Buckham, Thomas Scott, 1835 or 1836-1928

Thomas Scott Buckham was born in Chelsea, Vermont on January 7, in either 1835 or 1836. He was one of ten children born to the Reverend James Buckham of Kelso, Scotland and his wife, Margaret Barmby, of Hull, Yorkshire County, England. A classical scholar at the University of Vermont, Buckham graduated in 1855 and spent the following year teaching Latin and Greek at Mexico Academy in Oswego County, New York, where he met his future wife, Anna Mallary.

In the summer of 1856, Buckham moved to Faribault, Minnesota, and began practicing law after being admitted to the bar in 1857. Buckham was appointed as part of the defense council for the Younger brothers in the Northfield bank robbery and murder trials in 1876. After the trials, Buckham served as a county attorney until he was appointed judge of the Fifth Judicial District in 1880.

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