Retired Paintsville bank executive Robert M. Conley edited this engaging autobiography of Johnson County, Kentucky, native John E. Buckingham, an early business associate of John C. C. Mayo. The book chronicles development of coal and oil and gas industries in Eastern Kentucky. Buckingham describes his successes and failures in coal, oil, timber, real estate and banking. At one time the president of several banks, Buckingham also served as Kentucky State Treasurer from 1936-1939.
Robert M. Conley, Editor
2014, cloth, 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781941272558
101-C7255
