Clay Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-Walter Puckey, Jr.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
WALTER PUCKEY, JR., is one of the able
and highly respected business men of Clay
Center, Clay County. He is engaged in the
Real Estate, Loan and Insurance business, his office
being at the corner of Court and Fifth streets. He
has been identified with the business interests of
this city since 1876 but until the spring of 1889
was interested with others in trade.
The gentleman of whom we write is the only
son and child of his parents. His father, Walter
Puckey, Sr., was born in Cornwall, England. and
became a raining smith. About the middle of this
century he came to America, and spent thirteen
years in California, when returning to England for
his family, he located with them in Galena, Ill.
There he lived retired from active pursuits, until
seven years ago, when he came to Clay Center,
where he and his wife now live.
Walter Puckey, Jr., was born in Cornwall, July
11, 1849, and there received his education, and
began mercantile pursuits. In 1869, he came to
the United States with his parents, and settled in
Galena, Ill., entering into the mercantile business.
This he continued for three years, after which he
made his way to California via the Isthmus, and
after a year's absence returned to the parental
home. In 1877 he came to this city, being first engaged
with W. F. Carter, and subsequently with
others until 1886 when he went into the real estate
office of Caldwell, Peterson it Mumford. In the
spring of 1889, he opened an office for himself,
succeeding M. E. Mumford & Co., and is now a
prominent real estate, loan and insurance dealer of
this city.
In Galena, Ill., Sept. 11, 1873, the rites of wedlock
were celebrated between Mr. Puckey and
Miss Inez A. Grumme, daughter of Julius C.
Grumme, now a resident of Hayes Township, this
county. Miss Grumme was born in Galena in 1853,
and is a lady of intelligence and culture. Two
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Puckey,
one only, a son Charles W., now living.
Mr. Puckey, while a worker in the Republican
ranks is not an office-seeker. He is a member of
I. O. 0. F.. belonging to the Canton Patriarch
Militant, and has represented the order as a delegate
to the Grand Lodge and Encampment, and is
now a member of the Grand Lodge of Kansas. Mr.
Puckey is a man of ability, highly spoken of by
the people of the county, where he has the name
of being honest and honorable in all business transactions.