Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Buckminster, William J.

BUCKMINSTER, William J., journalist, b. in Maine in 1813 ; d. in Maiden, Mass., 2 March, 1878. He was a son of the founder of the “Massachusetts Ploughman,” and was for twenty-one years one of its editors and publishers. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1835. His father, William, died at Framingham, Mass., in June, 1865, aged eighty-two years.