Introduction

Biography

George was the son of Charles S. Bo­ker and Ly­dia S. Bo­ker, and hus­band of Ju­lia Man­de­ville Riggs.

He en­rolled at Prince­ton University in 1840. While there he helped found, and was first ed­it­or of, the col­lege li­ter­ary ma­ga­zine, the Nas­sau Month­ly (lat­er re­named the Nas­sau Lit).

In 1871, Pre­si­dent Ulys­ses S. Grant made him the Am­er­ican min­is­ter to Con­stan­ti­no­ple (now Is­tan­bul), Tur­key. He lat­er served as a di­plo­mat in Rus­sia.

Works

• The Les­sons of Life, and Oth­er Po­ems, 1848
• Poems of the War (Bo­ston, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Tick­nor & Fields, 1864)
• Königsmark, the Le­gend of the Hounds and Oth­er Po­ems, 1869