Obituary

Charles Luman Buckingham, a charter member of the Institute, died at his home at 104 East Eighty-first Street, New York City, on May 31. He was born at Berlin Heights, Ohio, on October 14, 1852, and was educated at the University of Michigan and the Columbian University. He made a specialty of patent law, and was counsel for the Western Union Telegraph Company in many of its important patent suits early in the ´80s. He was also counsel for the General Electric Company, the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, the Edison companies, and many others. He became a charter member of the Institute on April 15, 1884, when its first meeting was held, and the following year he was elected a manager, serving one term on the Council, 1885–8. He was one of five who purchased for donation to the library of the A. I. E. E., a valuable classified collection of all the United States electrical patents issued down to 1891, numbering more than one hundred volumes. He was also a member of the Ohio Society, the Metropolitan Club of Washington, and the University Club. The funeral services were held on Thursday evening, June 3, in the Madison Avenue Reformed Church, Fifty-seventh Street, New York City, and the interment took place at Woodlawn Cemetery on June 4. One of his sons, Henry H. Buckingham, is a student at Cornell University.