San Francisco-Sacramento-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Buck, John W. 1858 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JOHN W. BUCK, an extensive rancher near Pleasanton, was born in Buckfield,
Oxford County, Maine, December 24, 1858; completed his education at Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1869-'71; came to San Francisco and there enlisted in the
First United States Cavalry, as a private in the company commanded by Captain
Moses Harris, and served satisfactorily for ten years, being honorably
discharged in the presidio of San Francisco in 1882. For the next two years he
had charge of the farm of Mrs. Mary P. Woldram, in Sacramento County. Next for
four years he had charge of the hop farm of Dr. D. P. Durst, near Wheatland,
Yuba County. Then he was employed by the Omnibus Street Railway Company, of San
Francisco, as a carpenter in their shops, he having learned the trade of
carpentry in the army; and after one year in this relation he located near
Pleasanton, where for the last two years he has been in charge of the Black
estate of 1,100 acres, good farm land, all under cultivation. He has two
assistants as foremen. Mr. Buck is not married; is a member of Pleasanton Lodge,
No. 225, I. O. O. F.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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