Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Bucklin, George M 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Bucklin, George M. – Many changes have been effected in business methods 
during the past half century.  Formerly merchants of Morris and other similar 
cities throughout the country, had to send direct to factories for their 
goods, while it was almost impossible for the customer to get good service.  
Now the commercial traveler has changed all that.  Today he is a very 
important factor in the business life of the country.  Through his energy, 
foresight and selling sense, the products of great concerns are introduced 
into every part of the civilized world, and American industrial supremacy is 
maintained.  One of the men who was a member of this important commercial 
fraternity is George M. Bucklin of Morris, at present editor and manager of 
the Grundy County Gazette.  Mr. Bucklin was born October 8, 1859, in Will 
County, Ill., son of Mahlon and Sarah A. (Hanson) Bucklin, natives of Ohio.  
When they were children their parents moved to Schoolcraft, Mich., where they 
grew up and were married.  The father became a farmer of that region, but 
afterward moved to Will County, Ill., and a few years later moved to Kankakee 
where he lived until 1870, when he moved with his family back to Michigan, 
settling near Marcellus, where he died in 1890.  His widow survived him until 
June, 1900.

George M. Bucklin lived with his parents until his marriage, in 1881, having 
been reared on the home farm and sent to the local schools, and a graded 
school at Schoolcraft, Mich.  Following his marriage, he operated the 
homestead for eight years, when he went to Marcellus, Mich., and combined 
farming with carpenter work until the death of his first wife.  After that he 
went to Nebraska, where for four years he was in a real estate and abstract 
business.  In 1896 he returned to Morris to take charge of the Morris Daily 
Sentinel.  After a year he bought the paper and conducted it until January 6, 
1909, when he sold it.  The name was then changed to the Morris Gazette.  
After leaving newspaper work, Mr. Bucklin became associated with the 
Independent Harvester Company of Plano as traveling salesman representing that 
corporation upon the road for four years.  He then entered the employ of the 
Grundy Daily and Weekly Gazette as editor and manager which position he still 
holds.

On March 27, 1881, Mr. Bucklin was married to Anna L. Hoover of Marcellus, 
Mich., and they had three children:  Ora E., who died at the age of twenty-two 
years; Clyde M., who died at the age of four years; and Anna Grace, who 
married Dr. John Carlton Gable of Coin, Iowa, where they reside.  Mrs. Bucklin 
died January 2, 1892.  On June 21, 1899, Mr. Bucklin was married (second) to 
Alice R. Turner, a native of Morris, daughter of George and Frances E. (Cone) 
Turner, natives of England and Utica, N. Y., respectively.  Mrs. Bucklin is a 
granddaughter of George Turner and of Orville and Permelia (Kimball) Cone.  
Mr. Cone was a native of New York State, who came to Grundy County and later 
became its first sheriff.  He was also the first baker of Morris, conducting a 
bakery on Washington street for many years.  By his second marriage, Mr. 
Bucklin has two daughters:  Mildred A. and Evelyn Frances.  Mrs. Bucklin is a 
very accomplished lady, possessed or musical talent, and she has charge of the 
primary musical work of the Baptist Church and is considered an authority on 
all musical matters.  She is also secretary of the Ladies’ Aid Society and is 
interested in everything pertaining to the church.  Mr. Bucklin is independent 
in politics, while the K. O. T. M. of Morris, No. 205, holds his membership.  
Both he and his charming wife are popular in Morris, where they have won the 
esteem of all who know them.

pages 778-779

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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