Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Buck, George W. 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak naela@earthlink.net December 22, 2007, 1:11 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Buck, George W., Russia, was born in Russia, 1835, a son of William and Susan Buck. He was educated in the common schools, supplemented by several terms in the Fairfield Seminary, in which he was a member of the Calliop Society. February 14, 1871, he married Georgiana Ashley, a native of Chatham, Columbia county, N.Y., who was a daughter of Russel D. Ashley, a son of Abram, whose father was Abram Ashley, a native of England and an early settler at Ashley's Hill, Columbia county, N.Y. Here he lived and died. Abram Ashley, jr., married a Miss Beebe, by whom he had seven sons and four daughters. He died about 1876. Russell D. Ashley, born in 1810, was a native of Columbia county, was reared on a farm, and early became a painter. In 1831 he married Sarah Gale, a native of New Lebanon, Columbia county, N.Y., born in 1812. To Mr. Ashley and wife were born two sons and two daughters. He was justice of the peace in Columbia county for sixteen years and died June 16, 1889, while residing with his daughter, Mrs. George Buck, of Poland. his wife died August 26, 1839. Mr. Buck and wife have one daughter, Flora M., born November 17, 1871. Mr. Buck is a farmer by occupation, and he and his brother own the old homestead. He also owns another farm of 270 acres. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.org/ny/herkimer/bios/buck194gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb