Buford, Napoleon B – Bullard, Henry Adams
Buford, Napoleon B
soldier, was born Jan. 13, 1807, in Kentucky. He served in the civil war, received the brevet title of major-general of volunteers March 13, and was mustered out of the service on Aug. 24, 1865. He died March 28, 1883.
Bugbee, Lucius Halen
educator, college president, was born Nov. 25, 1830, in Gowanda, N. Y. He graduated from Amherst in 1854, became a teacher, and was ordained a minister in the methodist episcopal church. He was principal of Fayette seminary, Iowa, in 1857-60; pastor of a church in Chicago, Ill., in 1861-63; president of the Northwestern Female college at Evanston, Ill., in 1865-68; of Cincinnati Wesleyan college in 1868-75; and afterward of Alleghany college, Meadville, Pa.
Bugg, Robert M
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1853 to 1855.
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.
Buist, John Robinson
physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 13, 1834, in Charleston, S. C. In 1860 he settled in Nashville, Tenn.; and for four years was a surgeon in the confederate service. He has since practiced his profession with success in Nashville; was at one time professor of oval surgery in the Vanderbilt university; was also professor of surgery in the university of the South; and is at present professor of neurology in the medical department of the Vanderbilt university; and a prolific contributor to various medical journals.
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.
Bulfinch, Ellen Susan
artist, author, was born Oct. 11, 1844, in Framingham, Mass., and is the daughter of the Rev. Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch. She is the author of The Life and Letters of her grandfather, Charles Bulfinch, the pioneer of American architects; the designer of the state house of Boston, and under whose charge the capitol at Washington was completed in 1830.
Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf
clergyman, author, poet, was born June 8, 1809, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Communion Thoughts; Contemplations of the Saviour; The Holy Land and Its Inhabitants; The Harp and the Cross; Honour, or the Slave Dealer's Daughter; Manual of the Evidences of Christianity; and Studies in the Evidences of Christianity.
He died Oct. 12, 1870, in Cambridge, Mass.
Bulfinch, Thomas
banker, author, was born July 15, 1796, in Boston, Mass.
He was a Boston banker, whose leisure was devoted to literary pursuits. He was the author of Hebrew Lyrical History; The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; Boy Inventors; Legends of Charlemagne; Poetry of the Age of Fable; Oregon and Eldorado, or Romance of the Rivers. He died May 27, 1867, in Boston, Mass.
Bulkeley, Eliphalet Adams
lawyer, jurist, was born June 29, 1803, in Colchester, Conn. In 1857 he was a second time elected to the state legislature, becoming speaker of the house. During the latter portion of his life he was interested in the business of life insurance, and associated in the organizing of both the Connecticut Mutual company, becoming its first president, and the Ætna Life Insurance company. He died Feb. 13, 1.872, in Hartford, Conn.
Bulkeley, Morgan Gardiner
financier, was born Dec. 26, 1838, in Hartford, Conn. On the death of his father he became president of the United States bank of Hartford, Conn., and later was elected to the presidency of the Ætna Life Insurance company. He is prominent in Connecticut politics as a republican, and has four times been elected mayor of Hartford.
Bulkley, Frank
mining engineer, legislator, was born July 10, 1857, in Washington, Iowa. He received his education in Michigan, and has attained success as a noted mining engineer in Colorado. He is the general manager of the New Pittsburgh Mining company of Leadville; the Grand River Coal and Coke company of Garfield; the Aspen Mining and Smelting company; the Regent Mine; the Bushwhacker Mining company; and various other mining companies. He has served with distinction as a representative in the Colorado state legislature, and has taken an active part in the public affairs of that state.
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.
Bull, Melville
congressman, was born in 1854, in Newport, R. I. He was a member of the state legislature in 1883- 85; senator in 1885-92; lieutenant-governor in 1892-94; member of republican state central committee in 1885 to 1895; and was delegate to the republican national convention in 1888. He took an active part in establishing the naval reserve militia of the state; and has been one of the board of managers of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Experiment station since its establishment in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Bull, Orville Augustus
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 29, 1849, in La- Grange, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia state legislature; and has been prominent in the educational and political affairs of his state.
Bull, William Lanman
stock broker, was born Aug. 23, 1844, in New York city. He has been twice president of the New York Stock Exchange; and is a director of the Northern Pacific railroad.
Bullard, Asa
clergyman, author, was born March 26, 1804, in Northbridge, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, long prominent in Sunday-school work. His principal writings are Sunnybank Stories; Shady Dell Stories; Fifty Years with the Sabbath School; and Incidents in a Busy Life, an autobiography. He died in 1888.
Bullard, E. F
educator, college president, was born May 1, 1840, in Jay, N. Y. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1864; and subsequently became president of the Jacksonville Female academy, of Illinois.
Bullard, Henry Adams
lawyer,. jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 9, 1781, in Groton, Mass. In 1831 he was: chosen a representative in congress from Louisiana, and served until 1834; and was then elevated to the supreme bench of Louisiana, and filled the office until 1846. In 1847 he was appointed professor of the civil law in the Law School of Louisiana, and delivered two courses of lectures. In 1850 he was elected to the legislature; and was subsequently chosen a member of congress to fill a vacancy..
He died April 17, 1851, in New Orleans.
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