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Rh His theological opinions were Arminian, and in his controversies with Calvinistic clergymen he enlivened argument with wit and satire. The dissident members of his congregation seceded to join the Presbyterian society of which Jonathan Parsons was pastor. Mr. Tucker received the degree of D. D. from Harvard in 1787. Among his publications were "Four Sermons" (1756); "On the Doctrines and Uncharitableness of Jonathan Parsons" (1757); "An Account of an Ecclesiastical Council, to which is annexed a Discourse, being a Minister's Appeal to his Hearers as to his Life and Doctrines" (1767); and a Dudleian lecture at Harvard on "The Validity of Presbyterian Ordination" (1778).

TUCKER, Joshua Thomas, clergyman, b. in Milton, Mass., 20 Sept., 1812. He was graduated at Yale in 1833, and at Lane theological seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1837, became pastor of a Presbyterian church at Chester, Ill., in the latter year, then of one in Hannibal, Mo., in 1840, and in 1846 of a church in St. Louis, where in 1847-8 he edited the "Herald of Religious Liberty." He took charge in 1849 of a Congregational church in Holliston, Mass., remaining till 1867, afterward preached in Chicopee Falls for ten years, and since 1877 has resided in Boston. He was editor of the "Boston Review," a Congregational magazine, in 1861-'8, also of the "Boston Recorder" in 1863-'4, and in 1871-'7 was an editorial writer on the Springfield "Daily Evening Union." The University of Iowa gave him the degree of D. D. in 1875. Dr. Tucker is the author of a life of Christ, entitled "The Sinless One, or the Life Manifested" (Boston, 1855), and "Christ's Infant Kingdom" (1870).

TUCKER, Josiah, English clergyman, b. in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, in 1711; d. in Gloucester, England, 4 Nov., 1799. He was graduated at Oxford and ordained a priest of the English church. He was appointed curate of St. Stephen's church, Bristol, in 1737, soon afterward promoted to be a minor canon of the cathedral, and was made rector of St. Stephen's in 1749. In 1756 he was nominated prebendary of Bristol, and he became dean of Gloucester in 1758. Dr. Tucker was famous for his pamphlets on politics and political economy in the latter half of the 18th century, but especially for his views on the relations of the American colonies to the mother country. He held that a separation would be no loss to the latter, and that the English parliament should by solemn act separate the colonies from the parent government and disregard any application for restoration to the rights and privileges of British subjects until by humble petition they should ask for pardon and reinstatement. During the war he was frequently in conflict with Edmund Burke, who treated his views on the causes of the troubles between Great Britain and her colonies with little ceremony. In his pamphlets on political economy he anticipated some of the views of Adam Smith. His most noteworthy works are "The Elements of Commerce and Theory of Taxes" (Bristol, 1753); "Four Tracts, together with Two Sermons, on Political and Commercial Subjects" (Gloucester, 1774); "Treatise concerning Civil Government" (London, 1781); "Cui Bono?" (1782); and "Reflections on the Present Matters of Dispute between Great Britain and Ireland" (1775).

TUCKER, Luther, editor, b. in Brandon, Vt., 7 May, 1802; d. in Albany, N. Y., 26 Jan., 1873. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade when he was fourteen years of age, in Middlebury, Vt., and followed his employer to Palmyra, N. Y., in 1817. On the expiration of his service he travelled as a journeyman through the middle and New England states. In 1825 he entered into partnership with Henry C. Sleight in Jamaica, L. I., where they published standard works for New York houses. Later he removed to Rochester, and on 27 Oct., 1826, issued the initial number of the Rochester "Daily Advertiser," the first daily newspaper published west of Albany. The absence of any suitable agricultural reading early impressed itself on his mind, and on 1 Jan., 1831, he established "The Genesee Farmer," which met with considerable success. In 1839 he sold the "Advertiser," which is still continued under the title of the "Rochester Union and Advertiser." Meanwhile he had purchased a farm near Rochester and devoted himself to its cultivation and the management of his paper, but in 1839 he was induced to combine "The Cultivator" of Albany with his journal, and accordingly in 1840 the two in one were issued from Albany as "The Cultivator: a Consolidation of Buel's Cultivator and the Genesee Farmer." In 1853 he established "The Country Gentleman," weekly, with which "The Cultivator" was finally combined in 1866 under the united titles, and it is still published by Mr. Tucker's sons.—His son, Willis Gaylord, educator, b. in Albany, N. Y., 31 Oct., 1849, was graduated at the Albany academy in 1866, and at Albany medical college in 1870. A year later he became assistant in chemistry at the medical college, and he has since continued his relations with that institution, becoming full professor in 1876, and in 1887 professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry and toxicology. In 1881 he was one of the founders of the Albany college of pharmacy, and became professor of chemistry, in addition to which, since 1883, he has been its president. Besides the foregoing he was professor of chemistry at the Albany academy, the Albany female academy, and the Albany high-school in 1876-'87, and has been lecturer on chemistry at St. Agnes's school since 1874. He was appointed analyst to the state board of health in 1881, and still holds that office, and he has been registrar of the Albany medical college since 1882, secretary of its alumni association since its organization in 1874, member of the board of governors of Union university, and a member of the state board of medical examiners of the board of regents of the University of the state of New York. The honorary degree of Ph. G. was conferred on him by the Albany college of pharmacy in 1882, and that of Ph. D. by Union in 1882. He is a member of scientific societies, and has contributed largely to scientific journals and proceedings on chemical subjects. He was editor of the "Albany Medical Annals " in 1882-7.

TUCKER, Mary Eliza, author, b. in Cahawba, Ala., 6 Nov., 1838. Her maiden name was Perine. She was educated at a boarding-school in New York, and, after her return to the south, married John M. Tucker, of Milledgeville, Ga. Her husband and her father lost all their property during the civil war, and she came to New York to procure a publisher for a volume of poems that she had written, and to obtain employment as a journalist. After struggling with poverty for a time, she was entirely successful, and became a regular contributor to the "Ledger" and other New York papers. Her first volume of "Poems" (New York, 1867) was strongly colored by the writer's southern sympathies during the war, but was marked by sincerity and pathos. "Loew's Bridge, a Broadway Idyl" (i868) also attracted much attention. She is the author of a "Life of Mark M. Pomeroy " (1868). In 1871 she married Col. James H. Lambert, of the