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Buskirk, Clarence A

lawyer, poet, was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Friendship, N. Y. For two terms he served as attorney-general of Indiana, and has a lucrative practice in Princeton. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana, and many valuable articles and papers have been contributed to law literature by this able lawyer. He is the author of a work entitled A Cavern for a Hermitage, a poem of some length. The story is ingenious, the meditations are deeply philosophical, which, together with the richness of its rhythm, proves very interesting, and is a valuable acquisition to American literature.

BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, general, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 1818, in Deerfield, N. H.

In 1853 he was elected to the state legislature; in 1859 was elected to the state senate; and in 1860 was a delegate to the Charleston tion. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general, and entered actively into the war movements.

Before the close of that year he was convenmade a major-general, serving as such in New Orleans and various other portions of the rebellious states. At the conclusion of the rebellion he resumed the practice of law in Lowell; in 1866 was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortieth congress; was one of the managers of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson; and was re-elected to the forty-first, forty-second, forty-third and forty-fifth congresses. In 1882 he was elected governor of Massachusetts; and also served his country as United States senator. He died Jan. 11, 1893, in Washington, D. C.