The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-07
HIS CAREER SkETcHED.
Incidents in the Life of IA Man Who Had
Much to Live for.


| Horace II. Buck was born in Missis-
sippi, Sept. L. 1883. He was a descend
ant of the Rev. Richard Buck who, as
chaplain to Gov. Sir Thomas Gates, set
| tied at jamestown. Va, in the year 1910.
The father Of Horace r. Buck, Charles
l.. Buck, was Il prominent lawyer of
| Vicksburg, Miss. In the secession con-
yention of Mississippi, in 1862, Charles
l.. Buck delivered the last speech made
there in opposition to the state going out
of the union.
Judge Bucks father having died at
the beginning of the civil war and all
the property of the family having been
swept away, in 1869, he removed to Sc
dalia, Mo. From there, in 1871, he was
sent to the Hopkins Grammar school of
New Haven, Conn, at which school he
first met Judge William II. Hunt. En-
tering Yale college in 1872, he graduated
| in 1876. In his senior year he was
awarded one of the six Townsend pre-
miums, the highest literary honors of
the four years course. for English COM
position. In the fall of 1876 he began to
study law in the Office of Gen. John w.
Noble, who was afterwards secretary of
the interior under the Harrison admin
istration. After some months in Gen
tendance at the St. Louis law school, he
passed his examination and was admit
ted to the bar
In 1879 Judge Buck drifted to Fargo
Dakota, where Judge Hunt was
then located. II was arranged be-
tween them that Hunt should go to
Montana and that Buck should follow.
In January. 1880, Buck joined Judge
Hunt at Fort Benton, Montana. Here
the two practiced law together for some
eight years. Horace r. Buck represent
ed Choteau county in the council of the
Fourteenth territorial legislature of
Montana in 1SS4-18S5, and was city at
torney of Fort Benton for several years
In 1887 he and Hunt removed to Helena
and entered into a partnership with ex-
Gov. b. Plat Carpenter. Buck was
appointed reporter of the territorial
supreme court in 1883 and prepared VOL
umes and of the Montana Reports.
The firm Of Carpenter, Buck x Hunt
was dissolved in 1889, after Hunt was
elected district judge of the First judi
cial district of the state Of Montana.
Buck then entered into partnership with
ex-Associate Justice Thomas G. Bach.
In 1891, the legislature having created
an additional judgeship for Lewis and
Clarke county, 1TDSfI11bi J0FEpn II.
Toole appointed Buck to that office. In
1892 Judges Hunt and Buck We're re-
elected district judges of the First jul
dicial district to succeed themselves.
Last year, in the democratic state
convention held in Missoula, the men
ton of Judge Bucks name for the Of
fee of associate Justice of the supreme
court of Montana was received with
marked favor and he was nominated
amid demonstrations of enthusiasm. His
nomination Was the sure forerunner of
his election In January of this year he
took his place on the bench, with Chief
Justice Pemberton and Associate JUS
tice Hunt.
There is a remarkable coincidence in
the public careers of Judges Hunt and
Buck. considering the fact that the one
has always been a republican and the
other a democrat. They We're at school
and college together, We're law partners
for years. were associated as district
judges for a long time and were to-
gether again as associate justices of the
supreme court.
Judge Buck was married to Miss
Mary y. Jewett Of New Haven. Conn.
Aug. % 1881. His wife and three chill
dren survive him. 4 few years ago he
built him a residence In Ienox. a
suburb Of Helena. and there he had a
delightful home and surroundings
which seemed iii every way 70 make his T
life a delightful one and one which anyl
man might wish To live
Personally. Judge Buck was one Of
the charming Of men. He WAS mat
Of ripe scholarship and his ability as Il
lawyer found cordial recognitiait
throughout The state. He vas a maj
of many accomplishments. lie was
students bent and Of genial traF
that made him welcome always in 4
good company. He enjoyed marBd
personal popularity asseeiatioH94t
Yale. in college days, and in the la1tr
world in later life Nrre ef the pl3s-
ATTEST character. i1e seemed to Ef3sh
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