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C. HERBERT BUCK
An enterprising young vineyardist
whose scientific methods and conscientious attention to details are sure to
assist him in attaining the success desired by every ambitious rancher, is C.
Herbert Buck, of Youngstown, who was born in the old Langford Colony near
Acampo, on April 16, 1894 the son of Charles H. and Samantha C. (Eddlemon) Buck. His
father was born in Wisconsin in 1858, the son of Ingalls K. and Sarah E. (Councelmon) Buck, the former a native of the Empire State
who became a frontiersman in Wisconsin and as a hardware merchant contributed
to the commercial development of that section.
Later, the elder Buck removed to Iowa, and then to California. Ingalls Buck purchased valuable land on the
Acampo-Lockeford Road, in the old Langford Colony, now Christian Colony, and
his life-story, as well as that of our subject’s father, is given in the
narrative of Charles H. Buck, and printed on another page of this work. As California pioneers, the Buck family will
always enjoy an enviable status.
C. Herbert Buck attended the Houston
school, and later enjoyed one of the best possible business courses at the
well-known Commercial College in Stockton.
There he learned many things, both directly and indirectly, bearing on
the interests that were to absorb his attention later. He established a motorcycle business in Lodi,
which he conducted for five years, and then began viticulture. He owns forty acres in Youngstown, thirty
acres in vineyard and ten acres in orchard, which he has brought to the highest
state of cultivation, and of which he is making the same success as he has made
of all his previous undertakings. He has
one of the finest, best-laid-out and trimmest vineyards, and also a fine orchard
where he raises high-grade Muir and Elberta peaches. He has two wells, with four-inch pumps and
motors of ten-horsepower for irrigation.
Mr. Buck was married in Modesto,
February 17, 1922 to Miss Adeline Hackman, born in Sacramento, the daughter of
William Charles and Mary (Weidner) Hackman, natives of Michigan and Illinois,
respectively, who located in Sacramento, where Mrs. Buck was reared and
educated. Mr. Buck is a Republican in
matters of national political import, but on local issues he disregards
partisanship and endeavors to support the best men and measures.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1323. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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