The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-05-26
Death Came Yesterday Morn.
ing After Long Illness.
Long and Honorable Career
Ends In Peaceful Sleep.
Biography of Man Who Occupied
a Prominent Position.
From Mondays Daily.

Judge Daniel Buck passed away at
ll:l5 o'clock yesterday forenoon at his
residence, 100 Hanover street. The i'm
mediate cause of his death was heart
failure, which came upon him Saturday
night, and he passed away while wrap
ped in peaceful slumber.
While Judge Buck had been unwell
for long time, his death came uneX-
pectedly He went south last winter,
fered from nervous prostration. He was
brought back to Mankato, but was
scarcely able to leave his room after
wards. Sometimes he would improve,
and then again he would fail. During
the last few days his family and friends
notice dthat he was growing weaker.
The follow biography of the deceased
appears in the Biography of Minnesota,
by Judge Flandreau:
Judge Daniel Buck, late of the Su-
preme court of Minnesota, was born
at Boonville, n. Y, Sept. 8, 1929, the
second of family of six children, whose
parents were Jonathan and Roxana
(Wheelock) Buck. On the parent
ial side he a descendant of
Isaac Buck, who, with his wife, Frances
Marsh, and others refused to take
the "oath of conformity" to the es-
tabIshed church, was forcibly trans
ported from England to Boston in the
ship Amelia, in October, 1885. Is
aac Buck settled at Scituate, Mass, and
is thus described in the history of the
town: He was a very useful man.
often engaged in public business, and
was the clerk of the town for many
years. He was lieutenant in King
Phillips war, and repulsed the Indians
with great loss from Scituate, in March,
1876. He died in 1895" Isaac
Bucks eldest son, Thomas-the
Judges great grand father-lived in
Bridgewater, Mass, prior to l7l2. His
son. Daniel-for whom the Judge was
named-was a soldier in the War of
the Revolution, enlisting twice, first
in l77S or 1873, at the age of six
teen or seventeen, in Captain Bon,
ney's company of Colonel Porter's regi-
ment: and again in 1880 in Captain
Smiths company of Colonel Richards
regiment of Massachusetts state
troops. He settled at Boonville, \. T..
in about 1900, and died in lS43. His
son, Jonathan Buck, the father OF
Judge Buck, was born at Boonville.
f in December, 1904, and died May 2,
? 1888. He was a prosperous farmer, and
spent all his life on the farm where he
was born. His wife, the mother of
Judge Buck, Roxana Wheelock (born at
Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1899
= died November 3, 1922 was of Quaker
ancestry. She was sister of Colonel
Charles Wheelock, who during the war
of the Rebellion was colonel of the 9th
New York Volunteers, and was brevet-
ted brigadier- general. Judge Buck
was reared to manhood on mis- fathers
farm. He was educated in the common
schools, and at Rome and Lowvillt
Academies, New York. After leaving
h., -, .aI I,x,y -
the bar, and engaged in the practice Of
his profession with uniform success
he came to Minnesota, arriving i'm thu
then Territory, May 18TH. He pre-empt
ed homestead near Madelia, in Walton
wan county, but the same year located
in Blue Earth, which has ever sine,
been his home county. The circum
stances personal to himself on his loca
ton on the frontier were fortuitous
He was twenty-seven years of age,
thoroughly equipped lawyer, of fin
mental attainments, of splendid physi
cal proportions, and of striking and at
attractive presence-qualities especial,
admired by the people of new country
AT once he became popular and promi
nent. The following year he was elect
ed to the legislature, but certain cir
cumstances prevented the assembling O
that body in that year and he did no
serve. In 1859, when he had been bu
two years in Minnesota, he was tn,
democratic candidate for secretary O
state on a ticket headed by Genera
George L. Becker for governor, but thu
republicans won. Upon first coming t.