Buchanan, John P – Buckham, Matthew H
Buchanan, John P
farmer, governor, was born in 1847, in Tennessee. He has always been a farmer, but has taken an active interest in politics since he attained his majority, and since 1875 has been a delegate to all the democratic state conventions. He was governor of Tennessee from 1891 to 1893.
Buchanan, Joseph
inventor, author, was born Aug. 24, 1785, in Washington county, Va. He was a once noted mechanical inventor of Kentucky who published The Philosophy of Human Nature. He died Sept. 29, 1829, in Louisville, Ky.
Buchanan, Joseph Rhodes
physician, journalist, inventor, author, was born Dec. 11, 1814, in Frankfort, Ky. He is noted as a physician and claims to have invented the sciences of sarcognomy and psychometry. He published Buchanan's Journal of Medicine, 1849-56. He is the author of Outlines of Lectures on the Neurological System of Anthropology; Eclectic Practice of Medicine and Surgery; The New Education; Therapeutic Sarcognomy; and Manual of Psychometry.
BUCHANAN, McKEAN
actor, was born Feb. 28, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was educated for the navy, and served three years as midshipman on the sloopof-war St. Louis. His first appearance as an actor was made at the St. Charles theatre, New Orleans, in the character of Hamlet, in which role he made his appearance in New York in 1850. He visited England twice, and also made tours in Australia and California. He died April 16, 1872, in Denver, Colo.
Buchanan, Robert Christie
soldier, was born about 1810, in Maryland. He served as lieutenant in the Black Hawk and Seminole wars. He was made captain in 1838, and in the war with Mexico took part in numerous battles. In 1865 he was made brevet brigadier-general of the United States army for gallant conduct at Malvern Hill, and brevet major-general for services at Fredericksburg. He commanded the district of Louisiana from January, 1868, till January, 1869, and on Dec. 31, 1870, was retired, on his own application, after thirty years of consecutive service. He died Nov. 29, 1878, in Washington, D. C.
Buchanan, Sarah
pioneer. During the war with the Creeks and Cumberlands in 1792 the fort was attacked by the Indians. When the bullets gave out Mrs.
Buchanan was at hand with an apronful molded from pewter plates and spoons during the progress of the fight. She died Nov. 23, 1831, at Buchanan's Station, Tenn.
Buchanan, William I
author, diplomat. He has filled many positions of honor and was envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Buenos Ayres. He is the author of an improved system of bookkeeping which has become very popular throughout the United States.
Bucher, Fary Buchanan
educator, lawyer, was born June 2, 1856, in Fremont, N. Y. After teaching for a while he was admitted to the bar, and has since practiced his profession in Atlanta, Ga. He takes an active part in public affairs; is a member of the town assembly, and a staunch democrat.
Bucher, John C
jurist, congressman. He was for many years a judge of the circuit court of Pennsylvania; and a representative in congress from that state from 1831 to 1833. He died Oct. 26, 1851, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Buchtel, John R
philanthropist, was born Jan. 18, 1820, in Summit county, Ohio. In 1883 he helped to organize the Akron Iron company; was for many years president of the C. Aultman and Co.; and through his interest and means the Buchtel college was founded.
Buck, Alfred E
soldier, educator, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1832, in Foxcroft, Maine. He entered the army in 1861 as captain in thirteenth Maine infantry; was lieutenant-colonel of ninety-first colored troops in 1863, and of the fifty-first colored troops in 1864.
He was brevetted colonel of volunteers for gallant conduct at the siege of Fort Blakely in 1865. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1867. He was presidential elector in 1868; and was elected to the forty-first congress.
Buck, Charles Francis
lawyer, legislator, orator, was born Nov. 5, 1841, in Germany. He received his education at the public schools and the Louisiana state university of Alexandria. For two terms he served as city attorney of New Orleans; has been a member of the school board; and held various other public positions of honor in that city. He served with distinction as a member of the fifty-fourth congress from the second Louisiana district. He is an able lawyer and a brilliant orator. His oration on the Life and Death of James A. Garfield received publication in all the leading newspapers of America, and was highly eulogized.
Buck, Charles W
lawyer, jurist, diplomatist, was born March 17, 1849, in Vicksburg, Miss. In 1879 he was elected county judge of Woodford county, Ky., and served four years. In 1885 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru.
Buck, Daniel
lawyer, congressman.
He was one of the earliest settlers in Vermont, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1795 to 1797. He died in 1817.
Buck, Daniel
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born May 15, 1857, in Boonville, N. Y. He was a member of the Minnesota house of representatives in 1866, and of the senate in 1879 and 1881; for five years member of state normal board, and four years prosecuting attorney of Blue Earth county. He was elected associate justice of the supreme court, term commencing in January, 1894.
Buck, Daniel Azro A
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1789, in Vermont. He established himself as a lawyer at Chelsea, Vt., and was for fourteen years a member of the state legislature. He filled the office of state attorney for Orange county for six years; in 1821 was a presidential elector; and was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1823 to 1825, and again from 1827 to 1829. He died Dec. 24, 1841, in Washington, D. C.
Buck, Dudley
organist, author, was born March 10, 1839, in Hartford, Conn.
He is a composer and organist of Brooklyn. He is the author of Dictionary of Musical Terms; and The Influence of the Organ in History.
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.
Buck, Norman
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 13, 1833, in Lancaster, N. Y. He served in the union army from 1862 to 1865, rising to the rank of captain. He was judge of probate for Winona county, Minn., from 1865 to 1871.
In 1873 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the same county; in 1878 was appointed United States attorney for the territory of Idaho; and in 1879 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of that territory, and was reappointed in 1884. Since 1892 he has been superior judge of Spokane county, Wash.; and in 1895 was elected commander of the Washington and Alaska Grand Army of the Republic.
Buckalew, Charles R
lawyer, diplomat, United States senator, was born Dec. 28, 1821, in Columbia county, Pa. He was prosecuting attorney for Columbia county from 1845 till 1847, and was elected to the state senate in 1850, and reelected in 1853. He was commissioner to exchange ratifications of a treaty with Paraguay in 1854, serving as such between sessions of the legislature. He was a presidential elector in 1856; and was again elected to the state senate in 1857. He was appointed minister resident of the United States at the republic of Ecuador, which office he filled for three years. He was elected by the legislature in 1863 to the United States senate; was elected to the state senate in 1869, for the fourth time; and was the democratic candidate for governor in 1872. In 1886 he was elected president of the Bloomsburg and Sullivan railroad; and in 1872 published a volume upon Proportional Representation, and in 1883 a work upon the Constitution of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
Buckeley, Morgan Gardner
governor, was born Dec. 21, 1837, in East Haddam, Conn. During 1880-88 he was mayor of Hartford, Conn.; and in 1889- 93 was governor of the state of Connecticut. Since 1879 he has been president of the Etna Life Insurance company of Hartford, Conn.
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.