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Buhl, Theodore D – Bull, Lorenzo

Buhl, Theodore D

capitalist, banker, was born Aug. 20, 1844, in Detroit, Mich. He is president of the Michigan Malleable Iron Co.; and the Buhl Stamping Co. Mr. Buhl was one of the organizers of the Peninsular Car Co., and its president the first four years.

Buist, George

clergyman, author, was born in 1770, in Scotland. He was educated at Edinburgh university, attained great proficiency in philology, was called to a church in Charleston in 1793, and in 1805 became principal of the college in that city. He published an abridgment of Hume's History for schools, and a version of the Psalms; and contributed to the British Encyclopædia. A volume of his sermons, with a memoir, was published in 1809.

Buist, Henry

soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 25, 1829, in Charleston, S. C. He served several times in the house of representatives of South Carolina; was state senator; and during the civil war entered the confederate army as captain of infantry. He died June 9, 1887, in Charleston, S. C.

Bulfinch, Charles

architect, was born Aug. 8, 1763. In 1793 he built the first theater in Boston. He drew the plans for the state house and city hall in Boston, for the capitol at Washington, for Faneuil hall, and designed as many as forty churches and other buildings in New England cities. He was the architect of the national capitol from 1817 until it was completed in 1830. He died April 15, 1884, in Boston, Mass.

Bulkley, Henry Daggett

physician, author, was born April 20, 1803, in New Haven, Conn. He was a member of medical societies and some time president of the New York County Medical society and of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Bulkley edited the American editions of Cazenave and Schedel's Manual of Diseases of the Skin; and Gregory's Eruptive Fevers.

Bulkley, Peter

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 31, 1583, in England. He is a congregational clergyman of Concord, Mass. His one work, The Gospel Covenant, or The Covenant of Grace Opened, is a ponderous series of sermons notable for its intellectual vigor. He died March 9, 1659, in Concord, Mass.

Bull, Charles Henry

railroad president, was born Dec. 16, 1822, in Hartford, Conn. Since 1888 he has been president of the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City railway.

Bull, Henry

governor of Rhode Island, was born in 1609, in South Wales.

He early emigrated to America, and after a short residence in Massachusetts, with a party of seventeen, purchased land and settled in Newport about 1638. In 1685 and in 1689 he was governor. He died in 1693, in Rhode Island.

Bull, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1833 to 1835.

Bull, John

congressman. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1784 to 1787.

Bull, John

physician, was born in 1813, in Shelby county, Ky. He was doubtless the most successful compounder of what are known as patent medicines in America. Although connected with the proprietary medicine business for many years, his final fortune was gathered during the last ten years of his life, his income at that time being greater than that of any other man in Kentucky.

He died April 26, 1875, in Louisville, Ky.

Bull, Lorenzo

prominent business man, was born March 21, 1819, in Hartford, Conn. With the best interests of Quincy, Ill., he has always been identified; and, jointly with his son, is now proprietor of the Quincy water works. He is also president of the State Savings, Loan and Trust Co.