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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (BUCK BURROUGHS.) 



Buck, Hiram, clergyman, born in Steuben County, 

 N. Y., in 1818; died in Decatur, 111., Aug. 22, _1892. 

 He was one of the pioneers of Methodism in Illinois, 

 having joined the State conference in 1843 ; had held 

 the office of presiding elder for fifty years ; gave a 

 large sum of money toward the endowment fund of 

 the "Wesleyan University and Illinois College; and 

 was one of the most widely known clergymen of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in the West. 



Buokland, Ralph Pomroy, lawyer, born in Leyden, 

 Mass., Jan. 20, 1812; died in Fremont, Ohio, May 28, 

 1892. His parents removed to Ohio while he was an 

 infant. He was graduated at Kenyon College, studied 

 law, was admitted to the bar in 1837, and settled in 

 Fremont. In 1848 he was a delegate to the Whig Na- 

 tional convention, and in 1855-'59 was a State Senator. 

 At the beginning of the civil war he organized the 

 72d Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and became its colo- 

 nel, and was afterward assigned by Gen. Sherman 

 to the command of the 4th Brigade of his division. He 

 served with distinction at Shiloh ; was promoted 

 brigadier-general Nov. 9, 1862; and was engaged with 

 the 15th Army Corps at Vicksburg and about Memphis 

 in 1864. In 1865 he was elected to Congress from the 

 9th Ohio District as a Republican, and, resigning his 

 commission in the army, he was brevetted major-gen- 

 eral of volunteers. He was re-elected to Congress, 

 and was a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' 

 Convention in 1866 ; was a delegate to the Pittsburg 

 Soldiers' Convention and the Republican National 

 Convention in 1876 ; served as president of the board 

 of managers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Or- 

 phans' Home at Xeniain 1867-'73 ; and was a Govern- 

 ment director of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1877-'80. 



Buel, Samuel, educator, born in Troy, N. Y., June 11, 

 1815 ; died in New York city, Dec. 30, 1892. He was 

 a son of the late Judge David Buel, and was graduated 

 at Williams College in 1833. In 1837 he was stationed 

 in St. Peter's Church, Albany, N. Y. ; in 1837-'39 was 

 rector of Trinity Church, Marshall, Mich. ; in 1S40-'41 

 was missionary at Minersville and Llewellyn, Pa. ; in 

 1841-'47 was rector of Emanuel parish, Cumberland, 

 Mel. ; and in 1847-'56 of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y. From 1867 till 1871 he was Professor of Eccle- 

 siastical History and Divinity at Seabury Hall. Fari- 

 bault, Minn., and from 1871 till 1888 Professor of 

 Systematic Divinity -and Dogmatic Theology in the 

 General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church in New York city. Pie resigned on ac- 

 count of failing health in 1888, and was made pro- 

 fessor emeritus. He received the degree of S. T. D. 

 from Columbia College in 1862; ad eundem from the 

 General Theological Seminary in 1884. Dr. Bucl's 

 writings were numerous, and" included an essay on 

 " The Apostolical System of the Church, defended 

 in a reply to Dr. Whately on the Kingdom of Christ" 

 (Philadelphia, 1844) ; "'Eucharistic Presence, Sacri- 

 fice, and Adoration" (New York, 1874); and a vol- 

 ume of lectures entitled "A Treatise of Dogmatic 

 Theology." 



Bull, Richard H., mathematician, born in New York 

 city in 1817 ; died there, Feb. 1, 1892. He was gradu- 

 ated at the University of the City of New York in 

 1837, studied one year in Union Theological Seminary, 

 and was then appointed tutor in mathematics in the 

 tJniversity of the City of New York. A few years 

 afterward he was made senior Professor of Mathe- 

 matics, and held the chair till 1885, when he was re- 

 tired as professor emeritus. He co-operated with 

 Prof. Morse in many of liis earlv experiments with 

 the magnetic telegraph, and was the first mathemati- 

 cian to put into practice for business purposes the idea 

 of obtaining the true time by the sun. For many 

 years he supplied the principal railroads terminating 

 in New York city with correct time, by which the 

 trains were run. He was President of the New York 

 Savings Bank from 1860 till 1882, and during the past 

 ten y^ears had been engaged in the preparation of a 

 treatise on the first book of Genesis, in which he at- 

 tempted to prove, by the application of mathematical 

 and astronomical reasoning, that the world was created 



in six days; that Moses was cognizant of the laws of 

 mathematics and astronomy when he wrote the 

 Pentateuch ; and that the writing was in harmony 

 with those laws. 



Bungay, Q-eorge Washington, journalist, bom in Wal- 

 singham, Suffolk, England, July 22, 1818; died in 

 Bloomfield, N. J., July 10, 1892. He came to this 

 country when nine years old, and received a public- 

 school education in New York city. He became edi- 

 tor of the "Metropolitan," a monthly journal; founded 

 the "Independent" in Ilion, N. Y.;wasa reporter and 

 editorial writer on the New York " Tribune " ; was a 

 strong abolitionist, and an intimate friend of Wendell 

 Phillips, Charles Sumner, John G. Whittier, Fred- 

 erick Douglass, and other antislavery workers ; arid 

 was also a strong temperance advocate and lecturer. 

 In the early part of President Lincoln's administra- 

 tion he was appointed to an office in the New York 

 custom house, at the solicitation of Mr. Sumner, where 

 he remained till 1887. Besides his general work in 

 journalism, he wrote an "Abraham Lincoln Songster," 

 '^The Poets of Queen Elizabeth's Time," "Offhand 



and " The Old Boys." Among his poems, " The Creed 

 of the Bells" was the most popular. 



Bunker. Robert, naturalist, born in Ghent, Columbia 

 County, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1820 ; died in Rochester, N. Y., 

 March 6, 1892. At an early age he removed with his 

 parents to Rochester, where he learned a trade and 

 became a very skillful mechanic. At the same time 

 he cultivated a love for natural history, and finally 

 devoted himself especially to entomology. He was 

 president of the entomological section of the Rochester 

 Academy of Science, and gave it his large collection, 

 one of the finest in the country. In the number and 

 variety of its moths, this collection is said to be the 

 best in existence. It is now in the library building of 

 the University of Rochester. Mr. Bunker contrib- 

 uted to periodicals many articles on subjects con- 

 nected with his favorite science. He was also the in- 

 ventor of several mechanical devices. 



Burgess, Walter Snow, jurist, born in Rochester, 

 Plymouth County, Mass., Sept. 10, 1808 ; died in 

 Providence, R. I., July 26,1892. He was graduated 

 at Brown University in 1831; became principal of 

 Thaxter Academy at Edgartown, Mass., and was ad- 

 mitted to the Rhode Island bar in 1835". President 

 Polk appointed him United States district attorney 

 for Rhode Island in 1845, and after serving in both 

 branches of the Legislature he was Attorney-General 

 for several years. Trom 1868 to June 1, 1881, when 

 he resigned, he was Associate Judge of the Supreme 

 Court of Rhode Island. 



Burns, William Wallace, military officer, born in Co- 

 shocton, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1825 ; died in Beaufort, S. C.. 

 April 19, 1892. He was graduated at the United 

 States Military Academy, and entered the army as 

 brevet 2d lieutenant 3d United States Infantry in 

 1847 ; was promoted 2d lieutenant, 5th Infantry, kept. 

 8 following; 1st lieutenant, Aug. 12, 1850; captain 

 and commissary of subsistence, Nov. 3, 1858; major, 

 Aug. 3, 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel and assistant com- 

 missary-general, June 3, 1874 ; and colonel, Nov. 9, 

 1884; and was retired Sept. 3, 1889. In the volunteer 

 army he was commissioned brigadier-general Sept. 

 28, 1861, and resigned March 20, 1863. During the 

 war he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry 

 in the battle of Savage Station, Va., where lie was 

 wounded, June 29, 18"62 ; colonel for the battle of 

 Glendale, on the following day; and brigadier-gen- 

 eral for services during the war,'March 13, 1865. 



Burroughs, John Curtis, educator, born in Stamford, 

 Delaware County, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1818 ; died in Chicago, 

 111., April 21, 1892. He was graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1842, and at Madison Theological Seminary in 

 1846 ; was pastor of Baptist churches in Watenord 

 and West Troy, N. Y., in 1847-'52; accepted a call to 

 the First Baptist Church in Chicago in 1852; and 

 while preaching there began an educational move- 



