Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry 
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

JAMES BUCK, gardner and farmer, P. O. Beardstown; was born in 
Newark, Licking County, O., July 3, 1817.  He followed farming in 
his native State till 1839, when he married Susan Daugherdy, and 
in the spring of the same year settled at Bluff Springs, in this 
county, where he first entered forty acres, where the Poor Farm 
now is.  He farmed there until 1855, raising grain, hogs and 
sheep, and accumulated a good property.  He was superintendent of 
the county farm from 1851 to 1855.  In the latter year he moved to 
a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, in the Sangamon bottoms, 
where he remained a year, then came to Beardstown, and, with the 
exception of five years (1873-78), during which he farmed in 
Atchison County, Mo., has lived in the vicinity of Beardstown ever 
since.  He has owned a large number of farms, and is at present 
engaged in raising vegetables and small fruits, at Ravenswood.  
His wife died in 1878.  Thy had eight children: Eliza J., Mrs. 
John Nicholson, of Beardstown; Mary F., Mrs. William Heminghouse, 
of Pekin, Ill.; Julia A., Mrs. George S. Kuhl; Harvey, died aged 
two years; John H., of Beardstown; Edgar J., engineer on the 
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad; Louisa, died aged twenty-
three years, and Samuel O., of Beardstown.  Mr. Buck is a 
Republican.  In January, 1876, James and John H. Buck bought of F. 
A. Hammer, their present stables, on Main street, Beardstown, 
where they conduct a livery and feed business, and also an agency 
for the sale of buggies and carriages.  Their stables contain 
stall room for one hundred horses.

Buck Daugherdy Nicholson Heminghouse Kuhl Hammer
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Licking-OH Atchison-MO