Morton Bert Buck (1806 - 1886)

Born 30 Aug 1806 in Trumansburg, Tompkins, New York

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Died 4 Dec 1886 at age 80 in Green Bay Township, Lee, Iowa, United States

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MORTON BUCK, born near Trumansburgh, New York, August 30, 1806; married February 24, 1832, Rebecca Annesley Johnson; born in Seneca County, New York, February 6, 1812. They are both living at Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa. Morton remained at home, an apprentice to the farming business, until he passed his 24th year, when he married and settled on a farm not far from the parental homestead. Here he remained until march 1848, when he sold out, and removed with his family of seven children to the vicinity of Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa. This, then comparatively wild country, has now become one of the richest agricultural sections of the great West. Here he purchased 350 acres of new land, on the bank of the Mississippi river, which by hard labor and economy he, in time, reclaimed and paid for, and on a part of which, he and his venerable partner for life, live to enjoy the fruits of their labors. He has been a laboring farmer, and never had the speculative fever. His life has passed quietly and without friction. Having attended closely to business, no exciting event has occurred in his life to furnish materials for an elaborate biographical sketch. Though he and his wife are nearing the four score milepost of life's track, they are both quite robust. His children are well to do in the world, and own farms on which they respectively live. No higher compliment can be paid to manhood and good citizenship, than that which they may be justly paid to Morton Buck, viz: that he never was sued, never sued anyone. And owes no man anything but good will. Among his neighbors he is known as Brother Buck, and the title is not an empty one. None of his immediate descendants have ever paid tribute to either the tobacconist, or the liquor dealer, a fact which ought to redound their eternal credit. While his children and grandchildren, do not boast of having added lustre to the family name, they can nevertheless point with honest pride, to the fact, that they have never tarnished it. Morton Buck was reared in the Presbyterian faith, but latterly leans strongly to Universalism, to which latter denomination his wife adheres.

• Fact: Residence (1860) Green Bay Township, Lee, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Green Bay, Lee, Iowa, United States
• Fact: Burial Hickory Cemetary, Fort Madison, IA
• Fact: Residence , Fayette, Indiana

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• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 06 November 2017, 10:58), entry for Morton Buck(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZNN-5TK); contributed by various users.
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31634120/morton-bert-buck

• https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/OriginHistoryandGenealogyoftheBuckFamily_10743182.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiLmrqc76zYAhXIWCYKHQx-BNgQFgheMBA&usg=AOvVaw1d1MPeS0LVAAhksAwMAP6I