Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Buckner, William T. 1846 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   William T. Buckner, attorney at law, of Wichita, Kansas, with offices in the
Anchor Trust Building, is a native of Ohio, having been born at Washington Court
House, Fayette county, on January 2, 1846. His parents were William M. and Jane
E. (Morrison) Buckner, natives of Virginia. They went to Ohio in the early
forties. The elder Buckner was a lawyer and a leading land attorney, devoting
his time to perfecting titles to numerous large tracts of land in the states of
Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. William T. Buckner was educated at
Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio. When the civil war broke out he enlisted in
1861 in Company I, Seventy-third Ohio Regiment. Being disabled in the service,
he was discharged before his term of enlistment had expired. He re-enlisted in
Company F, One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio, and served as a private until the
close of the war. He was in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, besides
several skirmishes. After his discharge from the army he returned to the home
farm in Ohio, which was being conducted by his mother, his father being dead. He
assisted his mother in conducting the farm and took up the study of law under
the direction of Hon. Robert M. Briggs, of Washington Court House. He followed
this by a course at the Cleveland Law School, from which he graduated in 1871,
when he was admitted to practice in the United States courts and all courts in
Ohio. He began his legal practice in the city of Cleveland, where he remained
from 1872 to 1884, when he came to Kansas and located at Wichita, and conducted
a general practice until after the boom. Mr. Buckner was elected probate judge
of Sedgwick county and served two terms of 1889 to 1893, since which time he has
devoted his time to the real estate and law business. Mr. Buckner is a member of
Garfield Post, No. 25, Department of Kansas, G. A. R. He was married on June 6,
1883, to Miss Mary J. Wadsworth, a native of Morrow county, Ohio. Two children
have been born to this union, Dora A. and Susan E. Buckner.

Additional Comments:
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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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