A native of Saint Catherine's, Canada, and was born November 17, 1843. He is the son of William amid Sarah A. (Crosby) Buell, natives of New York and New Hampshire. Our subject received an excellent education attending the Seminary at Geneseo, Ill., for two years, also a commercial course at Rochester, N.Y. He came to Lyons soon after, where he both taught and attended school through 1865-67. He was next engaged as a clerk in Lyons. He then managed a farm in Scott County, and subsequently returned to Lyons, and engaged in the clothing business. Mr. Buell took upon himself the obligations of matrimony in 1875, his bride being Miss Ida R. Knight, a native of Massachusetts, and their home has been brightened by the advent of one daughter. Mr. Buell is a Democrat in politics, and is convinced that his party holds the true governmental principles, and gives it his voice and vote. He represented Clinton County in the Twenty-second General Assembly, 1888. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America and the A. O. U. W. He is a man who possesses frank and manly attributes of character, and gives to his work an interest which wins him a wide circle of patrons.