Job Buckley    

JOB BUCKLEY, farmer, post-office Sandy Lake, was born March 27, 1856, on the farm where he now lives, to John and Harriet (Slater) Buckley, the mother a native of England, and the father of Sandy Lake. They had six children; George, of New Vernon Township; Samuel, of the same place; Job, Alice, who married D. G. Perrine; Mary, married Cyrus Perrine, and Luke. The father belonged to the Zion Church, and died in July, 1863, at the battle of Gettysburg; was a member of Company B, One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania Volunteers from Mercer County, and enlisted almost at the beginning of the war. In politics he was a Republican. Our subject received his education at the common schools, has always farmed, and owns one-half of sixty-five acres of the old homestead. He was married in 1879 to Mary, sister of Mrs. C. S. Wright, and by this marriage they have two children: Homer S. and Ralph A. Mr. Buckley has been supervisor, and is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 1046.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.