Background
Buck, Benjamin F. was born on September 30, 1865 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Son of Asahel and Mary A. (Hutchings) Buck.
Buck, Benjamin F. was born on September 30, 1865 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Son of Asahel and Mary A. (Hutchings) Buck.
Public schools and Saint Ann’s Academy, Osage Mission, Kansas.
Founder, 1896, and president, B. F. Buck & Company, publications, New York City.
Member National Liberal Immigration League (advisory board), National Society for Promotion of Industrial Education, Colonial Society of America (treasurer and director, 1906-1914), Italian-American Agricultural Association (Vice-President), Metropolitan Museum Art (New York). Member of Executive Committee League of Republican. Clubs of State of New York Special commissioner, 1906, to investigate causes of emigration from Southern European countries.
Married Carmaleta M. Ferguson, August 16, 1899.