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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMKRICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bryde, Archibald M., state senator, congressman, was born in Moore county, N.C. He was a representative in congress from that state in 1809-13; and subsequently a member of the state senate for two years.

He

died in

North Carolina.

Bryson, Andrew, naval

officer,

was born

New York

City. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1837; was promoted to lieutenant in 1851; became commander in 1862; was made captain in 1866; became commodore in 1873; and attained the rank of rear admiral in 1880. Previous to his retirement, after forty-three years of service, he was in command of the South Atlantic station. He died Feb. 7. 1892,

•july 35, 1822, in

in Washington, D.C. Bubb, John Wilson,

soldier, was born April 26, 1843, in Danville, Pa. In 1861 he serred as private sergeant in the first battalion of

the twelfth infantry. In 1906 he was promoted from colonel to brigadier-general after forty-five years of service.

Bubert, Caspar, sculptor, artist, was born

Among

his works were in 1830 in Austria. the bass-reliefs on the Garfield monument in Cleveland; the bronze statue in Alexandria, Va., symbolical of the lost cause; the figure

of Columbia in front of the congressional

li-

brary in Washington; and allegorical groups of the patent office, representing electricity, fire, water, invention, agriculture and mining industry. He died Aug. 23, 1899, in New

York

City.

Buchanan, Alexander M., lawyer, jurist. In 1855-63 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana. Buchanan, Andrew, soldier, was born in 1734, in Druid Hill, Md. He was lieutenant of Baltimore county during the revolution; and also presiding justice. He was active as a member of the committee of corrspondence and in organizing the militia; and was one of the brigadier-generals appointed for the colony in 1776. He died March 12, 1785, in

Druid Hill, Md. Buchanan, Andrew, congressman, was bom in Waynesburg, Pa. In 1835-39 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth congresses,

he

died in Pennsylvania.

Euchanan, Andrew Hays, educator, civil engineer, author, was bom June 28, 1828, in Washington county, Ark. In 1861-65 he was military topographical engineer in the confeder:.te service. From 1869 he was professor of

mathematics and civil-engineering in Cumberland university at Lebanon, Tenn. Buchanan, FranMin, Aiaval officer, college president,

was bom

Sept. 17, 1800, in Balti-

more, Md. In 1861 he entered the confeder-

army as captain; and for his services was tendered a vote of thanks by the confederate congress, and appointed admiral and ate

senior officer of the confederate navy. After the civil war he was for a time president of the Maryland agricultural college. He died

May

11, 1874, in

Maryland.

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Buchanan, George, physician, jurist, was born about 1698 in Scotland. He practiced medicine in Baltimore county; and was a justice of that county. He was one of the seven commissioners that were named in the act of 1729 for laying out and founding the city of Baltimore. In 1849 he was a member of the legislature. His residence, with its extensive grounds of over five hundred acres, called Druid Hill, was purchased by the city in 1860 for five hundred thousand dollars, and is known as Druid hill park. Within it is

the burial-ground of the Buchanan family. died April 33, 1750, in Baltimore, Md.

He

Buchanan, George, physician, author, was born Sept. 19, 1763, in Baltimore, Md. He began practice in Baltimore in 1789; was a member of the first branch of the city council; and in 1799 was one of the city magistrates. He was the author of Treatise on Typhus Fever and other works. He died Ju;

ly 9, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Buchanan, Henry C, journalist, librarian, was born March 7, 1851, in Bucks county. Pa. Until 1899 he was editor of the Times of Trenton, N.J.; and then became state librarian of

New

Jersey.

Buchanan, Hugh, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 15, 1833, in bcotland. He was elected to the state senate of Georgia in 1855; and was re-elected in 1857. He was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1856; was a presidential elector in 1860; was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1868 and was a judge of the superior court in 1872-80. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1877. In 1881-85 he was a representative from Georgia to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses. He died June 30, 1890, in Newman, Ga.

Buchanan, James, fifteenth president of the United States, was born April 22, 1791, in Franklin county. Pa. He graduated at Dickinson college in 1809;

and was admitted to the bar in 1812.

became a member

He of

the Pennsylvania state 1814. legislatiwe in In 1831-31 he was a representative to the seventeenth and to the twenty-first congresses. In 1831 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to llussia. In 1834-47 he was United States senator; Mini in 1845-49 he was secretary of state. Jlr. Isuchanan was appointed minister to England in 1853; and returned in April, 1856. June 3, ]85G, the national democratic convention met at Cincinnati to nominate a candidate for the presidency. On the first ballot James Buchanan received 135 votes; Franklin Pierce, 122; Stephen Arnold DougLewis Cass, 5. On the ninth ballot las, 33