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Washington "Sentinel" in 1853, and was elected printer to the United States Senate in December of that year. In 1857 he was appointed consul to Liverpool, remaining until 1861. He was sent by the Confederate government in 1862 to England and France, and in i(Sr)3-64 to Canada, to obtain commis- sary supplies. After the war ended he went to Alexico and was there until Maximilian's brief reign was over, then returned to the United States, residing in Washington, D. C. and Berkeley Springs. W^est Virginia. He married Jane Ellis.

fl\') John Randolph Tucker, son of Na- thaniel Beverley and Jane (Ellis) Tucker, was born September 7. 1848. died in Rich- mond, July 5, 1880, and is buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery. He was a man of most at- tractive personality, a lawyer and editor, of brilliant mind and attainments. He was a graduate of Washington and Lee Univer- sity, and practiced law in Charleston. West Virginia, and as a partner of Hon. John Randolph Tucker, his uncle in Staunton, \'irginia. and was also editor of a daily paper in Charleston. West Virginia, and wrote editorials for New York papers. He had many friends who mourned his untimely death and crowded St. Paul's Church to honor his memory on the day of his funeral. July 7, 1880. He married Fannie Booth Crump, daughter of Judge William W^iod and Mary Susan (Tabb) Crump.

(V) P)everley Randolph Tucker, of Rich- mond, Virginia, eldest son of John Ran- dolph and Fannie Booth (Crum])) Tucker, was liorn in Richmond, Virginia, April 26, 1874. He attended Richmond and Virginia schools until eighteen years of age. then began work, acquiring his medical education through his own efforts. He attended the Norwood and high schools of Richmond, and spent two years at the Virginia Military Institute, not being able to afford the full course. In 1893 he was a clerk in Richmond, continuing until 1901. but his fixed prefer- ence and ambition was for the medical pro- fession, and when he had solved the finan- cial problems standing between him and his ambition, he entered the i\Iedical Col- lege of Virginia, whence he was graduated M. D. with the class of 1905. Afterward, for two and a half years, he took post-grad- uate work in nervous diseases in Philadel- phia. New York and Europe.

He began practice in Richmond as a spe- cialist in nervous diseases at once and so continues, well established and prosperous. His integrity, business ability and pleasing address, have won for him many friends, not only professionally, but outside. In 1909 he became president of the (j. L. Hall Op- tical Company, and in the same year presi- dent of the company and editor of the "Old Dominion Journal of ]\Iedicine and Sur- gery." He is professor of nervous and men- tal diseases at the Medical College of \'ir- ginia. and president of the Neurological Sanitarium Corporation. All of these organ- izations are in Richmond. His investigations on Pellagra, and his forthcoming book on "Nervous Children.'' are directly in the line of public service, as are all his papers on Pellagra in the United States. He is one of the editors of the British Medical Annual for 1914 and wrote the section on Pellagra. Pie has done original work on pituitary gland diseases of the brain, and has re- cently completed a sketch of the life of Dr. S. Weir ?vlitchell, under whom he was trained in Philadelphia. Dr. Tucker has won two prizes for medical essays in the "New York Medical Journal."

Dr. Tucker was for two years, 1893 to 1895. a member of the Richmond Light In- fantry Blues, having had two years previous training as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute. He is a member of the various medical societies of the city and state ; Pi Mu medical fraternity, the ^\'estmoreland Club and the Country Club of Virginia. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and a Democrat in politics.

Dr. Tucker married. April 3. 1907, Elsie, daughter of Robert and Mary Boyd, grand- daughter of Frances Boyd and W'illiam Townes. and a descendant of the Scotch emigrant, Alexander Boyd, who settled in Virginia at an early day. Children of Dr. and Mrs. Tucker: Mary Hannah. Elsie Boyd, and Weir Mitchell Tucker. The frimilv home is at 208 East h>anklin street.

Reaumur Coleman Stearnes, is a member of a well known family, whose home had been in Massachusetts for many years, from the day the good ship "Aral)ella." landed his paternal ancestor. Charles Stearnes. in Boston harbor, in 1628. Mr. Stearnes is a distinguished meml)er of an imusual family.