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Portrait and biographical album of Mecosta County, Mich. containing
portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative
citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the
governors of Michigan and of the presidents of the United States: also
containing a complete history of the county, from its earliest settlement
to the present time.

Published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL, 1883

Judith Anne Weeks Ancell
May 17, 2011
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BUCK, Samuel
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Samuel Buck, farmer, sec. 7, Aetna Tp. (P. O., Morley), was born in
Washington Co., N. Y., Nov. 14, 1813.  He is son of Aaron and Julila
(Brown) Buck.

Mr. Buck spent the first 23 years of his life in the pursuits common to
farmer’s sons and then settled on a farm, where he lived 22 years,
managing his farm and practicing medicine, of which he had acquired
considerable knowledge.  On leaving New York he came to Hillsdale Co.,
Mich., in the fall of 1856, where he remained a resident nine years.  His
next removal was to Aetna Tp., where he founded and built up his present
home.  The family belongs to the M. E. Church.  Mr. Buck holds to no
particular political views, but is a radical Prohibitionist.

In 1836, he was married to Harriett, daughter of John and Mary Walters,
natives of New York, where the daughter was born in 1821.  Five children
were born of this marriage, as follows:  Wilber, April 7, 1849; Wesley,
April 6, 1851; Mary, Aug. 11, 1847; Estella, March 4, 1854.  Josephine is
deceased, but dates of birth and death are not known.  Mr. Buck’s

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Wife died, and he was married in Hillsdale County, to Jane, daughter of
Elijah and Anna Selsby, who was a native of Vermont, born Nov. 4, 1811;
she died in Aetna Tp., and a few years after Mr. Buck married Mrs. Emma E.
Bigelow, daughter of Harry and Nancy (Crofut) Monroe.  One child, Jessie,
was born Dec. 11, 1872.  The wife died Oct. 11, 1877.

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