Carl Darling Buck

School of Classical Studies in Athens.He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and since 1921 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The professional and learned societies to which he belonged are too many to list here.Buck, the only child of Edward and Emeline Darling Buck, came from two distinguished New England families.On his father's side his first American ancestor was William Buck, who came from London and settled at Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1635.On his mother's side he was descended from the Darlings, who had settled in Salem around 1640.It was Jonathan Buck, the great-great-grandson of William Buck, who in 1762 moved to what was later Maine and founded Buckstown (now Bucksport) at the mouth of the Penobscot.Jonathan Buck served as a colonel in the Revolution and took an active part in several of the campaigns, including the disastrous Penobscot expedition of 1779.In the same year, the Buck home was burned by the British.Many legends grew up about the name of Colonel Jonathan Buck: one was that he burned a witch, who cursed him saying that her foot would appear on his tomb; another version is that it was his wife who cursed him.In any case, the stone of the tomb shows the undeniable outline of a leg which cannot be erased.Buck's maternal grandfather was the eminent (and very strict and stern) Congregationalist Deacon Darling.Carl was married to Clarinda Darling Swazy on 10 September 1889.To them were born three children: two sons, Carl Edward and Howard Swazy, and one daughter, Clarinda Darling.His wife and sons predeceased him; his sole survivor is his daughter, with whom he lived for several years in his old home at 5609 Kenwood