cross, Humane Society, San Diego Art Association, San Diego Floral Association; vice-president Horton Improvement Club; dipast president of Society for Natural History; director San Diego rector Chamber of Commerce. Was prominent in Good Roads movement, formerly local consul, and member of division board League of American Wheelmen; ex-chairman of good roads committee, San Diego Chamber of Commerce, ex-captain San Diego Wheelmen, ex-foreman Hook and Ladder company, San Diego, Mason, thirty-third degree, K. C. C. H., Scottish Rite, also Royal Ach and Shriner; past chancellor Knights of Pythias; past president Native Sons of the Golden West; member Modern Woodmen of America, Woodmen of the World; Independent Order B'nai Brith, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Pythian Sisters. Veteran of National Guard of California; Automobile of Southern California, San Diego Yacht (ex-commoder) Corinthian Yacht, Excelsior Rowing, Cabrillo (founder), Union League, Cuyamaca Club.

Blodgett, Edward Everett, lawyer, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 22, 1865; son of Warren Kendall and Minerva (Paddock) Blodgett; graduated from Ilarvard university, A. B., 1887, Iarvard Law School, 1889; married, Baston, Nov. 17, 1891, Mabel L. Fuller. Admitted to Suffolk bar, 1890, and has since been engaged in practice of law in Boston. Member Beta Theta Phi and Phi Delta Phi fraternity. Clubs: Brae Burn company. Admitted to and practising in all United States courts; director in First National Bank of Boston; Brookline Trust company; Boston Insurance company; Coastwise Transportation company; and White Oak Transportation company.

Blood, Jared P., practising attorney of Iowa, was born Jan. 18, 1844, in Whitefield, N.H.; and is a lineal descendant of Sir Isaac Newton on his maternal side. He received an academic education at Lancaster, N.H. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, enlisting in 1864 in the first New Hampshire heavy artillery, Company I; and served until the close of the civil war. He entered the classical course at Lombard Unipersity in 1866; graduated in 1870 with the degree of A.B.; and subsequently received the degree of A.M. from the same institution. He has been vice-president, director and general counsel for the Lincoln Park Company and the Sioux City and Morningside Railway Company, of which he was one of the promoters. He has become one of the foremost lawyers of the west; is a prominent member of the Masonic Order, Grand Army of the Republic and other fraternal bodies. He has also contributed extensively to law literature and various newspapers and magazines; and resides in Sioux City, Iowa.

Blount, Henry F., manufacturer, banker, was born in Ontario county, N.Y., May 1, 1829; son of Walter and Rebecca (Ripley) Blount; educated in public school. Married, first, 1854, Martha Baird; second, Kalamazoo, Mich., 1864, Lucia Eames; six children, four by second wife. Agricultural implement manufacturer since 1860; lived in Evansville, Ind., twenty-six years, and in Washington since 1888. President Blount Plow Works, Evansville, Ind., vice-president Consumers Lignite company, Dallas, Texas; vice-president and director American Security and Trust company, Washington, D.C.; director of Security Storage company. Republican, Unitarian. Member National Geographical Society, National Training School for Boys, director Emergency Hospital. Club: Cosmos.

Blunt, Stanhope English, commanding Springfield Armory, Mass., was born Sept. 29, 1850, in Boston, Mass. In 1872 he graduated from the United States military academy. In 18721912 he was first lieutenant in the thirteenth infantry, and first lieutenant to colonel in the ordnance department United States army, and served in various posts and arsenals. He is the author of Firing Regulations for Small Arms. From 1897 to 1907 commanded Rock Island arsenal and since 1907 the Springfield armory, Mass., where now resides.

Blydenburgh, C. E., member Wyomng state board of law examiners for the third judicial district, was born March 19, 1854, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia College and the School of Mines of New York. He is a successful attorney-at-law of Rawlins, Wyo.; and extensively engaged as a stock grower. He has been a member of the Wyoming legislature; a member of the city council of Rawlins; has been city attorney; and served as county and prosecuting attorney of Carbon County, Wyo. He has also served as superintend

ent of schools of Carbon Count, Wyo. In 1896 he was chairman of the State Democratic Committee of Wyoming; in 1898 was a candidate for justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming; and in 1900 was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held at Kansas City, Md. He is now chairman of the Democratic judicial committee for the third judicial district of Wyoming; is now serving his sixth term as a member of the state board of law examiners for the third judicial district of Wyoming; and resides in Rawlins, Wyo.

Boarman, Aleck, judge United States District Court of Louisiana, was born Dec. 10, 1839, in Yazoo City, Miss. He was educated in the Kentucky military college. He served throughout the war as an officer in the confederate army from Manassas to Appomatox. He began to practice law in 1866 at Shreveport, La. He was a representative from Louisiana to the forty-second congress; and was judge of the state district court for one term. Since 1881 he has been judge of the United States District Court for the western district of Louisiana for life term; and resides in Shreveport, La.

Bodine, Samuel Taylor, first vice-president and general manager of teh United Gas Improvement Company, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 23, 1854. He married at Germantown, Pa., November 15, 1883, to Eleanor G. Warden, and they have one son and two daughters. He was educated at the Germantown academy and the Uinversity of Pennsylvania; from the latter institution he received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. For six years he was in charge of the commercial work of the engineering department and repairs shops of the American and Red Star steamship lines. After this he became secretary and treasurer of the United Gas Improvement Company, then general manager and second pice-president, and finally first vice-president in the same corporation. He is a Republican in politics and belongs to the Presbyterian church. He is a trustee of the academy of the Protestant Episcopal church in the city of Philadelpia; a member of te Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity; a member of the Sons of the Revolution; and of the Rittenhouse and the University Club of Philadelphia and of the University Club of New York.

Boeger, Ernest A., bureau of plant industry at Washington, D.C., was born April 14, 1863 in Decatur County, Iowa. He was educated at the University of Missouri; and has received the degrees of Gg.B., S.B. and C.E. In 1886 he became principal of public schools at St. Jo, Tex.; in 1889 become a clerk in the war department; and in 1893-1911 was assistant in the naval observatory. He is now assistant in the office of farm management, bureau of plant industry, United States department of agricul

ture.

Boehne, John W., United States congressman from the first district of Indiana, was born Oct. 28, 1856, in Vanderburg County, Ind. was reared on a farm. In 1897 he was elected councilman at large, and re-elected in 1899; in 1901 was nominated for mayor, but declared not elected by 82 votes; in 1905 was again a candidate for mayor and was elected by a majority of 1,590; was serving his third year as mayor when nominated for congress; was elected to the sixty-first congress as a Democrat; and resides in Evansville, Ind.

Boeschenstein, Charles, president public library of Edwardsville, Ill., was born Oct. 27, 1864. He is the editor and publisher of the Edwardsville Intelligencer; and served for two years as mayor of his city. In 1900-04 he was vice-chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and was chairman in 1904-12. He has been president of the public library of Edwardsville since its organization.

Bogert, Marston Taylor, educator, scientist, was born April 18, 1868, in Flushing, N.Y. He was educated at the Flushing institute; in 1890 graduated from Columbia university; and in 1890-94 took a course of chemistry in the Columbia university school of mines. Since 1901 he has been professor of organic chemistry in Columbia university. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in 1900 was a member of the general committee. He was one of the founders of the chemists' club of New York City. He is a contributor of the School of Mines Quarterly and to the Journal of the American Chemists' Society.

Bogert, Walter Lawrence, musician, was born in Flushing, N. Y. He was educated at Flushing institute, 1878-84; Columbia college, A.B., 1888; Columbia college, school of political science, A.M., 1889; Columbia law school, 1888-90; National Conservatory of Music, 1894-94; harmony and other institutions. In 1890-94 he practiced law in New York City. He has been lecturer on Music for University Extension Society; and conductor of Milbrook Choral Society, and numerous other societies. Since 1910 he has been musical director of the People's Institute of New York City.

Bohmer, John George, president of Jones Commercial College of St. Louis, Mo.; was born Nov. 9, 1848, in Rich Fountain, Mo. He received his education in the parish and public schools, from private tutors, and at the Jones Commercial College. He is one of the most prominent educators of the west; has filled the chairs of penmanship, bookkeeping, commercial law and English; and is now the principal of the Jones Commercial College of St. Louis, Mo., which was established in 1841 by Professor Jonathan Jones. This college is the only institution in St. Louis that