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by the great fire. In 1873 he became president of the Chicago steel works. He died Aug. 30, 1888, in Springfield, Ohio. Buckingham, John Duncan, educator, musician, was born May 17, 1855, in Huntington, Pa. He has taught music in the Boston university of music; and since 1898 has been organist of St. Michal's church in Providence, E.I.

Buckingham, Joseph Tinker,

note who published in 1831-34 the New England Magazine, in which Dr. Holmes began his famous Autocrat. He also published the Boston Courier in 1828-48. In 184?-50 he served in the Massachusetts state senate. He was the author of Specimens of Newspaper Literature and Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life. He died April

Cambridge, Mass. Buckingham, William Alfred, merchant. United States senator, governor, was born May 28, 1804, in Lebanon, Conn. He was 11, 1861, in

elected

mayor

of

Norwich

in



for five years; and superior judge of Solono county for twelve years. He is now department commander of the grand army of the republic.

journalist,

was born Dee. 21, 1779, Windham, Conn. He was a journalist of

state senator, author, in

of the Wilderness and by reason of gunshot wound in battle before Petersburg, his right leg was amputated above the knee in 1865. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Fairfield, Cal.; was district attorney

1849,

1850,

Buckles, Joseph

electtv^

side of the barrel

screw.

He

and for milling the breech-

died Feb. 26, 1891, in Springfield,

Mass. Buckland, Ralph Pomeroy, soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1812, in Leyden, Mass. He was a member of the state senate of Ohio in 1855-59. In 186] ne was appointed colonel of the seventy-second Ohio infantry; fought in the battle of Sliiloh 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. In 1865-69 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died May 27, 1892, in Cleveland, Ohio. Buckles, Abraham Jay, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 3, 1846, in Muneie, Ind. In 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 battle of the Wilderness in 1864. He was wounded in the right thigh at the battle of Bull Tlun in the right shoulder at the battle of Gettysburg; in the right side at the battle



lawyer, state senator,

judge of the seventh judicial circuit;

and served twelve years. Buckley, Charles W., soldier, congressman,

was born Feb. 18, 1835, in Unadilla, N.Y. He graduated from the Beloit college of Wiscon-

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1856 and 1857; was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1856-66 he was the twenty-third governor of Connecticut, In 1869-75 he was United States senator from Connecticut. He died Feb. 3, 1875, in Norwich, Conn. Buckland, Cyrus, designer, inventor, was born Aug. 10, 1799, in Manchester, Conn. In 1828-59 he was a designer of machinery and tools for the manufacture of arms in the United States armory at Springfield, Mags. He produced his machine for making gunstocks abojit 1842; and was also the inventor of the machines for rifling musket barrels, for cutting the thread of the screw on the in-

S.,

was born July 29, 1819, in Springfield, Ohio. He was one of the originators of the Lafayette, Muneie ^nd Bloomington railroad; was its attorney; and was 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

forty-second

He served as a chaplain in the union army during a part of the civil war; and was subsequently an assistant superintendent of the freedmen's bureau. He was a, delegate to the Alabama state constitutional convention of 1867. In 1867-73 he was a representative from Alabama to the sin.

fortieth, forty-first

and

congresses as a republican.

He

now postmaster

of Montgomery, Ala; and prominently identified with the public affairs of the south. is

Buckley, Edmund, educator, lecturer, auwas born March 31, 1855 in England. Since 1904 he has been a docent in the university of Chicago. He was the editor of Universal Religion; University Lessons in Art; and The World To-Day. thor,

Buckley, Edward, soldier, lumberman; railroad president, was born Aug. 8, 1842, in p-n„i„„^ TT„ r^'-oiVed a good education. Enlisting in the twentyfourth Wisconsin infantry, he served gallantly until the end of the civil war. About 1875 he became identified with lumbering interests; and in 1892 incorporated the Buckley and Douglas lumber company, of which he was president and treasurer, with head quarters at Manistee, Micli. Smce 1886 he has been president of the Manistee and northeastern railroad; and