Mason County, West Virginia Biography of PERRY BRADBURY BUXTON This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the sketch subject. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 451 Mason PERRY BRADBURY BUXTON, now in his second elective term as Circuit Court clerk of Mason County, was for many years identified with the flour milling industry, and his experience has covered many points both in West Virginia and Ohio. He was born at Kygerville, Gallia County, Ohio, July 2, 1857. His father, Darius Verney Buxton, was born at Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1830, was a flour miller, and after 1870 conducted a mill in the Union District of Mason County, West Virginia, until his death in 1889. He served as a lieutenant in the Union army during the Civil war, was an active republican, and a member of the Swedenborgian Church. His wife, Sarah Samantha Bradbury, was born at Kygerville in 1833, and died at Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1914. Their children were: Electa Lodica, of Gallipolis, widow of Frank Miller; Perry Bradbury; Mary Agnes, wife of Ezekiel H. Burdette, a hardware merchant in Mason County; Charles, who was Circuit Court clerk of Mason County when he died July 29, 1913; and Horace Arthur, a farmer and merchant in Arbuckle District. Perry Bradbury Buxton was educated in the public schools of Kygerville and of Mason County. At the age of ten he began working in his father's mill, and before he was sixteen, during his father's illness, he took charge of the mill. Leaving home at the age of twenty-two, he had a long and varied service as a manager or superinten- dent of various mills, spending one year at Wilkesville, Ohio, six months at Gallipolis, one year at Point Pleasant, twenty- seven months at Cottageville in Jackson County and twenty months at Silverton in the same county and six months at Sandyville in Jackson County. Leaving West Virginia, Mr. Buxton had an experience working at the carpenter's trade at Corsicana, Texas, until 1889, when he returned home on the death of his father and took charge of the old mill in Union District, operating it until 1897. He was then in partnership operating a flour mill at Buffalo, West Virginia, seven years, for six months was part owner of a mill at Leon, and in 1905 returned to Point Pleasant and became manager of the mill of the Point Pleasant Grocery Company. He continued in this capacity until he resigned December 31, 1913, but ia still a director of the Point Pleasant Grocery Company. In the meantime, on August 15, 1913, he was sworn in as successor to his deceased brother Charles as Circuit Court clerk, and in November, 1914, was elected for a full term in that office and in 1920 re-elected for a second six-year term. Mr. Buxton is a republican, has served as a member of the Point Pleasant Board of Education, is a past master of Kanawha Valley Lodge No. 36, F. and A. M.,. past grand of Point Pleasant Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of Fidelity Encampment at Point Pleasant, and Point Pleasant Council No. 146, Junior Order United American Mechanics. In 1888, in Jackson County, West Virginia, he married Miss Bessie E. McGlochlin, daughter of John and Nancy McGlochlin. Mr. and Mrs. Buxton have three children: Frederick H., born April 5, 1889, owner of an automobile repair and sales shop in Point Pleasant, was in the army service nine months as an automobile repair mechanic, being located at Richmond, Virginia, Georgia, Camp Funston, Kansas. Walter S., born October 23, 1891, is bookkeeper in the state tax commissioner's office at Charleston. Helen Virginia, born in 1902, is a graduate of the Point Pleasant High School and assists her father in his official duties.