GUIDE TO THE COURTLAND BUCKMAN PAPERS
Collection Number: M00-2
Title: Courtland Buckman Papers
Dates: (Inclusive) 1860-1938 (Bulk) 1897-1899; 1903-1904
Size: 11.6 linear feet; 11 boxes
Repository: Manuscripts and Personal Papers, Thomas
G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida
ABSTRACT
Courtland Buckman was a real estate
executive, civil servant, merchant, and community leader in Jacksonville,
Florida. The collection contains correspondence and printed materials
relating to Mr. Buckman's real estate business. Items span the
years 1860-1938, with the bulk of the materials concentrated in 1897-99
and 1903-1904.
LANGUAGE: English.
ACCESS TO THE COLLECTION
The collection is open for research. For additional information and
to make an appointment to view the collection, contact E. Brady at
904-620-1533; email: ebrady@unf.edu
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtland Buckman Collection, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida.
ADDITIONAL GUIDES
Electronic
versions of some collection materials are available on the World Wide
Web as part of the Florida Heritage
Collection. Descriptions
of individual items and photographs are available in the Courtland
Buckman Container List.
RELATED MATERIALS
Civic Leader Dies at Home at Age of 89. Florida
Times-Union, October 2, 1952: A1:2.
BIOGRAPHICAL / HISTORICAL NOTE
Born in Lake City, Florida, during
the Civil War, on December 8, 1862. Third child of Captain
Thomas Ellwood Buckman (Civil War veteran) and Selina Cleland Buckman.
Educated in Jacksonville, Florida schools; lived there most of his
life, except for a brief period in Daytona
Beach, Florida. In 1886, he served as Deputy to
his father who was the County Clerk of Duval County; relocated
in the late 1880's to Daytona Beach where he entered the mercantile
business and served one term as Mayor. In 1894, he returned to Jacksonville,
worked briefly with the Singer Manufacturing Company before becoming
a real estate agent with the C. C. Robertson Real Estate Company.
After establishing his own real estate firm in May 1897(C. Buckman),
he later formed a partnership with Alfred C. Ulmer (Buckman, Ulmer
and Mitchell, Inc.)
Mr. Buckman was a prominent civic and business
leader, and a member of numerous social and business organizations,
including the Jacksonville Board of Trade. His
older brother, Henry Holland Buckman, was a Florida state legislator
and Jacksonville attorney. The H. H. Buckman bridge
spanning the St. Johns River in Orange Park, Florida is named in
his honor.
Courtland Buckman died on October 1, 1952.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
Primarily incoming business correspondence, most of which are inquiries
about land purchases in Florida and rental property management transactions. The
collection in general provides documentation of business life in
Jacksonville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Includes also: Florida Uniform Examination Questions (1896); campaign
literature and messages of Florida Governor Napoleon Bonaparte Broward;
a nineteenth century Jacksonville newsletter, 'St. Andrew's Messenger'
(1891); and several letters referring to the Jacksonville fire of
May 3, 1901.
ARRANGEMENT
Alphabetical by series; chronological within folder.
INDEX TERMS
The following terms have been used to index the description of
this collection in the Library's online catalog:
Buckman, Courtland, 1862-1952
Real estate development--Florida--Jacksonville
Real estate agents--Florida--Jacksonville
Jacksonville (Fla.)--History
Jacksonville (Fla.)--Economic conditions
Jacksonville (Fla.)--Biography
CONTAINER LIST
The Container list provides a listing of the folders as arranged in the
Collection. When available, links are included to
full-text resources and online images.
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