In the historical period of 1700 to 1899 in
the United States, there were a number of notable Bucklins.
If you only want to read a sampling of the Bucklins of
historical note, Here are a few samples of Bucklins that influenced
History or made like better or more interesting.
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James C. Bucklin. For perhaps the last twenty-five years of his active
business life, Mr. Bucklin gave his attention to architecture, and designed many
of the finest buildings of his day in Providence, among them the Arcade, the
Westminster Congregational Church edifice, the Butler Hospital for the Insane,
the Hoppin homestead, Music Hall, Howard Block and the Reynolds Building.
In the
year 2006, the Arcade still stands. The MIT libraries
have a web page that shows the Arcade Building built by James C. Bucklin. It
is a building that is notable in the history of architecture, both for the size
of its columns (the largest in the country at the time) and for being the first
indoor shopping mall in the United States.
Another of his buildings, at 68 Waterman Street, is now known
(2000 AD) as the Cabinet Building of Brown University. When it was first erected
it was designed for, and used by, the Rhode Island Historical Society as its
first headquarters building designed specially for it.
James C. Bucklin was involved in the
"best" part of society of Providence, as evidenced by his being one of
the original 88 limited charter members of the Squantum Association, a social
club that continues to this day (although now it admits women).
Thomas Peck Bucklin. Living in New York city, a line of clipper
ships and a trade in tea allowed him to retire with a fortune. His firm of
Bucklin and Crane, specializing in the China and San Francisco routes from New
York, was one of the most successful of the clipper ship shipping firms. The red
on white BC flag
of the shipping line's ships is shown at the left. [ Private Signals of the
Merchants of New York, Joe McMillan, 2001.]
On the right is a dramatic Currier and Ives print of the Bucklin and Crane
ship Comet, which
was just one of their many clipper ships. [Click the thumbnail
to enlarge it to view it.] Size of the ship was
241 feet long x 41.4 wide, and 22.2 feet from the hull bottom to the deck. On
her first voyage from Queenstown, she carried a total of 525 passengers, 25 in
first- and second-class accommodations. Built for the California and China
trades, Bucklin & Crane's Comet was noted for her fine passenger accommodations,
which included a toilet, library, and bathrooms. An extreme clipper ship, on her
maiden passage from New York to San Francisco to Hong Kong the ship was
loaded with a cargo of teas and silks that was the most valuable cargo ever
imported into the United States to that time. The next year, Comet raced Flying
Dutchman from San Francisco and arrived at New York in record time in 83 days,
a day and a half before the Dutchman. In 1854 she went from Liverpool to
Hong Kong in a record 84 days, 16 hours, anchor to anchor. [Cutler,
Greyhounds of the Sea. Howe & Matthews, American Clipper Ships. Stammers,
Passage Makers.]
Col James J. P. Bucklin, a veteran of the Civil War, lead a
regiment, and thereafter was harbormaster of Providence for many years.
Orson Bucklin was just one of several Bucklins who had patents issued
for inventions. In 1901 Orson Bucklin patented a machine for making rope.
[Patent 686,440 Nov 12 1901 Orson Bucklin.] The Bucklin rope machine is
the most common rope machine found in 2006 in farm auctions and in antique shops. The
reason it is so common is that it was, and still is, a good working rope maker.
About 1830, rope walks, for making rope by hand,
started to give way to rope made by machine. Farmers far from a store,
where they could buy rope of various sizes, needed a way to make larger
ropers from twine or smaller rope that they had on hand. This Bucklin machine
was manufactured in large numbers by Thomas Manufacturing. It was not only
sold by Thomas Manufacturing, but also also sold by Chicago Appliance, and by
Sears. This machine was also manufactured by a firm in Sioux City, Iowa and sold
by them as the "Ideal Rope Machine" and also as the "Arcade Rope Machine". Variants of the Bucklin machine were produced by other persons, including a "Four Hook Rope
Maker" which was marked in raised letters, Pat. Dec. 22, 1908 , a Canadian
Patent. This patent was not by Bucklin, but rather by two Americans (Matchette and Smith) who apparently decided to cash in on a good thing
and had a patent issued in Canada for the same machine. The
hooks and gears are identical with Bucklin's 1901 patent.
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