Son of Jane Eliza Green and Israel Buck. Married to Mary H Tichenor on 31 Mar 1860 in MI. Member of IOOF Union Lodge No. 15.
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
J. JAY BUCK, attorney, has been engaged in practice at Emporia since May 1, 1870, and was here prior to that time prospecting. He was Justice of the Peace at an early day, and served as Registrar in Bankruptcy in the Third Congressional District being the only person who ever held that office, and is at present U. S. Commissioner. He was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 14, 1835, and in the following May his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. He received his education at Hillsdale College, and read law with Christopher J. Dickinson, of that town, being admitted to the Hillsdale bar in 1857. He commenced practice at Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, and in 1860 went to Waupun, Wis., in December, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and in the spring of 1864 entered Company 1, One Hundred and First United States Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time, and then served as Judge Advocate of the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau and his successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865. He then settled at Clarksville, Tenn. and published the Clarksville Patriot, a radical Republican paper, for two years, at the same time continuing the practice of law. When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, he was appointed Register of the Sixth Tennessee Congressional District, and held that office until he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. Dr. Buck is a member of the A., F. & A. M., A. 0. U. Templars, I. 0. 0. F., and Good Templars. He was married at Buchannan, Mich., March 31, 1860, to Mary H. Tichemore, a native of New York. They have one child - Livingston J.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917, Page 5
JUDGE J. JAY BUCK DEAD
Judge J. Jay Buck died at his home, 805 Constitution Street, this morning at 12:20, after a serious illness lasting about ten days. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
J. Jay Buck was born in Dutchess County, New York, August 14, 1835. The following year his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. Judge Buck was educated in Hillsdale College, and studied law with Christopher J. Dickinson, in that town. He was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law for a while in Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, where he was married March 31, 1860, to Miss Mary Tichenor, a native of New York. Mrs. Buck died April 1, 1916. Their one son, Livingston J. Buck, married Miss Mayme Jacobs, in Emporia, and they have three children, Luther, Margaret and James. L. J. Buck is cashier of the Emporia National Bank.
The year of his marriage, Judge Buck moved to Waupun, Wis. In 1863 He enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1864 he entered Company I One Hundred First Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time. Later, he served as judge advocate on the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau, and Rosseau's successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865.
Under Gen. Rosseau, Judge Buck had charge of thirteen courts martial and five military commissions, at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn. Each court was a court within a court, and every charge in each organization went through his hands, to be passed upon. The military commission was for the purpose of trying civil cases, as there were no state laws, an no courts, owing to the general upheaval caused by the Civil War. Judge Buck passed on all reports and other matters in this commission within his territory, before they were passed on to General Rosseau.
After the close of the Civil War, Judge Buck went to Clarksville, Tenn., where he engaged in newspaper work. He published the Clarksville Patriot for two years, keeping up his law practice in the meantime. The Patriot was a radical Republican newspaper, and it took nerve to run such a paper in Tennessee in those days.
One time a man of the "poor white trash" variety, came to Judge Buck denunciation of the Confederates and everything pertaining to them and often got herself in trouble by her plain speaking. Judge Buck told an interesting story of her experiences one Easter. He said he was out for a walk that afternoon, when he met Doctor Walker, on the way to the camp. As she came toward him, he could tell she was excited. She was swinging her walking stick, and wore a jaunty little felt hat which, with her mannish jacket, short skirt striking her knees, and her pantalets reaching to her ankles, made a striking picture..
"I've been insulted, Mr. Buck," she said, "and that isn't the worst; the flag--the Stars and Stripes--have been insulted, and in my own church, and by a man who calls himself a priest of God."
She was greatly wrought up. She was a devout Episcopalian and went on to tell how she had taken for her Easter offering to the little church that morning, red, white and blue flowers, arranged in the form of a United States flag, and had presented it at the altar. The rector was a Southerner, born and bred, and the wounds of the Confederacy still rankled. Doctor Walker said he took the emblem from her hand, glanced at it, saw its significance, and taking it as a taunt to which he could be expected of offer no resistance, he flew the flowers on the floor and trampled them. Doctor Walker left the church, white and trembling with rage, and had been fuming ever since.
"Now, Mr. Buck, I want you to help me," she said. "I will prepare another offering, exactly like the one I prepared this morning, and present it at the altar. This morning I was the only unionist present. Tonight I want you to be there, and if another insult is offered our flag, I want you to resent it."
Judge Buck said he willingly agreed to this and hunted up a young soldier whom he knew to be dare-devil enough to go into any undertaking with him. They went into church late, and it was crowded, so they took seats in one of the side pews near the pulpit, where they had a good view of the operations. Both were heavily armed and ready to shoot at the slightest provocation, though what the two expected to accomplish against a church full of Confederates, Judge Buck said he had not the slightest idea. Doctor Walker was in a front pew, facing the rector, and at the proper time advanced with her offering. The rector took it carefully and placed it near the baptismal font, as if nothing unusual had occurred, Doctor Walker returned to her place, and the incident was closed.
"We expected to have a lot of fun," said Judge Buck, "but were disappointed." He also said that later he talked with the rector, who said that he had not intentionally offered an insult to the flag. He said the unusual offering had upset his nerves, and in taking it from the doctor's hands, in his nervousness he had dropped it. In stooping to pick it up, he had stepped on the flowers and crushed them, then made no further effort to recover them.
Former Gov. E. N. Morrill, of Kansas, was commander of the battalion encamped near Clarksville, and the late Jonas Eckdall, sr., who lived in Emporia for a generation, was a sergeant in one of the companies. The late United States senator Peffer, of Populist fame in Kansas, lived in Clarksville and practiced law during the Buck's residence there.
When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, Judge Buck was appointed by the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, as registrar of the Sixth Tennessee congressional district. He held this office till he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. He began the practice of law in Emporia in 1870, though he had been over the state prospecting prior to this time.
Judge Buck received many political honors in Kansas. He was given next to the highest vote for associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in the state convention of 1884. He served in the house of representatives in 1885 and 1886, at which time Judge L. B. Kellogg was in the senate. Together they made the fight for the "twelve sections of salt lands," for the State Normal School. It was a hard fight, but they won, and came out stronger in the knowledge if what they had done for their town and their state.
Judge Buck was a justice of the peace in Emporia in the early seventies, was a registrar in the bankruptcy in the eighties in the Third District, and was United States Commissioner in 1883.
He conducted some notable lawsuits, and in one especially did he do his state an inestimable service. He drew the pleadings in the suit of Haber vs. M. K. & T. Railway Company, for bringing fever-tick infested Texas cattle into Lyon County. He was affirmed by the Supreme Court, and thus recovered more than $50,000 for the loss of native cattle from the disease, and also put a bar against bringing diseased stock into the state.
Judge was grand master of the I.O.O.F. in 1887, and of the Masons in 1884. He was grand commander of the Knights Templar in 1888, and grand patron of the Eastern Star in 1877. He was the oldest grand master of the Masons in Kansas, and the second oldest in the I.O.O.F.
Judge Buck was elected to the state legislature in 1908, as representative from the Fiftieth District, and made his presence felt in that assembly. Speaking of him and his work in the house, The Topeka State Journal of February 1, 1909, said: "Judge J. Jay Buck, of Emporia, is a jurist of note, and an old timer. He came to the Kansas legislature as representative from the Fiftieth District, in the interest of his profession, intent upon passing some laws much needed in the practice of law. Because he is a lawyer, and knows the difference between law and mob rule, some of the alleged legislation offered at this time, grates upon his nerves. Therefore his voice may be heard at frequent intervals, objecting to the passage of measures which should be relegated to the resolutions committee of the Lime Kiln Club. But even a stampede of rabbits is hard to stop, and a lot of piffle has been passed over the heads of Judge Buck and his fellow conservatives.
"Since an early date, Judge Buck has been active in politics. He is not only a pioneer in the matter of residence, but in the temperance work of the state, and was largely instrumental in the passage of the law which removed liquor drinking in Kansas from the realms of incident, and placed it in the event class. Years ago the Judge represented his district as a member of the house, and history hath it that he left his imprint on many good laws. Another movement in which Judge Buck is and has long been interested, is women's suffrage. He believes that the country would be better if women were premitted to assist in the management thereof.
"Judge Buck is a lawyer of ability and vast experience, and a citizen who is an honor to the district in which he lives."
Judge Buck was a member of the Episcopal Church, serving as senior warden for more than thirty years in St. Andrew's Church in Emporia. The Buck home is at the Corner of Eighth Avenue and Constitution Street.
Judge Buck suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in October, 1906, which left his left hand and arm almost lifeless for a time, and a foot and leg in like condition, so that he was lame and could get around with difficulty. Yet he came downtown every morning, until the past two or three years, with the regularity of clockwork, went to his office and did his day's work.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917
Judge Buck's Masonic Record
Judge J. Jay Buck, who died Tuesday in Emporia, has held the following offices in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, Free and Accepted Masonry: he was grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of Kansas in 1883, deputy grand master in 1884, and grand master in 1885.
In the Grand Commandery Knights Templar, of Kansas, Judge Buck was grand senior warden of the state in 1883, grand captain general in 1884, grand generalissimo in 1885, deputy grand commander in 1886, and grand commander in 1887.
In the local masonic bodies in Emporia Judge Buck held the following offices in the lodge: Secretary in 1876 and 1877; senior warden in 1878, and master in 1879 and 1880. In Capitular Masonry he held the following offices: Royal Arch captain in 1876; principal sojourner 1877-1878, captain of the host 1879-1880, king in 1881, high priest 1882-1883. In the commandery he held the following offices: Recorder in 1878, captain general in 1879, prelate in 1880 and again in 1883, eminent commander in 1881, and prelate in 1886 and 1887.
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The Emporia Gazette, 4 September 1917, Tue, Page 3
Owing to the death of one of the oldest and most highly esteemed members of the Lyon County Bar, Judge J. Jay Buck, the reading of a paper at the bar dinner to be given tomorrow night will be postponed, and, after the dinner the remainder of the evening will be devoted to listening to tributes of affection and respect to be rendered by members of the bar present, to the memory of their dead brother.
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G.A.R. Death Record: Capt. Co. I. 101st U.S.C.T.
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
J. JAY BUCK, attorney, has been engaged in practice at Emporia since May 1, 1870, and was here prior to that time prospecting. He was Justice of the Peace at an early day, and served as Registrar in Bankruptcy in the Third Congressional District being the only person who ever held that office, and is at present U. S. Commissioner. He was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 14, 1835, and in the following May his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. He received his education at Hillsdale College, and read law with Christopher J. Dickinson, of that town, being admitted to the Hillsdale bar in 1857. He commenced practice at Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, and in 1860 went to Waupun, Wis., in December, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and in the spring of 1864 entered Company 1, One Hundred and First United States Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time, and then served as Judge Advocate of the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau and his successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865. He then settled at Clarksville, Tenn. and published the Clarksville Patriot, a radical Republican paper, for two years, at the same time continuing the practice of law. When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, he was appointed Register of the Sixth Tennessee Congressional District, and held that office until he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. Dr. Buck is a member of the A., F. & A. M., A. 0. U. Templars, I. 0. 0. F., and Good Templars. He was married at Buchannan, Mich., March 31, 1860, to Mary H. Tichemore, a native of New York. They have one child - Livingston J.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917, Page 5
JUDGE J. JAY BUCK DEAD
Judge J. Jay Buck died at his home, 805 Constitution Street, this morning at 12:20, after a serious illness lasting about ten days. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
J. Jay Buck was born in Dutchess County, New York, August 14, 1835. The following year his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. Judge Buck was educated in Hillsdale College, and studied law with Christopher J. Dickinson, in that town. He was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law for a while in Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, where he was married March 31, 1860, to Miss Mary Tichenor, a native of New York. Mrs. Buck died April 1, 1916. Their one son, Livingston J. Buck, married Miss Mayme Jacobs, in Emporia, and they have three children, Luther, Margaret and James. L. J. Buck is cashier of the Emporia National Bank.
The year of his marriage, Judge Buck moved to Waupun, Wis. In 1863 He enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1864 he entered Company I One Hundred First Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time. Later, he served as judge advocate on the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau, and Rosseau's successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865.
Under Gen. Rosseau, Judge Buck had charge of thirteen courts martial and five military commissions, at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn. Each court was a court within a court, and every charge in each organization went through his hands, to be passed upon. The military commission was for the purpose of trying civil cases, as there were no state laws, an no courts, owing to the general upheaval caused by the Civil War. Judge Buck passed on all reports and other matters in this commission within his territory, before they were passed on to General Rosseau.
After the close of the Civil War, Judge Buck went to Clarksville, Tenn., where he engaged in newspaper work. He published the Clarksville Patriot for two years, keeping up his law practice in the meantime. The Patriot was a radical Republican newspaper, and it took nerve to run such a paper in Tennessee in those days.
One time a man of the "poor white trash" variety, came to Judge Buck denunciation of the Confederates and everything pertaining to them and often got herself in trouble by her plain speaking. Judge Buck told an interesting story of her experiences one Easter. He said he was out for a walk that afternoon, when he met Doctor Walker, on the way to the camp. As she came toward him, he could tell she was excited. She was swinging her walking stick, and wore a jaunty little felt hat which, with her mannish jacket, short skirt striking her knees, and her pantalets reaching to her ankles, made a striking picture..
"I've been insulted, Mr. Buck," she said, "and that isn't the worst; the flag--the Stars and Stripes--have been insulted, and in my own church, and by a man who calls himself a priest of God."
She was greatly wrought up. She was a devout Episcopalian and went on to tell how she had taken for her Easter offering to the little church that morning, red, white and blue flowers, arranged in the form of a United States flag, and had presented it at the altar. The rector was a Southerner, born and bred, and the wounds of the Confederacy still rankled. Doctor Walker said he took the emblem from her hand, glanced at it, saw its significance, and taking it as a taunt to which he could be expected of offer no resistance, he flew the flowers on the floor and trampled them. Doctor Walker left the church, white and trembling with rage, and had been fuming ever since.
"Now, Mr. Buck, I want you to help me," she said. "I will prepare another offering, exactly like the one I prepared this morning, and present it at the altar. This morning I was the only unionist present. Tonight I want you to be there, and if another insult is offered our flag, I want you to resent it."
Judge Buck said he willingly agreed to this and hunted up a young soldier whom he knew to be dare-devil enough to go into any undertaking with him. They went into church late, and it was crowded, so they took seats in one of the side pews near the pulpit, where they had a good view of the operations. Both were heavily armed and ready to shoot at the slightest provocation, though what the two expected to accomplish against a church full of Confederates, Judge Buck said he had not the slightest idea. Doctor Walker was in a front pew, facing the rector, and at the proper time advanced with her offering. The rector took it carefully and placed it near the baptismal font, as if nothing unusual had occurred, Doctor Walker returned to her place, and the incident was closed.
"We expected to have a lot of fun," said Judge Buck, "but were disappointed." He also said that later he talked with the rector, who said that he had not intentionally offered an insult to the flag. He said the unusual offering had upset his nerves, and in taking it from the doctor's hands, in his nervousness he had dropped it. In stooping to pick it up, he had stepped on the flowers and crushed them, then made no further effort to recover them.
Former Gov. E. N. Morrill, of Kansas, was commander of the battalion encamped near Clarksville, and the late Jonas Eckdall, sr., who lived in Emporia for a generation, was a sergeant in one of the companies. The late United States senator Peffer, of Populist fame in Kansas, lived in Clarksville and practiced law during the Buck's residence there.
When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, Judge Buck was appointed by the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, as registrar of the Sixth Tennessee congressional district. He held this office till he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. He began the practice of law in Emporia in 1870, though he had been over the state prospecting prior to this time.
Judge Buck received many political honors in Kansas. He was given next to the highest vote for associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in the state convention of 1884. He served in the house of representatives in 1885 and 1886, at which time Judge L. B. Kellogg was in the senate. Together they made the fight for the "twelve sections of salt lands," for the State Normal School. It was a hard fight, but they won, and came out stronger in the knowledge if what they had done for their town and their state.
Judge Buck was a justice of the peace in Emporia in the early seventies, was a registrar in the bankruptcy in the eighties in the Third District, and was United States Commissioner in 1883.
He conducted some notable lawsuits, and in one especially did he do his state an inestimable service. He drew the pleadings in the suit of Haber vs. M. K. & T. Railway Company, for bringing fever-tick infested Texas cattle into Lyon County. He was affirmed by the Supreme Court, and thus recovered more than $50,000 for the loss of native cattle from the disease, and also put a bar against bringing diseased stock into the state.
Judge was grand master of the I.O.O.F. in 1887, and of the Masons in 1884. He was grand commander of the Knights Templar in 1888, and grand patron of the Eastern Star in 1877. He was the oldest grand master of the Masons in Kansas, and the second oldest in the I.O.O.F.
Judge Buck was elected to the state legislature in 1908, as representative from the Fiftieth District, and made his presence felt in that assembly. Speaking of him and his work in the house, The Topeka State Journal of February 1, 1909, said: "Judge J. Jay Buck, of Emporia, is a jurist of note, and an old timer. He came to the Kansas legislature as representative from the Fiftieth District, in the interest of his profession, intent upon passing some laws much needed in the practice of law. Because he is a lawyer, and knows the difference between law and mob rule, some of the alleged legislation offered at this time, grates upon his nerves. Therefore his voice may be heard at frequent intervals, objecting to the passage of measures which should be relegated to the resolutions committee of the Lime Kiln Club. But even a stampede of rabbits is hard to stop, and a lot of piffle has been passed over the heads of Judge Buck and his fellow conservatives.
"Since an early date, Judge Buck has been active in politics. He is not only a pioneer in the matter of residence, but in the temperance work of the state, and was largely instrumental in the passage of the law which removed liquor drinking in Kansas from the realms of incident, and placed it in the event class. Years ago the Judge represented his district as a member of the house, and history hath it that he left his imprint on many good laws. Another movement in which Judge Buck is and has long been interested, is women's suffrage. He believes that the country would be better if women were premitted to assist in the management thereof.
"Judge Buck is a lawyer of ability and vast experience, and a citizen who is an honor to the district in which he lives."
Judge Buck was a member of the Episcopal Church, serving as senior warden for more than thirty years in St. Andrew's Church in Emporia. The Buck home is at the Corner of Eighth Avenue and Constitution Street.
Judge Buck suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in October, 1906, which left his left hand and arm almost lifeless for a time, and a foot and leg in like condition, so that he was lame and could get around with difficulty. Yet he came downtown every morning, until the past two or three years, with the regularity of clockwork, went to his office and did his day's work.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917
Judge Buck's Masonic Record
Judge J. Jay Buck, who died Tuesday in Emporia, has held the following offices in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, Free and Accepted Masonry: he was grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of Kansas in 1883, deputy grand master in 1884, and grand master in 1885.
In the Grand Commandery Knights Templar, of Kansas, Judge Buck was grand senior warden of the state in 1883, grand captain general in 1884, grand generalissimo in 1885, deputy grand commander in 1886, and grand commander in 1887.
In the local masonic bodies in Emporia Judge Buck held the following offices in the lodge: Secretary in 1876 and 1877; senior warden in 1878, and master in 1879 and 1880. In Capitular Masonry he held the following offices: Royal Arch captain in 1876; principal sojourner 1877-1878, captain of the host 1879-1880, king in 1881, high priest 1882-1883. In the commandery he held the following offices: Recorder in 1878, captain general in 1879, prelate in 1880 and again in 1883, eminent commander in 1881, and prelate in 1886 and 1887.
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The Emporia Gazette, 4 September 1917, Tue, Page 3
Owing to the death of one of the oldest and most highly esteemed members of the Lyon County Bar, Judge J. Jay Buck, the reading of a paper at the bar dinner to be given tomorrow night will be postponed, and, after the dinner the remainder of the evening will be devoted to listening to tributes of affection and respect to be rendered by members of the bar present, to the memory of their dead brother.
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G.A.R. Death Record: Capt. Co. I. 101st U.S.C.T.
Son of Jane Eliza Green and Israel Buck. Married to Mary H Tichenor on 31 Mar 1860 in MI. Member of IOOF Union Lodge No. 15.
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
J. JAY BUCK, attorney, has been engaged in practice at Emporia since May 1, 1870, and was here prior to that time prospecting. He was Justice of the Peace at an early day, and served as Registrar in Bankruptcy in the Third Congressional District being the only person who ever held that office, and is at present U. S. Commissioner. He was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 14, 1835, and in the following May his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. He received his education at Hillsdale College, and read law with Christopher J. Dickinson, of that town, being admitted to the Hillsdale bar in 1857. He commenced practice at Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, and in 1860 went to Waupun, Wis., in December, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and in the spring of 1864 entered Company 1, One Hundred and First United States Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time, and then served as Judge Advocate of the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau and his successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865. He then settled at Clarksville, Tenn. and published the Clarksville Patriot, a radical Republican paper, for two years, at the same time continuing the practice of law. When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, he was appointed Register of the Sixth Tennessee Congressional District, and held that office until he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. Dr. Buck is a member of the A., F. & A. M., A. 0. U. Templars, I. 0. 0. F., and Good Templars. He was married at Buchannan, Mich., March 31, 1860, to Mary H. Tichemore, a native of New York. They have one child - Livingston J.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917, Page 5
JUDGE J. JAY BUCK DEAD
Judge J. Jay Buck died at his home, 805 Constitution Street, this morning at 12:20, after a serious illness lasting about ten days. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
J. Jay Buck was born in Dutchess County, New York, August 14, 1835. The following year his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. Judge Buck was educated in Hillsdale College, and studied law with Christopher J. Dickinson, in that town. He was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law for a while in Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, where he was married March 31, 1860, to Miss Mary Tichenor, a native of New York. Mrs. Buck died April 1, 1916. Their one son, Livingston J. Buck, married Miss Mayme Jacobs, in Emporia, and they have three children, Luther, Margaret and James. L. J. Buck is cashier of the Emporia National Bank.
The year of his marriage, Judge Buck moved to Waupun, Wis. In 1863 He enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1864 he entered Company I One Hundred First Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time. Later, he served as judge advocate on the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau, and Rosseau's successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865.
Under Gen. Rosseau, Judge Buck had charge of thirteen courts martial and five military commissions, at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn. Each court was a court within a court, and every charge in each organization went through his hands, to be passed upon. The military commission was for the purpose of trying civil cases, as there were no state laws, an no courts, owing to the general upheaval caused by the Civil War. Judge Buck passed on all reports and other matters in this commission within his territory, before they were passed on to General Rosseau.
After the close of the Civil War, Judge Buck went to Clarksville, Tenn., where he engaged in newspaper work. He published the Clarksville Patriot for two years, keeping up his law practice in the meantime. The Patriot was a radical Republican newspaper, and it took nerve to run such a paper in Tennessee in those days.
One time a man of the "poor white trash" variety, came to Judge Buck denunciation of the Confederates and everything pertaining to them and often got herself in trouble by her plain speaking. Judge Buck told an interesting story of her experiences one Easter. He said he was out for a walk that afternoon, when he met Doctor Walker, on the way to the camp. As she came toward him, he could tell she was excited. She was swinging her walking stick, and wore a jaunty little felt hat which, with her mannish jacket, short skirt striking her knees, and her pantalets reaching to her ankles, made a striking picture..
"I've been insulted, Mr. Buck," she said, "and that isn't the worst; the flag--the Stars and Stripes--have been insulted, and in my own church, and by a man who calls himself a priest of God."
She was greatly wrought up. She was a devout Episcopalian and went on to tell how she had taken for her Easter offering to the little church that morning, red, white and blue flowers, arranged in the form of a United States flag, and had presented it at the altar. The rector was a Southerner, born and bred, and the wounds of the Confederacy still rankled. Doctor Walker said he took the emblem from her hand, glanced at it, saw its significance, and taking it as a taunt to which he could be expected of offer no resistance, he flew the flowers on the floor and trampled them. Doctor Walker left the church, white and trembling with rage, and had been fuming ever since.
"Now, Mr. Buck, I want you to help me," she said. "I will prepare another offering, exactly like the one I prepared this morning, and present it at the altar. This morning I was the only unionist present. Tonight I want you to be there, and if another insult is offered our flag, I want you to resent it."
Judge Buck said he willingly agreed to this and hunted up a young soldier whom he knew to be dare-devil enough to go into any undertaking with him. They went into church late, and it was crowded, so they took seats in one of the side pews near the pulpit, where they had a good view of the operations. Both were heavily armed and ready to shoot at the slightest provocation, though what the two expected to accomplish against a church full of Confederates, Judge Buck said he had not the slightest idea. Doctor Walker was in a front pew, facing the rector, and at the proper time advanced with her offering. The rector took it carefully and placed it near the baptismal font, as if nothing unusual had occurred, Doctor Walker returned to her place, and the incident was closed.
"We expected to have a lot of fun," said Judge Buck, "but were disappointed." He also said that later he talked with the rector, who said that he had not intentionally offered an insult to the flag. He said the unusual offering had upset his nerves, and in taking it from the doctor's hands, in his nervousness he had dropped it. In stooping to pick it up, he had stepped on the flowers and crushed them, then made no further effort to recover them.
Former Gov. E. N. Morrill, of Kansas, was commander of the battalion encamped near Clarksville, and the late Jonas Eckdall, sr., who lived in Emporia for a generation, was a sergeant in one of the companies. The late United States senator Peffer, of Populist fame in Kansas, lived in Clarksville and practiced law during the Buck's residence there.
When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, Judge Buck was appointed by the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, as registrar of the Sixth Tennessee congressional district. He held this office till he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. He began the practice of law in Emporia in 1870, though he had been over the state prospecting prior to this time.
Judge Buck received many political honors in Kansas. He was given next to the highest vote for associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in the state convention of 1884. He served in the house of representatives in 1885 and 1886, at which time Judge L. B. Kellogg was in the senate. Together they made the fight for the "twelve sections of salt lands," for the State Normal School. It was a hard fight, but they won, and came out stronger in the knowledge if what they had done for their town and their state.
Judge Buck was a justice of the peace in Emporia in the early seventies, was a registrar in the bankruptcy in the eighties in the Third District, and was United States Commissioner in 1883.
He conducted some notable lawsuits, and in one especially did he do his state an inestimable service. He drew the pleadings in the suit of Haber vs. M. K. & T. Railway Company, for bringing fever-tick infested Texas cattle into Lyon County. He was affirmed by the Supreme Court, and thus recovered more than $50,000 for the loss of native cattle from the disease, and also put a bar against bringing diseased stock into the state.
Judge was grand master of the I.O.O.F. in 1887, and of the Masons in 1884. He was grand commander of the Knights Templar in 1888, and grand patron of the Eastern Star in 1877. He was the oldest grand master of the Masons in Kansas, and the second oldest in the I.O.O.F.
Judge Buck was elected to the state legislature in 1908, as representative from the Fiftieth District, and made his presence felt in that assembly. Speaking of him and his work in the house, The Topeka State Journal of February 1, 1909, said: "Judge J. Jay Buck, of Emporia, is a jurist of note, and an old timer. He came to the Kansas legislature as representative from the Fiftieth District, in the interest of his profession, intent upon passing some laws much needed in the practice of law. Because he is a lawyer, and knows the difference between law and mob rule, some of the alleged legislation offered at this time, grates upon his nerves. Therefore his voice may be heard at frequent intervals, objecting to the passage of measures which should be relegated to the resolutions committee of the Lime Kiln Club. But even a stampede of rabbits is hard to stop, and a lot of piffle has been passed over the heads of Judge Buck and his fellow conservatives.
"Since an early date, Judge Buck has been active in politics. He is not only a pioneer in the matter of residence, but in the temperance work of the state, and was largely instrumental in the passage of the law which removed liquor drinking in Kansas from the realms of incident, and placed it in the event class. Years ago the Judge represented his district as a member of the house, and history hath it that he left his imprint on many good laws. Another movement in which Judge Buck is and has long been interested, is women's suffrage. He believes that the country would be better if women were premitted to assist in the management thereof.
"Judge Buck is a lawyer of ability and vast experience, and a citizen who is an honor to the district in which he lives."
Judge Buck was a member of the Episcopal Church, serving as senior warden for more than thirty years in St. Andrew's Church in Emporia. The Buck home is at the Corner of Eighth Avenue and Constitution Street.
Judge Buck suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in October, 1906, which left his left hand and arm almost lifeless for a time, and a foot and leg in like condition, so that he was lame and could get around with difficulty. Yet he came downtown every morning, until the past two or three years, with the regularity of clockwork, went to his office and did his day's work.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917
Judge Buck's Masonic Record
Judge J. Jay Buck, who died Tuesday in Emporia, has held the following offices in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, Free and Accepted Masonry: he was grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of Kansas in 1883, deputy grand master in 1884, and grand master in 1885.
In the Grand Commandery Knights Templar, of Kansas, Judge Buck was grand senior warden of the state in 1883, grand captain general in 1884, grand generalissimo in 1885, deputy grand commander in 1886, and grand commander in 1887.
In the local masonic bodies in Emporia Judge Buck held the following offices in the lodge: Secretary in 1876 and 1877; senior warden in 1878, and master in 1879 and 1880. In Capitular Masonry he held the following offices: Royal Arch captain in 1876; principal sojourner 1877-1878, captain of the host 1879-1880, king in 1881, high priest 1882-1883. In the commandery he held the following offices: Recorder in 1878, captain general in 1879, prelate in 1880 and again in 1883, eminent commander in 1881, and prelate in 1886 and 1887.
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The Emporia Gazette, 4 September 1917, Tue, Page 3
Owing to the death of one of the oldest and most highly esteemed members of the Lyon County Bar, Judge J. Jay Buck, the reading of a paper at the bar dinner to be given tomorrow night will be postponed, and, after the dinner the remainder of the evening will be devoted to listening to tributes of affection and respect to be rendered by members of the bar present, to the memory of their dead brother.
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G.A.R. Death Record: Capt. Co. I. 101st U.S.C.T.
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
J. JAY BUCK, attorney, has been engaged in practice at Emporia since May 1, 1870, and was here prior to that time prospecting. He was Justice of the Peace at an early day, and served as Registrar in Bankruptcy in the Third Congressional District being the only person who ever held that office, and is at present U. S. Commissioner. He was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., August 14, 1835, and in the following May his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. He received his education at Hillsdale College, and read law with Christopher J. Dickinson, of that town, being admitted to the Hillsdale bar in 1857. He commenced practice at Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, and in 1860 went to Waupun, Wis., in December, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and in the spring of 1864 entered Company 1, One Hundred and First United States Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time, and then served as Judge Advocate of the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau and his successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865. He then settled at Clarksville, Tenn. and published the Clarksville Patriot, a radical Republican paper, for two years, at the same time continuing the practice of law. When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, he was appointed Register of the Sixth Tennessee Congressional District, and held that office until he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. Dr. Buck is a member of the A., F. & A. M., A. 0. U. Templars, I. 0. 0. F., and Good Templars. He was married at Buchannan, Mich., March 31, 1860, to Mary H. Tichemore, a native of New York. They have one child - Livingston J.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917, Page 5
JUDGE J. JAY BUCK DEAD
Judge J. Jay Buck died at his home, 805 Constitution Street, this morning at 12:20, after a serious illness lasting about ten days. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Interment was in Maplewood Cemetery.
J. Jay Buck was born in Dutchess County, New York, August 14, 1835. The following year his parents moved with their family to Hillsdale, Mich. Judge Buck was educated in Hillsdale College, and studied law with Christopher J. Dickinson, in that town. He was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law for a while in Lexington, Mich., then moved to Buchanan, where he was married March 31, 1860, to Miss Mary Tichenor, a native of New York. Mrs. Buck died April 1, 1916. Their one son, Livingston J. Buck, married Miss Mayme Jacobs, in Emporia, and they have three children, Luther, Margaret and James. L. J. Buck is cashier of the Emporia National Bank.
The year of his marriage, Judge Buck moved to Waupun, Wis. In 1863 He enlisted in Company A, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. In the spring of 1864 he entered Company I One Hundred First Colored Infantry, which he commanded for a time. Later, he served as judge advocate on the staff of Gen. L. H. Rosseau, and Rosseau's successor, Gen. R. W. Johnson, until he resigned, July 28, 1865.
Under Gen. Rosseau, Judge Buck had charge of thirteen courts martial and five military commissions, at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn. Each court was a court within a court, and every charge in each organization went through his hands, to be passed upon. The military commission was for the purpose of trying civil cases, as there were no state laws, an no courts, owing to the general upheaval caused by the Civil War. Judge Buck passed on all reports and other matters in this commission within his territory, before they were passed on to General Rosseau.
After the close of the Civil War, Judge Buck went to Clarksville, Tenn., where he engaged in newspaper work. He published the Clarksville Patriot for two years, keeping up his law practice in the meantime. The Patriot was a radical Republican newspaper, and it took nerve to run such a paper in Tennessee in those days.
One time a man of the "poor white trash" variety, came to Judge Buck denunciation of the Confederates and everything pertaining to them and often got herself in trouble by her plain speaking. Judge Buck told an interesting story of her experiences one Easter. He said he was out for a walk that afternoon, when he met Doctor Walker, on the way to the camp. As she came toward him, he could tell she was excited. She was swinging her walking stick, and wore a jaunty little felt hat which, with her mannish jacket, short skirt striking her knees, and her pantalets reaching to her ankles, made a striking picture..
"I've been insulted, Mr. Buck," she said, "and that isn't the worst; the flag--the Stars and Stripes--have been insulted, and in my own church, and by a man who calls himself a priest of God."
She was greatly wrought up. She was a devout Episcopalian and went on to tell how she had taken for her Easter offering to the little church that morning, red, white and blue flowers, arranged in the form of a United States flag, and had presented it at the altar. The rector was a Southerner, born and bred, and the wounds of the Confederacy still rankled. Doctor Walker said he took the emblem from her hand, glanced at it, saw its significance, and taking it as a taunt to which he could be expected of offer no resistance, he flew the flowers on the floor and trampled them. Doctor Walker left the church, white and trembling with rage, and had been fuming ever since.
"Now, Mr. Buck, I want you to help me," she said. "I will prepare another offering, exactly like the one I prepared this morning, and present it at the altar. This morning I was the only unionist present. Tonight I want you to be there, and if another insult is offered our flag, I want you to resent it."
Judge Buck said he willingly agreed to this and hunted up a young soldier whom he knew to be dare-devil enough to go into any undertaking with him. They went into church late, and it was crowded, so they took seats in one of the side pews near the pulpit, where they had a good view of the operations. Both were heavily armed and ready to shoot at the slightest provocation, though what the two expected to accomplish against a church full of Confederates, Judge Buck said he had not the slightest idea. Doctor Walker was in a front pew, facing the rector, and at the proper time advanced with her offering. The rector took it carefully and placed it near the baptismal font, as if nothing unusual had occurred, Doctor Walker returned to her place, and the incident was closed.
"We expected to have a lot of fun," said Judge Buck, "but were disappointed." He also said that later he talked with the rector, who said that he had not intentionally offered an insult to the flag. He said the unusual offering had upset his nerves, and in taking it from the doctor's hands, in his nervousness he had dropped it. In stooping to pick it up, he had stepped on the flowers and crushed them, then made no further effort to recover them.
Former Gov. E. N. Morrill, of Kansas, was commander of the battalion encamped near Clarksville, and the late Jonas Eckdall, sr., who lived in Emporia for a generation, was a sergeant in one of the companies. The late United States senator Peffer, of Populist fame in Kansas, lived in Clarksville and practiced law during the Buck's residence there.
When the bankruptcy law took effect, in 1867, Judge Buck was appointed by the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, as registrar of the Sixth Tennessee congressional district. He held this office till he came to Kansas for the benefit of his health. He began the practice of law in Emporia in 1870, though he had been over the state prospecting prior to this time.
Judge Buck received many political honors in Kansas. He was given next to the highest vote for associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in the state convention of 1884. He served in the house of representatives in 1885 and 1886, at which time Judge L. B. Kellogg was in the senate. Together they made the fight for the "twelve sections of salt lands," for the State Normal School. It was a hard fight, but they won, and came out stronger in the knowledge if what they had done for their town and their state.
Judge Buck was a justice of the peace in Emporia in the early seventies, was a registrar in the bankruptcy in the eighties in the Third District, and was United States Commissioner in 1883.
He conducted some notable lawsuits, and in one especially did he do his state an inestimable service. He drew the pleadings in the suit of Haber vs. M. K. & T. Railway Company, for bringing fever-tick infested Texas cattle into Lyon County. He was affirmed by the Supreme Court, and thus recovered more than $50,000 for the loss of native cattle from the disease, and also put a bar against bringing diseased stock into the state.
Judge was grand master of the I.O.O.F. in 1887, and of the Masons in 1884. He was grand commander of the Knights Templar in 1888, and grand patron of the Eastern Star in 1877. He was the oldest grand master of the Masons in Kansas, and the second oldest in the I.O.O.F.
Judge Buck was elected to the state legislature in 1908, as representative from the Fiftieth District, and made his presence felt in that assembly. Speaking of him and his work in the house, The Topeka State Journal of February 1, 1909, said: "Judge J. Jay Buck, of Emporia, is a jurist of note, and an old timer. He came to the Kansas legislature as representative from the Fiftieth District, in the interest of his profession, intent upon passing some laws much needed in the practice of law. Because he is a lawyer, and knows the difference between law and mob rule, some of the alleged legislation offered at this time, grates upon his nerves. Therefore his voice may be heard at frequent intervals, objecting to the passage of measures which should be relegated to the resolutions committee of the Lime Kiln Club. But even a stampede of rabbits is hard to stop, and a lot of piffle has been passed over the heads of Judge Buck and his fellow conservatives.
"Since an early date, Judge Buck has been active in politics. He is not only a pioneer in the matter of residence, but in the temperance work of the state, and was largely instrumental in the passage of the law which removed liquor drinking in Kansas from the realms of incident, and placed it in the event class. Years ago the Judge represented his district as a member of the house, and history hath it that he left his imprint on many good laws. Another movement in which Judge Buck is and has long been interested, is women's suffrage. He believes that the country would be better if women were premitted to assist in the management thereof.
"Judge Buck is a lawyer of ability and vast experience, and a citizen who is an honor to the district in which he lives."
Judge Buck was a member of the Episcopal Church, serving as senior warden for more than thirty years in St. Andrew's Church in Emporia. The Buck home is at the Corner of Eighth Avenue and Constitution Street.
Judge Buck suffered a slight stroke of paralysis in October, 1906, which left his left hand and arm almost lifeless for a time, and a foot and leg in like condition, so that he was lame and could get around with difficulty. Yet he came downtown every morning, until the past two or three years, with the regularity of clockwork, went to his office and did his day's work.
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The Emporia Weekly Gazette, 6 September 1917
Judge Buck's Masonic Record
Judge J. Jay Buck, who died Tuesday in Emporia, has held the following offices in the Grand Lodge of Kansas, Free and Accepted Masonry: he was grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of Kansas in 1883, deputy grand master in 1884, and grand master in 1885.
In the Grand Commandery Knights Templar, of Kansas, Judge Buck was grand senior warden of the state in 1883, grand captain general in 1884, grand generalissimo in 1885, deputy grand commander in 1886, and grand commander in 1887.
In the local masonic bodies in Emporia Judge Buck held the following offices in the lodge: Secretary in 1876 and 1877; senior warden in 1878, and master in 1879 and 1880. In Capitular Masonry he held the following offices: Royal Arch captain in 1876; principal sojourner 1877-1878, captain of the host 1879-1880, king in 1881, high priest 1882-1883. In the commandery he held the following offices: Recorder in 1878, captain general in 1879, prelate in 1880 and again in 1883, eminent commander in 1881, and prelate in 1886 and 1887.
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The Emporia Gazette, 4 September 1917, Tue, Page 3
Owing to the death of one of the oldest and most highly esteemed members of the Lyon County Bar, Judge J. Jay Buck, the reading of a paper at the bar dinner to be given tomorrow night will be postponed, and, after the dinner the remainder of the evening will be devoted to listening to tributes of affection and respect to be rendered by members of the bar present, to the memory of their dead brother.
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G.A.R. Death Record: Capt. Co. I. 101st U.S.C.T.
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