Lake County Biographies

George BUCKNELL

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Is a native of England, and was born February 13, 1813. When twenty years of age 
he came to America and spent the first three years in Michigan, being engaged in 
farming. We next find him in the Rocky Mountains, where he spent two years 
trapping and hunting. He then settled on the frontier of Missouri, where he 
followed farming until 1849, when he crossed the plains to California, and 
settled at Stockton, where he engaged in stock raising until October, 1855, when 
he came to Lake County and settled on his present place, consisting of three 
hundred and twenty acres, located near Upper Lake, where he still resides, being 
engaged in farming. About three months of every year he spends in hunting deer 
and beaver in the Klamath Mountains in Siskiyou County. Mr. Bucknell married in 
September, 1838, Miss Mary Clemens, who died in 1843, leaving four children: 
Caroline, Henry, Charles and George. He married secondly, in 1844, Miss Frances 
Maxwell, who died in 1862, leaving ten children: Robert, Frances, Sarah, 
Virginia, Edward, Margaret A., Lewis W., Lucy, Thomas and James. He has lost 
seven: Henry, Charles, Thomas, Margaret A., Lewis W., Lucy and James.

"History of Napa and Lake Counties" 1881