392. Dr James Patrick5 Buck (JOHN B4, JOSEPH3, JOSEPH2, NICHOLAS1) was born 19 February 1856 in Carrolltown, Cambria Co, PA, and died 16 January 1914 in Chicago, IL. He married Mary Katherine Grass 30 June 1897, daughter of Martin Grass and Margaret Garier.

Notes for Dr James Patrick Buck:
Godparents are; Jacob Buck of Allegheny Twp and Anna Margaret Buck of Unity Twp, Westmoreland Co.

Attended Univ of Vienna, appointed by King Milan as Army Surgeon for the Prussian Army during the Franco-Prussian War.
Researched Buck family history while in Europe and wrote a family history - no record survives. Very little communication with family after going to Chicago.

More About Dr James Patrick Buck:
Burial: Unknown, St Boniface Cemetery, Chicago, Cook Co, IL.
Fact 3: 1879, Graduated from Univ PA;Jefferson Med School
Fact 4: 1881, Licensed to practice in PA
Fact 5: 1883, Surgeon in the Serbian Army; war with Bulgaria
Fact 6: 1887, Moved to Chicago
Fact 7: 1914, Resided at 1161 La Salle St, Chicago, IL
Fact 8: 1914, Buried at St Boniface
     
Children of James Buck and Mary Grass are:

+ 1035 i. Marie Gerogietta6 Buck, born 5 April 1899 in Chicago, Il; died 13 January 1990.
+ 1036 ii. Harold Francis Buck, born 9 April 1900 in Chicago, Il; died in Chicago, Il.
+ 1037 iii. Clement Cecil Buck, born 25 September 1901 in Chicago, Il; died 27 September 1993.

THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY,
JAMES T. WHITE & CO, NEW YORK Jun 23 1915

331A-AMER BIOG-182
BUCK, James Patrick, physician, was born at Carrollton, PA., Feb. 19, 1856, son of John and Rachel (Sherry) Buck. His parents were of German-American descent, and his ancestors were among the earliest settlers in the northern part of Cambria county. His father was a conspicuous figure in the public life of Pennsylvania, having been sheriff of his county for a number of years, besides representing his district in the state senate in 1874-75-76, and for an extended period serving as a member of the county committee. James P. Buck received his early education in the district schools and attended St. Vincent’s College, Latrobe, Pa., where he was graduated (A.M.) in 1876. On leaving college he taught school for two seasons, during which time he began the study of medicine, and after a course in anatomy at Hahnemann College in 1877 entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated (M.D.) in 1879. He spent the ensuing five years in the practice of his profession in Pittsburgh, and then went abroad to study. He spent two years in Vienna, at which time he became a surgeon in the Servian army, with the rank of captain, during the war between Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania, and with Dr. Bridges had charge of a military hospital. Resigning this commission, he pursued the summer course at Heidelberg University, after which he served for a time as first assistant to Prof. Hock, of the opthalmic department of the Vienna Polyclinic. He also took post-graduate work in the universities and hospitals of Berlin and Prague. In 1877 he returned to the United States and located in Chicago, where he resumed general practice, making a specialty of surgery, and rapidly acquired a large and prominent clientele. He invented and patented many valuable instruments and appliances for operative surgery. Dr. Buck was very popular with all his associates. His manners were affable, his disposition bright and sunny, and he radiated good cheer to all around him. He was an unusually successful practitioner of medicine, and an enthusiastic devotee of surgical science, with which, by unremitting study of the latest teachings and methods, he kept himself thoroughly abreast. Deeply interested in all scientific subjects, he was to the end of his life a close and intelligent student of the most recent developments in the world of science. He was an ardent lover of birds, and the spacious rooms of his beautiful home resounded with the singing of the most varied and valuable species. To the deserving poor he never refused his aid, either professionally or otherwise. His favorite recreation was motoring. He was a member of the Chicago Germania Mannerchor, the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was married, June 30, 1897 to Mary Catherine, daughter of Mathias Grass, one of the pioneer settlers of Chicago, and had three children: Marie Georgietta, Harold Francis Jerome and Cecil Clement Buck. Dr. Buck died in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 16, 1914.