Willis (or Wyllys) Buell (c. 1790November 1851) was a native of Connecticut and third mayor of Atlanta.
Biography Willis Buell was born in Connecticut in 1790.
Buell's 1833 map of Muskingum County was among the first printed maps of any of Ohio's counties.
In the mid to late 1830s, he became the first Justice of the Peace of the 1026th militia district.Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio. (1837). United States: The State. He was a prosecuting attorney for the Supreme Court held in Muskingum from 1837 to April 1839.
In 1839, he was appointed by the City Council to serve on Zanesville's first board of examiners for its education system.Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Muskingum County, Ohio: Embracing an Authentic and Comprehensive Account of the Chief Events in the History of the County and a Record of the Lives of Many of the Most Worthy Families and Individuals. (1892). United States: Goodspeed Publishing Company.
He lived in Georgia during the mid-1840s. Buell was among the original members of Atlanta's first Masonic lodge. He was known for his skill in portrait painting, establishing a studio within Atlanta's first Masonic Hall in 1847.Garrett, F. M., & Martin, H. H. (20111969). Atlanta and environs : a chronicle of its people and events. University of Georgia Press.
As a member of the Free and Rowdy Party, also known as the Rowdies, he served a single term as the third Mayor of Atlanta from January 1850 to January 1851, as stipulated by the city charter. Jonathan Norcross succeeded him as mayor.
Death Willis Buell died in Atlanta, Georgia in November 1851.
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