Sacramento County
Biographies
JOSEPH M. BUCKLEY
JOSEPH M. BUCKLEY.--An enterprising contractor, well-posted as to conditions of transportation in California, is Joseph M. Buckley, well-known in the vicinity of Courtland, and also boasting a valuable acquaintance in other parts of Sacramento County. He was born in San Francisco on February 27, 1871, the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Seabury) Buckley, worthy folks of their day and generation. His father, a native of Ireland, came out to the United States as a young man, and settled at Boston; and in the early sixties he joined the rush to California, and settled at San Francisco, where he married an Irish lassie. They had four children: James F., now deceased, the eldest; Henry Seabury; our subject, Joseph Michael; William John, of Courtland; Michael Buckley was an employee of Levi, Sex & Company of San Francisco, where he was highly respected.
When Joseph M. Buckley was twelve years old, and had lost his father, who died in San Francisco, he was brought to Walnut Grove, and was reared by William Jackson, a distant relative living there. At the age of seventeen, he commenced to work for himself. He was a dairy ranch hand for a while, and then leased ranches for himself; and he was superintendent of the L.D. Greene dairy for three years. He then leased the Dwight Hollister dairy for nine years, and after that spent eight year in general farming. Three years ago, he started to do contract trucking, investing in three trucks for two and one-half tons of burden, and he has since grown in popularity for local and long-distance hauling. He not only has the equipment, but he has an invaluable experience enabling him to do what is required by his patrons in the quickest and most economical manner.
MR. Buckley was married at Rio Vista on November 11, 1896 to Miss Mary Dobbins, the daughter of James and Delia Dobbins, whose life-story is elsewhere given in this work. The union has been a happy one, and three children have blessed their family life. Alicia is the eldest; George, the second-born; and Josephine, the youngest.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 534. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.