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BOUTELLE, DeWitt Clinton, artist, was born in Troy, N. Y., April 6, 1820. He had few opportunities to cultivate his talent in his boyhood, but by observation and earnest study became an excellent painter. In 1839 he produced his first picture, which he sold for five dollars, and afterwards re-bought for fifty. The American art union purchased many of his early paintings. He worked for some time in his native city, and afterwards removed to New York, thence to Philadelphia, and finally opened a studio at Bethlehem, Pa. He became an associate of the National academy in 1853, and in 1862 a member of the Pennsylvania academy. Among the better known of his paintings are: "The Trout Brook Shower" (1851); "Morning in the Valley of the Battenkill," "Niagara," and "Terrapin Tower, Niagara." He died Nov. 5. 1884.

BOUTON, John BeH, author, was born at Concord, N. H., March 15, 1830; sou of Nathaniel and Mary Ann P. (Bell) Bouton, and a grandson of Gov. John Bell of New Hampshire. He was graduated at Dartmouth college in 1849, and qualified himself for the legal profession, but before admission to the bar, became associate editor of the Plaindealer, Cleveland, Ohio, and was a contributor to Godey's, Peterson's and other American magazines. Removing to New York in 1856 he was editorially attached to the New Yorker, American Times, and Momus, and finally joined the staff of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, with which he remained connected as editor, owner, and director until 1889. For many years he was scientific editor of "Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia." He retired from active journalism in 1889. Among his published works are: "Life of George Lippard" (1856); "Loved and Lost" (1857); "Round the Block" (1864, 5th ed. 1868) ;"Treasury of Travel and Adventure," a "Memoir of Gen. Louis Bell" (1865); "Roundabout to Moscow; a European Journey " and "The Enchanted, an Authentic Record of the New Psychical Club" (1891). He died in Cambridge. Mass., Nov. 18 1902.

BOUTON, Nathaniel, clergyman, was born in Norwalk, Conn., June 29, 1799; son of William and Sarah (Benedict) Bouton. After serving three years' apprenticeship to a printer he entered Yale college, where he was graduated in 1821. He finished a theological course at Andover seminary in 1824, and in 1825 was ordained pastor of the First Congregational church in Concord, N. H., where he remained for forty-two years. He was president of the New Hampshire historical society, and a trustee of Dartmouth college, from which he received the degree of S.T.D. in 1851. He was married, first, in 1825, to Harriet, daughter of John, and great-grand-daughter of Roger Sherman; second. in 1829, to Mary Ann P., daughter of Gov. John Bell; and third, in 1840, to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Horatio G. Cilley, of Deerfield, N. H. Among his published works are :"Help to Prayer" (1832); "History of Education in New Hampshire" (1833); " Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth Macfarland " (1839); "The Fathers of the New Hampshire Ministry" (1848); "Historical Discourse on the two hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut" (1851); "History of Concord, New Hampshire, 1725-1823"' (1856); "Collections of New Hampshire Historical Society " (vols. 7 and 8, 1850-"56); an annotated edition of Rev. Thomas Symmes's "Account of Captain John Lovewell's Great Fight with the Indians at Pequawket, May 8, 1725" (1861), and "Discourse Commemorative of a Forty Years' Ministry" (1865). His autobiography was edited by his son, John Bell Bouton, and published in 1879. He died June 6, 1878.

BOUTWELL, George Sewall, statesman, was born at Brookline, Mass., Jan. 28, 1818; son of Sewall Bout well, a farmer. His first American ancestor, James Boutwell, came from England, settled in Lynn, and became a freeman in 1638. In 1835 he removed from Lunenburg to Groton An image should appear at this position in the text. Centre, where he was clerk in a store. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, but did not leave his business, in which he had been made a partner, until 1855. He supported the Van Buren ticket in 1840, and the following year was elected to the general court as a Democrat, where he served from 1842 to 1845, and from 1847 to 1851, and took rank, as a leader of his party in the state. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for representative in Congress in 1844-'46, and '48, and for governor in 1849 and '50. In 1851 he was elected governor of Massachusetts and was re-elected in 1852. Immediately after the expiration of his second term he was elected a member of the state board of education, and was its secretary for six years. He was also made state commissioner of banks, railways, Boston harbor, and of the department of internal revenue, which last he organized at the request of President Lincoln. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1853. In 1854 he was one of the leaders in the movement to establish the Republican party, and in 1856 supported Fremont for