Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Buck, Lyman H. January 2, 1837 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Buck, Lyman H., was born in Russia, N.Y., January 2, 1837, a son of William 
Buck, who was born in Chesterfield, Mass., October 6, 1807.  He bought a farm 
near Poland, where he resided until 1860, when he purchased an adjoining farm, 
where he lived the remainder of his days.  He was the first president of the 
State Bank at Poland, organized in 18870, and president of the National Bank 
until his death.  He died in 1880.  His wife Susan, daughter of Jonathan and 
Susannah (Buck) Millington, is still living in Poland.  Jonathan was born in 
Shaftsbury, Vt., in 1774, was a son of Solomon Millington, a native of 
Shaftsbury, who died in 1833, and his wife in 1835.  Jonathan Millington had 
one son and five daughters.  He was drafted in the war of 1812.  He died in 
1854.  Lyman Buck was educated at Fairfield Seminary.  In connection with 
farming, he taught school several terms.  Afterwards followed farming, 
exclusively on the old homestead, which he and his brother now own.  Mr. Buck 
with Charles D. Buck, Peter Newman, Felus Prindle and Marcena May, owned for a 
number of years the Poland cheese factory and manufactured large quantities of 
cheese.  Lyman H. Buck owns land in Herkimer County, and also quite 
extensively in several of the Western States.  He is one of the stockholders 
and president of the Union Store in Poland.  He is a Republican.  He furnished 
a substitute in the Civil War.  Mr. Buck has always supported the Baptist 
Church.  His wife is Francis M. Ferris, whom he married February 20, 1865.  
She is a daughter of the late Col. Timothy H. Ferris, of Russia.  Mr. Buck and 
wife have one child, Harriet Gudrida, at home.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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