Clark County MO Archives Biographies.....Buckner, Arthur J. 1837 - 
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	Dr. Arthur J. Buckner, a prominent physician of Peakesville, Mo., was 
born in Georgetown, Ohio, in 1837, and is a son of Dr. William T. Buckner and 
Margaret (Thome) Buckner, both reared and married in the State of Kentucky.  
Dr. William T. Buckner gained quite a reputation as a physician in his native 
State, but in 1842, came to Clark County, Mo., and located at Waterloo, but 
remained there only a short time, when he moved to what is now known as Athens, 
then but a vast wilderness.  To this place, he gave the name of Athens, which 
it has since retained.  Owing to the lack of educational advantages at this 
place, the family moved to Farmington, Iowa, where the father died.  Our 
subject attended the Iowa Collage, at Davenport, in 1850, and when within one 
year of graduating was compelled to abandon the idea of completing his course 
on account of ill health.   He then traveled for about two years and eight 
months, visiting all the European nations and a great many islands in the 
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  The place he visited were so many that we regret 
not having time or space to specify them.  After returning home, he attended 
two courses of lectures given in the medical collage at Keokuk, after which he 
attended one course given in St. Jon’s Medical College, at Cincinnati.  After 
this, he returned to Clark County, where he practiced about two years.  He then 
attended the Bellevue Medical College, in New York, for about four months; then 
returned to Clark County, and continued his practice.  A short time after that 
our country was called to arms, and he enlisted in the Seventh Missouri 
Cavalry, serving under Gens. Blount and Scofield until 1863, when he was 
discharge on account of disability.  He returned home, and, after regaining his 
health, enlisted in the Third Ohio Cavalry, in the winter of 1863-64.  He 
received a wound (which necessitated the amputation of a leg), and returned 
home in 1865.  August 5, 1868, he was united in marriage to Florence V. West, 
and to this couple six children have been born, five of whom are living: 
Margaret M., William W., Charlie T., Florence A., and George L.  Dr. Buckner 
takes great interest in trotting bread horses.  He is a member of the I. O. O. 
F. fraternity, and G. A. R.

Additional Comments:
History of Lewis Clark, Knox, and Scotland Counties, Missouri
Publish 1887 by The Goodspeed Publishing Co.
St. Louis and Chicago
Biographical Appendix Clark County, Page 869, Dr. Arthur J. Buckner


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