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Rh also, but his name remained on the ticket, although Thomas Watson, of (icoreia, was made the vice- presidential candidate. Mr. Bryan also received the nomination of the national Silver party at its convention, held in St. Louis on 23 July. The canvass was remarkable for the at'tive part that Mr. Bryan took in it as a imlitical orator, speaking in all parts of the I'niteil .States. In the electioa with which it closed, the three tickets headed by Mr. Bryan received 0,506.H3.5 votes in a total of 13.926,757, of which the Republican candidate, William McKinley, received 7.104,244. Of the electoral votes, .Mr. Bryan received 176, and his successful opponent 271. Since his defeat Mr. Bryan has continued active as an advcK?ate of the free coinage of silver, bot h as a public sneaker and a writer. See " Life and S|»eeches of William J. Brvan." bv John S. Ogilvie (New York, 1896).

BUBERT, Caspar, sculptor, b. in Bohemia, Austria, in IHSO; d. in New York city, 22 Aug., 1899. lie rweivcd his art education in Vienna, and came to this country in 18.')6. Among his works were the bass-reliefs on the Garfiehl monu- ment in Cleveland, the bnmiie statue in Alex- andria, Va., sytnl)olical of the lost cause, the figure of Colund)ia in front of the congressional library, Washington, and allegorical groups of the patent oflice. rej)resenting electricity, fire, water, inven- tion, agriculture, and mining industry. He also created the I'onco de Leon statue for Venezuela. At the time of his death he wa.s taking an active jwjrt ill the construction of the Dewey triumphal arch ill Fifth avenue. New York.

'''BUCHANAN. George''', physician. b. in Scot- land atK>ut 1698; d. in Baltimore. 23 April, 1750. He emigntted to this country in 1723. and prac- tised medicine in Baltimore county, of which he was a justice. He was one of the seven commis- sioners that were name<l in the ai^t of 8 Aug., 1729, for laying out and founding the city of Bal- timore. In 1849 he was a meiiilier of the legisla- ture. Dr. Buchanan's residence, with its exten- sive grounds of 5(K) acres, called "Druid Hill." was purchased by the city in 1H«0 for <;5inled for the colonv in I77((. He was the grandfather of (leii. Roljcrt Christie Buchanan (vol. i.. p. 436). — -Andrew's son, (irorgp. plivsiciaii, b. in Baltimore-, 19 .S'[>t., 176:{; d. near Pliiladd- phia, 9 July, I80M, was graduated at the me<lical department of the I'niversitv of IVnnsylvania in 1785, and also studie<l in t'Minburgli. Dr. Bu- chanan began practice in Baltimore in 1789, was a member of the first branch of the city council orKHiiizcd under the charter of (he city, and in 1799 he wiLS one of the city magislnites. (In 4 July. 1H6, he was appointed by (lov. McKeon, of I'ennsylvania. whose daughter he har of the Med- ical and chinirgical faculty of Maryland in 1788, and a member of the Me<lical ?«K-iely of Baltimore in 17H9. Dr. Buchanan was the author of " Des- scrtatio I'hvsiologica de caiisis Respiralionis ejiis- dcmque atfectibiis" (I'hilailclphia, 1789); "Treat- ise on Typhus Fever," published for the benefit of establishing a lying-in hospital in Baltimore (1789); " Letter to the Inhabitants of Baltimore," in which he suggests the registration of deaths, the formation of a public park, and the organiza- tion of a humane society (1790) ; "An Appeal for the Establishment of a Humane Society, in con- junction with Drs. Brown, Wiesenthall, Goodwin, Coale, Wynkoop, Stevenson, and Haslett (1790); and ".Vn Oration upon the Moral and Political Evil of Slavery, delivered at a Public Meeting of the .Maryland .Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes and others unlawfully held in Bondage" (Baltimore, 1793). A copy of the last-named pain ph lei was discovered in 18(io in the library of the Boston athena'um, among some books from the library of (jell. Washington. It is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, and has Washington's autograph on the title-page. It was considered .so valuable a work that it gave rise to Poole's "Anti-slavery Opinions l)efore the Year 18(X)" (Cincinnati. 1878), in which is a fac-simile of the panijihlet. He left three sons and several daughters. His son George was a pro- thonotary and brieadier-general of the Pennsylva- nia militia, and the father of Lieut.-Comniander Thomas McKean Buchanan. V. S. navy (vol. i., p. 436) : .McKean, a jwiy-director in the navv and a veteran ollicerof two wars; and .diniral tVanklin Buchanan (vol. i., p. 428). — The first George's son, WIlliam, b. in Italtimore in 1748; d. there, 19 Dec, 1824, was a nieinlwr of the committee of cor- respondence during the Revolution, and in 1778 was registrar of wills for Baltimore county. — Will- iam's son. James M., lawver, b. in Baltimore in May, 1803; d. there. 23 Aug.. 1876. studied law, was admitte<l to the bar and served in the legisla- ture. He was postmaster at Baltimore in 1841-'9, memlier of the state constitutional coiivenlion of 1850-'l. and it-s president pro lemjmre, and com- missioner of Maryland to settle matters in dis- pute between that state and Pennsylvania. In 1855 he was appointed judge of the 6th judicial district of Maryland. In 1856 he was a memlier of the Democratic convention that nominated James Buchanan for president, and in 1858 ho was ajipointed U.S. minister lo Denmark.

BUCHANAN, Joseph, inventor, b. in Wash- ington county, Va.. 24 Aug., 1785 ; d. in Louisville, Ky., 29 S<'pt., 1820. He removed to Tennessee in 1795. was ediicate<l at Transylvania university, Kentuckv. studied medicine, and practised in Port Gibson, Miss., but in 1808 removed to Lexington, Ky.. where in 1811 he was apjiointed |)rofes.-:or of the institutes of medicine in the medical depart- ment of Tiansvlvania university. Among his nu- merous inventi<uis was a new musical instrument, in which the notes were prinluced by glas-ses of dif- ferent chemical composition, and a steam-engine with which, in 1824. lie ran a wagon through the .streets of liouisville. He claimiHl to have discov- ered a new motive [lower, ilerived from combus- tion wlllioiit the aid of water and steam, which is now utilized in the air-engines of John Ericsson anil others; anil also originated what he called "the music of light," to lie ppKluced by means of " harmoiiific colors luminously displayed." Dr. Buchanan edited the "Palladiiiin" in Frankfort, the " Western Spy" and the " LiteraM' Cadet " in Cincinnat i. ami t he " Focus " in Louisville, and was the author of the " Philosophy of Human Nature" (Richmond. Ky.. 1812). He was the father of Dr. Joseph Rodes Buchanan (q. v.).

'''BUCK. William Joseph''', historian, b. in Bucksville, Bucks co.. Pa., 4 March, 1825. He re-