Napa-Solano-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Buckman, Oliver H. 1847 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

OLIVER H. BUCKMAN, surveyor and civil engineer, has been for the past six years
County Surveyor of Napa County, and since 1880 City Surveyor and Superintendent
of Streets of the city of Napa. He was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, in
December, 1847. His parents, Phineas and Cynthia (Roberts) Buckman, natives of
Maryland, though of Pennsylvania Quaker extraction, removed to Iowa in 1845,
where they continue to reside. He received his education in the public schools
of Atalissa, his father owning and occupying a farm near that town. At the age
of twenty-two he entered upon a course of civil engineering and surveying at the
Iowa State University at Iowa City, graduating at that institution in 1876.
Remaining at home for about a year, he came to California, settling at Napa,
where he at once entered upon the practice of his profession, and has continued
here since that time. Besides the ordinary duties of his profession as a
surveyor, Mr. Buckman has been the engineer of the Napa City water works, of
which George F. Allardt was the consulting engineer, and all the details of
construction were carried out under his supervision. He has also superintended
all the work done on the sewerage system of Napa for the past ten years. The
race-track of the Napa Agricultural Association, which was made famous by the
lowering of the stallion trotting records, and later by the phenomenal
performance of the great three-year-old Sunol, was laid out by him. Experts who
were present at the last races pronounced the Napa track equal to any in the
United States and superior to most. He was employed its laying out the Villa
Verona colony tract near Oroville, and adjoining the Palmero orange tract. He is
now engaged in making a series of assessment maps for Napa County, showing each
separate track of land in the county, and giving the name of the present owner.
This is the first series of such maps, and will greatly facilitate the work of
the assessors. Mr. Buckman furnished the plans for the sewerage system of Suisun
City, which has been in successful operation for five years. He has also laid
out many of the mountain roads of the county, and has performed most of the
important engineering work of that section for the past ten years.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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