Hon. Henry H. Buquo, attorney at law, and one of the prominent business men of Houston County, was the third of a family of five children of Jacob and Margaret (Hohenadel) Buquo, natives of Bavaria and France, respectively. They (the parents) each came to Pennsylvania in about 1830, being yet single. In Pennsylvania they married, and Jacob followed farming there until 1868, when he moved with his family to Erin, Tenn., where his son, H. H., had come the year previous. Here the mother of our subject died in 1873. The father yet lives in Erin, a hale old man, whose birth was in 1813. The immediate subject of this sketch was born May 29, 1844, and was reared on a farm in his native State, and secured a good common school education and attended commercial college at Pittsburgh, Penn. At the age of nineteen years he left home and worked by manual labor at mining coal. With money thus earned he attended school. His early business life was in mechanical pursuits and the improvement of his education. In 1867 he came to Erin, where he continued work as a mechanic, and began the study of law, which he continued while pursuing his avocation. For ten years Mr. Buquo practiced law in Erin very successfully. He was actively instrumental in the organization of Houston County, and by his efforts the county seat was secured at Erin. He is the architect for the court house, and helped survey the county lines. He has held several of the county offices, and in 1880 was elected to the State Assembly, in which he served one term. He then engaged with Harris & Buquo Bros. in the manufacture of lime, cooperage material, etc., for some time. In 1884 he purchased a half-interest in the firm of Harris & Buquo, in the manufacture of lime and cooperage, etc., and in the mercantile trade. The firm also conducts the Clifton Cement & Mining Works at Clifton, Tenn., and does an extensive real estate business, now owning about 15,000 acres of land in this county. The firm does an annual business of about $125,000. Mr. Buquo also continues the practice of law. He is one of the few who withstood the yellow fever plague of 1878, and so untiringly cared for the distressed. November 23, 1868, he was married to Mary Jane Brigham, of this county, and daughter of A. W. Brigham. To this union have been born six children, all of whom are now living, as follows: Maggie A., Sallie A., Samuel J., George C., Helen H. and Jennie L. Mr. Buquo, his wife and two oldest children are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Buquo is an elder in the church and is regarded as one of the leading lights in the church at this place. He was honored with the appointment as delegate to the General National Assembly of the church, and takes great pride in his religious relations and benevolent and elevating works. He justly sustains the high regard of all good citizens, and is widely known in business circles as an honorable and energetic business man.

Source: Goodspeed, Weston A, and John Wooldridge. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham and Houston Counties. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1886.