Transcript:Indiana, United States. Biographical and Genealogical History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties/B/Buckingham, George B.

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George B. Buckingham, M.D. (p 781)

One of the successful physicians and a prominent resident of Brookville, Indiana, is Dr. George B. Buckingham. He has much natural ability, but is, withal, a close student, and believes thoroughly in the maxim that "there is no excellence without labor." His devotion to the duties of his profession, therefore, combined with a comprehensive understanding of the principles of the science of medicine and surgery, has made him a most successful and able practitioner, whose prominence is well-deserved.

The Doctor is a native of Franklin County, born five miles east of Brookville, October 18, 1852, and is a son of Levi W. and Margaret J. (Black) Buckingham. The father was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and in Uniontown, that state, he learned the wheelwright's trade. Coming west to Indiana at the age of twenty years, he first settled on the Little Miami, near Camp Dennison, but in 1849 took up his residence upon a farm five miles east of Brookville, which at that time was only partially improved, two acres having been cleared, but no buildings erected thereon. He died in 1894, at the age of sixty-eight years. During the Civil War he made second lieutenant upon the organization of the company. He was one of the prominent and influential men of his community and was highly respected by all who knew him.

Dr. Buckingham acquired his literary education in the common schools, spent his boyhood and youth upon the home farm, and at the age of seventeen commenced teaching school, following that profession for five years in Franklin County. He then entered the Ohio Medical College, where he took a course of lectures during the winter of 1876-77, and the following spring attended the Kentucky School of Medicine for one term. After being engaged in practice with Dr. Wallace, at Springfield, Franklin County, for two years, he again entered the latter institution, from which he was graduated in 1879. He continued at Springfield for two years longer and then came to Brookville, in 1882, where his skill and ability soon won for him the liberal patronage he now enjoys. He is engaged in general practice, but makes a specialty of the diseases peculiar to women. He is a member of the State Medical Society and was also an active member of the County Medical Association as long as it existed. For two terms he served as county coroner and was appointed United States pension examiner, under Cleveland's administration, but resigned the position. Socially he is a prominent member of the Masonic lodge, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias, all of Brookville, and is past chancellor of the last named.