Alexander Wickersham

Delegate Wickersham's father, Alexander, the eldest son of James and Sarah (Smith) Wickersham, was born in 1825 in a log cabin on a farm near Mt. Carmel, Illinois, on the banks of the Wabash River. He served as a private in the Mexican War, and when he returned home he worked on a farm near Sandoval, Illinois.

Atwood, Frontier Politics, p 5.

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Alexander Wickersham Buckley's Founder Dies May 29, 1892

Alexander Wickersham, one of the pioneers of Buckley, passed away on May 29, 1892 at his home. He came to Washington in 1884 and settled at Lake View where he lived a year. In 1885 he came to Buckley and filed on the present home place of the family. Excepting a log house built by the Spauldings, his dwelling, a frame, was the first erected within the site now occupied by the town of Buckley. He made the first plat of the town of Buckley after a Northern Pacific Railroad official. He is the father of ten children, eight of whom are living. He was born in Kentucky January 19, 1825. He was reared in Illinois and spent his boyhood days with the family of a Mr. Evans at Clay City, Clay County. His father was a Methodist preacher. He enlisted in the Mexican War, served under General Scott and was in the march from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. He has a brother who fought in the Civil War to whom he afforded assistance though he took no part as a soldier himself. Upon his return from Mexico he settled in Marion County, Illinois where in 1856 he was married to Miss Mary McHaney who survives home. He has been a saw miller since 1862 (Buckley Banner, 1892)

Hall and Meizler, Buckley 1892, p. 34.

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Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001