Buzby Family History
I hope you enjoy these interesting stories and online articles that pertain to our family's history. If you know of any others in books or online, or you have some stories or family history you would like to contribute to this site, please let me know.
In 1991, Bob and Tiny Buzby were interviewed by writer Kathy Price at their home in Wasilla, for the US Army history of the Homesteads on Fort Wainwright, Alaska. This article is a transcript of the interview, edited slightly for readability.
Thanks to Robyn Russell at the UAF library for sending me the transcript, and to Bob and Tiny's family for allowing me to reprint it here.
Here is a printable version of the unedited transcript.
Are we second cousins. Third cousins twice removed? These charts and examples will help you figure it out.
The history of the Buzby family homesteads on the Chena River. This article is adapted from Homesteads on Fort Wainwright, Alaska by Kathy Price, published by the US Army, Fort Richardson, Alaska.
A brief history of Chester Spencer and Bessie Buzby Spencer in Alaska. This article is adapted from Homesteads on Fort Wainwright, Alaska by Kathy Price, published by the US Army, Fort Richardson, Alaska.
Homestead Patents
The Spencer Homestead Click to view Printable version (PDF)
The Harry Buzby Homestead Click to view Printable version (PDF)
You can search for other homestead land patents here. Their files include patents for Jay, Ted, Elt, and Bob Buzby.
A page about Marian and her family. Marian was Harry and Louisa's second daughter.
In 1879, at age 16, Harry Buzby spent the winter hunting bison in eastern Montana. This narrative is his story of that winter.
Special thanks to Penny for preserving this first-person historic manuscript and to Jerry and Lynn for sending me a copy of this piece of history.
Here is a printable version.
Elt Buzby's oral history from Faces of Alaska: A Glimpse of History Through Paintings, Photographs and Oral Histories, © 1988 by Alaska artist and writer Jean Lester, all rights reserved. Reprinted here by permission of the author.
In 1984, after viewing an exhibit of Jean's work, Dr. William Wood suggested she paint twenty-five portraits of Fairbanks people to help celebrate twenty-five years of Statehood. Oral history interviews were a natural outgrowth of the paintings. When friends viewed the paintings, they wanted to learn more about the people and to hear their stories. Oral history provided a way for those featured in the portraits to tell their story in their own words.
My thanks to Elt's grandson Bob Jackson for bringing this publication to my attention, and special thanks to Jean Lester for her gracious permission allowing me to reprint it here.
My Aunt Marty, Margaret Spencer Thomas, is the youngest daughter of Chester Spencer and Bessie Buzby Spencer. After reading Alaskana writer Ron Wendt's interview with Tiny Buzby, Aunt Marty wrote this recollection of events at the Buzby and Spencer homesteads.
This report is Harry Buzby's account in the Annual Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations for 1907 published by the US Department of Agriculture in June of 1908.
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