Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Buck, William Franklin 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com April 29, 2006, 5:23 pm

Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Buck, William Franklin - One of the old families of Grundy County, and one 
that has played an important part in the development of a flourishing 
industry, is that bearing the name of Buck.  One of the representatives of the 
name is William Franklin Buck, who was for many years connected with the 
manufacture of tile and brick, but is now living retired.  Mr. Buck was born 
at Morris, November 10, 1869, a son of John and Susan (Hutchings) Buck, a 
sketch of whom is given elsewhere in this work.  Growing up at home and 
learning how to manufacture brick, William Franklin Buck attended the public 
schools and later took a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's Business 
College of Chicago.  In 1895, he and his brother George succeeded to the 
business established by their father and continued to operate the large brick 
and tile yards. In 1905, another brother, Richard, bought out the interest of 
George and he and William Buck remained in partnership until 1910, when the 
latter sold to the former, and since then has lived retired.

On October 10, 1894, William Franklin Buck was married to Minnie A. Petty, a 
daughter of Richard and Martha (Locke) Petty.  For a year after his marriage, 
Mr. Buck lived in the same house with his parents, and then built a modern 
residence on seven acres of land adjoining that of his brother Richard, in 
which he still resides.  He and his wife have had two children:  Anna Louisa 
and Elenor Elizabeth.  Mr. Buck is a Baptist and has been superintendent of 
the Sunday school for some years.  Like his brother Richard, he is a strong 
Prohibitionist, and supports the candidates of his party, looking eagerly 
forward to the time when it will be the successful one, for he believes that 
people will become educated up to a moral standard that will demand total 
abstinence.

page 778

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/buck729nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 2.5 Kb