Christian Nestell Bovee Explained

Christian Nestell Bovee
Birth Date:	22 February 1820
Birth Place:	New York, New York
Death Place:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation:	Writer

Christian Nestell Bovee (February 22, 1820 – January 18, 1904) was an epigrammatic New York City writer.^[1]

Biography

Christian Nestell Bovee was born in New York on February 22, 1820.^{[2] [3]}

Bovee wrote two books that were widely quoted in contemporaneous compilations, these being Intuitions and Summaries of Thought and Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies.^{[1] [4]}

It was reported that Bovee "enjoyed the intimate friendship of Washington Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes and of all the brilliant men who composed at that time the Saturday Evening Club of Boston".^[4] He died in Philadelphia on January 18, 1904.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (1898), p. 132.
2. Web site: Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904). Some Thoughts Worth Thinking. Stedman and Hutchinson, eds. 1891. A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in 11 Volumes.
3. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . XVI . James T. White & Company . 218 . 1918 . 2020-12-10 . Google Books.
4. The Publishers Weekly (January 23, 1904 [No. 1669]), Volume 65, Part 1, Page 111.
5. News: C. N. Bovee . . 9 . 1904-01-20 . 2020-12-10 . Newspapers.com.