. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. WILLIAM B. RUGGLBS. William B. Buggies was the only son of Dr. William B. and Mary Ruggle», and was born in Bath, N. Y., May 14, 1827. His mother, by the death of Dr. Buggies, in 1830, was left a widow in indigent circumstances. Her son, however, was kept at school in Bath most of the time until 1840, when he entered the ofl&ce of The GofistitutionaUst, then published in Bath by Charles Adams
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. WILLIAM B. RUGGLBS. William B. Buggies was the only son of Dr. William B. and Mary Ruggle», and was born in Bath, N. Y., May 14, 1827. His mother, by the death of Dr. Buggies, in 1830, was left a widow in indigent circumstances. Her son, however, was kept at school in Bath most of the time until 1840, when he entered the ofl&ce of The GofistitutionaUst, then published in Bath by Charles Adams, to learn the printer's trade. From this time he was thrown upon his own resources. He continued working in printing-offices in Bath, Corning, and Canandaigua until 1846. During this period, con- ceiving an ardent desire to acquire a thorough education, he adopted the plan of combining work and study in the printing-office, and by devoting mornings and nights, after the day's work was done, to his books, he was enabled to enter Hamilton College, in the sophomore class, in September, 1846. During his college course, by working at his trade during vacations, and teaching school one winter, at the same time keeping along with his class in his studies, he was able to earn enough to defray his college expenses, and graduated in July, 1849. In October, 1849, he went to Atlanta, Ga., where he immediately secured a situation as editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer, a weekly paper, which had been started a few weeks before. By the end of the first year he pur- chased a half interest in the paper, and in the course of another year pur- chased the remaining half. In the spring of 1854, the city having increased in population largely, he commenced the publication of a daily paper, The Daily Intelligencer, it being the first daily paper over published in Atlanta. In August, of the same year, he married Caroline, daughter of Col. Lester Barker, of Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., a young lady wh
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