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HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. tative from Tennessee to the thirty-third congress. He died in Tennessee. Buist, George, educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1770 in Scotland, in 1805 he became principal of the college in Charleston. He published an abridgment of Hume's History for schools and a version of the Psalms; and contributed to the British Encyclopaedia. volume of his sermons, with a memoir, was published in 1809. He died about 1808 in Charleston, S.C. Buist, Henry, soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born IDec. 25, 1829, in Charleston, S.C. He served several times in the house of representatives of South Carolina; and was a member of the state senate. During the civil war he entered the confederate army as captain of infantry. He died June 9, 1887, in Charleston, S.C. Buist, John Robinson, educator, physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 13, 1834 in Charleston, S.C. He served as a surgeon throughout the civil war. He has been professor of surgery in the university of the south and at Vauderbilt university. Since the civil war he has practiced medicine in Nashville, Tenn.

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Bukey, Van Hartness, soldier, was born in was a private in the eleventh regiment West Virginia infantry; and Ohio. In 1861 he in

1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of

volunteers. Bulfinch, Charles, designer, architect, was born Aug. 8, 1763. In 1793 he built the first theater in Boston, Mass. He drew the plans for the state covirt house and city hall in Boston; for the capitol at Washington; for Faneuil hall; and designed as many as forty churches and other buildings in New England cities. He was the architect of the national capitol from 1817 until it was completed in 1830. He died April 15, 1844, in

Boston, Mass. Bulfinch, Ellen Susan, artist, author, was born Oct. 11, 1844, in Framington, Mass.; • and is the daughter of the Rev. Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch. She is the author of The Life and Letters of her grandfather, Charles Bulfineh, the pioneer of American architects. Bulfinch, Stephen Greenleaf, clergyman, author, poet, was born June 18, 1809, in Boston, Mass. In 1830-37 he was a unitarian clergyman of Augusta, Ga.; and later of Boston, Mass. He was the author of Poems, Lays of the Gospel, Communion Thoughts; Contemplations of the Saviour; The Holy Land and Its Inhabitants; The Harp and the Cross; Honour, or the Slave Dealer's Daughter; Manual of the Evidences of Christianity; and Studies in the Evidences of Christianity. He died Oct. 13, 1870, in Cambridge, Mass.

Thomas, banker, author, was July 15, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was the author of Hebrew Lyrical History; The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; Boy Inventor; Legends of Charlemagne; Poetry of the Age of Fable; and Oregon and EldorBulfinch,

bom

ado, or Romance of the Rivers. 27, 1867, in Boston, Mass.

He

died

May

485

Bulkeley, Eliphalet Adams, lawyer, jurist, was born June 29, 1803, in Colchester, Conn. In 1857 he was a second time elected to the

Connecticut state legislature, becoming speaker of the house. During the latter portion of his life he was interested in the business of life insurance; and associated in the organizing of both the Connecticut mutual

company, becoming

its first president; and the ^tna life insurance company. He died Feb. 13, 1873, in Hartford, Conn. Bulkeley, Lucius Duncan, physician, author, was born in 1845 in Xew York. He is a physician of New York City. He is the author of Manual of Diseases of the Skin; and other medical Monographs. Bulkeley, Morgan Gardiner, soldier, governor, United States senator, was born Deo. 26, 1838, in East Haddam, Conn. He served in the thirteenth New York regiment during the civil war. In 1880-88 he was mayor of Hartford, Conn. In 1889-1903 he was governor of Connecticut. In 1905-11 he was a representative from Connecticut to the United States senate. Bulkley, Frank, miiiing engineer, legisla-

tor,

was born July

Iowa.

He

is

10, 1857, in Washington, a noted mining engineer in Col-

He is the general manager of the New Pittsburgh mining company of Leadville; the Grand River coal and coke company, of Garfield; the Aspen mining and smelting company; the Regent mine; and various other mining companies. He has served as a representative in the Colorado state legislature. Bulkley, Henry Daggett, physician, author, was born April 20, 1803, in New Haven, Conn. He was a president of the New York county medical society ; and a member of the orado.

New York academy of medicine. He edited the American editions of Cazenave and also Schedel's Manual of Diseases of the Skin; and Gregory's Eruptive Fevers. He died about 1900 in New York City. Bulkley, L. Duncan, physician, author, was born Jan. 13, 1845, in New York City. He is consulting physician of the New York hospital. He is the author of Manual of Diseases of the Skin; and Acne and Its Treatment. Bull,

Charles

Hehry, railroad president,

16, 1832, in Hartford, Conn. thorough education in the public schools of his native city. In 1869 he

was born Dee.

He

received a

entered

the

railway

treasurer service as and financial agent of

Quincy,

the

Missouri

and pacific railroad, which in 1888 was reorganized as the Quincy,

Omaha and Kansas He was

City railroad.

made

vice-president of the State savings, loan and trust company of Quincy, 111.; and identified himself with various other financial corporations. In 1888-