Short Biography of Goodcil Buckingham & Frances L. Hawkins

GOODCIL BUCKINGHAM, born June 30, 1841, in McConnelsville, Ohio, son of Rev. Goodsell and Eliza (Thompson) Buckingham; was twice married: 1st, January 22, 1873, in Bridgeport, Conn., to Ida C. Hall, who was born July 16, 1850, in Bridgeport, Conn., daughter of Henry and Catharine Hall. She died September 4, 1884, in Morristown, N. J., and is interred in Bridgeport, Conn.

2d, January 19, 1886, in New York City, to Frances Palmer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was born in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Mr. Buckingham died May 3, 1890, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and is interred in Bridgeport, Conn., by his first wife.

He was a Banker and Broker. Was a clerk in his father's store in Keokuk, Iowa, 1855 to 1857; in College at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 1858 to 1861; entered the 1st Iowa Infantry, Co. F., April, 1861, participated in a number of battles during the early part of the war and was with his Company at Wilsons Creek but a few feet from Gen. Lyon when that gallant officer was shot. In the War Department at Washington, 1863, Corresponding Clerk and in charge of the Government Bond Department of Jay Cooke & Co., in Washington and New York. Entered the Banking business in 1868, and was engaged in this business at the time of his death in 1890. A man of unusually bright and happy disposition, and though a great sufferer by disease for 20 years, was always cheerful and hopeful for the future. A good husband and faithful father, an honest man, and loyal citizen, he died regretted by a large circle of friends and relatives.

He joined the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1873, and remained in this faith till his death, dying in the full hope of an Eternal life in the bright beyond.

Source: "The ancestors of Ebenezer Buckingham, who was born in 1748 : and of his decendants" ⁹⁵⁹