Biography

04/07/1842 - 10/05/1909

BUCKMAN, George W., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, April 7, 1842 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company H, 17th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); first lieutenant, Company K, 73rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1863, Civil War); adjutant, Company D, 49th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); tinsmith; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1877 and 1878 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1879); tin roofer; died, October 5, 1909 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.