Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
BAKER TOWNSHIP
PAGE 363

E. B. BUSKIRK is a native of this township, was born September 30, 1859, and is the
eldest of the seven children comprising the family of Bennet Van and Arvy (Smith) Bus-
kirk, the former a native of this township, born in the same house as our subject, the
latter of Georgia.  E. B. Buskirk was brought up a farmer, and received some education
from  the common schools, which he attended by times until sixteen years old.  In 1876,
he went to Texas, and engaged in buffalo hunting and herding cattle for about two years,
and later followed the same line in Nebraska.  In the winter of 1880-81, he took a
departure for Wyoming Territory, and worked on a ranch near Cheyenne, and engaged in
herding on the Platte River until the year 1883, at which period he returned to his
father's home in this township.  In politics, he is a Republican.