A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY 509
than sixty years, has a well managed and valuable farm in Farmington Township and has assumed many of the community responsibilities of that township in recent years.
He was born near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, September 3, 1854, a son of John W, and Jan (Housen) Bucknell, Both parents were natives of England, where they were married. In 1853 they set out for the New World, and first located in AA^innebago County, Wisconsin. In 1856 they came to Waupaca County and bought 120 acres of wild land in Farming- ton Township. John W. Bucknell gave the best of his energies and years to the clearing up and development of that land as a faxm. He built a good home, and later acquired by purchase another eighty acres, making the homestead 200 acres in extent. xAfter a long and useful life, he passed away at that home January 22, 1914, when eighty-two years of age. His wife died in 1909, aged seventy-nine. He was a republican in politics. The Bucknell family is apparently long lived and vigorous people. Mrs. Hannah Harness, a sister of the late John W. Bucknell, is now living in Winnebago Cpunty at the advanced age of ninety-four. John W. Buck¬ nell and wife had the following children: Joseph, Alary, George, de¬ ceased; George, Jennie, Annie, Alice and William. Alice and William now own the old homestead farm, Alice having 120 acres and William 80 acres.
Joseph Bucknell began his conscious life on the old homestead, grew up there to manhood, and had only the limited advantages of the local schools. He early began farming, and in 1884 he bought 80 acres in Farmington Township. He subsequently added by purchase 120 acres, and the entire tract is now highly developed as two distinct farms, each with its own equipment of buildings and machinery. Mr. Bucknell has made a success as a cattle raiser, and is also a general farmer.
In the way of public service to the community he was clerk of the school board for twenty years, and is still township assessor, an office he has held for the past nine years. He is a republican, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is active in the Presbyterian Church. He was on the building committee which erected the Presbyterian Church edifice in his community. He was also a member of the building commit¬ tee for the new schoolhouse. That schoolhouse, built in 1902, is one of the best in Farmington Township.
Mr. Bucknell was married in 1878 to Missi Eliza Loomis. She was born in Omro, Wisconsin, in 1859, a daughter of Alonzo and Laura Loomis. Her parents came from New York State in the early days, first settled at Omro in Winnebago County, later removed to Belmont, in Portage County, where they had a farm, and Alonzo Loomis died on that homestead. His widow subsequently came to Waupaca County, where she died.
Mrs. Bucknell, after more than thirty years of devoted companion¬ ship, was taken from her home and children by death on April 8, 1909. She was the mother of nine children: Florence, the wife of Fred Turner, of Belmont, Portage County, has four children named Marie, Leah, John and Norris; Myron married Alabel  Cobb and has one child, Edwin.