BUCK, MORTON

BUCK, YORK, SHERMAN

Posted By: Deb Barker (email)
Date: 3/13/2004 at 20:16:54

BUCK, MORTON, farmer, sec. 20; P.O. Fort Madison; son of William S. Buck and grandson of James Buck, who was born in Connecticut, where he married a sister of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence; had nine children, the seventh, William S. Buck, also born in Connecticut, where he married Miss Berintha York, a native of New London, in that State; had thirteen children, eleven sons and two daughters- Morton the youngest but three of the sons; he was born in Ulysses Tp., Seneca Co., N.Y. (Whither his parents had moved), Aug. 30, 1806; when 12 years of age, with his parents, removed to Ohio and settled on Gen. Harrison’s farm at North Bend, twelve miles from Cincinnati; five years after, they purchased a farm at Clevetown, on the Miami River, fifteen miles above its mouth, where the mother died; soon after her death, the remainder of the family removed to the vicinity of Patriot, Switzerland Co., Ind., where the father died in 1843; only six of the family are now living, most of whom are settled in the Western States; after he reached his 21st year Morton Buck commenced the world for himself as a day-laborer, working on flatboats to New Orleans, etc. Jan 24, 1832, he married Miss Rebecca, daughter of John and Mary Johnson, natives of New Jersey, but subsequently citizens of Seneca Co., N.Y., where Rebecca was born, Feb. 6, 1812. The Johnsons afterward removed to Fayette Co., Ind., where they died. For sixteen years after their marriage, Mr. Buck and his wife remained in Switzerland Co.; in the spring of 1848, came to Iowa, settled for eight months at Montrose, then removed to his present farm of 400 acres, which he values at $45 an acre. They have seven children- Amos York, born in Indiana, May 30, 1833, served in the late war, and is now a resident of Clark Co., Missouri; Mary O., born in Indiana, November 1, 1834 (married Smith Cherry, deceased- she remarried and is now the wife of Ernest Gocthart, of this township); Samantha, born Aug. 3, 1836, remains at home with her parents; Wealtha A., born May 3, 1840, wife of George Rudisill, of Mount Pleasant; Adelbert H., was born Aug. 7, 1842, served in the late war, and is farming near Farmington, Van Buren Co.; Halsey J., was born Dec. 19, 1844, and is engaged in farming near the home farm; Emma J., born in Iowa, Oct. 5, 1850, wife of R. D. Klingensmith, farmer, of Bloomfield, Davis Co.; Warren M., was born Dec. 1, 1853, died 26th December, 1877. Mr. Buck commenced political life as a Whig.