Buxton, William

BUXTON

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Date: 7/4/2021 at 10:48:19

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.715

BUXTON, WILLIAM, farmer, and stock raiser, Allen Township, P. O. Carlisle; born in Derbyshire, England, May 16, 1830; when twenty-one years of age he came to the United States, and went with his brother to Shelby county, Indiana, where he remained till Nov. 1852; he rode from Shelbyville to this county, on horseback; he married Miss Betsy, daughter of John Bramhall, (who came to this county in 1850), on April 28, 1858, a native of Massachusetts; he lived in an old log-house for about seventeen years; has a family of one son and four daughters: Elizabeth A., Sarah E., William Jr., Clara and Agnes; he owns about 2000 acres of land, nearly all improved: is interested in the stock business quite largely, and also owns a woolen mill at Palmyra, one of the oldest in Central Iowa; he bought out Simpson Hargis, one of the first settlers.