Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: H.H. Hill, 1881, p 212.
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 int he 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.