Twin Falls County ID Archives Obituaries.....Buck, Edward Nelson April 14, 1916 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 July 26, 2020, 1:00 am The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) Tue Apr 25, 1916 pg 7 The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) Tue Apr 25, 1916 pg 7 Veteran Newspaper Man Dies TWIN FALLS, Idaho--Edward Nelson Buck, age 45, died April 14, in this city of pneumonia. Mr. Buck was a veteran in the newspaper game and was widely known as a magazine writer, editor, reporter and poet, his experience covering a number of years in many states. He was founder of the Idaho Call at Kimberly and of the Sunday Call, which ran for a short time in this city. He was recently engaged in compiling a history of Twin Falls county and its resources. He leaves a mother in Union Star, MO., and a brother in Nevada. Twin Falls Times Apr 20, 1916 pg 8 Public Forum EDWARD NELSON BUCK The passing of Edward Nelson Buck romoves one of the most striking characters ever identified with Idaho journalism. His strong points were natural good feeling, essentially good intentions, a brilliant mind and a vast fund of information, which he was capable of using in a most effective manner. His great weakness lay in a superabundance of optimism, which permitted him to hope to extricate himself with credit from financial situations which were utterly hopeless. In this he deceived himself first and, in deceiving him- self, he, by the very brilliancy of his intell- ect, deceived others. Added to the optimism of a Sellers, he had the decuctive powers of a Conan Doyle, so that plans fundamentally impracticable looked plausible when he out- lined them with seductive eloquence of tongue and pen. His work and pen. His work at Kimberly was marvelous. Dropping into a town which at that time contained but a couple of hundred people, he began the issuance of a paper which he hoped to make a statewide power, naming it the Idaho Call to indicate that it was no mere local enterprise. In this he ran an editorial page that would have done credit to a metropolis daily. He "put Kimb- erly on the map" as his editorial utterances were quoted far and wide. His effort to establish a metropolitan Sunday newspaper in Twin Falls, with funn press reports from a leased wire, was doomed to failure from the start, and the fact that it run for four issues was itself a marvel in journalism, considering the circumstances. Cooped in a little office under the bank in Kimberly, he took the dispatches as turned over to him by the operator, segregated the 15,000 words received between 6 o'clock and mid- night on Saturday, selected what he wanted, wrote heads for what he used, set the heads for the numerous articles, made up the forms and locked them himself and then in mid- winter cold carried them 20 miles in an auto to Buhl, where they were printed and sent out on the morning train or carried back to a little office in this city for distribution. At that time he was suffering from rheum- atism and pleurisy, and sleeping, at least part of the time, in the small, gas-filled office in Kimberly, cooking his own meals on a coal oil heater, without money or credit, and with nothing but his indomitable spirit and mistaken optimism to carry him on. The inevitable death of the Sunday Call ended the last hope of making the Idaho Call a factor in his hands, and shortly afterward it passed to others. Later on, with more time on his hands, he again showed for a time the sparks of genius of which he was possessor. He wrote many excellent poems for both the Statesman and the Capital News, and one of his songs, a darkey lullaby, has been published by a New York house. His enterprise of writing a history of the county, had he been backed by money and health, could have been a success, but he had neither, and the effort cost him his life. He was at one time the owner of a magazine and was a different periods editor of papers of standing, besides working as a special writer and reporter on newspapers in St. Louis and elsewhere. Being, as military men would say, more of a strategist than a tactician, it was always in the working out of details that he failed most lamentably, but however chimerical? his plans may have been, through failure to consider the obstacles in the way of their execution, he had splendid conceptions, and in his efforts to carry them out he bettered the tract by the advertising which he gave to it. Aside from the purely material benefits de- rived by the Twin Falls tract from the advertising which it received through his efforts, there are few who knew Mr. Buck who will not agree with the sentiment expressed in his funeral sermon by Rev. C. L. Bent of the Methodist Episcopal church, that the scintillating thoughts, so vividly por- trayed in words by the departed during his journalistic career here and in Kimberly must have aroused new intellectual and spiritual interests among those who read them. Rev. Bent said that in a letter received from his mother, since the death of her son, she declared that she was a lifelong Christian. It would, I am sure, be consoling to her to know that in con- versation with the writer recently, Mr. Buck spoke earnestly of the power of sacred music to give expression to the spiritual, in such a way as to indicate his belief in and hope for immortality. JAMES D. WHELAN The Twin Falls Times, Tue Apr 18, 1916 pg 5 Edward Nelson Buck, aged 45 years, died Friday in the Physicians and Surgeons' hospital in this city of pneumonia. Mr. Buck was a veteran in the newspaper game and was widely known as a magazine write, editor, reporter and poet, his experiences covering a number of years in many states. He was founder of the Idaho Call at Kimberly and of the Sunday Call, which ran for a short time in this city. He was recently engaged in compiling a history of Twin Falls county and its resources. He leaves a mother in Union Star, Mo., and a brother in Nevada. The funeral was held this after- noon from the Crosby chapel and was con- ducted by Rev. C. L. Bent, pastor of the Episcopal church. His body was interred in the Twin Falls cemetery. Additional Comments: The Blackfoot Optimist Blackfoot, ID Thur April 13, 1916 pg 6 [poem by E. N. Buck published in the newspaper listed above] THE WINDING SNAKE. They may sing the charms of distant streams in strains of fullsome'praise, And picture dreams idyllic of ddlco far niente days; They may rapture over the Shannon, that nows through Erin's isle, Of the noble Rhine, the turgid Seine, and others quite worth while— These they may sing in prose and rhyme, at home and oversea, But, after all, the winding Snake is good enough for m«l No lordly castles grace its banks, no barques e'er sail its stream; Nor poet's lyre has e'er yet made of it the chosen theme; It's name's not writ in romance, and even less in rhyme, It follows its course in plasid ease, ob livious of all time; I --et them sing their Thames and Tiber», as well their bonny Lee, I 'll allegiance vow to the winding Snake •—it 's good enough for me! —Edward Nelson Buck [poem by E. N. Buck published in the newspaper listed above] The Twin Falls Ties Thu Apr 6, 1916 pg 1 BUCK, SENTENCED TO 30 DAYS, TELLS COURT HE WILL APPEAL Edward Nelson Buck, former editor of the Idaho Call at Kimberly and the Sunday Call of this city, was sentenced to 30 days in jail Tuesday by Justice of the Peace Smith oh the charge of issuing a check for $10 to C. S. Orm of Filer without having money in the bank to meet it. He entered a plea of not guilty, and, on the court finding against him, stated verbally that he would appeal to the district court. Ashland Tidings (Ashland, OR) Mon Sep 23, 1912 pg 1 A New Magazine The Tidings is in receipt of No. 1 of Vol. 1 of The New West, a monthly publication to be published at Reno, Nev., with Edward Nelson Buck as editor. The first issue contains about 120 pages of reading matter largely pertaining to the west or fiction, and well illustrated. It will be 15 cents per copy and $2 per year. 1910 Tonopah Precinct 2, Nye, Nevada Samuel Fox Head Male 64 Germany Edward N Buck Lodger Male 45 NY IN Ireland Editor daily paper Arizona, Maricopa County, Voting Records, 1876-1932 Name: Edward N. Buck Event Type: Voter Registration Event Date: 1909 Event Place:Maricopa, Arizona, United States Age: 44 Birth Year (Estimated): 1865 Birthplace: New York Birthplace (Original): New York 1898 California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898 Name: Edward Nelson Buck Age: 32 Birth Year: abt 1866 Birth Place: New York Residence Year: 1898 Residence Address: Stockton Residence Place: San Joaquin, California, USA 1894 California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898 Name: Edward Nelson Buck Age: 30 Birth Year: abt 1864 Birth Place: New York Residence Year: 1894 Residence Address: Needles Residence Place: San Bernardino, California, USA 1892 California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898 Name: Edward Nelson Buck Age: 28 Birth Year: abt 1864 Residence Year: 1892 Residence Place: Los Angeles, California, USA 1890 California Great Registers, 1866-1910 Name: Edward M Buck Event Type: Voter Registration Event Date: 1890 Event Place: 2d Ward, San Diego, California, United States Age: 24 Birth Year (Estimated): 1866 Birthplace: New York 1880 Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee N. B. Buck 44 Maggie Buck 34 Edward N. Buck 15 Charles R. Buck 13 MO [Charles A.] Laura Buck 10 Lida Buck 9/12 1870 Davidson, TN N B Buck 33 IN Printer Maggie Buck 23 Ireland Addie Buck 5 NY male [eddie] Chas Buck 3 MO Laura Buck 1/12 TN submitter is not related and has no further information File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/twinfalls/obits/b/buck3222gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 10.2 Kb