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 TUCKERMAN

TUDOR

coming well known in many of the lending pub- lications. He removed to New York city in 1845, and in 1853 re-visited England. He never mar- ried. He was a corresponding member of the Massiu-liiLselts Historical society and received the lionorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1850. He edited " The Boston Book " (183G) ; the poems of Wordsworth, with an introductory essay, (1849). and with William Smith, "A Smaller History of English and American Literature," (1870.)' He is the author of : The Italian Sketch- Book (1835): Isabel, or Sicily ; a Pilgrimage (1839); Ramlyles and Reveries (ISil) ; Tlioiights on the Poets (1846), translated into German (1856); Artist Life: or. Sketches of American Painters (1847) ; Characteristics of Literature (1849-51) ; Life of Commodore Silas Talbot, and Tlte Optimist, essays (1850) : A Month in Eng- land, Memorial of Horatio Greenough, Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer, and Mental Por- traits (1853). the latter revised as Essays, Bio- graphical and Critical (1857); John Wakefield Francis (1855) ; Essay on Washington, tcith a Paper on the Portraits of Washington (1859) ; T7i(? Rebellion; its Latent Causes and True Sig- nificance, letters (1861) ; America and Her Com- mentators (1864) ; The Criterion (1866) ; Maga Papers about Paris, and Book of the Artists (1867) ; Life of John Pendleton Kennedy (1871) ; The Spirit of Poetry ; the well-known poems, Love of Fame, Mary, and Apollo Belvidere (lail). and A Sheaf of Verse (1864). The Red- wood library, Newport, R.I., in which city Mr. Tuckerman spent several summers, contains a memorial set of his publications, the gift of his sister. He died in New York city, Dec. 17, 1871. TUCKERMAN, Joseph, philanthropist, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 18, 1778; son of Ed- ward and Elizabeth (Harris) Tuckerman ; grand- son of Edward and Dorothy (Kidder) Tucker- man, and a descendant of John Tuckerman of England and Boston, Mass., 1650. He attended Phillips academy at Andover ; studied under the Rev. Mr. Thacher of Dedham, and was graduated from Harvard college, A.B.. 1798, A.M., 1801, in the class with William Ellery Channing and Josepli Story. He was ordamed to the Unitarian ministry. Nov. 4, 1801. as pastor in Chelsea, Mass.. where he organized the first American Seaman's Friend society ; went abroad in 1816 for his health, and resigned hLs pastorate, Nov. 4, 1826. when he removed to Boston, Mass., to be- gin the ministry-at-large, a city mission for the poor, conducted on a broad basis under the aus- pices of the American Unitarian association, which aftf-rward became connected with the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, an organiza- tion of several parishes for cooperative cliarity. In this capacity by close and scientific investiga-

tion, he developed an original and successful sj-s- tem for administering toward the relief of pau- perism, and in 1828 Friend Street chapel was erected for his use. During a visit to Europe, 1833-34, he assisted in establishing the ministry- at-large in London and Liverpool, his efforts in the latter city resulting in the Tuckerman insti- tute. While in England he became the friend of the Scotcli dramatist and poet, Joanna Baillie, and of Lady Byron, who was actively interested in cliarity reforms. His methods became the model for similar pliilunthropic work in France by Joseph Marie de Geramlo, philosopher and politician. He was first married in June, 1803, to a daughter of Samuel Parkman of Boston, and sec- ondly, Nov. 3, 1808, to Sarah, daughter of Col. Samuel and Sarah (Gray) Gary of Chelsea, Mass., who died in 1839, leaving one son, Joseph, Jr. (1810-1898), a millionaire of Newport, Mass.. who married Lucj' Keating Tuckerman, sister of Henry Theodore Tuckerman (q.v.), and their only son, Ernest, became a well-known artist in Paris. Joseph Tuckerman. Sr., received the honorary de- gree of D.D. from Harvard college in 1824. He is the author of several sermons, essays, tracts and reports, relating to philanthropy, and of : Gleams of Truth ; or. Scenes from Real Life (1835), and Principles and Results of the Ministry at Large in Boston (1838), revised as Elevation of the Poor (1874). Memoirs of his life were written by William Ellery Channing (1841), and by Mary Carpenter (1849). Dr. Tuckerman died in Hav- ana, Cuba, where he had gone for the benefit of his health, April 20, 1840.

TUDOR, William, diplomatist, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 28, 1779; son of Col. William and Delia ( Jarvis) Tudor ; grandson of John and Jane (Varney) Tudor, and of Elias and De- liverance (Atkins) Jarvis, and great-grandson of William Tudor, whose wife (probably Mary) brought their son John from England to Boston, 1714-15. Colonel Tudor (1750-1819), Harvard, A.B., 1769, A.M., 1772, was appointed judge-advo- cate-general with the rank of colonel, serving on Washington's staff, 1775-78 ; was a member of the Massachusetts house and senate ; secretary of state, 1809-10, and clerk of the supreme court, 1811-19. He is the autlior of various addresses, in- cluding " The Boston Massacre " (1779), and his memoir was published by the Massachusetts His- torical society, of which he was a founder. His wife, Delia (Jarvis) Tudor (1753-1843). a Tory, wrote the memorial lines on the battle of Bunker Hill, published in the Xatioiial Intelligencer. June 24, 1843, on the occasion of thecomj^letion of the Bunker Hill monument at Cliarlestown. Mass. Tlieir son, William Tudor, attended Phillips An- dover academ}'. and was graduated from Har- vard. A.B., 179G, A.M., 1799. He was soon after