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ney, and Vandalia, the receiving ship Vermont, 

 and the schoolship St. Mary. He was promoted 

 to lieutenant (junior grade) on April 21, 1887, 

 and to lieutenant on Aug. 24, 1892. He was on 

 the New York from 1893 to 1890. He was as- 

 signed to the Naval Observatory and War Col- 

 lege in September, 1897, and in January, 1898, 

 went on the Olympia, and participated in the 

 battle of Manila Bay on May 1 of that year. In 

 his capacity as flag lieutenant to the admiral 

 (Dewey) Lieut. Brumby was thrown with his 

 chief practically all the time, and acted as his 

 personal representative in many matters of detail 

 delegated to him by the commanding officer. 



Bryant, Gridley James Fox, architect, born 

 in Boston, Mass., Aug. 29, 1816; died there, June 

 8.. 1899. He was the son of Gridley Bryant, who 

 built the railroad to carry stone from the Quincy 

 quarries to the site of Bunker Hill Monument, 

 which is said to have been the first railroad con- 

 structed in America, and who invented the two- 

 wheel and four-wheel railroad trucks and the 

 first turntable put together in this country. 

 Young Gridley was educated in the public schools 

 and at home, studied architecture, and established 

 himself in Boston. He designed and erected the 

 first fire-proof building in Boston; rebuilt the 

 Charlestown State Prison; remodeled the State 

 Capitol at Concord, N. H. ; erected the Old Colony 

 Station in Boston; and in 1853-'54 added a fire- 

 proof extension to the Massachusetts Statehouse. 

 He also designed and erected county court build- 

 ings and jails; the customhouse at Eastport, 

 Me.; the Maine State Reformed School, at Cape 

 Elizabeth; the Peabody Institute, at Danvers, 

 Mass.; the city halls at Lynn and Gloucester, 

 Mass.; the City Hospital and St. Vincent's Or- 

 phan Asylum, both in Boston; and many churches 

 and schoolhouses in that city. On the opening 

 of Franklin Street, Boston, he built it up with 

 granite blocks for business, and subsequently he 

 did the same with Summer Street. The great fire 

 in 1872 destroyed 152 of the buildings he had 

 designed and erected, and afterward he was com- 

 missioned to rebuild 110 of them. For several 

 years he was supervising architect of the Treasury 

 Department. 



Buberl, Caspar, sculptor, born in Bohemia in 

 1834; died in New York city, Aug. 22, 1899. He 

 received his professional education in Vienna, 

 came to the United States in 1854, and executed 

 a number of noteworthy public works. Among 

 his best-known productions are the soldiers' and 

 sailors' monuments in Troy, N. Y., Manchester, 

 N. H., and Hartford, Conn.; a bronze statue at 

 Alexandria, Va., symbolical of "the lost cause"; 

 the bronzes on the New York State Monument 

 at Gettysburg; five bas-reliefs on the Garfield 

 Monument at Cleveland; the figure of Columbia 

 in front of the new Congressional Library ; and the 

 allegorical groups of the Patent Office, representing 

 Electricity, Fire, Water, Invention, Agriculture, 

 and Mining. In New York he executed the Muses 

 at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Bucking- 

 ham statue on the hotel of that name, and the 

 Newsboy on the building of the American News 

 Company. He also made a statue of Ponce de 

 Leon for Venezuela. At the time of his sudden 

 death he had just completed the medallion bas- 

 relief of Rear-Admiral Dahlgren for the Dewey 

 triumphal arch on Madison Square, and had 

 begun work on a second medallion. 



Buckalew, Charles R., lawyer, born in Blooms- 

 Imrg, Columbia Co., Pa., Dec. 28, 1821; died there, 

 May 19, 1899. He studied law, and was admitted 

 to the bar in 1843. In 1845-'47 he was prosecut- 

 ing attorney for Columbia County; in 1850-'56, 



a State Senator; in 1854, a United States com- 

 missioner to ratify th treaty with Paraguay; 

 and in 1857 chairman of the Democratic State 

 Committee. During the last year he was re- 

 elected a State Senator and appointed a commis- 

 sioner to revise the penal code of Pennsylvania. 

 He resigned these two offices in 1858 on being ap- 

 pointed minister to Ecuador. In 1801 he returned 

 to the United States, and two years later he 

 was elected United States Senator, to succeed 

 David Wilmot, by a majority of one vote. Dur- 

 ing this service he was a member of the Commit- 

 tees on the Post Office and Indian Affairs, and 

 opposed the reconstruction measures as illegal. 

 On the expiration of his term he was again elected 

 to the State Senate, where he began the move- 

 ment for a State constitutional convention, of 

 which he was afterward a member. In 1872 he 

 was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for 

 Governor, in 1876 headed the Democratic State 

 electoral ticket, and in 1886 and 1888 was elected 

 a Representative in Congress. While in the 

 House of Representatives he served on the Com- 

 mittees on the Judiciary and Education. He pub- 

 lished Proportional Representation (1872) and 

 The Constitution of Pennsylvania (1883). 



Bullock, Jonathan Russell, jurist, born in 

 Bristol, R. I., Sept. 6, 1815; died there, May 7, 

 1899. He was graduated at Brown University 

 in 1834, studied law, and was admitted to the 

 bar at Newport in 1836. Soon afterward he re- 

 moved to Alton, 111., where he practiced till 1843, 

 when he returned to Bristol. He then served 

 three terms in the General Assembly of Rhode 

 Island, and in 1849 was appointed collector of 

 the port of Bristol and elected a State Senator. 

 In 1860 he was elected Lieutenant Governor, and 

 in the following year the Governor appointed him 

 a special commissioner to adjust the civil war 

 claims of the State against the Federal Govern- 

 ment. While engaged in this duty, in 1862, he 

 was chosen an associate justice of the Supreme 

 Court of Rhode Island. He remained on the 

 bench of that court till March, 1864, when he was 

 appointed judge of the United States District 

 Court for Rhode Island. Judge Bullock was 

 obliged by failing health to resign in 1869. 



Bunnell, Jesse H., telegrapher, born in Masil- 

 lori, Ohio, in 1843; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 

 8, 1899. He began learning telegraphy when 

 eleven years old, and when sixteen, was an oper- 

 ator in Columbus. In 1861, while employed in 

 Pittsburg, he went to Washington on the call 

 for volunteers for the military telegraph serv- 

 ice, and was first stationed at Annapolis, Md. 

 After the battle of Big Bethel he was transferred 

 to Hampton, Va., and on the organization of the 

 Peninsular campaign he became Gen. McClellan's 

 personal telegrapher. When Gen. McClellan trans- 

 ferred his headquarters to the steamer Commo- 

 dore, at Yorktown, Mr. Bunnell operated the wire 

 between the vessel and Washington. During the 

 battle of Antietam he received and sent messages 

 under continuous fire. In 1863 he was transferred 

 to the Army of the Cumberland and assigned to 

 Gen. Rosecrans's headquarters. In the battle of 

 Chickamauga, after the right wing of the Na- 

 tional army had been driven back, Mr. Bunnell 

 found himself the only man left in that part of 

 the field. When Gen. Rosecrans reached Chatta- 

 nooga Mr. Bunnell reopened communication with 

 him, informing him how the other division com- 

 manders had fared. From Chattanooga Mr. Bun- 

 nell went to Atlanta in 1864, intending to accom- 

 pany Gen. Sherman on his march to the sea, but 

 exposure and hardship had impaired his health 

 to such an extent that he .was obliged to leave 



