BUCK, JIRAH D. – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

UCK,
JIRAH D., M. D., of Cincinnati, O., was born in Fredonia, Chautauqua
county, N. Y., November 20th, 1839. He attended the common schools until
the death of his father threw him, at the early age of thirteen,
entirely on his own resources for a living and an education.

     On the breaking out of
the war of the Rebellion, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in
“Merril’s Horse,” then encamped at Fort Benton ; was
elected orderly by his comrades ; in a few days was sent to the
hospital, from which, after two months severe illness, he was discharged
as unfit for service, and not likely to reach home alive. He went to
Battle Creek, Mich., where he soon regained his health ; engaged in
teaching in the latter part of the winter, and, in the spring of 1862,
entered the office of Dr. Smith Rogers, at Battle Creek, with whom he
assiduously studied medicine.

     Graduating at the
Cleveland Homœopathic College, in the spring of 1864, he returned to
Battle Creek, to commence practice. In the fall of that year, he was
married to Miss Clough, of Frederica, N. Y., and, in the following
February, removed to Sandusky City, O. Two years after, he was tendered
a position in his

Alma
Mater, and for
four years occupied the chair of Physiology and Microscopy in the
Cleveland Homœopathic College. Removing to Cincinnati, in 1870, he
assisted in the organization of the Pulte Medical College, which was
completed by the generous endowment of Dr. Pulte, and by the purchase of
a large and commodious edifice, and was opened for the admission of
students in September, 1872. During the first year of his residence in
Cincinnati, he took charge of the Cincinnati Homœopathic Dispensary ;
and is now the Professor of Physiology and Microscopy in the Pulte
Medical College, and Registrar of the Faculty. He has made frequent
contributions to current literature. The difficulties of his early life,
which were met in a manly and resolute spirit, served to develop the
best and noblest traits of his character. His success in his maturer
years, and his acknowledged influence in his profession, may be largely
attributed to the self-reliance with which he met his lot.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave