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US philanthropist and US pathologist, husband and wife Beryl (Elizabeth) H (Hamilton)Buck (1896–1975) and Leonard W Buck (1891–1953). She formed the Leonard and Beryl Buck Foundation Trust, its funds reserved for Marin County's needy and various charitable purposes. The Marin Community Foundation now administers the trust, valued at more than $500 million, for Marin County residents.

She was born in Minnesota and he was born in Vacaville, California. The two met at Roosevelt Hospital in Oakland where she was training to be a nurse and he a doctor. They married a year later (1914). They inherited a fortune from oil with the death of Leonard's parents and built an estate in Ross (Marin County) (1931). Leonard taught at the University of California at San Francisco (1928–51). Leonard died suddenly, leaving all his estate to Beryl. Their oil stock was bought by Shell Oil, increasing the trust's value to $253-million.



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"Betsy" (this was a nigger woman), you fly around and get him something to eat as quick as you can, poor thing; and one of you girls go and wake up Buck and tell him -- oh, here he is himself.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
After throwing aside the thick mittens which had encased his hands, there now appeared a pair of leather gloves tipped with fur; he examined his priming, and was about to move forward, when the light bounding noise of an animal plunging through the woods was heard, and a fine buck darted into the path a short distance ahead of him.
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"Because, my child," replied the Buck, "my temper is so uncertain that if I permit one of those noisy creatures to come into my presence I am likely to forget myself and do him an injury.
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