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��GRANITE MONTHLY,

A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE

Devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress.

VoL.Y. APRIL, 1882. JSTo. 7.

HON. THOMAS LOGAN TULLOCK.

��RY GEORGE N. ROBERTS.

THOMAS LOGAN TULLOCK, son of Captain William and Mary (Neal) TuUock, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, February ii, 1820. His father was a native of Slromness, Scotland, and " sailed from the Arcadian shores in 1792, for Philadelphia, thence to Portsmouth, from which port he afterwards hailed. He was a thorough seaman, a skillful navigator, and a successful shipmaster."* His mother, Mary Neal, was a native of Ports- mouth ; of the families of Neal and Lear, who were among the early settlers on the Piscataqua river in the vicinity of Sagamore Creek. f

The subject of this sketch was educated at the public schools of Portsmouth, and left the High School on State street, of which the late Col. Chandler E. Potter was principal, to enter the counting house of Major Samuel Larkin, a noted auctioneer and commission merchant of that town, April 21, 1834. While attending school, his spare time for a year or more previous to 1834, was employed as clerk in the grocery store of the late William Bodge, on Ceres street, near Spring Hill Market. Thomas remained with Major Larkin until May 24, 1841, upwards of seven years, developing during this term of service rare talents as an accountant and remarkable capacity for mercantile pursuits. His integrity and reliability, combined with quickness of perception, exactness and promptitude in all business matters, attracted attention and gave him a valuable reputation in the days of his early manhood.

His employer was an eminent merchant of the old school, well and favora- bly known as a very correct and thorough business man, always genial and affable, but dignified in his manner. During the war of 181 2, he became very popular as an auctioneer, and usually sold the cargoes of the numerous prizes brought by the American privateers into Portsmouth and other ports between Portland and Boston. His happy humor, quick repartee and decisive business tact, rendered him almost incomparable in his profession. He con- tinued to do an extensive business until the advent of railroads into Ports- mouth, about 1840, when the trade of that town greatly changed. Previous to that time large consignments of merchandise of various kinds from Boston and elsewhere, were sent to Portsmouth by the many coasting vessels regularly entering that port.

t" Granite Monthly," April 1881, pages 266-271.
 * See sketch iu Granite Monthly, May, 1880, pages 311-313 aud September, 1881, pages 490-499.

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