BOSTON, Wednesday, April 17. NATHANIEL J. BOWDITCH died last night at his residence in Brockline, aged 56 years. The Constitutional Convention Bill. ALBANY, Wednesday, April 17. The Governor is ...

Legless women excited Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch (1805-61) to pity. In 1860 he gave $5,000 to the Massachusetts General Hospital for the purchase of wooden legs. Meticulous, he specified ...

In 2002, Philbrick was named the Nathaniel Bowditch Maritime Scholar of the Year by the American Merchant Marine Museum. He is presently at work on a book about the Battle of Little Big Horn.