Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . e assisted in in-corporating its Board of Trade, and was mainlyinstrumental in establishing the first railway fastfreight line, now known as the Merchants also organized the Niagara Frontier Police, ofwhich he was one of the first commissioners. Byan article entitled A Splendid Dream, first publishedin the Buffalo Morning Express, May 3, T8S2, whichimmediately attracted widespread attention, he was the
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . e assisted in in-corporating its Board of Trade, and was mainlyinstrumental in establishing the first railway fastfreight line, now known as the Merchants also organized the Niagara Frontier Police, ofwhich he was one of the first commissioners. Byan article entitled A Splendid Dream, first publishedin the Buffalo Morning Express, May 3, T8S2, whichimmediately attracted widespread attention, he was the first to make known to the world the possibilityof utilizing the enormous power of Niagara Falls forindustrial and other purposes by means of tunnels,a plan which proved perfectly feasible and is inactive operation to-day. He married Ellen JaneCallender, of Eagle Village, Central New York, andof English or Scotch ancestry. One of her brothers,General Franklin Dyer Callender, who graduated atthe United States Military Academy, West Point,and was severely wounded while serving in theMexican War, was Chief of Ordnance on GeneralHallecks staff during the Civil War, had charge of. F. S. BUELL the St. Louis Arsenal, and during the Presidency ofGeneral Grant was stationed at the arsenal in Wash-ington, District of Columbia. Her youngest brother,Captain Byron M. Callender, also served in theCivil War. Franklin S. Buell was educated in thecommon and high schools of Buffalo, at FalleySeminary, Fulton, New York, and Yale, graduatingwith the Class of 1869. During his Junior year hewas also a student at the Yale Law School, and forsome time after leaving College he continued hislegal studies but never applied for admission to theBar. His training for his present occupation wasbegun in the general office of the Lake Shore &Michigan Southern Railroad Company, where heremained two years, at the expiration of which time UNIVERSITIES JND THEIR SONS 309 he entered the service of the Buffalo & Was
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