Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 381 - 382 

FRED BUCKLEY, proprietor of the Eagle Cornice Works, located at Nos. 800, 802 and 804 South Main street, is conducting the largest business of its kind in the city of Wichita, and gives employment most of the time to over twenty men. He turns out first-class work, as may be seen in a glance at a large number of the important buildings of the city, namely, the Fletcher Block, the buildings of Peter Getts, Smith, Skinner & Snively, and other notable structures. He also receives orders from outside parties, and furnished the galvanized work for the school-house at Harper, this State, the bank at Kingman, various business blocks of Platt and Greensburg, the Garfield and Wichita University buildings, the Catholic school buildings and others too numerous to mention. He commenced business with a small capital, and has made his way unaided, presenting a forcible example of the results of perseverance and industry. 

            Reuben Buckley, the father of our subject, a native of England, was born near the city of Manchester, whence he emigrated when a young man, although married, and settled in Toronto, Canada. He engaged in the butcher business, was prosperous and popular, and after a well-spent life, during which he had accumulated a good property, died at the age of sixty years at his home in Windsor, Canada. His son Frederick, our subject, was born in Toronto in 1861. He acquired a common-school education in the Dominion and learned the trade of a cornice-maker. 

            In 1881 Mr. Buckley left Windsor, and coming to Kansas City, Mo., worked at his trade until 1883. In the spring of that year he made his advent into the city of Wichita and sought employment in the Galvanized Iron Cornice Works. Gaining a good insight into this business, he in 1884, in company with Mr. E.M. Dodd, invested his capital in this industry and was thereafter very successful. A year later Mr. W.N. Caswell was taken into the firm, but in 1886 Mr. Buckley purchased the interest of both partners and has since handled the business alone. He has the reputation of a first-class business man, and avails himself of every opportunity to increase his knowledge of this really fine art. 

            Our subject, politically, votes the Republican ticket, and socially, is a Knight of Pythias.

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