Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Buck, Rev Edwin A May 31, 1824 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ma/mafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 12, 2006, 7:00 pm Author: E. O. JAMESON EDWIN A. BUCK, son of James and Lydia (Treat) Buck, was born May 31, 1824, in Bucksport, Me. He graduated in 1849 from Yale College, New Haven, Conn., and in 1852 from the Theological Seminary, Bangor, Me. After supplying the pulpit in Pownal, Me., one year, he was ordained, and installed May 31, 1854, pastor of the First Congregational Church in Bethel, Me. After a, ministry of some four years he was installed, June, 1858, pastor of the Congregational Church in Slatersville, R. I., where he remained nearly ten years, and was then called, November, 1867, to the work of a city missionary by the Central Church of Fall River, Mass., in which work he is still, 1885, engaged. The Rev. Mr. Buck married, Jan. 19, 1853, Rebecca Elmira Walker, daughter of Dean and Rebecca (Wright) Walker, of Medway, now Millis, Mass. Mrs. Buck died Feb. 16, 1877. There were seven children: Eliza Harding, born Nov. 12, 1853; Alice Lydia, born Aug. 6, 1855; Mary Rebecca, born July 18, 1857; N. Eveline, born March 2, 1860; Isabella Howard, born July 15, 1864, died Jan. 26, 1867; Augustus Walker, born Feb. 7, 1866; Clara Fay, born Dec. 29, 1868. Additional Comments: THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886. Illustrated WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS. BY E. O. JAMESON, THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC. MILLIS, MASS. 1886. Copyright, 1886. E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS. All Rights Reserved. J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ma/norfolk/bios/buck66gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb