Edward Zabriskie Buck (1917 - 1964)

Born 7 Aug 1917 in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 Sep 1964 at age 47 in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States

Biography

Edward was born in 1917. He was the son of Frank Buck and Zayda Zabriskie. He passed away in 1964.

From the Reno Evening Gazette, 9/29/1964: Edward Buck, Reno Lawyer, Dies in Hawaii

Edward Zabriskie Buck, Reno Attorney, former Attorney General of Hawaii and a member of a Nevada pioneer family, died suddenly in Hawaii last Sunday according to word received her Monday night. He was 47. Mr. Buck succumbed of an apparent heart attack on the island of Maui while advocating the presidential candidacy of Sen. Barry Goldwater. He had left Reno less than two weeks ago to devote his efforts to the Goldwater campaign in the state of Hawaii.

His great great grandfather, Dr. C. B. Zabriskie, was one of Nevada's three presidential electors and cast one of the state's three ballots for Abraham Lincoln 100 years ago. He settled in Silver City in 1860 during the Comstock Lode boom , 11 years after he arrived in San Francisco. Mr. Buck's maternal great grandfather, Elias B. Zabriskie, was appointed in 1890 by then President Benjamin Harrison as melter and refiner at the U.S. mint in Carson City, earlier he was the first District Attorney of the State's Third Judicial District.

Mr. Buck's grandfather, Christian B. Zabriskie, also played a prominent part in Nevada history and the state's mining and railroad industries. He was vice-president of Pacific Coast Borax Co. and vice-president and general manager of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Co., Death Valley Railroad Co., and Bullfrog and Goldfield Railroad Co.

Mr. Buck's father, the late Frank H. Buck, was U. S. Congressman from Vacaville, Calif. district for 10 years. Chairman of Reno's Nevada Title Guarantee Company's board of directors at the time of his death, Mr. Buck also was a director of Guarantee Financial Corp. of Phoenix, Ariz. He was also a director of Belridge Oil Co. of Los Angeles. During World War II he was judge advocate of the permanent general court martial and assistant legal officer for the 14th Navel District at Pearl Harbor from 1942 to 1944 and later was assistant flag secretary and legal personnel officer for the staff of Amphibious Group 6 in the Southwest Pacific.

Mr. Buck who made his home at 2225 Skyline Blvd. was a native of San Francisco and was born August 7, 1917. He attended public schools in California before attending George Washington University in the nation's capital. He was graduated with honors from the University of California where he received his bachelor degree Phi Beta Kapa key in 1937. Three years later he was a cum laude graduate at Harvard Law School. At the time of his death, he was a partner in the Reno legal firm of Barry, Buck and Hall and held memberships in the Bar Association of Nevada, Bar Association of Hawaii and American Bar Association.

Survivors include his widow, Dorothy Hoard Buck; a son Leonard C. Z. Buck; a step-mother, Mrs. Eva Benson Buck of Vacaville, Calif.; two brothers, Frank H. Buck, Jr. of Danville, Calif., Christian B. Buck of Santa Fe, N.M.; two sisters, Mrs. Harry W. (Margaret) McCormick of Houston, Texas, and Mrs. Carol Buck Erdman of Crystal Bay; an aunt Mrs. Leonard W (Beryl) Buck of Ross, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews.

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97663270/edward-zabriskie-buck

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH3D-21V : accessed 4 January 2019), Zabriskila Buck in household of Frank H Buck, Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States; citing ED 176, sheet 28A, line 27, family 215, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 92; FHL microfilm 1,820,092.

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCXN-3YZ : accessed 28 March 2019), Elias J Buck in household of Frank K Buck, Piedmont, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 333, sheet 22A, line 41, family 258, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 110; FHL microfilm 2,339,845.

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