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Buckley, Ernest Robertson, educator, geoauthor, was born Sept. 3, 1873, in Milbury, Mass. In 1895 he graduated from the university of Wisconsin, receiving the degrees of B.S. and Ph.D. For several years he was an extensive lecturer in the university of Wisconsin; and since 1901 has been director of the bureau

logist,

of o-eology and mines of Missouri; and also state geologist. Since

1904 he has also been a non-resident lecturer in economic geology at the university of Chicago. He is the author of Building and Ornamental Stones of Wisconsin; Clays and Clay Industries of Wisconsin; Highway Construction in Wisconsin; and The Quarrying Industry of ilissouri. Buckley, George Wright, clergyman, author, was born May 36, 1850, in Battle Creek Mich. In 1873 he graduated from the law school of the university of Michigan; then studied divinity at Harvard; and in 1885 was ordained a minister of the unitarian churcn. He is the author of Pain is Gain The Wit and Wisdom of Jesus; A Study of Carlyle and Emerson; A Contract; and other works. Buckley, James Monroe, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Dec. 16, 1836, in Piahway, N.J. He was educated in the pub;

lic schools and theoloHe gical seminaries. is a methodist clergyman; and since 1881 has been editor of the

dam, Conn. He enlisted

in the civil war; and served as a private in the thirteenth xsew York regiment. He was the prime factor in the formation of the United States bank at Hartford, of which he was the first president; In 1887 he became governor of Connecticut.

Buckley, Samuel Botsford, naturalist, jourwas born May 9, 1809, in Tor-

nalist, author,

He was state geologist of Texas in 1866-67, and again in 1874-77; and prepared two geological maps of the state. list of

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of Wesleyan university. He died Feb. 18, 1884, in Austin, Texas. Buckley, Thomas, merchant, philanthropist, was born Jan. 29, 1771, in Bristol, K.I. He was president of the joank of America; and secretary of the first free school society in New York City. He died April 28, 1846, in

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Bucklin, Benjamin F., soldier, was born in Rhode Island. In 1862 he was a captain in the department of commissary of subsistence. He served throughout the civil war; and attained the rank of second lieutenant in the United States army. In 1865 he was brevetted major of volunteers for faithful service in the subsistence department; and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel of volunteers for faithful, meritorious and gallant services during the civil war. In 1865-67 he was second lieutenant in the thirty-fourth regiment United States infantry. He died Jan. 15, 1880. Bucklin, James W., lawyer, statesman, was born Nov. 13, 1856, in Big Rock, 111. He was the first to take an active part in securing the new Australian ballot and suffrage in

woman's

Christian

Advocate. He is the author of Two Weeks in the Yosemite Valley; Supposed Miracles Christians and the Theatre Oats or Wild Oats ; of Faith-Healing

ter works ; and he was largely instrumental in the erection of a quarter million dollar plant at Grand Junction, Col., to bring water from the mountains to

Christian Science and

that city. He has been county and city attorney of Grand Junction and served as a member of the Colorado





Kindred Phenomena; Travels in Three Continents, Kurope, Africa and Asia; The Midnight Sun, the Czar and the Nihilist; and History of Methodism in the United States, in t^^o volumes. Buckley, Joseph, soldier, was born in Maryland. In 1814 he was second lieutenant in the thirty-eighth regiment United States infantry; and in 1814-15 served in the arIn 1819 he was third lieutenant in the ordnance department; and in 1821 was transferred to the sixth regiment United States infantry. He resigned from the United States army in 1823. He died in 1832. ouckley, Morgan G., soldier, banker, governor, was born Dec. 26, 1838, in East Had31

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Colorado. For many years he has advocated the municipal ownership of wa-

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Buckman, C. man, was born

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state senator, congress-

1851 near Newton, Pa. In 1872 he settled in Little Falls, Minn. In 188183 he was a member of the Minnesota state legislature; and in 1883-95 was a member of the state senate. In 1903-05 he was a representative from Minnesota to the fiftyeighth congress as a republican. Buckminster, Joseph, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 14, 1751, in Rutland, Vt. He was ordained in 1779 as pastor of the North church in Portsmouth, N.H. He published about twenty-five sermons and a short sketch in