Series 5: Buck/Butler Families
Scope and Contents
This Series includes correspondence among these family members and professional correspondence and documents, mainly from Charles W. Buck, Benjamin Franklin Brooks, Franklin Herrick Brooks, and Francis Augustus Brooks.
Note: See also Series 1 for correspondence with Charles F. and Eleanor Stabler Brooks, Series 2 for correspondence with Morgan and Frona Marie Brooks, Series 4 for correspondence with Esther Brooks, and Series 6 for business/legal papers of Benjamin Franklin Brooks and Franklin Herrick Brooks.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Frona Marie Brooks's grandfather, Charles Buck (1798-1863) was a Maine lumber merchant. He married Sophronia Herrick (1803-1841) in 1839. The couple had three children, Charles Wentworth Buck (CWB, 1833-1933), a Unitarian minister; Robert Herrick Buck (birth name Jedediah) who pursued gold mining in Colorado, and Charlotte Frances Buck (1828-1907). Charles Wentworth Buck (CWB) married Mary Stearns, and they had six children, but he was survived only by his two daughters, Charlotte Frances and Frona Mary Buck, and no grandchildren. Charles attended Harvard and Amherst and then Meadville Theological Seminary. He served in the pastorate in Massachusetts and Maine, and left the ministry in 1880 to join his brother Robert in Colorado. Late in life, he returned to Massachusetts where he lived with his two daughters.
Robert H. Buck married Julia Fletcher, and they had four children: Robert, Arthur, Sally, and Alice Buck. His sister, Charlotte Frances, married attorney Benjamin Franklin Brooks (BFB) in 1852, and the couple had four children: Frona Marie, Charles, Esther (ECH), and Franklin Herrick Brooks. Extensive business papers of Benjamin Franklin Brooks (1816-1887) and Franklin Herrick Brooks (1866-1922) are included in Series 6 of the collection. The papers of Frona's sisters, Esther Clara Herrick Brooks, are stored in Series 4.
Morgan's grandfather, Caleb Butler, married Clarissa Harriet Littlefield and had a daughter, Frances Butler in 1822. Frances married Francis Augustus Brooks (FAB), a corporate attorney and railroad president, in 1847. This couple had three children: Charles Butler Brooks, Frederick Brooks, and Morgan Brooks.
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