rvard University, and for some years
practised medicine at Canning, Nova Scotia. In 1874 he was elected to
the Canadian parliament as Liberal member for King's county. In 1896 he
became minister of militia and defence in the Liberal ministry.

BORDEN, ROBERT LAIRD (1854- ), Canadian statesman, was born at Grand
Pre, Nova Scotia, on the 26th of June 1854. In 1878 he was called to the
bar, and became a leading lawyer in his native province. In 1896 he was
elected to the Canadian parliament for the city of Halifax, but later
lost his seat there and was elected for Carlton. In February 1901, on
the resignation of Sir Charles Tupper, he became leader of the
Conservative opposition. At the general election of 1908 he was returned
again for Halifax.

BORDENTOWN, a city of Burlington county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the E.
bank of the Delaware river, 6 m. S. of Trenton and 28 m. N.E. of
Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 4232; (1900) 4110; (1905) 4073; (1910) 4250.
It is served by the Pennsylvania railway, the Camden & Trenton railway
(an electric line, forming part of the line between Philadelphia and New
York) and by freight and passenger steamboat lines on the Delaware.
Bordentown is attractively situated on a broad, level plain, 65 ft.
above the river, with wide, beautifully shaded streets. The city is the
seat of the Bordentown Military Institute (with the Woodward memorial
library), of the state manual training and industrial school for
coloured youth, of the St Joseph's convent and mother-house of the
Sisters of Mercy, and of St Joseph's academy for girls. There are
ship-yards, iron foundries and forges, machine shops, shirt factories, a
pottery for the manufacture of sanitary earthenware, a woollen mill and
canning factories. The first settlers on the site of the city were
several Quaker families who came in the 18th century. Bordentown was
laid out by Joseph Borden, in whose honour it was named; was
incorporated as a borough in 1825; was re-incorporated in 1849, and was
chartered as a city in 1867. It was the home for some years of Francis
Hopkinson and of his son Joseph Hopkinson (whose residences are still
standing), and from 1817 to 1832 and in 1837-1839 was the home of Joseph
Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain, who lived on a handsome estate known as
"Bonaparte's Park," which he laid out with considerable magnificence.
Here he entertained many distinguished visitors, including Lafayette.
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