History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              BIOGRAPHY. 891
ness was wound up and on account of ill health Air. Buckstaff, suffer¬ ing much from infiammatory rheumatism, retired from active life.
On October 21, 1868, our subject was married to Miss Martha Alurray, daughter of William Murray of New Brunswick, Canada, Of their children, one son and one daughter died in infancy; a son, George Eugene, 29 years old, resides at home. Socially Mr. Buckstaff is a member of the F. and A. M., thirty-second degree, and of the Ancient Arabian Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a prominent member of the I. 0.0. F. and the G. A. R., besides other societies of less note. Politically he is a Republican to the back bone, his first presidential vote having been cast for Abraham Lincoln, and he has been honored by nomination and election to various positions • of trust. Twice was he elected a member of the county board, and twice to the State Assembly, in which latter he did substantial work on the committees of ways and means and others. In the fall of 1886 he was elected to the State Senate, serving four years, and during the last session he filled with acknowledged ability the position of chair¬ man of the committee on finance, banks and insurance throughout, doing good, meritorious work as a legislator. Under a law passed by the United States Congress, Air. Buckstaff was, in 1884, appointed by Circuit Judge Burnell as one of a commission of three to examine into and appraise damages against the United States government for the overfiow and submergement of lands along the Wolf and Fox rivers and around the shores of Lakes Winnebago, Butte des Morts and Poygan, which overflow was caused by the government dams built across the Fox river at Menasha, Neenah and Appleton. In this important official position Mr. Buckstaff served from 1884 to 1888, being in fact an officer of the United States, from which he received pay for his services as United States commissioner.
As a business man and citizen, Mr. Buckstaff has always been ideii- . tified with the best interests of his city. He has filled out a well rounded career of official life, and has honorably earned the respite he now claims from such responsibilities. He resides with his family at No. 172 Alount Yernon street, Oshkosh, in a pleasant and com¬ modious residence.
Milo R. Buckstaff, who for many years has been a successful business man in Oshkosh, is a native son of Wisconsin, and was born in Winenbago county in 1860. He is a son of James R. and Sarah (Chase) Buckstaff, who came from New Brunswick, their native place, in 1849, and settled at Oshkosh, where they have since made their home. The son acquired a good education in the public schools, and supplemented it with a course of study in a business college, £ind