Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

CHAPTER XVI.--WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM.

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The Buckinghams an Original Puritan Family--Rev. Thomas Buckingham--Gov. Buckingham's Father and Mother--Lebanon, the Birthplace of Five Governors--Gov. Buckingham's Education--He Teaches School--His Natural Executive Tendency--His Business Career--His Extreme Punctuality in Payments--His Business and Religious Character--His Interest in the Churches and Schools--His Benefactions in those Directions--His Political Course--He Accepts Municipal but not Legislative Offices--A Member of the Peace Conference--He Himself Equips the First State Militia in the War--His Zealous Co-operation with the Government--Sends Gen. Aiken to Washington--The Isolation of that City from the North--Gov. Buckingham's Policy for the War; Letter to Mr. Lincoln--His Views on Emancipation; Letter to Mr. Lincoln--Anecdote of the Temperance Governor's Staff. 463