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Buck, Gurdon

physician, surgeon, author, was born May 4, 1807, in New York city. He was an eminent surgeon of New York city, and wrote much for medical journals and a treatise on Contributions to Reparative Surgery. He died March 6, 1877, in New York city.

Buck, Jirah D

physician, author, was born Nov. 20, 1838, in Fredonia, N.

Y. He has been the president of the state medical society of Ohio; was president of the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1891; and vice-president of Theosophical Society of America. He is the author of History of Man and the Way to Health.

Buck, John R

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1836, in Glastonbury, Conn. He was treasurer of the county of Hartford from 1863 to 1881; was clerk of the state house of representatives in 1865; clerk of the state senate in 1866; president of the common council of Hartford in 1868; city attorney in 1871 and 1873; state senator in 1880 and 1881; and was elected a representative from Connecticut to the forty-seventh and fortyninth congresses as a republican.

Buckham, Matthew H

educator, college president, was born in 1832, in England. In 1871 he was elected president of the university of Vermont. His published works have principally appeared in the form of addresses, sermons and articles in the reviews and educational journals.

Buckland, Cyrus

inventor, was born Aug. 10, 1799, in Manchester, Conn.

He produced his machine for making gunstocks about 1842; and is also the inventor of the machines for rifling musket barrels, for cutting the thread of the screw on the inside of the barrel, and for milling the breech-screw.

Buckles, Joseph S

state senator, was born July 29, 1819, in Springfield, Ohio. He was one of the originators of the Lafayette, Muncie and Bloomington railroad, its attorney, and a member of its board of managers. He was also instrumental in the construction of the Fort Wayne and Southern railway. He was chosen state senator from the district composed of the counties of Grant and Delaware. In 1858 he was elected judge of the seventh judicial circuit, and served twelve years.

Buckley, Charles W

soldier, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1835, in Otsego, N. Y. He served as a chaplain in the union army during a part of the rebellion; and was subsequently an assistant superintendent of the Freedmen's bureau. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1867; and was elected a representative from Alabama to the fortieth, forty-first and fortysecond congresses as a republican.

Buckley, Edward

soldier, lumberman, railroad president, was born Aug. 8, 1842, in England. Enlisting in the twenty-fourth Wisconsin infantry, he served gallantly until the end of the war.

About 1875 he became identified with lumbering interests, and in 1892 incorporated the Buckley and Douglas Lumber Co., with the senior partner as president and treasurer. Since 1886 he has been president of the Manistee and Northeastern railway.

Buckley, James Monroe

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1836, in Rahway, N. J. He is a methodist clergyman, and since 1881 editor of the New York Christian Advocate. He is the author of Two Weeks in the Yosemite Valley; Supposed Miracles; Christians and the Theatre; Oats or Wild Oats; The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist; Faith- Healing, Christian Science, and Kindred Phenomena; and Travels in Three Continents, Europe, Africa and Asia.

Buckley, Morgan G

soldier, banker, governor, was born Dec. 26, 1838, in East Haddam, Conn. He enlisted in the civil war; and served as a private in the thirteenth New York regiment. He was the prime factor in the formation of the United States Bank of Hartford, of which he was the first president; and in 1887 was elected governor of Connecticut.