EDWARD HAMPTON BUCKMAN, one of the best known citizens of Newtown township, was born December 25, 1845, and was educated in the common schools, When about twenty years old he began to work by the year as a farm hand, and at the end of two years hired the "Gus Taylor farm," near Taylorsville. Seven years later he purchased his present farm of eighty-one acres, in Newtown township, where he has since resided. He is a good citizen and votes with the Republicans. Mr. BUCKMAN married, June 6, 1867, Sarah H., daughter of Joshua HESTON, of Upper Makefield township, and they are the parents of one son, Jesse, who is a blacksmith at Wood Hill, Upper Makefield.