Bucknam, Samuel

BUCKNAM, MOODY

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/9/2013 at 08:22:42

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

BUCKNAM, SAMUEL—Grinnell Twp—pg 889-90. Retired, Grinnell. Was born on the 11th of April, 1812, and is a native of Falmouth, Maine. Was there raised and educated and for seven years followed a seafaring life, at the end of which time he removed to Eastport, same State, and there engaged in the grocery business which he continued until 1854. Then went to Baltimore and commenced the commission business and in the spring of 1857 returned to Falmouth where he engaged in farming. In October, 1874, he came to this county, locating in Grinnell, where he has since lived having retired from the active pursuits of life. His marriage was in Falmouth, January 25th, 1837, to Miss Olive Moody. They had four children one of whom is living: Eliza E. (born September, 1836). Lost three: Ebenezer (born in September, 1838), Rachel (born in June, 1841) and Rachel (born in November, 1842).