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school. He later attended the New Orleans College of Oratory for two terms. After leaving school he held the position of stenographer and bookkeeper in a New Orleans lumber export company, and later held a similar position with a large commission house of that city, and in 1900 he located in Bay St. Louis, Miss., engaging in the abstract of title business with an office also at Mississippi City, and later removed to his present home in Gulfport. The Mississippi Abstract, Title and Guaranty Company was organized by M. P. Bouslog, and incorporated in May, 1904, and the official corps is as follows:	S. E. Travis, of Hattiesburg, president; J. I. Ford,
of Scranton, and J. W. Thomas, of Gulfport, vice-presidents; and Martin P. Bouslog, secretary, treasurer and general manager, and the board of directors consists of those officers and in addition to them, J. F. Stuard of Gulfport. Mr. Bouslog has devised a card system of abstract of title indexes and the company has the benefit of this most modern system. The company has the best of facilities and is building up a large business, doing general abstract work and guaranteeing titles. The headquarters of the company for Harrison county are in Gulfport, while branch offices are maintained in Hinds, Perry, Greene and Jackson counties, Mr. Bouslog having entire executive charge of all the business, which is rapidly expanding as there comes a popular knowledge of the facilities and assurances which the concern offers. Mr. Bouslog is one of the popular young business	men	of	Gulfport, being an active member of the	Progressive	Business	League	of	the city, and is one	of its loyal and en-
thusiastic citizens, manifesting much interest in local affairs and doing all in his power to promote the welfare of the attractive little city.
Bowie, Allen Thomas, of Natchez, is incumbent of the office of circuit clerk for Adams county and	is one of	the well
known and popular	citizens of	that section of the State. He	was born	in
Natchez, Aug. 17, 1840, and is a son of Dr. Allen Thomas and Matilda Jane (Routh) Bowie. His early educational discipline was received under the direction of private tutors and thereafter he pursued his studies successively in the University of Virginia, Oakland college, Mississippi, and the LTniversity of North Carolina, in which last	mentioned	in-
stitution he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war; he was a member of the senior class at the time of his withdrawal to enter the Confederate service. His parents were at the time residents of Lake St. Joseph, La., and he returned	home	in	the	spring of 1861 to enlist as a	private in	the
Tensas cavalry,	a	company which was raised in Tensas parish, La.,
and which became a part of the regiment commanded by Gen. Wirt Adams. He was made sergeant of his company and later was pro-
motcd adjutn adjutant gem chief of staff service until ville. C.a., wl render of Gc where he \va he took up hi tained his ho has been circ lk- is a staii< and lie is affil 21, 1S67, Ca Matilda (Roi vived by two latter marrie have three cl Crossgrove. Dec. 27, 190(
Pickens and that county, educational c Mississippi, distinction a Bachelor of native State, in Brookhav tice of his p learning of for the Illin corporations white-cap c special atto Governor V; izations as