This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buck, Mars, Gray, McVicar Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VYG.2ACIB/1545 Message Board Post: A biography/family history of Cyrus Buck is included in "Montana, Its Story & Biography", Vol 2, pgs 608 & 609. Parents: Orville & Lavina (Mars) Buck, born in Indiana & Minnesota, respectively. Cyrus was educated in the schools of Minnesota & at age 18 moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and worked on the railroad. 1 April 1887, he came to Silverbow, MT, to Fort Benton, where he was employed as a cowboy. In 1894, he homesteaded near Lost Lake, Choteau county, MT. On 11 Jan 1899, Fort Benton, MT, Cyrus married Miss Margaret McVicar Gray, born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her parents were William and Isabel (McVicar) Gray, natives of Scotland, who located to Minneapolis, MN, in 1880 & moved to a ranch in Choteau County, MT, in 1881. Buck children: Marion McVicar, Jack, Margaret A., Grace B., Robert R. I am not related.