Buckhout, Isaac Craig – Buckner, Alexander
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.
Buckingham, William A
merchant, United States senator, governor, was born May 28, 1804, in Lebanon, Conn.
He was elected mayor of Norwich in 1849, 1850, 1856, and 1857; was a presidential elector in 1856, and in 1858 was elected governor of Connecticut; re-elected for seven years, in which capacity he rendered important services in raising and forwarding troops during the progress of the rebellion. He was elected a senator in congress from Connecticut for six years, for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875. He died Feb. 3, 1875, in Norwich, Conn.
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.
Buckland, Ralph Pomeroy
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1812, in Leyden, Mass. He was elected to the senate of Ohio in 1855 and 1857, serving four years. In 1861 he was appointed colonel of the seventy-second Ohio infantry, and fought in the battle of Shiloh as the commander of a brigade; and was made a brigadier-general in the winter of 1862-63, and in that capacity fought at Vicksburg. During his absence on the field in 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican.
Buckles, Abraham Jay
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 2, 1846, in Muncie, Ind. During 1861-65 he served as a union soldier in the civil war; was color bearer in the nineteenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry; was promoted to second lieutenant of the twentieth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry; and received a medal of honor from congress for meritorious conduct in the Wilderness battle of May 5, 1864. He was wounded in the right thigh at the battle of Bull Run; in the right shoulder at the battle of Gettysburg; in the right side at the battle of the Wilderness; and by reason of gunshot wound in battle before Petersburg, his right leg was amputated above the knee on March 25, 1865. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Fairfield, Cal.; was district attorney for five years; and superior judge of Solono county for twelve years. He is now department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, and grand chancellor, Knights of Pythias.
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.
Buckley, Samuel Botsford
naturalist, journalist, author, was born May 9, 1809, in Torrey, N. Y. He was graduated at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn. He was state geologist of Texas from 1866 till 1867, and again from 1874 till 1877, and prepared two geological maps of the state. He also published several valuable reports as state geologist. A list of his scientific papers may be found in Alumni Record of Wesleyan University. He died Feb. 18, 1884, in Austin, Texas.
Buckley, Thomas
merchant, philanthropist, was born Jan. 29, 1771, in Bristol, Pa. He was president of the Bank of America, and secretary of the first free school society in New York city.
He died April 28, 1846.
Bucklin, James W
lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 13, 1856, in Big Rock, Ill. He was the first to take an active part in securing the Australian ballot and woman's suffrage in Colorado.
For many years he has advocated the municipal ownership of water works; and he was largely instrumental in the erection of a quarter million dollar plant at Grand Junction, Colo., to bring water from the mountains to that city; which plant will be owned and operated by the city government. He has been county and city attorney of Grand Junction; and served with distinction as a member of the Colorado state legislature.
Bucklin, William Savery
artist, was born in 1851 in Red Bank, N. J. He has attained prominence as a water color painter.
Bucklyn, John Knight
soldier, educator, lecturer, poet, was born in March, 1834, in Providence, R. I. He received his education at the Greenwich and Smithfield academies, and the Brown university. He served for nearly four years in the civil war, and was captain of the Rhode Island light battery. For twenty-eight years he has been principal of the M. V. institute of Mystic, Conn.; and was pastor of the North Stonington baptist church. He has lectured extensively, and contributed both prose and verse to periodical literature.
Buckminster, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 14, 1751, in Rutland, Vt. He was ordained in 1779, as pastor of the North church in Portsmouth, N. H. He published about twenty-five sermons and a short sketch of Dr. McClintock, and was part author of the Piscataqua River Prayer Book. He died June 10, 1812, in Readsboro, Vt.
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born May 26, 1784, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a talented unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the first appointed lecturer on biblical criticism at Harvard university. He is the author of Sermons, with Memoir by S. C. Thacher. He died June 9, 1812, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Buckminster, William
soldier, was born Dec. 15, 1736, in Framingham, Mass. He commanded the minute men in 1774; was lieutenant colonel of Brewer's regiment at Bunker Hill; and received there a wound that crippled him for life. He died June 22, 1786.
Buckminster, William J
journalist, was born in 1813, in Maine. He was a son of the founder of the Massachusetts Ploughman, and was for twentyone years one of its editors and publishers. He died March 2, 1878, in Malden, Mass.
Buckner, Alexander
United States senator, was born in Indiana. He was a member of the Missouri convention which formed the constitution of that state; served several years in the state legislature; and was a senator in congress from Missouri from 1831 to 1833. He died June 15, 1833, in St. Louis, Mo.