Home › B › Buckhout, Isaac Craig

Buckhout, Isaac Craig

civil engineer, was born in 1831, in Morrisania, N. Y. He designed the Grand Central station, as well as the improvement on Fourth avenue. He died Sept. 27, 1874, in White Plains, N. Y.

BUCKINGHAM, CATHARINUS PUT- NAM, soldier, merchant, manufacturer, was born March 14, 1808, in Springfield, Ohio. He became brigadier-general of volunteers July 16, 1862, and served on special duty in the war department at Washington fill 1863, when he resigned and became a merchant in New York city.

From 1868 till 1873 he was occupied in building the Illinois Central grain elevators at Chicago, and rebuilding them after their destruction by the great fire. In 1873 he became president of the Chicago steel works.

BUCKINGHAM, CHARLES LUMAN, lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1852, in Berlin Heights, Ohio. He is a leading counselor in the most recent patent contest of the Western Union Telegraph and the Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone companies. He has contributed a series of electrical articles to various magazines.

BUCKINGHAM, JOSEPH TINKER, journalist, author, was born Dec. 21, 1779, in Windham, Conn. He is a journalist of note who published in 1831-34 The New England Magazine, in which Dr. Holmes began his famous Autocrat, and the Boston Courier in 1828-48. He is the author of Specimens of Newspaper Literature; and Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life. He died April 11, 1861, in Cambridge, Mass.