Descendants of Michael Croussore

Generation No. 1

1.  MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE was born Abt. 1750 in Possibly in Alsace, and died in Greentop, Indiana.
	
Children of MICHAEL CROUSSORE are:
2.	i.	JOHN2 CROUSORE, b. Abt. 1773, Lancaster County(?), Pennsylvania.
3.	ii.	CHRISTIAN CROUSORE, b. Abt. 1777, Pennsylvania.

Generation No. 2

2.  JOHN2 CROUSORE (MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)1 was born Abt. 1773 in Lancaster County(?), Pennsylvania.
	
Children of JOHN CROUSORE are:
4.	i.	JACOB3 CROUSORE, b. 1804, Lancaster County (?), Pennsylvania.
	ii.	MADLIN CROUSORE1, b. 1810, Lancaster County(?), Pennsylvania2.
5.	iii.	JOHN C. CROUSORE, b. 1814, Ohio.
6.	iv.	STEPHEN CROUSORE, b. 1818, Ohio.

3.  CHRISTIAN2 CROUSORE (MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)3 was born Abt. 1777 in Pennsylvania3.  He married SUSANNAH3.  She was born 1789 in Virginia3.
	
Child of CHRISTIAN CROUSORE and SUSANNAH is:
7.	i.	JACOB3 CROUSORE, b. 1821, Ohio.

Generation No. 3

4.  JACOB3 CROUSORE (JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)4 was born 1804 in Lancaster County (?), Pennsylvania4.  He married ANNY I.4 Abt. 18224.  She was born Abt. 1803 in VA4.

More About JACOB CROUSORE:
1820 Census: 1820, Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio5
1830 Census: 1830, Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio6
1840 Census: 1840, Delaware County, Indiana, page 603/3107
Migrated 1: Bef. 1816, Pennsylvania to Meigs County, Ohio
Migrated 2: Aft. 1830, Meigs County, Ohio to Indiana possibly near Richmond in Wayne County
Migrated 3: Bef. 1839, Wayne County , Indiana to Delaware County, Indiana
Migrated 4: Bef. 1849, Delaware County, Indiana to Center Township, Howard County, Indiana
Property 1: August 1, 1837, Purch 40 acres in Delaware Co., IN, Township 21-N, Range 9-E, Section 31, NENW7
Property 2: March 20, 1849, Purch 80 acres in Howard Co. IN in Township 23-N, Range 5-E, Section 19, E 1/2 NE7
Tax List 1: 1816, Meigs County, Ohio8
	
Children of JACOB CROUSORE and ANNY are:
	i.	JOHN4 CROUSORE9, b. Abt. 1823, Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio9.

More About JOHN CROUSORE:
1830 Census: Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio10
1840 Census: Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio11

8.	ii.	JULIA A. CROUSORE, b. Bet. 1824 - 1826, Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio; d. Aft. 1860, Howard or Madison County, Indiana.
	iii.	SARAH CROUSORE12, b. Abt. 1827, Indiana (listed as Indiana in census but may have been Ohio)12.
9.	iv.	EDITH CROUSORE, b. Abt. 1829, Indiana (listed as Indiana in census but may have been Ohio).
	v.	NANCY E. CROUSORE12, b. Abt. 1831, probably Wayne Coun ty, Indiana12.
10.	vi.	WILLIAM CROUSORE, b. Abt. 1832, Probably Wayne County, Indiana.
	vii.	POLLY CROUSORE13, b. Abt. 1834, Probably Wayne County, Indiana13.
	viii.	JACOB CROUSORE13, b. Abt. 1836, Probably Wayne County, Indiana13.
	ix.	DAVID CROUSORE13, b. Abt. 1838, Probably Wayne County, Indiana13.
	x.	ANNY I. CROUSORE13, b. Abt. 1840, Probably Delaware County, Indiana13.
	xi.	ABIGAIL CROUSORE13, b. Abt. 1843, Probably Delaware County, Indiana13.

5.  JOHN C.3 CROUSORE (JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)14 was born 1814 in Ohio14.  He married HANNAH15.  She was born 1814 in Ohio16.
	
Children of JOHN CROUSORE and HANNAH are:
	i.	STEPHEN4 CROUSORE16, b. 1839, Indiana16.
	ii.	JOHN CROUSORE16, b. 1843, Indiana16.
	iii.	MARY CROUSORE16, b. 1846, Indiana16.
	iv.	ANNY CROUSORE16, b. 1849, Indiana16.

6.  STEPHEN3 CROUSORE (JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)17 was born 1818 in Ohio18.  He married RUTH18.  She was born 1826 in Indiana18.

Notes for STEPHEN CROUSORE:
ABSTRACTS OF THE RECORDS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN INDIANA,
Edited by Willard Heiss and pub. by th Indiana Historical Society, 
Indianapolis, 1970.

This is ALL the entries for CROUSORE in the published Indiana Quaker records:

Vol. 3, p. 32--Mississinewa Monthly Meeting, Grant Co, IN 
3-12-1925 Omer & wife Maud received by request
6-11-1931 Omar (note different spelling!) & Maude & Leslie dropped from 
membership

Vol 3, p. 418-419--New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard Co, IN (b. & d. records)
Albert Crousore m. 9-25-1881 to Josephine Gearhead, b. 12-18-1854, d/o Samuel 
& Sarah

Jacob Crousore, wife Rhoda; Child, Joseph b. 3-17-1856 (see below)

James L. Crousore, b. 2-7-1856 Howard Co, IN, s/o Stephen & Ruth; m. 
1-15-1887 to
Mary L. Adams b. 2-20-1861, d/o Joseph & Mary Berry

Joseph Crousore b. 3-17-1856, d/o Joseph & Rhoda; m. 4-20-1879 to Mary 
Elizabeth Hamilton, d/o Sarah A.
Children of Joseph & Mary Eliz.:
Gertie b. 7-30-1889 m. 7-30-1910 to __?__ Vandeventer

Leonard Crousore b. 8-16-1877 s/o John & Elizabeth
(wife) Rosa M. b. 4-22-1891 d/o John Healton
Ch:  Oscar W. b. 6-2-1911
       Ophal M.  b. 3-4-1913
       Paul E.    b. 9-8-1915
       Nelmodeme b. 8-5-1918
       Stella M. b. 5-9- 1924

Michael Crousore b. 3-1-1876, d/o John & Sarah; d. 1-17-1956

Talbert Crousore b. 8-23-1855 s/o Stephen & Ruth
(1st wife) Cynthia
     Ch:  Omer b. 9-28-1876
            Noah  b. 2-5-1879
(2nd wife) Olive May, b. 5-13-1868, d/o Mathias & Mary Esther Silvers 
    (this m. occurred 2-2-1887)
     Ch:  Lora M. b. 11-3-1887 or 1888
            Elsie E. b. 7-15-1889 or 1890
            Willie b. 7-23-188?; d. 7-25-1888
            Clora A. b. 9-13-1894 or 12-13-1893
            Elsworth b. 8-20-1896; d. 8-21-1896

Vol 3, New Salem Meeting, p. 434 (minutes)
2-5-1887 James recd by rq
10-1-1887 Mary L & ch Perlie L. Adams presented cert from Mississinewa MM, 
IN; she           
               is refused & returned to mtg for ch is accepted
6-2-1888 Mary rocf Mississinewa MM, IN
6-7-1890 Joseph recd by rq
6-7-1890 Mary E. recd by rq
12-5-1891 Mary recd on cert from Marion MM, IN (from Mississinewa MM)
2-3-1894 Josephine recd by rq
2-2-1895 Talbert recd by rq
8-3-1895 Talbert & w rq mbrp for ch Lora M. S., Elsie E., & Clara A.
3-6-1897 Noah & Omer recd in Mbrp
5-7-1899 Olive May rel fr mbrp
5-7-1899 Talbert & w Lora M. & ch Elsie & Clora A. rel fr mbrp
4-4-1903 Michael recd in mbrp
4-4-1903 William reced in mbrp
12-3-1904 Mike rel fr mbrp
2-3-1912 Joseph & Mary E. recd in mbrp
11-6-1915 Josephine rel fr mbrp
8-5-1917 Susan, Rebecca recd in mbrp
12-15-1921 Joseph appt Elder for 3 years
5-2-1922 Joseph rel fr mbrp
4-5-1924 Leonard A. W., Roa M. & minor ch Oscar V., Opal M., Paul E. & 
Melodene 
          recd in mbrp
12-5-1925 Joseph recd in mbrp
8-7-1936 Oscar, Paul, Opal, Melbadine & Stella rel fr mbrp

Vol 3, New Hope Meeting, Howard Co, IN--p. 526
12-14-1885 Mary E. rec in mbrp
7-14-1888 John drpd fr mbrp

Hope this helps in some way.  If you have trouble with any of the 
abbreviations, I can translate for you.

Joyce

More About STEPHEN CROUSORE:
Religion1: 1856, New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard County, Indiana19
	
Children of STEPHEN CROUSORE and RUTH are:
	i.	FRANCIS M4 CROUSORE20, b. 184320.
	ii.	HANNAH E. CROUSORE20, b. 184720.
	iii.	JOHN N. CROUSORE20, b. 184920.
11.	iv.	TALBERT CROUSORE, b. August 3, 1855, Howard County, Indiana.
	v.	JAMES L. CROUSORE21, b. February 7, 1856, Howard County, Indiana21; m. MARY L. ADAMS21, January 15, 1887, Howard County, Indiana21; b. February 20, 1861.

7.  JACOB3 CROUSORE (CHRISTIAN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)22 was born 1821 in Ohio22.  He married RHODA22.  She was born 1824 in Indiana22.

More About JACOB CROUSORE:
Religion: 1856, new Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard County, Indiana23
	
Children of JACOB CROUSORE and RHODA are:
	i.	ANDREW4 CROUSORE24, b. 1845, Indiana24.
	ii.	JOHN CROUSORE24, b. 1847, Indiana24.
	iii.	MARY CROUSORE25, b. 1849, Indiana26.
12.	iv.	JOSPEH CROUSORE, b. March 17, 1856, Howard County, Indiana.

Generation No. 4

8.  JULIA A.4 CROUSORE (JACOB3, JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)27 was born Bet. 1824 - 1826 in Letart Township, Meigs County, Ohio27, and died Aft. 1860 in Howard or Madison County, Indiana27.  She married GEORGE PUGH28 December 29, 1853 in Howard County, Indiana29.  He was born Bet. 1831 - 183330, and died Aft. 186030.

More About GEORGE PUGH:
Military service: May have served in the 89th Indiana Infantry , Co. F raised in Howard County, IN
	
Children of JULIA CROUSORE and GEORGE PUGH are:
	i.	JOHN5 PUGH31, b. Bet. 1854 - 185532; d. Aft. 180433.
	ii.	ALFRED PUGH33, b. August 28, 1856, near Kokomo, Centre or Taylor Township, Howard County, Indiana33; d. September 18, 1904, Bluffton, Harrison Township, Wells County, Indiana33; m. HENRIETTA "ETTA" NORRIS33, May 22, 1882, Possibly Nevada, Missouri; d. Aft. 190433.

More About ALFRED PUGH:
Burial: Bet. September 21 - 22, 1904, Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Harrison Township, Wells County, Indiana Section B27733

More About HENRIETTA "ETTA" NORRIS:
Burial: Aft. 1904, Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Harrison Township, Wells County, Indiana, Section B, Lot 27734

	iii.	CAROLINE PUGH35,36, b. May 5, 1858, Possibly Howard or  Madison County, IN37,38; d. January 9, 1939, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana39,40; m. (1) JOHN M. (MARTIN?) BUCK41,42,43, September 13, 1880, Delaware County, Indiana (probably Muncie)44; b. June 2, 1853, Near Alexandria, Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana45,46,47; d. May 9, 1909, Bluffton, Indiana48,49; m. (2) NIMROD CARVER, Abt. 1930, Angola, Lake County, Indiana; b. Likely Missouri.

Notes for CAROLINE PUGH:
According to the Buck Family Tradition

Father [originally said to have been named William R. Pugh, but proved to be George Pugh] went off to fight in Civil War when Caroline was about 6 [ abut 1864].  Caroline, her mother [found to be Julia A. Crousore] and three small brothers [Alfred, James and John Pugh] lived on farm near Alexandria, Indiana [actually near Kokomo, Indiana].  George Pugh returned from the fighting on leave to find his wife dying of typhoid and small children to care for.  He never returned to his regiment as the war wound to an end.  George Pugh Caroline, brothers and possibly father moved in with grandparents [Jacob & Annie Crousore] following mother's death from typhoid sometime prior to 1870.  Father remarried shortley after, and the children moved back in with their father and his new wife.  With little in the way of prospects in Indina, the family moved to a farm in Missouri in about 1871 when Caroline was about twelve years old.  Caroline, her father [George Pugh], her uncle [possibly William Crousore] and oldest brother [John Pugh] travelled by covered wagon.  The step-mother [name unknown], youngest two brothers [Alfred and Albert Pugh] and half-brother [was this James Pugh, or was James the youngest son of Julia?] followed by train.  The group travelling by wagon would stop in the evenings to set up camp for the night.  One night the menfolk rode off on horses in search of supplies leaving Caroline to watch the camp with only their dog, Spot.   A farmer, on whose land they were camped, saw the smoke from the fire and decided to investigate.  Caroline was very scared upon seeing the approaching stranger and drew the dog close to her.  The farmer called out to her not to be afraid, that he was just curious as to who was camped on his land.  The farmer was very friendly and soon the Pugh men returned and had a nice chat with the landowner.  The next morning after a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs, the Pughs were again on their way.  One evening after stopping for the night, Caroline's father sent her to a nearby farm to fetch some water.  Caroline was astonished to find the farm children wearing wooden shoes.  Another night, Caroline cried and couldn't sleep because on an infected thumb.  Her father was somewhat angry at her because of her crying and keeping everyone awake.  Her uncle lanced the thumb with his knife and with the pressure relieved, she was able to sleep.  Caroline's most thrilling experience on the trip ocurred when the Pughs approached the big city of St. Louis with its horse-drawn street cars.  Caroline excitement soon turned to fear as her father and uncle climbed out of the wagon to walk alongside of the wagon while Caroline drove through the busy shopping district amid heavy traffic, streetcars and muddy streets.  Although she made it through without any serious problems, she was terribly frightened and never really forgave her father for making her drive.  After the Pughs were settled on their farm in Missouri, one of their neighbors, Mr. Hugbeth, came one day to the farm to ask if Caroline could return with him to his farm to help his wife care for their children.  Caroline was eager to go since she did not like living with her step-mother.  It is unclear whether Caroline considered herself or her step-mother to be the principal source of the friction. Agreement, was reached and a few days later, Caroline moved to the nearby farm.   Caroline was very happy on the Hugbeth farm.  Mrs. Hugbeth was very kind to Caroline and taught her how to set and serve tables as well as many other things.  Sometimes the Hugbeths had dinner guests.  Among the regular visitors were two men who came and left in the night.  They never unsaddled their horses and always wore their gunbelts.  The two men were always nice to Caroline and the Hugbeths.  They often brought Mrs. Hugbeth, who was their cousin, gifts of jewelry.  At the time, Caroline didn't question about these men and their mysterious habits.  It wasn't until several years later, after moving back to Indiana, Caroline discovered that Mrs. Hugbeth's cousins were the famous outlaws Frank and Jesse James.  Following her employment at the Hugbeth farm, Caroline went to work in the home of a Mr. Carver, the uncle of one of her close friends.  She helped Mrs. Carver take care of her young daughter and served the table.  Mr. Carver was a circus man as well as being a farmer.  He cared for the circus animals and wagons through the winter months and     had a separate wing on his home to house the men who cared for the animals [in one version of this story, the farm with the circus animals is back in Muncie, Indiana].  Sometimes Caroline served tables in this wing as well as in the main part of the house.  In addition to their young daughter, the Carvers had two sons.  Eventually Caroline and one of the Carver sons,    Nimrod, fell in love.  Mr. Carver did not approve of the match since Caroline came from a poor family.  Nimrod was sent off to college, and    Caroline was dismissed and soon moved to Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana about 15 miles east of her childhood home to learn the dressmaking trade [in one version of this, her father George moved on to Oregon or Washington and left her in Missouri on her own.  When Caroline died in 1939, her obituary listed a Mrs. Josephine Hackney of Seattle as a half-sister].  The dress shop in which Caroline apprenticed catered to Muncie's elite.  She found the work to be most enjoyable and continued to work there until in about 1881 she met and married John M. Buck.  John M. Buck was originally from the Alexandria, Indiana area.  John & Caroline moved to Somerset, Pulkaski County, in southern Kentucky where John and a friend bought a sawmill.  Unfortunately, John's partner had a number of undisclosed debts and soon his creditors foreclosed on the sawmill.  In February 1881, in the cold of winter, John, Caroline and two-week-old baby Carl were forced to return to their old hometown (Muncie or Alexandria ?) with all of 10 cents in their pockets.  John, undaunted, soon acquired a shoe store in Redkey, Jay County, Indiana.  Clyde and Alline Buck were born in Redkey.  John often recalled the story of an free-loader who often loafed about the cracker-barrel in the store [why a cracker barrel in a shoe store??] and frequently helped himself to cigars.  John set a trap for the man by loading one of the cigars with a small charge of gunpowder.  When the old fellow fired up the cigar, it exploded blackening his face in most places and burning off a few of his whiskers.  The miscreant ran home yelling to his wife "Soda, Kate, Soda!!"  John is reported to have burst into laughter, calling "Soda, Kate, Soda!!" whenever the word soda was mentioned in his presence.  In another incident, on night Caroline awakened to loud noises coming from the summer kitchen.  John grabbed his revolver and Caroline lighted a lamp.  Together they went to investigate and saw the form of a man swaying from side to side.  More clattering was heard as the man knocked over the jars of fruit that Caroline had just canned that day and had left sitting on the table on which the man now rested.  John realized that the man was drunk and chased him away.  The next morning, as John went to the store, he noticed a stranger sitting in front of the town saloon.  He inquired of the stranger if he might be the man whom he had run off the previous night.  The stranger admitted as he was and offered to pay for the damaged fruit.  John said he was just thankful that he hadn't shot the stranger and that that was reward enough.  The Buck family next moved to Geneva, Indiana near Gene Stratton Porter's home.  Alline Buck remembers Porter's daughter attending the school there.  The Porter girl was not allowed to play with the other girls in the neighborhood prefering instead the older brother of one of Alline's friends.  While living in Geneva, John Buck built three small houses.  Buck's Geneva factory there was not particularly successful, and the family moved the 18 miles to Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana.  The Buck family drove a wagon to Bluffton.  Carl and Clyde took turns walking behind the wagon and driving the family cow, Star.  Star was so named because of a white "star" on its forehead.  John Buck's business prospered in Bluffton and he built a lovely home for his family.  Through the years, Nimrod Carver had never forgotten his "Carry" and eventually, hearing of the magnificent Buck home [at 416 W. Wabash, Bluffton, Indiana] , his curiosity got the better of him.  Caroline chased Nimrod away but not until promising him that if fate should one day find them widow and widower, she would marry him.  One day Caroline received a letter from Nimrod.  Although Alline remembers that she was old enough to know better, she remembers opening the letter addressed to her mother and being amused at the contents.  Nimrod said that he was heading west with his son to make a new start.  He had become an unsuccessful gambler and had failed the wife, son and daughter.  After John  passed away, Caroline enjoyed owning and renting five lake cottages at Lake George on the Indiana/Michigan border and wintering in either California with relatives or in Florida where she and some old Redkey friends had bought several properties [in St. Petersburg] during the Florida land boom.  It was during one of these visits to California in the winter of 1929-30 that Caroline, many years a widow and having lost a small fortune in the failure of several banks, contacted Nimrod himself then a widower.  At the urging of her nephew Henry [I don't know who this is], Caroline returned to Bluffton that spring to announce that she and Nimrod would be wed in the Fall of 1930 (she was then 70 years of age).  Nimrod then owned a small farm with his son, and it appears that both Nimrod and Caroline believed the other to be better off financially that the facts would bear out.  Alline recalled that she knew nothing of the impending marriage and was surprised when one day Nimrod and his sister whom Caroline had taken care of drove up to Lake George to see "Nim" and Carry married.  Caroline later told everyone that she then felt so strange about the whole thing that she couldn't bring herself to get married.  Everone went back home.  A week later, Caroline reported feeling more natural about it.  She wrote Nimrod, and he came back out (alone this time) and they were married on a Saturday afternoon in 1930 in Angola, Lake County, Indiana and they then drove to Nimrod's home near Alexandria, Indiana.  The following Monday, Caroline called up a relative and asked him to take her to Bluffton.  He refused.  A week or so later, Nimrod, shaking his head as if to say, "I just don't understand," brought Caroline home.  Caroline tried time and again to live with Nimrod until finally giving up.  Alline recalls that Nimrod finally came to her for advise.  She told him to give up, go home and forget Caroline as her mother (Caroline) did not care for him.  Nimrod got a divorce and Caroline was much relieved.  She told Alline, " It was then only thing I ever did that I was ashamed of.  I got into it and tried to carry on, but just couldn't."  Alline said that Caroline and John Buck never argued in her presence and seemed to get along quite congenially.  However, Alline felt that Caroline had always felt that there was a change for happiness with Nimrod and that the two of them, getting on in age and having lost most of their wealth might better their mutual situation through marriage.  

Caroline and Alline joined the Bluffton First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1899.

More About CAROLINE PUGH:
Burial: Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, Section AQ, Lot 13550,51
Religion: 1899, Joined Bluffton First Methodist Episcopal Church52,53
Resided: 1926, 416 W. Wabash St, Bluffton, Indiana54,55

Notes for JOHN M. (MARTIN?) BUCK:
JOHN M. BUCK

This prominent manufacturer and head of one of one of Bluffton's leading industrial enterprises is a native of Indiana, born at Alexandria, Madison county, on the 2d day of June, 1853.  His father, Henry Buck, formerly a land owner and farmer of the above county, was of German descent, and the mother, whose maiden name was Jemima Chamness, comes from a long line of Quaker ancestors.  For many years Henry Buck was not only one of the leading agriculturists of Madison county, but also achieved prominence as a local politician of the Republican party, having been one of the first men in his part of the state openly to avow and defend what was then the political heresy of abolitionism.  He acquired some property, was twice married, and departed this life in the year 1867.  His second wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch is still living (note: this biographical sketch was written in 1903).

John M. Buck was the oldest of the children born to his father's second marriage.  He was reared to maturity in close touch with nature and as a farm hand early learned by experience the true meaning of honest toil.  His means for acquiring an education were such as a few months' attendance each year at the public schools afforded, consequently, he was not a learned man in the sense of the term as generally understood, although possessing a fund of valuable practical knowledge such as schools and colleges do not impart.  Young Buck assisted in cultivating the home farm until his twenty-fourth year, when he started into the world for himself, first directing his attention to buying and selling lumber and later taking up the trade of wood turning.  He started, in 1890, a small establishment of his own in the town of Geneva.  He spent about five years at the above place, when he found it necessary to secure a more favorable location, consequently he moved his establishment to the city of Bluffton.

Since moving to the latter place in 1895, Mr. Buck has built up an extensive business and, as stated in the initial paragraph, the enterprise has become on of the largest and most important of the city's industries.  In addition to the plant at Bluffton, which gives employment to about twenty-five men and from three to five teams every working day of the year, he operates a branch factory at Auburn, this state, which, under his direction, has steadily increased its output and grown in public favor.  Mr. Buck manufactures wooden tool handles.  His weekly payroll at Bluffton alone will average about two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to which he pays every week to the farmers in the vicinity who furnish him, very satisfactorily, with raw material the sum of four hundred dollars.

Mr. Buck began manufacturing in a very small way and the large measure of success which has attended him is due entirely to his own energy, superior management and wise business foresight.  At the outset, he encountered many difficulties and numerous obstacles calculated to impede and discourage, but with an inborn determination which hesitated at none of these impediments to his progress, he persevered, gradually removing everything in his pathway and gaining favor until he found himself upon a well established basis which made ultimate success a certainty.  That he has achieved his aim is abundantly attested by the place his plant occupies among the industries of Bluffton, in the business circles of the city and throughout the state.  The constantly increasing demands for his products necessitates the running of his several establishments at their full capacity, and , judging by present prospects, their enlargement or the building of additional plants is only a matter of time.

Few men in Wells county stand higher in the esteem of their fellow citizens than Mr. Buck and none have better records for energy, honesty and sterling integrity.  He is a man of actions rather than words, attends strictly to his own affairs, at the same time being not unmindful of the duty which every citizen owes to the public.  He is essentially a business man and as such ranks with the most enterprising and progressive of his contemporaries, deserving of great credit for what he has done for this city in the way of giving employment to labor and providing a good market for the farmers with timber to dispose of.  Mr. Buck supports the Republican party, but aside from voting for the regular nominees, takes little interest in political matters, having no ambition to gratify in the way of public distinction or official honors.  He owns a beautiful and attractive home on the corner of Wabash and Market streets, where he welcomes and entertains his friends with a genuine hospitality.

Mr. Buck was married in 1880 to Miss Caroline Pugh of Alexandria, Madison county, this state, a union blessed with three children: Roland C., the eldest, was born on the 20th day of June 1881, served with Company M, Twenty-eighth Regiment, United States Infantry, in the Philippines, and was shot and killed from ambush by native robbers on July 13, 1902; Clyde, the second of the family, was born December 7, 1883; Alline, the youngest, is a student in the Bluffton high school.  Mrs. Buck is a member of the Methodist church and well known in the best social circles of the city.  While not identified with any religious organization himself, Mr. Buck believes in the church as a great moral force among men and is liberal in his contributions to its support.  

	Taken from pages 334-335 of the Biographical Memoirs of Wells County, 1903.

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Following are excerpts from Wells County Historical Society Newsletters, mailed regularly to our members: 
                                                
                 		        Life in Wells County in 1900
                       	Excerpts from 1900 Bluffton Commercial Club booklet

The manufacturing industries are just as notable as are the business and residence portions.  There are the R. C. Marcy Manufacturing Company, who make a fine line of wind mills, pumps, towers, tanks, etc. (later to become the Red Cross Mfg.  Co.) which is sending its products to North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, and the G. W. Grimes foundry and machine shops, where the giant Mascot Pumping Powers are made, Mr. Grimes being the inventor.  These powers are used in the oil fields for operating large oil leases, there being as many as thirty or forty wells coupled to one power.  The Bluffton Manufacturing Company, the oldest concern in the world manufacturing washing machines, etc.  Their wares are a practical necessity in the home, and that they are readily received is attested by the large volume of orders from all parts of the globe.  The Zero Mitten Manufacturing Company, employing nearly a hundred girls, manufacturing mittens and gloves from tick and canton flannel and has a volume of business second to none of its kind.  Their product, ready for shipment, amounts to over fifty thousand daily and are shipped to the West, North-West and the Canada's.  The Bluffton Folding Chair Works, maker of chairs, camp stools, lawn swings, etc. are gathering in liberal orders from all parts of the county.  No less pretentious in their respective lines are the Bluffton Hoop Company, E.P. Adams slack barrel and heading factory, Smith & Bell saw mill, Buck handle factory, S. Tudor Produce Packing Company, 3 flour mills, the Mercer Lumber Company, saw and planning mills and the Bluffton Overall Company. 
   		                                
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Bluffton, IN Evening News, September 19, 1907 article:

CONTRACT AWARDED FOR $8,000 MANSOLEUM  [spelling as printed]
                                             _________
HANDSOME MONUMENT OF BARRE GRANITE ON J. M. BUCK'S LOTS IN ELM GROVE
                                             _________
        A contract has been awarded by J. M. Buck of this city, for a handsome
mausoleum, to be erected in the Elm Grove cemetery which will be one of the
finest in the state of Indiana, and will be entirely unequalled by anything
of the kind in Wells County.   The stately family sepulchural [spelled as
printed] monument will be erected by the firm of McDonald & Son, of Barre,
Vermont, and will be constructed of the finest grade of gray Barre granite
the kind from which most of the fine monuments are built.   The total cost
will be $8,000.
        The mausoleum will be erected in the plat of lots owned by Mr. Buck in Elm
Grove cemetery where his son, Carl, who was killed in the U.S. army in the
Philippines, is buried.   It will be twelve feet wide, seventeen feet long,
and will be fifteen feet in height.   It will be decorated in sculpture
work, will be finely polished and will be one of the most complete works of
art in granite work in Indiana.   The contract calls for the completion of
the mausoleum by June, 1908.   It will no doubt attract hundreds to Elm
Grove upon its completion for the purpose of viewing the stately monument.
                                ________________

Note: My inflation calculator shows $8,000 in 1907 would convert to
$139,323.49 in 1997![Jemima Chamness.FTW]

More About JOHN M. (MARTIN?) BUCK:
1860 Census: 1860, Near Alexandria, Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana Page 137 Line 12A Family 964 Dwelling 96456
Burial: Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, Section A,  Lot 13557,58
Occupation 1: Owned several handle factories59,60
Resided: 1900, 426 W. Wabash St, Bluffton, Indiana61,62

	iv.	ALBERT PUGH63, b. Aft. 186064; m. HENRIETTA; b. Illinois.

More About ALBERT PUGH:
Burial: Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, Section B, Lot 277

More About HENRIETTA:
Burial: Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, Section B, Lot 277

9.  EDITH4 CROUSORE (JACOB3, JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)65 was born Abt. 1829 in Indiana (listed as Indiana in census but may have been Ohio)65.  She married JOHN T. SIMMONS65 June 24, 1849 in Howard County, Indiana65.  He was born Abt. 1827 in Ohio65.
	
Child of EDITH CROUSORE and JOHN SIMMONS is:
	i.	CALVIN5 SIMMONS65, b. Abt. August 1850, Howard County, Indiana65.

10.  WILLIAM4 CROUSORE (JACOB3, JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)65 was born Abt. 1832 in Probably Wayne County, Indiana65.  He married MARY.  She was born Abt. 1834 in Ohio.
	
Children of WILLIAM CROUSORE and MARY are:
	i.	JOHN W.5 CROUSORE65, b. Abt. 185665.
	ii.	ISAAC CROUSORE65, b. Abt. 185865.
	iii.	SARAH CROUSORE65, b. Abt. 186065.
	iv.	RHODA CROUSORE65, b. Abt. 186465.
	v.	CHARLES CROUSORE65, b. Abt. 186665.
	vi.	GEORGE CROUSORE65, b. Abt. 186865.

11.  TALBERT4 CROUSORE (STEPHEN3, JOHN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)66 was born August 3, 1855 in Howard County, Indiana66.  He married (1) CYNTHIA.    He married (2) OLIVE MAY SILVERS67 February 2, 1887 in Howard County, Indiana, daughter of MATHAIAS SILVERS and MARY.  She was born May 13, 1868 in Howard County, Indiana68.
	
Children of TALBERT CROUSORE and CYNTHIA are:
	i.	OMER5 CROUSORE68, b. September 28, 187668.
	ii.	NOAH CROUSORE68, b. February 5, 187968.
	
Children of TALBERT CROUSORE and OLIVE SILVERS are:
	iii.	LORA M.5 CROUSORE68, b. Abt. November 3, 1887, Howard County, Indiana68.
	iv.	ELSIE E. CROUSORE68, b. July 15, 1889, Howard County, Indiana68.
	v.	WILLIE CROUSORE68, b. July 23, 1888, Howard County, Indiana68; d. July 25, 1888, Howard County, Indiana68.
	vi.	CHLORA A, CROUSORE68, b. September 13, 1894, Howard County, Indiana68.
	vii.	ELSWORTH CROUSORE68, b. August 20, 1896, Howard County, Indiana68.

12.  JOSPEH4 CROUSORE (JACOB3, CHRISTIAN2, MICHAEL1 CROUSSORE)68 was born March 17, 1856 in Howard County, Indiana68.  He married MARY ELIZABETH HAMILTON68 April 20, 1879 in Howard County, Indiana68, daughter of ? HAMILTON and SARA.  
	
Child of JOSPEH CROUSORE and MARY HAMILTON is:
	i.	GERTIE5 CROUSORE68, b. July 30, 1889, Howard County, Indiana68; m. ? VANDEVENTER68, July 30, 1910, Howard County, Indiana68.

Endnotes

1.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Family & Dwelling 126.
2.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Family & Dwelling 121.
3.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Green Township, Roll  151, Page 474, Family & Dwelling 149.
4.  Email from Rich Langley of Kokomo, IN dated 4/18/00, "Electronic."
5.  1820 Ohio Census, 112A Letart Township, 1820 Census Index appearing on the Meigs County USGenWeb site was created by Sharon Bickle Rickerson.
6.  1830 Ohio Census, 241 Letart Township, Index to the 1830 Census appearing on the Meigs County, USGenWeb Site.
7.  Email from Rich Langley of Kokomo, IN dated 4/18/00, "Electronic."
8.  Esther Weygrandt Powell, Early Ohio Tax Records (including index to same),  (Genealogical Publishing, Co., Baltimore, MD, 1985).
9.  Email from Rich Langley of Kokomo, IN dated 4/18/00, "Electronic."
10.  1830 Ohio Census, 241.
11.  1840 Ohio Census, 31 Letart Township.
12.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Page 460, Centre Township, Howard Co., Dwelling/Family 123.
13.  Email from Rich Langley of Kokomo, IN dated 4/18/00, "Electronic."
14.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Family & Dwelling 127.
15.  1850 Indiana Federal Census.
16.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Family & Dwelling 127.
17.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Line 1-02,  Family & Dwelling 121.
18.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Line 1-02,  Family & Dwelling 121.
19.  Edited by Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana,  (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN, 1970), 418-419--New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard Co, IN (b. & d. records).
20.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Centre Township, Roll  151, Page 460, Line 1-02,  Family & Dwelling 121.
21.  Edited by Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana,  (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN, 1970), 418-419--New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard Co, IN (b. & d. records).
22.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Green Township, Roll  151, Page 474, Family & Dwelling 148.
23.  Edited by Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana,  (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN, 1970), 418-419--New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard Co, IN (b. & d. records).
24.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Green Township, Roll  151, Page 474, Family & Dwelling 148.
25.  1850 Indiana Federal Census.
26.  1850 Indiana Federal Census, Howard County, Green Township, Roll  151, Page 474, Family & Dwelling 148.
27.  1860 Indiana Federal Census.
28.  "Alfred Pugh Obituary in Bluffton Evening News," Published in the Bluffton Eening News, Bluffton, IN.
29.  Index to Marriage Record Howard County 1844-1920 Inc Volume III Letters P-Z Inclusive, 37, Book C, Page A-75.
30.  1860 Indiana Federal Census.
31.  "Alfred Pugh Obituary in Bluffton Evening News," Published in the Bluffton Eening News, Bluffton, IN.
32.  1860 Indiana Federal Census.
33.  "Alfred Pugh Obituary in Bluffton Evening News," Published in the Bluffton Eening News, Bluffton, IN.
34.  Wells County, Indiana USGenweb Site, "Electronic."
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36.  Jemima Chamness.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
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40.  Jemima Chamness.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
41.  Biographical and Historical Record of Adams and Wells Counties.
42.  Bender.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
43.  Jemima Chamness.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
44.  LDS Church, Salt Lake City, Utah, Index to Delaware County, Indiana Marriages,  (LDS Film # 1266792), Book C7 - Page 362.
45.  Biographical and Historical Record of Adams and Wells Counties.
46.  Bender.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
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55.  Jemima Chamness.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
56.  1860 Indiana Federal Census Per FTM CD #304 FTM.
57.  Bender.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
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62.  Jemima Chamness.FTW, Date of Import: Jan 28, 2000.
63.  "Alfred Pugh Obituary in Bluffton Evening News," Published in the Bluffton Eening News, Bluffton, IN.
64.  1860 Indiana Federal Census.
65.  Email from Rich Langley of Kokomo, IN dated 4/18/00, "Electronic."
66.  Edited by Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana,  (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN, 1970), 418-419--New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard Co, IN (b. & d. records).
67.  Edited by Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana,  (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN, 1970).
68.  Edited by Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana,  (Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN, 1970), 418-419--New Salem Monthly Meeting, Howard Co, IN (b. & d. records).