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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bundy, Jonas

Mills, journalist, author,

was

born in 1835 in New Hampshire. He was editor of the Mail and Express in 1868-91. He was the author of State Rights and Life of Garfield. He died in 1891 in New Yorlc City. Bundy, Solomon, lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1823, in Oxford, N.Y. He was the district attorney of Chenango county in 1862-65. In 1877-79 he was a representative from New York to the forty-fifth congress as a republican. He died in Oxford, N.Y. Bundy, Zachary Taylor, physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 27, 1849, at Olive Hill, Tenn. In 1883 he graduated from Vanderbilt university. He is prominent in the business and public affairs of Austin, Texas. Since 1883 he has practiced his profession of physician and surgeon with success; has been president of Briggs medical society of Ellis county, Texas; and is now surgeon to the Texas state confederate home at Austin, Texas. He has contributed valuable articles to medical literature. Bungay, George Washington, journalist, author, poet, was born on Nov. 28, 1826, in England. He was a New York journalist; and was well known as a temperance lecturer. He wrote many poems, among which The Creeds of the Bells has long been popular. His other writings include The Abraham Lincoln Songster; The Poets of Queen Elizabeth's Time; Oflfhand Takings; Crayon Sketches; and Pen Portraits of Illustrious Abstainers. He died July 10, 1892, in Bloom;

field,

X.J.

Bunn, Benjamin H., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born on Oct. 19, 1844, near Rocky Mount, N.C. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the confederate army; com-

manded the fourth company of the sharpshooters, MacRae's brigade in the army of

North Virginia and was twice wounded.

He

served as a member of the North Carolina constitutional convention of 1875; and he was a delegate to the

national democratic convention in 1880; and was a member of the state legislature in 1883. He was presidential elector in 1884. In 1889-95 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fifty-first, fifty-second, gresses as a democrat.

and

fifty-third con-

Bunn, Henry Gaston, soldier, state senajurist, was born June 12, 1838, near Rocky Mount, N.C'. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war; and tor,

was third lieutenant, adjutant, lieutenantcolonel and colonel of the fourth Arkansas infantry in the army of the Tennessee. In 1873-75 he served as state senator; and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1874. He was special judge of the circuit

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and supreme court; and in 1893-94 was chief supreme court of Arkansas. Bunn, Romanzo, E,, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Sept. 24, 1839, in South Hartwick, N.Y. In 1859 he was elected a representative in the Wisconsin state legisjustice of the

He was elected circuit judge of the sixth judicial circuit for the term of six years; was re-elected; and in 1877-1902 he was United States district judge for the western district of Wisconsin. Bunn, William M., soldier, journalist, governor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. For awhile he was in wood engraving business. During the civil war he was severely wounded at Savage station, Va. In 1868 he was a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature; and in 1875-81 was guardian of the poor. In 1878 he became editor of the Sunday Transcript. In 1884 he was appointed governor of Idaho. Bunnell, Frank C, soldier, banker, lawyer, congressman, was bom March 19, 1842, in Luzerne county. Pa. He enlisted in the union army as a private of the fifty-second regiment Pennsylvania volunteers; and was made quartermaster's sergeant in 1862. In 1872 he was elected a, representative in conlature.

gress to fill a vacancy. In 1875 he was elected president of Wyoming county agricultural society; and continued to be re-elected each year. He was a member of the board of education in 1881-84; in 1881 was appointed a member of the Pennsylvania bicentennial association; in 1883 was treasurer of Tunkhannock; and was burgess in 188384. In 1885-89 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican. Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton, soldier, surgeon, author, was born March 13, 1824, in Rochester, N.Y. He received his education in -the select, public and classical schools of De-

Mich. He served the Mexican war; was a pioneer in California in 1849; was in the Indian war of during which 1851; the Yosemite valley was discovered, and at his suggestion, by vote of the Mariposa Batalion, the name Yosemite was applied to th now famous valley. He was hospital steward in the Mexican war; and surgeon in the thirty-sixth Wisconsin volunteers in the civil war. His work, Discovery of the Yosemite, has been officially rcognized by the state of California; and his book, Winona and Its Environs, was written for the old settlers of Winona county. He first settroit,

in

Minnesota in 1842. Bunner, Henry Cuyler, journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 3, 1855, in Oswego, N.Y. tled in

He was

the editor of Puck of

New York