- CORNELIUS BUCKLEY, of Beloit, Rock County, is an attorney-at-law,
and holds a leading
- position at the Rock County Bar. He is well grounded in
the fundamental principles of the law, and can readily apply
them to the complicated details of modern and present business
conditions. He is an impressive speaker before the jury, and
excels in the presentation of the facts of the case and the principles
of the law that govern it.
- Mr. BUCKLEY was born in Beloit April 24, 1856, and is a son
of Timothy and Hannah
- (KELLEHER) BUCKLEY, both natives of the town of Mallow, County
Cork, Ireland. They were the parents of seven children, all
but one of whom are now living: Cornelius and Catherine, twins;
Patrick deceased; John, of Beloit; Mary, of Chicago; Elizabeth,
the wife of John J. SWEENY, of Freeport, Ill.; and Frank, of
Washington. The father came to Boston in 1853, and two years
later located in Beloit, in which city he is still living. The
mother died July 10, 1868, at the age of thirty-seven. Both
were devout Catholics. His father, who bore the name of Cornelius
BUCKLEY, died in Ireland when a young man. The father of Hannah
KELLEHER also died in Ireland; he was a farmer.
- Cornelius BUCKLEY was reared to manhood in his native city,
attended the parochial and public
- schools of Beloit, and matriculated at the State University
as a student in the law department. Previous to his entrance
in to the law school he had studied law, and he was admitted
to the Bar June 5, 1883. He was admitted to the supreme court
of the State and to the United States supreme court in 1893.
Mr. BUCKLEY is also a member of the Bar of the State of Minnesota,
and is authorized to practice before the court of appeals in
Virginia. He was engaged in practice before the courts at Washington,
D.C., in 1893, 1894, and 1895, and held there for a short time
a position in the census department. He is a member of the Virginia
Historical Society at Richmond, and of the Savannah Historical
Society of Georgia, and fraternally is a member of the Woodmen
of the World. Our subject calls himself a Jeffersonian Democrat.
- Mr. BUCKLEY and his twin sister live in the old home at No.
1243 Emerson street, their father
- living with them. He is regarded as an able lawyer and a
careful adviser, and stands among the leaders of his profession
in Beloit.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 351-352.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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