Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Buck, George A 1829 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

GEORGE A. BUCK. The city of Joliet is if sufficiently large to afford to its 
residents an opportunity for every reasonable pleasure, congenial 
companionship and comfort which heart can desire. To it have been attracted 
many men who, after years of industrious labors, have secured a competence and 
are enabled to spend their declining years in merited repose and the enjoyment 
of all that is best in life. Among this number is the gentleman above named, 
whose portrait is presented in connection with this sketch, and who is a 
retired farmer, having large property interests in this vicinity. He has been 
a townsman since 1883, and is numbered among the best citizens of the city, as 
he formerly was among those of the adjacent country. In politics he is a sound 
Democrat. His fitness for public service has been recognized by his fellow-
men, who have imposed upon him the duties of various offices. Among these were 
the positions of Town Clerk, Supervisor and others, the last-named office 
having been held by him five terms. The old Bay State claims Mr. Buck as one 
of her sons, and his parents, Asahel and Sophia (Mason) Buck, were also born 
within its limits. To them were born six children, as follows: Achsah and 
Sarah, deceased; George A.; Mrs. Harriet Linn, living in Manhattan Township, 
this county; Truman, whose home is in Omaha, Neb.; and Laura, deceased. The 
father departed this life August 16, 1880, at the age of seventy-eight years, 
his death taking place in Poultney, Vt. There the widowed mother is still 
living, having now reached the advanced age of eighty-seven years. The subject 
of this brief biographical sketch was born September 10, 1829, at 
Lanesborough, Berkshire County, Mass. His father having been a farmer, his 
early years were spent upon a farm in acquiring such knowledge of its 
management as is always secured by a bright lad, and in obtaining as good an 
education as the schools of the vicinity afforded. At the age of twenty-three 
years he became a merchant at Cheshire, but after three and one-half years 
spent in mercantile pursuits returned to farming as an occupation more 
congenial. In 1856 became West determined to make a home in the Prairie State, 
selecting as his first location Waukegan, Lake County. There, after a few 
short months of happy wedded life, his companion was removed from him, 
breathing her last April 16, 1857. Their marriage had been celebrated May 12, 
of the previous year, the bride bearing the name of Helen C. Wolcott. Not long 
after the death of his wife Mr. Buck came to this county, locating near Five 
Mile Grove, where he carried on agricultural pursuits until he abandoned them 
to become a resident of Joliet. Mr. Buck contracted a second matrimonial 
alliance March 22, 1859, taking as his companion Miss Sarah H., daughter of 
Jariah E. and Palmira Baker, natives of Rensselaer County, N. Y. The Baker 
family became residents of this county in 1856. Mrs. Buck possesses all the 
qualities of a motherly woman and is devoted to her husband and family. She 
has not, however, neglected neighborly and social duties, and has many friends 
throughout the community. Of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Buck we record the 
following: Helen C, born December 4, 1859, is now living in York County, Neb., 
and is the wife of John Cockle; Josephine S., born May 18, 1861, died October 
19, 1866; Sophia M., born November 28, 1862, died October 5, 1865; Mrs. Laura 
E. Tenny, whose home is in St. Louis, Mo., was born August 2, 1865; George A., 
Jr., born June 22, 1867, died June 30, 1870; Werden, born February 9, 1869, is 
at home and engaged in the grocery trade; Jennie T., born March 18, 1871, is 
bookkeeper in her brother's store; Kate F. was born November 19, 1872; Paul 
Revere, born November 12, 1875, died March 22, 1877; Fred A., born May 7, 
1877, passed away December 16, 1889; Lucy Mason was born February 19, 1882.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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