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PAUL BUCKLEYPAUL BUCKLEY, miner, post office Shelburn, one of the proprietors of the Shelburn and Sullivan Coal Mines, which company is composed of the following persons: F. Richards, Paul Buckley, Hugh Moore and William Jefferson. It was established in 1869, and has two veins; first vein 169 and the second vein 210 feet. These mines have a capacity of 250 tons of coal per day; employ 100 men, and find ready sale for all they can bring to the surface. Have all the latest improved mining machinery and engines. Mr. Buckley, the subject of this sketch, was born in Oldham, Lancashire, Eng., December 6, 1837. His father was a manufacturer, and young Buckley was employed with him in various capacities, till he was eighteen years of age. In April, 1856, he sailed for America, and found employment in Schuylkill, County, Penn., in the coal mines, where he remained about fifteen months, when he went to Huntington County, Pa., and was engaged in the mines. He then removed to Henry County, Ill. In 1859, he went to Alton, and was engaged there about fifteen months in mining; then went to St. Clair County, Ill.; then to Kentucky; then to Pittsburgh; and from there to East Liverpool, Ohio, where he mined about three years. He then returned to St. Clair County, where he remained three years, and in October, 1864, located at Curryville, and helped sink both shafts of the Curryville and Shelburn mines. In 1869, he became partner in the above company. He has taken an active interest in developing the coal interests of Sullivan County. He was married in Sullivan County to Miss Adelia Manwarring, daughter of Solomon and Jane (Pitt) Manwarring, who is a distant relative of the great Lord Chatham, of England, whose voice was so eloquent for the downtrodden colonies. By this union Mr. Buckley has five children--Francis E., William P., John, Maria and Charles. He is an A. F. & A. M., an I. O. O. F., a Democrat, and an active one.N CURRY TWP. PAGE 766 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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