Ebenezer Buckingham, Jr.

Married Catharine Putnam on 27 Nov 1805 in Washington County, OH. Father of Gen. Catherinus Putnam Buckingham.

Ebenezer Buckingham died while overseeing the building of the third Y-Bridge, which he owned and helped design. As a flood in 1832 threatened to destroy all the progress on the bridge, Buckingham told his workers to remove the wedges that held the support beams in place. This should have weakened the bridge, but prevent it from being washed away with the flood. When they did this the bridge collapsed and Buckingham and James Boyd were killed

There is a lengthy account of the life of Ebenezer Buckingham in the family's genealogy, The ancestors of Ebenezer Buckingham, who was born in 1748, and of his descendants, by James Buckingham, pub. by R. R. Donnelley & sons, 1892, (256 pages), pages 23-29, downloaded May 2011 from http://books.google.com/