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Buckley, Edmund, a member of the High Council in the Oneida Stake of Zion, was born April 25, 1839, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England, the son of James Buckley and Emma Waterhouse. He was baptized Dec. 13, 1856, by Elder Wm. Schofield, in the Oldham branch of the Manchester conference, and was turned out of home and employment because he joined the "Mormons". Nov. 25, 1860, he was ordained an Elder and sent out to preach the Gospel; in 1862 he was appointed to preside over the Oldham branch which position he held till the spring of 1863, when he emigrated to Utah, crossing the Atlantic in the "Antarctic" and the plains in Captain Peter Nebeker's company. He settled in Bountiful, Utah. In 1864 he operated a carding machine in Big Cottonwood, Salt Lake county, making wool rolls. In 1865 he removed to Richmond, Cache county, where he also operated a carding machine. Here he remained several years, after which he labored in the Brigham City Woollen Mills, and later in the Woollen Mills at Logan, Cache county. In 1878 he started a Woollen Mill in Franklin. Later he purchased machinery for a woollen mill in Orderville, southern Utah. From 1879 to 1884 he acted as president of the 11th quorum of Elders in Cache Stake. When the Oneida Stake of Zion was organized he was chosen a member of the High Council. In October, 1888, he was sentenced to four months imprisonment in the Boise penitentiary, for unlawful co-habitation. For many years Elder Buckley has been actively engaged in home missionary labors, and in performing his duties as a member of the High Council. He also holds the position of second counselor in the presidency of the High Priests quorum of the Oneida Stake. To Bro. Buckley belongs the honor of having started the first woollen machinery in the States of Idaho and Wyoming.
Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 vols. Salt Lake City 2:178 |
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