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Bostwick, William W a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in Whitestown, Oneida Co., N. Y., Feb. 19, 1797. He attended the Auburn Academy, and completed his academic studies with Rev. Dr. McDonald at Fairfield, Herkimer Co. When the, latter, in 1821, took charge of the academy at Geneva, Mr. Bostwick again placed … Continue reading “Bostwick, William W”

Bostwick, Shadrach an early Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Maryland, educated as a physician, and entered the itinerancy in 1791. For fourteen years he travelled extensively in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Ohio. In 1798-9 he was presiding elder on New London District, Conn. In 1803 he became the pioneer … Continue reading “Bostwick, Shadrach (2)”

Bostwick, Gideon a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at New Milford, Conn., Sept. 21, 1742 (O. S.). Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, the Congregational minister of his native town, gave him his preparation for college, and he graduated at Yale in 1762. Great Barrington, Conn., became his permanent residence in consequence of his accepting … Continue reading “Bostwick, Gideon”

Bostwick, Mary wife of John Bostwick, was a minister of the Society of Friends (Orthodox). She died at the Plains, Ulster Co., N. Y., April 23, 1836, aged forty-eight years. See The Friend, 9, 280. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bostwick, David a Presbyterian minister, was born at New Milford, Conn., in 1721. He entered Yale College, but before graduating left, and completed Ilis studies with Burr at Newark, and was for some time his assistant in the academy. He was ordained by the New York Presbytery, and installed pastor of the Church at Jamaica, … Continue reading “Bostwick, David”

Bostrom, Christoffer Jakob a Swedish philosopher, was born at Pitea, January 1, 1797. He studied at Upsala, where he also commenced his lectures in 1827, which he continued till 1863, when he retired from his professorship. He died March 22, 1866. Bostrom was the most independent thinker of Siveden, and founded a philosophical school, the … Continue reading “Bostrom, Christoffer Jakob”

Bostrenus (), the “graceful” river upon whose banks Sidon was situated (Dionys. Per. p. 913); being the modern Nahr el-Auhy, a stream rising in Mount Lebanon from fountains an hour and a half beyond the village el- Baruk; it is at first a wild torrent, and its course is nearly south-west (Burckhardt, Syria, p. 206; … Continue reading “Bostrenus (2)”

Bostra, Council Of (Concilium Bostranum), was held about 227, in consequence of the errors of Beryhlus, bishop of the place, who denied that our Lord Jesus. Christ had any proper existence before the Incarnation, and maintained that he then only began to be God; when he was born of the Blessed Virgin; and, moreover, that … Continue reading “Bostra, Council Of”

Bostra Titular see of Syria. Bostra, “The fortress”, is neither Bosor of Reuben and Moab (Deuteronomy 4:24; Joshua 20:8), nor Bosrah of Edom (Genesis 36:33, Jeremiah 49:13, etc.), now Bouseira between Tafile and Shobaq. Perhaps it is the same as Bosor, or Bosora, taken by the Machabees (1 Maccabees 5:26, 28, 36), an independent town … Continue reading “Bostra (2)”

Boston, Massachusetts, city of Capital of Massachusetts. Few of the early Irish emigrants to Boston were Catholics, as they were unwilling to settle in a Puritan colony. Traces of the Catholic Church are found as early as September 1646 , when a ship was in port having two priests on board, who were the guests … Continue reading “Boston, Massachusetts, city of”