Sedgwick-Cowley-Harvey County KS Archives Biographies.....Buck, Albert A. 1875 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Albert A. Buck, painter and decorator, No. 209 St. Francis avenue, Wichita,
Kansas, is a native of Georgia, in which state he was born in Union county on
September 18, 1875. His parents were Azro A. and Fannie (Burgin) Buck, natives
of Vermont and North Carolina, respectively. The father was Captain of Company
F, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He died
at Winfield, Kan., January 2, 1880. His widow is still living and made a
successful run at the opening of the Cherokee Strip on September 16, 1893.
Albert A. Buck was educated in the public schools and came to Kansas in 1879,
remaining a short time at Winfield, then to Arkansas City, then to Newton, and
located in Wichita soon afterward. He learned the painter's and decorator's
trade in 1896, which he has since followed successfully. Mr. Buck established
business for himself at No. 209 St. Francis avenue in 1904 and has gained a fine
patronage in the general line of decorating and painting. He has been a member
of the Masonic Order since 1909, and also belongs to the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. Mr. Buck enlisted as a private for the Spanish-American War on June
18, 1898, was mustered in December 10 of the same year. He was married on
January 10, 1899, to Miss Bertha Duncan, of Halstead, Kan.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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