BUZZELL-Wilbur - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Prof. Wilbur BUZZELL, teacher, Attica, 3rd son of John and Catherine Amelia Lewis Buzzell, was born in Davisonville, Genessee Co Michigan, Nov. 27, 1848. His father was a carpenter and he worked with him and partially learned the same trade. He prepared for college at Detroit and Flint, Michigan. At the former place he receive dinstruction in music under John Zundel. In 1869 he matriculated at the Michigan Univeristy and graduated in the classical course in 1873. He was organist for the Methodist Church at Ann Arbor and this situation furnished him the principal part of the means requred to complete his collegiate course. His father provided the remainder. In the fall of 1873 he went to the Norwich University, a military academy situated at Northfield, Vermont and was there at different times amounting to two years altogether. He resided in Vermont during the school year sof 1873 and 1874 and in Feb 1875, cam to Kalamazoo, remaining there till June. On Sept 1 he celebrated his marriage with Miss Carrie Matthews of Ann Arbor and immediately went to Vermont, spending a year in that state and returning to Michigan the next summer. In the autumn of 1876, he removed to LaFayette and taught two years in the high school in that city and in 1878 became principal of Attica HS. In this position he has given eminent satisfaction, and has been retained another year. During his residence in LaFayette he was organist for the Second Presbyterian Church an when he came to Attica he took charge of the music in the Methodist Church. The professor is an able and skillful musician and an accomplished vocalist.