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CHARLES H. BUCK
An exceptionally progressive and successful
vineyardist, the owner of the fine ranch a little east of Youngstown on the
Acampo-Lockeford Road, Charles H. Buck was born at Viroqua, in Vernon County,
Wisconsin, on December 4, 1858, the son of Ingalls K. and Sarah E. (Councelman) Buck.
His father was born near Seneca Falls, in Cayuga County, New York. He went out to Wisconsin in the early
frontier days and there established himself as a hardware merchant and
tinsmith. When ten years old, Charles
Buck removed with his father to Hardin County, Iowa; and there, under the
helpful direction of his father, he learned the tinsmith’s trade. He had one brother and one sister: Frank Herbert, residing at Merced; and
Lillian B., Mrs. H. A. Fairbanks, of Acampo.
Charles H. Buck attended the common
schools of his neighborhood, and he also had academy training in Iowa. He accompanied his father to Vacaville on
February 26, 1884, where Mr. Buck acquired twenty acres of land and engaged in
fruit culture, growing peaches, apricots, plums and grapes; but in 1889 he sold
out and came to San Joaquin County. That
same year he purchased eighty acres on the Acampo-Lockeford Road in the
Christian Colony. Later he sold this
place to his brother-in-law, H. A. Fairbanks, who still resides there. He then purchased a half-interest in the eighty-acre
ranch where Charles H. Buck has lived since 1907. Ingalls Buck died aged eighty-one, while Mrs.
Buck attained the age of eighty-two, both passing away at the home of the
daughter, Mrs. H. A. Fairbanks. Charles
Buck’s partner is Joe Friedberger. On their eighty-acre ranch they have seven
acres in alfalfa and eleven acres in peaches, while the balance is in
vineyard. They have two large pumping
plants, with motors of fifteen horsepower.
Mr. Buck is a man of business affairs, and has been president of the
Acampo Fruit Growers. He served as clerk
for three terms of the Brunswick district school board.
At Acampo on September 20, 1891, Mr.
Buck was married to Miss Samantha C. Eddlemon, a
native of Lodi and the daughter of George W. and Ruth Eddlemon,
who had six children: Adolph, Ambus, Daniel, Luvina, now Mrs.
J. W. Wakefield, of Acampo; Ruth, and Samantha (Mrs. Buck). Mrs. Buck attended the grammar schools of
Lodi. Her father and mother lived to be
eighty and seventy-six years old, respectively, passing away within a few days
of each other in 1919—on June 2 and June 9.
Mr. and Mrs. Buck are the parents of three children: George Ingalls, residing in Lodi; C. Herbert,
of Youngstown; and Edith, now Mrs. Frank Miller, also of Youngstown. Mr. Buck is a Mason, a member of Lodge No.
256 at Lodi. In politics he is a
Republican.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1107-1108. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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