JEREMIAH H. BUCKLEY, SR., Susquehanna, Pennsylvania.
For fifty-three years the name of Jeremiah H. Buckley, Sr., has appeared on the pay rolls of the Erie, and the venerable gentleman who has regularly drawn his envelope for that long period has seen the Erie grow from a line of surveyor's stakes to one of the foremost trunk lines of the country. The son of William Buckley, a driver by trade, he was born in Ireland in 1831. His father came to the United States in 1840, and settled in East River, New York. Here Mr. Buckley attended school and farmed for several years, entering the employ of the Erie in 1847 and working on the grade between Port Jervis and Susquehanna. In 1852 he was transferred to the shops at Susquehanna, and after one year there was given the position as fireman. He ran one year on freight and two years on passenger, being then advanced to engineer in 1856, and is now on his forty-fourth year as an Erie engineer, a record that is excelled by but few. Mr. Buckley pulled passenger trains for eight years between Port Jervis and Susquehanna, and then was assigned to a day-pusher from the Susquehanna Yards to Gulf Summit, which run he has held for the past thirty-six years.

He was married July 19, 1857, to Miss Ellen Green of Susquehanna, and to them have been born six children: Jane, Josephine, Thomas, Jeremiah, Jr., Frederick, and Lauretta, all of whom are grown to maturity and happily situated in life. Mr. Buckley is a member of Starrucca Lodge, No. 137, B. of L. E., and for the past ten years has held the office of Third Assistant Chief. His wife belongs to the Ladies' Auxiliary of the B. of L. E. Mr. Buckley owns some valuable property in Susquehanna, and is regarded by his fellow citizens as one of the foremost men of the city.


Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.