[1] During the American Civil War, he served as a Lieutenant in Company H, 175th New York Infantry Regiment from 1862 to 1863.
[3] Buck established a 166-acre ranch from a plot of land known as Weldon Rancho in Vacaville, California in 1874.
However, Buck was ultimately declared the winner after an investigation found voting irregularities in Vallejo.
[4] In a 1888 interview with the Napa County Reporter, Buck expressed his displeasure with the U.S. Treasury’s monetary tightening.
[10] Several decades later, his grandson, Senator Frank H. Buck, became a main figure in the fight against abolition and lowering taxes on domestic alcohol.
[12] Emma Buck and Mrs. Bellows sustained bruising after they were accidentally thrown from a horse and buggy in 1880.
[14] He suffered a fractured skull in the accident and died of a cerebral hemorrhage the next day at his home in Oakland, California.