Buck, Norman
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born April 13, 1833, in Lancaster, N. Y. He served in the union army from 1862 to 1865, rising to the rank of captain. He was judge of probate for Winona county, Minn., from 1865 to 1871.
In 1873 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the same county; in 1878 was appointed United States attorney for the territory of Idaho; and in 1879 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of that territory, and was reappointed in 1884. Since 1892 he has been superior judge of Spokane county, Wash.; and in 1895 was elected commander of the Washington and Alaska Grand Army of the Republic.