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Rh attack, and after its repulse became celebrated as the greatest heroine of the west.

BUCK, Dudley, composer, b. in Hartford, Conn., 10 March, 1889. He studied at Trinity college and afterward at the Leipsic Conservatory of Music, where he was associated with A. Sullivan, and had instruction from Hauptmann, Richter, Rietz, Moschelles, and Plaidy. Subsequently he studied under Schneider at Dresden. He was at Paris in 1861-'2. He was for many years the organist of Music Hall, Boston, and gained a deserved reputation as a performer as well as a composer. In 1875 he was invited by Theodore Thomas to become assistant director at the garden concerts in New York, then the centre of the highest musical culture in the United States. He was requested to compose the cantata to be sung at the opening of the centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, which work he performed with distinguished success. The music was rendered by a chorus of 800 voices and 150 instruments under the direction of Theodore Thomas. He also became organist of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, and director of the Apollo club. Mr. Buck has produced some excellent operetta, notably that written for William A. Croffut's humorous drama " Deseret." He has published a large number of compositions for the organ, including a prize "Te Deum," which has won a wide popularity. Three more important works have recently appeared, namely, "The Legend of Don Munio" (1874), "Marmion" (1880), 'and "The Golden Legend." The latter won the prize of $1,000 offered by the Cincinnati May festival for the best composition for solo voices, chorus, and opera. He has also written music to several of Edmund C, Stedman's poems, some of which have become popular. He has published a "Dictionary of Musical Terms," and a work on the "Influence of the Organ in History" (New York, 1882).

BUCK, Gurdon, surgeon, b. in New York city, 4 May, 1807 ; d. there, 6 March, 1877. He received a classical education in the schools of his native city, and engaged in business for several years; but finally, after studying medicine under Dr. Thomas Cock, he was graduated at the college of physicians and surgeons in 1830. He first served the regular term in the medical department of the New York hospital, and then went abroad to complete his professional studies, whence he returned in 1838 and began practice in New York city, where he afterward resided. During a second trip to Europe (1835-7) he married Miss Wolff, of Geneva, Switzerland. He was successful in performing many difficult operations in surgery, and brought into general use the treatment of fractures, generally known as "Buck's extension." He was one of the oldest hospital surgeons in New York, holding the place of visiting surgeon of the New York hospital from 1837 till his death. He was also visiting surgeon of the St. Luke's and the Presbyterian hospitals, consulting surgeon of the Roosevelt hospital, and for ten years previous to 1862 visiting surgeon of the New York eye and ear infirmary. Besides being a fellow of the academy of medicine from the time it was founded, and serving one term as its vice-president, he was connected with the New York pathological society, the American medical association, and at different times acted as a trustee of the New York eye and ear infirmary, the college of physicians and surgeons, the New York dispensary, and the New York ophthalmic and aural institute. For thirty-five years he was a frequent contributor to medical journals. He also published an elaborate treatise entitled "Contributions to Reparative Surgery" (New York. 1876).

BUCKALEW, Charles R., senator, b. in Columbia CO., Pa., 28 Dec, 1821 ; d. in Bloomsburg, Pa., 19 May, 1899. After receiving an academic education, he was admitted to the bar. For two years he was prosecuting attorney for Columbia county, and from 1850 till 1856 a state senator. In 1854 he was a commissioner to ratify a treaty with Paraguay, in 1857 chairman of the state democratic committee, elected again a state senator, and a commissioner to revise the Pennsylvania penal code. In 1858-'61 he was U. S. minister to Ecuador. He was chosen U. S. senator in 1863 by a majority of one vote, and served until 1869. While in the senate he served on important committees, and took an active part in the debates, particularly in those on the reconstruction measures, which he opposed as illegal. In 1869 he was again chosen to the state senate, and while there began the movement for a state constitutional convention, of which he was afterward a leading member. In 1886 he was elected to congress from Pennsylvania.

BUCKE, Richard Maurice, Canadian physician, b. in Methwold. Norfolk, England, 18 March, 1837. When a year old he came to Canada with his father, the Rev. Horatio Walpole Bucke, who settled near London. He was educated at the London grammar school, and studied medicine at McGill university, being graduated in 1862. After further professional study in London and Paris, he returned to Canada in 1864, and in the following year began practice at Sarnia. In 1876 he was appointed medical superintendent of the asylum for the insane at Hamilton, Ontario, and in February, 1878, medical superintendent of the London insane asylum. Dr. Bucke is the author of "Man's Moral Nature" (New York, 1879) and "Walt Whitman" (1882), which has been republished in England. He has written many magazine articles.

BUCKHOUT, Isaac Craig, civil engineer, b. in Morrisania, N. Y., in 1831 ; d. in White Plains, N. Y., 27 Sept., 1874. His father was manager of the old Gouverneur Morris estate. On leaving school in 1848 he was employed on the Harlem railroad as a rodman under Allen Campbell, who afterward became president of the road. Here he attracted the attention of his employers by his intelligence and quickness. He was afterward a surveyor in Paterson, N. J., and was then made engineer and superintendent of the water-works of that city. After this he returned to New York, became city surveyor, and then resumed his connection with the Harlem railroad company, superintending the construction of the old viaduct over the Harlem flats and bridge over the Harlem river in 1853. He was engineer of the company in 1857, and in 1863 was made superintendent. He designed the Grand Central station, as well as the improvement on Fourth avenue. When the charter for that work was granted, the legislature appointed a board of four engineers, one of whom was Mr. Buckhout, and the members elected him as the superintendent. When Mr. Vanderbilt obtained the charter for building an underground railroad to the City Hall, Mr. Buckhout's plan was declared the best submitted, and his plan for an underground railroad in Brooklyn was also adopted. Mr. Buckhout was a personal friend of Horace Greeley, and superintended the improvements about Mr. Greeley's residence at Chappaqua. His death was caused by fever, contracted by standing on the marshy ground at Sixtieth street and North river, where he was superintending the construction of an elevator for the Hudson river railroad company.