Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Buck, Lorenzo D. 1856 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 5, 2007, 8:53 pm Author: Chapman Bros. (1892) LORENZO D. BUCK. There is no branch of business in which one may feel more sure that a steady and growing demand may be found than in any of those departments which have to do with supplying the every-day needs of every-day people. Those who deal in the luxuries of life will find that hard times and dull seasons shut down emphatically upon such sales as costly engravings, art bedsteads and lace bed sets, but when men and women will have flour, sugar and tea and the thousand and one articles which go toward spreading a comfortable table for a family, we are pretty sure that the trade in these supplies will have an opportunity for growth. The gentleman of whom we write has added to his grocery business in Vassar, a prosperous trade in produce, and he also deals in that Michigan staple, fruit, and in that household necessity known as queensware, and he is one of the growing men of this town. He was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., September 22, 1853, and is a son of Lorenzo D., Sr. and Mary Buck. His boyhood days were spent upon his father's farm and there he received thorough training in farm work which developed his sturdy independence and go-ahead-ativeness and he also was given a fair, common-school education, but his inclinations were in the commercial line and at the age of twenty-one he left home to seek employment. The first opportunity for employment which presented itself to this young man was not exactly in the line which he had marked out for himself but it gave him an opportunity to become acquainted with the world and to learn men and their ways of doing business. It was a clerkship in a hotel and there he remained four years. November 28, 1883, Mr. Buck took to himself a wife in the person of Miss Sarah E. Anscomb, of Bay City, and very soon after this happy event he entered the grocery business, which he had resolved to make his life work. He has been a resident of Tuscola County for the greater part of his life, and this gave him a broad and thorough acquaintance with both the business and the farming communities which has proved a great advantage to him. He receives a fair share of the patronage of the village and the farmers for he has the confidence of the people, and his extensive knowledge of the people who are engaged in agriculture has put him in the way of establishing an excellent trade in produce, as he buys and ships much in a wholesale way. When he first began the business here the trade was what is mostly called truck trade, but he established a cash trade and has thus truly benefited the town. Mr. and Mrs. Buck have been blessed by the birth of three promising children: the eldest, Walter L., died in infancy; Allen, who was born in Vassar in May, 188G, is now a sprightly little lad of five years; and Howard, who is still called "the baby", is three and one half years old. The family of Mr. Buck's parents consisted of three sons and three daughters and the circle is still complete, the children all being married and having homes of their own. The mother of this family died when our subject was seven years of age. The father survived until 1889, when he too passed away. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/tuscola/bios/buck445gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb