Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers. "An Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties") Spokane, WA: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905. p. 522. CHARLES BUHMAN a prosperous Sherman county farmer, resides at Wasco. He is a native of the Golden State, having been born in Solano county, California, June 18, 1861. His parents, Detlef and Annie ( Jahn) Buhman, were born in Germany. The father came to the United States in 1859, settled in Solano county, returned to Germany, and returned to California in 1861. He died in Dixon, California, in 1874. The mother still lives there. It was in Dixon that our subject, Charles Buhman, was reared and educated until he was twenty-two years of age. He then came to Umatilla county, Oregon, where he worked a few months and then returned home, remaining eighteen months. In the fall of 1884 he came to Sherman county and located land four miles from Wasco, and purchased more later. He now owns four hundred acres of excellent wheat land, and a ten-acre tract on the outskirts of the town of Wasco where he resides, most comfortably situated and surrounded by many literary works of high merit and of which he is very fond. He rents his farm property. He is a single man, having three brothers ; Arnold, a farmer, residing four and one-half miles from Wasco; William, at the home place in California ; and Reinhard, at Dixon. He has no sisters. Politically our subject is a Prohibitionist. He is a popular citizen in the community in which he resides and numbers many warm personal friends. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2009 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.