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.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for Clay County KS AHGP