John Graham Buick
John Graham Buick, a farmer of the Yellow Springs neighborhood, is one of those fortunate individuals who have never been disturbed by a change of residence, he still residing in the house in which he was born on November 1, 1855, the house in which his parents spent their last days. These parents were William and Janet (Syme) Buick, natives of Scotland, the former born in 1810 and the latter, January 20, 1811, who were married in August, 1848, and who came to this country in 1853.
William Buick was a stonemason and the first work he performed in his line upon coming here was in helping to build Antioch College at Yellow Spring. He bought a tract of land in the neighborhood of the village, the place now owned by his son, John G., and there established his home, carrying on farming operations in addition to his labors as a stonemason, and he was thus engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring there on February 3, 1861. His widow survived him for many years, her death occurring in that same house on October 15, 1892. They were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born, the others being: Margaret S., who was born in 1849 iri the village of Dunfermline, in Fifeshire, Scotland, the same village in which Andrew Carnegie was born; James, who was born in the city of Glasgow, September 2, 1850, and who died in 1883, and William, born at Yellow Springs, who died in childhood.
Reared on the home place in the neighborhood of Yellow Springs, John G. Buick completed his local schooling at Antioch College and then took a course in the Normal School at Lebanon, after which he resumed his place on the home farm and has ever since been operating the same, continuing there to make his residence in the house in which he was born. Mr. Buick is a Republican, as was his father, the latter having voted for Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States, but the only public office he has held has been as a member of the school board. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church at Clifton.
On October 12, 1915, John Graham Buick was united in marriage to Mrs. Etta Blanche (Callison) Campbell, of Yellow Springs, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Janet Blanche, bom on May 8, 1917. By her previous marriage Mrs. Buick is the mother of one child, a son, Horace A. Campbell, who was born on August 24, 1911. Mrs. Buick was born in the neighboring county of Clark, daughter of Willard E. and Jennie (Dudley) Callison, who are living in the vicinity of Hustead, in that county, where Mr. Callison is engaged in market gardening. Mrs. Buick has one brother, Arges Carl Callison, who married Mabel Weaver and lives at Springfield, and two sisters, Ethel May, who married Albert Beeler, a Clark county farmer, and has three children, Harold, Ruth and Louise; and Leva Margaret Callison. who is living at Springfield.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918