SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO - BIO: BUCKLAND, Ralph Pomeroy (published 1888)
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Historical Collections of Ohio
Henry Howe LL. D.
Published 1904
copyright 1888
Sandusky County


RALPH POMEROY BUCKLAND,

was born in Leyden,  Mass.,  January 20,  1812.  When but a few months
old his father removed to Ohio and settled in Portage County.  He was
educated at Kenyon College,  studied law,  was admitted to the bar at
Canfield in 1837,  and the same year removed to Fremont.  He was married
to Charlotte Broughton,  of Canfield,  in 1838;  was a delegate to the
Whig National Convention in 1848;  elected to the Ohio Senate in 1855, 
serving four years,  during which time his bill for the adoption of
children became a law.

In 1861 he was appointed Colonel of the seventy-second Ohio Volunteer
Infantry,  which afterwards,  with other regiments,  became noted as
"Buckland's Brigade."  He commanded the Fourth Brigade of Sherman's
Division at the battle of Shiloh,  and was made Brigadeer-General
November 29,  1862.  He commanded a brigade of the Fifteenth Army Corps
at Vicksburg and the District of Memphis for two years,  resigning from
the army,  January 9,  1865,  to take his seat in Congress,  to which he
had been elected while on duty in the field.  March 13,  1865,  he was
brevetted Major-General of volunteers.  He served two terms in Congress
and has held many important offices of trust;  was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention of 1876.  From 1867 till 1873 was
president of the managers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'
Home,  and government director of the Pacific Railroad,  1877-80.  He
has done much for the improvement of the city of Fremont and is one of
its most respected and beloved citizens.  For two years ex-President
Hayes was associated with gen. Buckland as his law partner.


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