Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-17
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
PROFESSOR AND MRS. SAMUEL J.
BUCK, OF GRlNNELL, hoNoRED
BY COLLEGE ALUMNI.
AND FRIENDS GATHER
AT eRlNNELL TO CELEBRATE
Professor Buck Identified With Iowa
College For Moro Than Forty Years
Found Time to Disseminate Gospel
as Well as Education-Mrs. Bucks
Quiet Influence Felt.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, Nov. 17.-Students and
adulmni of Iowa College scattered from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
the Yukon to the Gulf of Mexico are to-
day sending congratulations and good
wishes to Samuel Jay Buck and his
estimable wife, on the occasion of the
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.
The event is being quietly celebrated
at the Buck home in this city, made
pleasant by the presence of the three
surviving children and four grandchil-
dren, and a host of sadmiring friends.
Professor Edith G. Buck, of the Iowa
State Teachers College, Cedar Falls:
Mr.. Irving j. Buck, of ST. Louis, and
DR.. S. C. Buck of Grinnell, are the
children present on this glad occasion.
With Iowa College Forty Years.
Samuel Jay Buck was born in Rus
sia, Herkimer county, New York. Jane
Cory was born in England They first
met as classmates in Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio, where they graduated to-
gether in 1868. They both engaged in
teaching and on the 18th of November,
1859, they We're married. Mr. Buck
then passed thru Oberlin Theological
School and graduated in 1852. In 1863
he was ordained as a Congregational
minister. Both then taught in Orwell
Academy at Orwell o. In February,
1864, they came to Grinnell, where Mr..
Buck had accepted the position of prin-
cipal of Iowa College Academy. From
that date for forty continuous years he
was actively connected with the COL
lege, being elected later to the chair of
mathematics and physics, which chair,
with one or two changes in part of title,
he always after held, and still holds as
professor emeritus"
Found Time to Spread Gospel.
While not neglecting any of his col
| lege duties he found time in the earlier
years to fill the pastorate of the Chester
Center church for five years, the Gilman
church for seven years and of the To-
ledo church for two years. He was also
county superintendent of schools for
three years and has been county sur
veyor for over twenty years. He was
twice elected president of the Iowa
State Teachers Associated. After the
resignation of President George F. Ma
goun he was acting president of Iowa
College for three years. In 1880 he was
urged to take. the presidency of Tal!a-
dega College in Alabama but, while his
sympathies were strong with that
work, he decided it best to remain with
Iowa College. After forty years of con-
tinuous service in the college he vol
untarilly retired and is the only ons
who has been connected with the col
lege that is entitled to draw pension
from the Carnegie pension fund for
teachers.
Mrs. Buck True HeIpmate.
Mrs. Buck during all these years has
been a quiet, but very effective
power for good in the society Of the
city, the church and Sunday school an6
among the young women Of the college
In the early days her house was always
open and her table spread for the visit
ing stranger and the newcomer. Fol
many years the annual dinner for the
trustees and faculty was prepared anG
spread under her direction.
To few has the opportunity beer
given, of such a length of time and
such an intimate association, for The
making Of fast friends, as to this Ven.
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