. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. necdotes and Reminiscences (1850) ;and Personal Memoirs and Recollections ofEditorial Life (1852). Buckingham, William Alfred, Americanpolitician: b. Lebanon, Conn., 28 May 1804; , 3 Feb. 1875. He was educated in thecommon schools; worked on his fathers farm;was also a school-teacher, and at Norwich, 1825,began business in dry-goods, becoming later amanufacturer and something of a capitalist. In1849 he was elected mayor of Norwich,
. The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world. necdotes and Reminiscences (1850) ;and Personal Memoirs and Recollections ofEditorial Life (1852). Buckingham, William Alfred, Americanpolitician: b. Lebanon, Conn., 28 May 1804; , 3 Feb. 1875. He was educated in thecommon schools; worked on his fathers farm;was also a school-teacher, and at Norwich, 1825,began business in dry-goods, becoming later amanufacturer and something of a capitalist. In1849 he was elected mayor of Norwich, to whichoffice he was repeatedly chosen. For nine years(1858-66) he was governor of Connecticut, andas one of the most efficient of the war gover-nors achieved a national fame. He served asUnited States senator from 1869 till his was active in the temperance cause, and aliberal giver to Yale College and to many benev-olent objects. Buckingham, or Bucks, an inland county,England, bounded north and northwest byNorthampton; northeast and east by Bedfordand Hertford; southeast by Middlesex; south-west by Berks, and west by Oxford. Its length,.. , LONDON, EN(.).
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