D. D Bowman Thomas, an American clergyman, born near Berwick, Columbia co., Penn., July 15, 1817. He was educated at Wilbraham academy, Mass., at Cazenovia seminary, N. Y., and at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Penn., where he graduated in 1837. After studying law at Carlisle for one year, he entered the ministry in the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1839. From 1840 to 1843 he taught in the grammar school of Dickinson college. In 1848 he was appointed to organize the Dickinson seminary at Williamsport, Penn. Over this institution he presided for ten years, and during this period became distinguished as a pulpit orator. In 1858 he was elected president of Indiana Asbury university at Green-castle. He was elected delegate to the British conference in 1864, and was chaplain of the United States senate in 1864 and 1865. He continued to preside over the Indiana Asbury university till May, 1872, when he became a bishop. His residence is St. Louis, Mo.