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entered commercial life as a clerk in his uncle's store in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was made a partner in 1859. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Union army, enlisting as a private in the 13th N. Y. regiment, and serving througli the peninsular campaign under Generals Mansfield and Weber. In 1872 upon his father's death he removed to Hartford to care for his estate, and at once took a prominent part in business, political and financial affairs. He or- ganized the United States bank of Hartford, of which he was elected the first president. In 1879 he resigned to accept the office of president of the JEtna life insurance company. He was also actively connected with other leading financial institutions of this city and state, including the ^tna fire insurance company, the Willimantic linen company, and the ^tna national bank of Hartford. In 1875 he was elected a councilman; in 1876, an alderman; and in 1880 and for the four succeeding terms, mayor of Hartford. He was elected govei'nor of Connecticut on the Re- publican ticket in 1888, and as no candidate for election in 1890 received a constitutional major- ity of the votes cast, he held the office another term as governor cle jure. A legislative dead- lock followed, and but for the liberal use of his own funds in providing for the wants of the charitable institutions of the state, much suffer- ing would have resulted. The matter was carried to the supreme court of the state and he was fully sustained in his action, the court declaring him to be governor cle facto as well as dejure. In 1891 he received in legislative caucus thirty-five votes as United States senator, Joseph R. Hawley being the choice of the party.

BULKELEY, Peter, clergyman, was born at Odell, Bedforashire, England, Jan. 31, 1582. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, and admitted to the priesthood. He suc- ceeded to his father's living in his native town, which he held for more than twenty years. Being accused of nonconformity by Archbishop Laud, he was obliged to leave the place, and in 1635 came to America, and settled at Cam- bridge, Mass. Some years later he removed to the place where Concord now stands, and founded a town. The nucleus of the library at Hai'vard college was his private collection of books. He is the author of The Gospel Cov- enant ; 01' the Covenant of Grace Opened (1646), and of several Latin verses. He died at Con- cord, Mass., ]March9, 1659.

BULKELEY, William Henry, statesman, was born at East Haddam, Conn., Marcli 2. 1840 ; son of Eliphalet A. Bulkeley,and a direct descendant of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, founder of Concord, Mass. He received a public-strliool eihication and learned the dry goods business in Brooklyn.

N. Y., from whence, in 1861, he went to the war as a private in the 13th regiment, N. Y. S. M., and the next year raised a company for the 56th N. Y. volunteers, was elected captain, and served in General Smith's division until the regiment was ordered home during the New York draft riots in 1863. He returned to Hartford in 1868, or- ganized and became president of the Kellogg and Bulkeley company, lithographers; was a member of the common council of Hartford five years, and vice-president and president one year each. He was commissary-general of Connecti- cut from 1879 to 1881, lieutenant-governor from

1881 to 1883, and state commissioner to the York- town celebration in 1881. He was the Republican candidate for governor in 1882, being defeated by Thomas M. Waller. At this election he de- clined to take advantage of eight thousand black ballots, which would have made him governor, the courts declaring them illegal. The general assembly by joint resolution validated the black ballots before declaring Mr. Waller elected gov- ernor. He then removed to South Dakota, where he founded Forest City, Potter county. He was president of the Forest City and Sioux City railroad, and of the Forest City land and improvement company.

BULKLEY, Charles Henry Augustus, edu- cator, was born in Charleston, S. C, Dec. 22, 1818, son of Ashbel and Ann Eliza (Fanning) Bulkley. He was graduated from the University of the city of New York in 1839, and from Union theological seminary in 1842. In 1842 he was home missionary at New Brunswick, N. J., and from 1844 to 1846 at Janesville. Wis. From 1848 to 1882 he preached successively at Malone, N. Y., Mt. Morris, N. Y., Ithaca, N. Y., and Port Henry, N. Y. During the civil war he served first as chaplain of the 70th N. Y. regiment, Sickles's brigade, and later as aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant -general in McClellan's campaign in the peninsula. In 1882 he was a professor in Dr. Cullis's training college, Boston, Mass., and from

1882 to 1891 held a chair in Howard university. He received the degree of A.M. in 1842 from the University of the city of New York, and that of D.D. from Howard university in 1881. He com- piled two volumes : Plato's Best Thoughts and D'Anbignes Martyrs of the Reformation. He died in Washington, D. C. in 1892,

BULKLEY, Henry Daggett, physician, was born at New Haven, Conn., April 20, 1803, He was graduated from Yale in 1821, and after spending a few years in business life in New York city he adopted tlie medical profession, having been made an M.D. in 1830. He spent two years in study in Europe. In his practice he made a specialty of diseases of the skin, and founded the first dispensary for skin diseases in