The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Brown Township, pages 473-474:
Alexander H. Arbuckle, one of the prominent and successful farmers and stock-raisers of Brown Township, was born July 14, 1836. In the spring of 1857 his parents, John M. and Elizabeth Arbuckle, settled in Brown Township on the farm now owned by our subject, where the father died. Eight of their family of eleven children are living--John W., Nancy, William R., Washington M., Melvina H., Matthew H., Esther and Alexander H. The deceased are--Martha, Franklin and Francis M. The latter was a soldier in the civil war, and served between two and three years, a member of the Fifty-first Indiana Infantry. Alexander H. Arbuckle received a fair education in his youth, and subsequently taught school a short time. Since coming to Hendricks County he has engaged in farming, and now owns the old homestead, which contains 307 acres of valuable land. He is a liberal, public-spirited man, and one of the most substantial and influential men of the township. He was married in March, 1859, to America Graham, who died in August, 1879. To them were born four children---Alvin, Ulysses G., Ellison and John F. (deceased). In January, 1881, Mr. Arbuckle married Rebecca Combs. They have one child--Mattie.