An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 436-437

	NORMAN BUCK, formerly a law practitioner of Spokane, was born in Erie
county, New York, in 1833, a son of Isaac F. and Eliza (Kimball) Buck, the
former a native of Vermont and the latter of Connecticut. The father was a
manufacturer by occupation. Norman took a preparatory course in the Warrenville
Seminary, in Illinois, and also took a classical course in the Lawrence Seminary
at Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating at the latter institution in 1859. He next
took a law course at Albany, New York, where he graduated in 1861, and was
admitted to practice in all the State courts the same year. In 1862 Mr. Buck
joined the Seventh Minneapolis Infantry, as private in the Army of the
Cumberland, under A.J. Smith. He fought the Sioux Indians for one year; in the
fall of 1863 went to St. Louis; took part in an engagement under General Forrest
at Tupelo, Mississippi, and in the campaign against General Price's command in
Missouri; took part in the battles of Nashville and Mobile; and was discharged
at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in 1865. He served three years, and held the
position ofí Captain at his discharge.
	After the close of the struggle Mr. Buck removed to Winona, Minnesota, where
he was appointed Probate Judge, Prosecuting Attorney, and United States Attorney
for the Territory of Idaho. In 1879 he was appointed Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the same Territory, and in 1884 was re-appointed by President
Arthur. He came to Spokane Falls, Washington, in 1888, where he was engaged in
the general practice of law until 1893, when he was elected Superior Judge. He
has a very handsome residence in this city, where he is surrounded by an
interesting family of children and many friends.
	In 1863, when home on a furlough, Mr. Buck was united in marriage with Miss
Francena M. Kellogg, who was born in Cortland county, New York. Her parents
emigrated with their children by the "prairie schooner" train to Wisconsin while
she was yet a babe in their arms, and her early years were spent on the farm
some thirty miles from Milwaukee. She graduated at Lawrence University with its
first class in 1857, taught for two or three years, and then for a time was
bookkeeper and cashier for a business house in Chicago, being the first woman to
occupy such a position in that city, and probably in the world.
	Soon after her marriage she served, under Mrs. Annie Whittenmyer, of the
Christian Commission, in various hospitals of the South, while her husband
marched in the ranks. She assisted him in the preparation of the rolls for
mustering out his company, which was discharged in St. Paul, Minnesota, and
after the close of their service in the war they settled in Winona, Minnesota.
	She was early interested in the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society, when that society was organized in her church, and she entered heartily
into the temperance reform in "crusade days," and in these reforms she is still
engaged. Her parents were believers in total abstinence, having been influenced
to take that stand by the late Colonel Railey of Rochester, New York, some ten
years before she was born.
	Mr. and Mrs. Buck have three children: W.S., aged twenty-four years, is a
law student in his father's office; Fritz J., aged twenty years, is a medical
student; and Nathan K., aged seventeen years. Socially, Mr. Buck is a member of
the Odd Fellows, the G.A.R., Woodmen of the World, and the Knights of Pythias.
Religiously, the family are members of the Methodist Church. Our subject
attended the General Conference of the church at Philadelphia in 1884, and also
represented his church at the annual Columbia River Conference held in that
year. Personally, the Judge is a good conversationalist and a very pleasant
gentleman.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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