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If you have read the preceding article
by Jean Nudd, you know she is right, of course. We all have ancestors like
the elusive Israel Goodman. But with luck we also have an ancestor whose
story seems to fall right off the tree, so to speak. My German
great-grandfather, Ernst Maxamilian Adolph Buek, is one of those.
He was a man of small physical stature1 who
loomed large in the hearts and minds of his children and grandchildren. His
family’s origins in a foreign land, his fluency in another language, his
success in agriculture, business, journalism and politics and his largesse
in providing for his family all contributed to his status as a mythic figure
among his descendants.
Max died2 eleven years before my father was
born.3 Yet Daddy and his younger brother and sister spoke of
their grandfather with all of the expertise the imagination can muster in
the creation of a family legend. They had vivid childhood memories of
playing in the elegant home he had built, and they had heard stories told by
Max’s children (their parents, aunts, and uncles). Max’s descendants with
whom I was acquainted led lives as honest and hardworking, average Kansas
folk, mostly engaged in farming and teaching. But Max had been something
other. He was wealthy. He had built an elegant home for his family in which
he and Lucy entertained frequently and generously. And he was a leading
figure in his community. On the day he died the stores in town closed for
the day to honor him.4
Max lived a life that produced a great deal of
documentation. He is in every census from the time he was six until 1885,
the last Kansas state census before he died (although his name was
invariably spelled “Buck” until his later years when he was well known by
the census taker.)5 He has a military record from the Civil War.6
He applied for a pension, as did his widow and children. The military files
contain not only the outline of his war experience, but also, in the pension
documents, we find his marriage certificate, his widow’s marriage
certificate to Jesse Jennings, the names and dates of birth of his children,
descriptions of his physical characteristics and condition, health history
and cause of death, time of death and time of burial, documents from his
probate file, names of his physicians, friends, neighbors and business
associates who described his health, character, experience and (for some)
the nature of their relationships with him. From the pension file also we
learn the date of his migration to Kansas, where he lived, and what work he
did; we learn the details of his funeral and the name of the undertaker.7
His younger brother, Ben, preserved a number of Max’s letters, which relate
his experience in the war and his first years as a settler in Kansas.8
The letters reveal the man behind the myth. There are frequent
newspaper accounts of his activities. The trail of documents continues
following his death in an obituary, which filled four columns of the local
newspaper.9 In a Michigan monthly magazine, The Plebian,
the editor, Edwin G. Pipp, eulogized him in a five page “Personal
Reminiscence of Max Buek”.10 Finally, his probate file is
voluminous, revealing the life style his wife, Lucy, had come to enjoy while
Max was alive.11
The wealth of documentation begins when Max’s father, Dr.
Ernst Adolph Buek, an immigrant from Hamburg in Germany, wrote an account of
his own life. A most considerate ancestor! Two of his grandsons in Michigan,
in particular, Emil Bode and Robert Lee Watson, preserved this evidence and
wrote of his life,12 and Bode engaged a clergyman in Hamburg to
gather more information on the family’s forbears.13
Briefly, here is the story of Max’s parents. On the 26th
of May in 1838, Dr. Ernst Adolph Buek, his wife, Elizabeth Henriette (Knauth)
their five children, Elizabeth Eduard, Elizabeth Louise, Elizabeth Bertha,
Kaspar Heinrich Adolph and Ernst Adolph Balthasar, with Dr. Buek’s law
library as well as his volumes of Shakespeare, Schiller and Goethe in their
baggage, left their home in Hamburg, Germany, on the ship, Plymouth, under
Captain Robins. They landed at New York on the 14th of July and
then traveled by boat up the Hudson, through the Erie Canal and on to
Detroit. From Detroit to the village of Hamburg in Livingston County,
Michigan, they journeyed by stage. Awaiting them was Dr. Buek’s Heidelberg
law school classmate, Ferdinand Grisson, who had apparently encouraged his
friend to come14
for “good farm land [and] the lure of an area where many of
his countrymen had already settled . . . .”15
On the 7th of August the Bueks purchased 40
acres of land on Pleasant Lake near Hamburg. There they built what Dr. Buek
called a “blockhouse”, or log house, and moved in on the 26th of
October, none too soon for protection against the Michigan winter.16
Max’s father is reported to have known Italian and
French, and of course he spoke German, and that is the language that seems
to have served him all of his life.17 According to his
descendants, the family in Michigan spoke German at home, and even the
Kansas great great-grandchildren learned a few words of German as a result.
But lack of fluency in English and a law degree from Heidelberg hardly
served the father of a large and growing family on the Michigan frontier.
Life for the family must have been hard as they adjusted to their new land,
and they seem to have subsisted at first, despite dwindling funds, from the
pigs and cows that they kept, wild game from the forest, fish from the lake,
and the father’s ability, inherited perhaps from ancestors who were notable
florists and gardeners in Germany, to create productive gardens and, less to
the benefit of the family’s sustenance but certainly to their delight,
remarkable flower gardens. His grandson, Emil Bode described them as:
. . . formal beds of flowers and
. . . artistic bits of landscaping, faithful replicas of those left behind
in . . . Hamburg; and his pioneer neighbors, who by tremendous toil, had
cleared the land entirely for the purpose of raising crops of wheat and
corn and potatoes, viewed this, to them, waste of good land in amazement.
. . . [He] transplanted colonies of the various wild flowers, found
everywhere in the woods, to a certain spot at the edge of his garden,
where, with every recurring spring, they still bloom in memory of him who
forsook the courts of law, with their unpredictable ways, for the gentle
art of gardening and the happy ways of flowers.18
By 1844, according to family records, Dr. Buek was
serving as Assistant Pastor for St. George’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, a
German-speaking congregation. The pastor was a Rev. Schmid who came out from
Ann Arbor about 30 miles away. Land was donated to the congregation, and Dr.
Buek returned to Germany in 1845 to help raise funds for building a church.
The church was dedicated May 8, 1849, and he assumed the position of Pastor,
having been trained by Pastor Schmid.19 The following year the
family "forsook our little homestead on Pleasant Lake, in Hamburg township,
where much sorrow but also much joy had been our portion."20 They
moved to Genoa township nearer the church, just north of Hamburg.21
Dr. Buek served as Pastor there until his death in 1860.22
Meanwhile in the cabin on Pleasant Lake, Max and three
other children were born. Exactly a year to the day after the family first
settled into their new home, on the 26th of October 1839,
Elizabeth Maria Henriette
was born. Two years later on November 22nd, 1841,
Elizabeth Mathilde Henriette arrived.
Max (Ernst Maxamilian Adolph) was born on July 8th,
1844, and his little brother Ben (Carl Aemilius Benjamin) followed on
October 31st, 1846. Three hours after Ben’s birth, his mother
died. She was 41 years old and had borne nine children in eleven years. Max
was only two. When Max was 15 his father also died, on June 30, 1860,23
just 23 days after the census was taken.24
Max then worked to put himself through school in Howell,25
a town northwest of Genoa. His education was “elementary and meager”,26
or he received “a very fair education”, depending upon which source we
choose.27
One employer was a neighbor, Edwin B. Winans, a wealthy and
respected farmer, who had gotten his start in the gold mines of California,
and who later became governor of Michigan. According to Max’s close friend
and associate, Edwin G. Pipp, Max determined then that he would “live in a
better house that Mr. Winans . . . and surround his family with the comforts
of such a home.”28
But first came the war. Max was 18 years old on the 9th
of August 1862 when he enlisted at Hamburg as a private in Co. E of the 26th
Regiment, Michigan Infantry Volunteers. 29 On December 12 the
unit was mustered into service and went to duty first in Suffolk, Virginia,
and next to New York at the time of the draft riots. They then joined the
Army of the Potomac and were to see significant action in Virginia for the
duration of the war, in “the severest and deadliest engagements of the
campaign” leading up to the siege of Petersburg. Finally “they had the
distinction, when the confederates laid down their arms, of being detailed
to remain on the field while the army of General Lee was being paroled, and
assisted in parking the captured artillery.” And they participated in the
grand review of the Army of the Potomac in Washington on May 23rd,
1865. 30
I have copies of 11 letters Max wrote to his brother,
Ben, between 1863 and 1872. Six are from the war years. They are informative
as sources about the war from the perspective of a front line soldier. And
they reveal a young man full of confidence (if not youthful bravado),
happiest in action, optimistic about his future, yet prepared to accept
whatever awaits him. One describes in great detail his experience on March
25th, 1865, the day Lee made his last attempt against Union
forces. Another, written April 21st, 1865, tells about their
final battle, the surrender and his feelings following those events.
Camp 26th Mich Vols
April 21st 1865
. . . . Our Army took Petersburg
the 2nd. Our corps broke through the enemies breastworks about 12 miles
above Pg. We found a great many wounded in their camps whom they had left
for us to take care of. That afternoon we had a very pretty fight. The
Johnnies made a stand at the Danville railroad but we soon routed them and
took several hundred prisoners. The next day our regiment was sent out
scouting. We had fighting and excitement enough to make it interesting. We
took 48 prisoners, 5 of whom were officers. Got plenty of bacon, chickens,
applejack, and molasses. That night we rejoined the Brigade with our
haversacks well filled and big yarns to tell to the other regiments in the
Brigade. We marched that day 15 miles. The 4th & 5th we had hard marching
whenever the Rebs would stop to show fight. The morning of the 6th we
first got sight of the Johneys [sic] train. Our Reg’t was on the skirmish
line & had some pretty brisk fighting. At 11 o’clock we were relieved from
the skirmish line & put in the line of Battle. Our position was along the
road or on the left of our Division and joined on the 3rd Div. The 5th
Michigan are in that Div.
We charged 8 times that day in
line of Battle and drove the enemy each time. Our regt that day had it the
hardest as we were in the road & the Rebs each time made the strongest
stand in the road. Our Corps took that day five battle flags, 30 pieces of
Artillery & 8 wagon trains of some 300 wagons. I have forgotten the exact
number of prisoners that were taken. But our regt alone took 175.
That night we lived well for
there was plenty of meat, flour, meal & liquors of most every kind in the
wagons. I need not say that the most of us were pretty tight while others
were decidedly loose that night for that was a thing of course. Then in
the morning we started & for about 10 miles we marched without doing
fighting at last we came upon them again. Our regt was on the skirmish
line again & this time it was a lucky thing for us. We drove their
skirmishers for about 1 mile when we came to their breastworks & of course
we could go no farther. We got up as close as we could & began popping
away whenever one Johnny showed his head above the breastworks. Then the
rest of the Div. came up & our 1st Brigade was ordered out to charge the
works which they did. The Johnnies let them come to within a few rods &
then let them have a volley. Our men kept on and some got over the works
but only to be taken prisoner or killed for the rebs had a heavy line of
battle in the rear of those in the works. After they fired they charged on
our men & drove them back. Over one half of those that went did not come
back. Our Brigade has lost heavier than any in the Corps. We went out with
2000 men of which there are only 900 left now. The 8th had but little
fighting & the 9th Old Lee gave up. He had 62,000 men when he left
Richmond. After the surrender I went in to the Rebels camp & traded with
them. I got a knife, a ring & a gold pen & a lot of Confederate money. We
have done the work, thank God. The news came in that Old Johnston had
surrendered too.
[In margin]: But a cloud has
darkened all our brightness the one that we wanted most has been brutally
murdered, confound their black hearts. But one consolation is we now have
a good man to take his place and Johnson will be all the more severe with
them. Since the surrender, I have been quite discontented and at times
almost homesick. . . .31
During his service Max contracted typhoid fever, which
apparently had a debilitating effect on him for the remainder of his life.
His medical file shows him "Feb 29 & Apr 30, 64 sick in Washington, D. C.
June 30/64 in Convalescent Camp, Bedloes Island N. Y. Harbor." 32
His tent mate, Nelson Hinckley, in a deposition
for Max’s pension file, recalled bathing him and caring for him “for several
days before he was sent to Hospital.” Nevertheless he returned to service
and was in the Regiment until June 4th, 1865, when he mustered out with his
comrades, as a corporal, at Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia. It was on August
4th, 1865, that his brother Ben said he first saw his brother
after the war "at a picnic given to the soldiers at Brighton, Michigan."33
But Max did not stay long at home. By the spring of 1866
he was in Kansas. Again in a letter to Ben he told about his journey to
Kansas and settling in.
Burlingame, Kansas
April 21st, 1866
Dear Ben,
Having at last arrived at a
place where I intend to remain for a short time I will write at once and
let you know of my whereabouts. Burlingame is a city in which there are 3
stores, 1 grocery, a blacksmith shop, post office and a hotel and is the
county seat of Osage county. I shall probably remain here through the
season and see how I like the country and if I like it buy in the fall.
You can buy land here from $1.25 to $15.00 an acre and they tell me if a
man has a little money and just watches his chance very often he can buy
land here for less than what the improvement cost them. I am going to work
around here and just watch for a chance or else if I get a good chance to
drive a team across the plains I may go to the gold regions, but that will
depend all together on what they pay to drive. . . . . Howlett has bought
a very good farm about ½ mile from town. He has got 2 good log houses, 40
acres improved and a good fence around it, 30 acres timber and [?] of
unbroken prairie and a good well and a creek running through the whole
place. There are 10 acres sown into oats and 20 planted into corn he got
the whole for $1200. Wages are pretty good here. Howlett has gone back to
Lawrence to bring his wife out here and when he comes back I shall
probably go to work for him. They pay $1.25 to $1.50 by the day. What they
pay by the month I do not know as there is no one to hire. What little I
have seen of the country I like first rate. There is good farming here,
all the fault I can find is scarcity of timber. But they do not need so
much timber as they do in Michigan because they have so much coal. They
find coal on nearly every section of land and for building purposes they
have stones. There are kind of ridges run all through the prairie which
are full of these stones just piled up of great nice flat stones. I like
Kansas the best of any state I have been in yet. Missouri in some parts is
full as nice but the people there are such a horrible set of heathen. We
were in Mo. 5 days looking around. We like the country well enough but not
the people. In Ill. we staid [sic] nearly a week. We went to see
the Kankakee prairie of which we had heard so much. But we got stuck in
the mud there and as soon as we could get out we hiked for St. Louis, Mo.
We came through Logan Co., Ill, where Ernst used to live but did not stop.
Next time when I write I will tell you all about my travels. This time I
have neither paper nor time.
Rob has gone for my trunk as I want to send
this out by todays mail. I have had lots of fun since I left home and
spent lots of money too. It cost me over $100 coming out here.34
It did not take him until the fall to find land and
decide to stay in Kansas. James Haller, who became the Buek family
physician, wrote in support of Max’s pension application that in the spring
of 1866 he was already on "a farm - raw prairie - on which he had a shanty,
living alone, keeping a so called Bachelor's Hall, doing his own cooking,
very indifferently done, eating irregularly, working early & late in all
kinds of weather . . . " A. Pope also related that Max on occasion lodged
with him that spring, perhaps when he needed a proper meal. And C. G. Crumb,
(who is this writer’s first cousin three times removed) testified that Max
took a piece of land in his neighborhood in 1866. 35
He apparently rented land for the first two
years.36
But by 1870 he owned land valued at $3,000.37
He worked the land to develop a productive farm,
and he taught school to raise funds, first in Havana, four miles from
Burlingame,38 and
later in Alma, 32 miles away, where he lived with the family of S. H.
Fairchild, the County Treasurer, and taught English and German.39
How hard he worked in those early days is described in a
‘Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek” by his business associate, Edwin G. Pipp.
“It has been told to me that while plowing, when spring work was rushing,
instead of resting on the plow handle while the team was resting, he would
have handy a bag of seed and would step to an adjoining field and sow till
the team had time to become refreshed, when he would return and again go on
with the plowing. He did almost two men’s work when getting his start and
made every stroke tell.”40 While there can be no doubt that the
times and conditions required hard work, Max was determined and was capable
of bearing hardship in good humor.
Burlingame, Kansas
October 20th 1866
Dear Ben,
Your welcome letter dated Oct 7
came to hand a few days ago and found us enjoying usual good health and in
the best of spirits. I have a right to be in good spirits as I am blessed
with such extra good luck. I suppose I might as well tell you of what my
good luck consists of, so here goes. 1st. I sowed 10 acres of wheat and
got 10,000,000 nice fat grasshoppers. I had to go 40 miles after the seed
but that is nothing. I have got all those fat grasshoppers and won’t have
any harvesting to do another summer. 2nd Three months ago bought 6 steers
about 5 miles from here, did not bring them home on account of the Spanish
fiver [sic] in this neighborhood. Last Sunday week I went up to look at
them I found 4 out of the 6 dead, now if the other two will only die you
see it will save us the trouble of driving them home which would be very
nice. 3rd We have a stupid calf that had the consumption and we have been
feeding it fresh milk for the last 4 months and now it has died also, so
we don’t have to feed it anymore fresh milk and consequently can make more
butter. I could name a good many more lucky events. But if you cannot see
the beauty of Kansas from what I have already told you, you must be
willfully blind and of no use for me to try to convince you to the truth.
. . . . I intend to stick to Kansas until the last dog is hung. It suits
me just fine here.41
By 1870 Ben was also in Kansas for a while living
northwest of Burlingame,42 next door to C. G. Crumb43
and just two houses away from Laura Etta Crumb and her five children.44
The Crumbs were to play a central role in Max’s future. Laura’s
husband had died of pneumonia two years earlier,45 and her health
was fragile. Ben must have returned to Michigan because Max was writing to
him there again in 1872, and there are frequent references to Mrs. Crumb in
his letters. Sept 25th: “Mrs. Crumbs health is poor. She spits a
great deal of blood.”46 The story, as related by my father, Max’s
grandson, was that Max told Mrs. Crumb he would marry her daughter, Lucy,
and take care of her other children if anything happened to her.47
Lucy and Max married April 2nd, 1874, in her mother’s home. Lucy was
16 and Max was 29.48 Her mother died “of consumption” just two
months later, on June 8th.49 Max Buek and H. Dubois were the
executors of her will and the guardians of her children.50
Lucy and Max had five children. The first two daughters,
Laura and Mary (my grandmother) were born on February 5th, Laura
in 1877, just ten months after the marriage, and Mary in 1879. Next came
their oldest son, Adolph, on December 5th, 1881; then Jessie
Bertha, December 10th, 1883; Clare Martha, February 6th,
1891 and Karl Max on March 29th, 1893.51
And Max prospered.
In 1883 he lived on his quarter section
. . two and one-half
miles southeast of Burlingame. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising;
and he has 160 acres where he resides, well improved. His dwelling house
is one and one-half stories; main part 16x30 feet, ell 16x24 feet, with
porches; contains twelve rooms, was built in 1878 at a cost of $1,300.
Barn 20x24 feet, capacity for eight horses, has granaries and corn cribs.
Bearing orchard of 1,000 trees of all varieties. Has 270 head of cattle,
eight horses and 200 hogs. 52
He continued to acquire “good bottom farms and pasture
land, having at the time of his death 1,360 acres in splendid condition.”53
Max approached farming as a business, “with his head as
well as his hands”,54 and became highly skilled in managing his
land and his livestock.55 E. G. Pipp, in explaining Max’s
success, wrote:
Mr. Buek often said
that in conducting his business he found cheap help dear. He was ever
willing to pay a good price for labor but he wanted good workers and
trustworthy men. . . . [He] kept an account of each field and each herd of
cattle. He knew the cost of each crop and the receipts from it. He knew
what to continue with and what to let alone – that is he knew these things
as fully as close application and systematic study could reveal them to
any man. . . . He always lived within his income. . . . He was honest in
his transactions for honor’s sake as well as from his own innate spirit of
fairness. It is generally known that when buying stock of any kind a widow
or child, not informed as to the market, would always get the full value
from him.56
He “delighted in” politics, and he was elected to the State
Legislature in 1882 as an independent Republican candidate. In 1892 he was
chairman of the county central committee for the Republican party.57
He built the home he had imagined as a young man working for Mr.
Winans in Michigan. It was “ . . . a handsome and commodious house . . . .
elegant . . . and with all the modern conveniences, both for comfort and
pleasure. It is warmed with hot water radiators and lit with gas, in the
rooms and hall ways are fireplaces. . . . in the third story [he] has placed
a billiard and a pool table.” In 1891 he became the owner of the principal
newspaper for the county, the Osage County Chronicle “and wished to
see [it] brought to the highest possible mark of success. His editor
wrote, . . . we never saw a man get more solid enjoyment out of life than he
was then getting.”58
But Max’s physical strength was not equal to his mental
determination, and on February 5th, 1894, four years after
building his “city” dream home he succumbed to anemia on the birthday of his
two oldest daughters and the eve of the birthday of the youngest. He was 49.59
The praise published in his obituary, in Edwin G. Pipps’
“Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek”, and in the depositions for his and his
widow’s pension application portray a man who was a hero to many.
Characteristic are the words of Nelson Hinkley, his wartime tent mate who
had known him since childhood:
"
. . . a bettr soldier never shouldered a musket, he
was the soul of honor and manhood . . . . a more Truthfull, upright, honest,
moral, liberal man never trod shoe leather." [sic]60
But Max would not have chosen that adulation. He was of a
“modest and backward temperament, never pushing himself forward. He usually
talked in a low tone and what he did was done without any great
pretensions.”61 In his will he requested that, “ . . . only a
plain and practicably inexpensive monument be erected at my grave . . .”
62
Max’s self-deprecating remarks in his letters to Ben
contrast amusingly with the serious words of his admirers:
I shall
cut all the hay
on my place. The weeds I take to the miners and keep the good hay for Shep
and myself. I tell the miners what nice hay it is they say “yes indeed”. I
never say a word about the nice yellow flowers and they don’t find fault
about them so it is all right. We weigh the hay when I get an early start so
I can load before the dew is off.63
I have worked harder
this year than ever before, in fact have worked too damned hard. I am just
worked out. This milking from 6-10 cows night and morning isn’t what its
cracked up to be. 64
I am going to quit
swearing next Sunday – be damned if I don’t.65
As for the tombstone, Lucy appears to have compromised.
The stone is somewhat grander than most in the Burlingame cemetery, but
certainly smaller than the grandest. 66 It is clear from the
probate file that Lucy seldom compromised in matters of spending. While Max
may have lived within his income, he apparently spoiled his wife, and her
habits eventually drove Max’s exasperated nephew, Henry, to resign as
executor of the estate. That too has become a family legend, one that is
thoroughly documented in the probate file.
After Max’s death, Lucy’s income was supplemented by
pensions. Max’s, which had been denied at first, was paid post-humously -
$12 monthly for the period November 25, 1892 until his death February 6,
1894. Lucy’s application for a widow’s pension was rejected “on the grounds
soldiers death from anaemia and exhaustion is not accepted as a result of
typho-malaria . . . or otherwise shown to be due to his military service.”
However as minors his children did receive a pension beginning April 26,
1897 at $8 a month plus $2 for each child. By the time Karl, the youngest
child, had come of age the pension amounted to $14 monthly. 67
At the end of her life in 1936 Lucy no longer lived in
the grand house, which had been severely damaged by fire in 1930, but was
with her youngest son back on the farm her parents had owned. That house was
destroyed by fire just a few weeks before her death, and she returned to the
Dragoon farm, Max’s original property. That was the home of her oldest son,
and it is still farmed by Max and Lucy’s great grandson with whom I have
just spoken, and who, as I write these, words, is bringing in the hay after
an early morning rain.68
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Endnotes
1. Maximilian A. Buek, Civil War pension
file no. SO1139273, SC448170, WO597790, WC919425, MO653050, Records of the
Veterans Administration, Record Group 15, National Archives, Washington;
Edwin G. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek," The Plebeian Vol.
1, No. 6 (May 1894).
2. Pension file.
3. Dolf Jesse Jennings, birth certificate
no. 328840, (18 Oct 1905), Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, State
of Idaho, Boise, Idaho.
4. Hon. Max Buek [obituary], Osage County
Chronicle, Burlingame, Kansas, 8 Feb 1894, page 2, column 1.
5. Ernst A. Buek household, 1850 U. S.
census, Livingston County, Michigan, population schedule, Genoa Township,
page 786, line 997, National Archives micropublication M342, roll 356; Ernst
Buek household, 1860 U. S. census, Livingston County, Michigan, population
schedule, Genoa Township, page 245, dwelling 20, family 20, National
Archives micropublication M653, roll 552; S. H. Fairfield household, 1870 U.
S. census, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, population schedule, Alma Township,
page 258, dwelling 21, family 21, National Archives micropublication M593,
roll 442; Max Buek household, 1880 U. S. census, Osage County, Kansas,
population schedule, Dragoon Township, enumeration district [ED] 31,
supervisor's district [SD] 2, page 9, dwelling 90, family 90, National
Archives micropublicationT9, roll 391; Max Buek household, 1885 Kansas State
census, Osage County, population schedule, Dragoon Township, page 10,
dwelling 5, family 5, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kansas, micropublication #10350, roll K-100.
6. "Descriptive Roll of Company E, 26th
Regiment, Michigan Infantry Volunteers", page 31; Michigan State Archives;
717 West Allegan, Lansing, Michigan 48918-0001.
7. Pension file.
8. Letter from Max Buek (White House
Landing, Va.) to his brother Ben Buek, 29 Jun 1863; Letter from Max Buek
(Near Petersburg, Va.) to his brother Ben Buek, 18 Sep 1864; Letter from Max
Buek (unknown author address) to his brother Ben Buek, [late 1864]; Letter
from Max Buek (Camp 26th Vol. Before Petersburg) to his brother Ben Buek, 27
Mar 1865; Letter from Max Buek (Burk Station, Va.) to his brother Ben Buek,
16 Apr 1865; Letter from Max Buek (Burk Station, Va.) to his brother Ben
Buek, 16 Apr 1865; Letter from Max Buek (Burlingame, Kansas) to his brother
Ben Buek, 21 Apr 1866; Letter from Max Buek (Burlingame, Kansas) to his
brother Ben Buek, 10 Oct 1866; Letter from Max Buek (Dragoon, Kansas) to his
brother Ben Buek, 16 Jun 1872; Letter from Max Buek (Dragoon, Kansas) to his
brother Ben Buek, 25 Aug 1872; Letter from Max Buek (Dragoon, Kansas) to his
brother Ben Buek, 25 Sep 1872; all transcripts held by Arlene Jennings (Box
308, Tyringham, MA 10128).
9. Hon. Max Buek [obituary],
Osage County Chronicle.
10. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek".
11. Max Buek, Probate file 412, Clerk of the
District Court, Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas.
12. "Biographical Information on Dr. Ernst
Adolph Buek," Robert Lee Watson (Howell, Michigan), to Arlene Jennings (Box
308, Tyringham, MA 01264), in the files of Arlene Jennings.
13. [D. Dwenger and E. Bode], Die Familie
Buek: Stammbaum der hamburgischen Buek , (Hamburg, Germany and Howell,
Michigan, 1940)
14. Dwenger and Bode], Die Familie Buek,
translation of E. A. Buek’s account of his life.
15. Watson, "Dr. Ernst Adolph Buek".
16. [Dwenger and Bode], Die Familie Buek,
translation of E. A. Buek’s account of his life.
17. [Dwenger and Bode],
Die Familie Buek.
18. Ibid.
19. Watson, "Dr. Ernst Adolph Buek".
20. [Dwenger and Bode], Die Familie Buek,
translation of E. A. Buek’s account of his life.
21. Sources conflict as to the dates and
location of the building of the church and the family’s residence, and more
research is required.
22. [Dwenger and Bode],
Die Familie Buek.
23. Ibid.
24. 1860 U. S. census, Livingston County,
Michigan, population schedule, Genoa Township, page 245, dwelling 20, family
20
25. Hon. Max Buek [obituary],
Osage County Chronicle.
26. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek;
27. Hon. Max Buek [obituary],
Osage County Chronicle.
28. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek.
29. Pension file;
"Descriptive Roll of Company E".
30. Record of Service of Michigan
Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Lansing, Michigan: Michigan
Legislature).
31. Letter, Max Buek to Ben Buek, 21 Apr
1865.
32. Pension file;
"Descriptive Roll of Company E".
33. Pension file.
34. Letter, Max Buek to Ben Buek, 21 Apr
1866.
35. Pension file.
36. William G. Cutler, History of the
State of Kansas, (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883) accessed on line
<http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/wabaunsee/wabaunsee-co-p.5.html>
1 Jul 2001.
37. 1870 U. S. census, Wabaunsee County
County, Kansas, population schedule, Alma Township, page 258, dwelling 21,
family 21.
38. Hon. Max Buek [obituary], Osage
County Chronicle.
39. Ibid.; Wabaunsee County, Kansas,
population schedule, Alma Township, page 258, dwelling 21, family 21.
40. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek.
41. Letter, Max Buek to Ben Buek, 10 Oct
1866.
42. Frederick Ederholt household, 1870 U. S.
census, Osage County, Kansas, population schedule, Burlingame township, page
268, dwelling 35, family 35; National Archives micropublication M593, roll
440.
43. Clifford G. Crumb household, 1870 U. S.
census, Osage County, Kansas, population schedule, Burlingame Township, page
268, dwelling 36, family 36; National Archives micropublication M593, roll
440.
44. Laura Crumb household, 1870 U. S.
census, Osage County, Kansas, population schedule, Burlingame Township, page
268, dwelling 37, family 37; National Archives micropublication M593, roll
440.
45. S. O. Crumb, Probate file 740, Clerk of
the District Court, Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas; [Sanford Oscar Crumb
obituary], Burlingame Osage Chronicle, Burlingame, Kansas, 1 Feb
1868; Sanford O. Crumb tombstone, Burlingame Cemetery, lot 233, Osage
County, Kansas (1 mile south of Burlingame town center on US 56);
photographed by Arlene Jennings, Mar 1995.
46. Letter from Max Buek to Ben Buek, 25 Sep
1872.
47. Interview with Dolf Jennings (108 East
Ash, Oberlin, Kansas 67749), by Arlene Jennings, 10 Jun 1996. Transcript
held by Arlene Jennings (Box 308, Tyringham, MA 01264.)
48. Pension file, Max Buek
Lucy Crumb Marriage certificate.
49. Laura E. Crumb, Probate file 739, Clerk
of the District Court, Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas; [Laura Crumb obituary],
Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame, Kansas, 12 Jun 1874; Laura
B. Crumb tombstone, Burlingame Cemetery, lot 233, Osage County, Kansas (1
mile south of Burlingame town center on US 56); read by Arlene Jennings, 14
Nov 1999.
50. Probate file 739.
51. Pension file.
52. 1870 U. S. census, Wabaunsee County
County, Kansas, population schedule, Alma Township, page 258, dwelling 21,
family 21.
53. Cutler, History of Kansas;
Edwards Brothers, An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Osage County, Kansas
(1879; reprint Lyndon, Kansas: Osage County Historical Society, 1997); Hon.
Max Buek [obituary], Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame, Kansas, 8
Feb 1894, page ?, column 1. (The deeds are a matter of record in the Office
of the Register of Deeds awaiting my next research trip to Kansas. I have
seen them listed, but have yet to copy the data.)
54. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek.
55. Ibid., Hon. Max Buek [obituary],
Osage County Chronicle.
56. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek.
57. Ibid
58. Hon. Max Buek [obituary],
Osage County Chronicle.
59. Pension file.
60. Ibid.
61. Pipp, "Personal Reminiscence of Max Buek.
62. Probate file 412.
63. Letter from Max Buek to Ben Buek 25 Aug
1872.
64. Letter from Max Buek to Ben Buek 16 Jun
1872
65. Ibid.
66. Max Buek tombstone, Burlingame Cemetery,
lot 233, Osage County, Kansas (1 mile south of Burlingame town center on US
56); photographed by Arlene Jennings, Mar 1995.
67. Pension file.
68. Interview with Gary Buek (Burlingame,
KS), by Arlene Jennings, 16 Jul 2001. Transcript held by Arlene Jennings
(Box 308, Tyringham, MA 01264). ¨
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