BUCKNER, Fred

BUCKNER, BUCKMAN, LOHR

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/23/2009 at 16:19:21

Fred Buckner located in Cedar town­ship, Mitchell Co., Iowa, in 1874. he was born in Germany, June 23, 1848, where he attended school until fifteen years of age, then learned the trade of milling, and at the age of nineteen came to America, worked for a few months in a mill at Cedar Falls, after which he went to Jackson county and worked in a mill one year, then five years in the brush mill| at Osage, at which time he bought land on section 15, of township 97, range 18, where he lived three years. He then went to Jackson and followed milling for five years there. He then returned to his farm in Cedar township, planted a grove, made necessary improvements and now makes this his home. In 1871 he married Margaret, daughter of Conrad and Mary Kneisel Lohr. They have four children— John C., Lena, Annie and Georgie. In the fall of 1883 he sold his farm and went into mercantile business in Nora Springs, Floyd Co., Iowa.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 308.

Note: Other sources call him Fred Buckman.