Samuel Buckley Ruggles
1800–81
American lawyer, land developer, and economist. During the 1830s and 1840s he developed large tracts of land in New York city. Trustee of Columbia College, 1836–81. American delegate to the Fifth International Statistical Congress in Berlin, 1863.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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