My Genealogy Hound

OSCAR MELVIN TUCKER, teacher, Wilkinsburg, was born in Peru, Oxford county, Me., in 1840. His earliest ancestor in this country was Thomas Tucker, who came from England in 1713. He had two brothers, one of whom settled in South Carolina and the other in Western New York. William, his son, was born in Prospect (now Falmouth), and settled in New Gloucester, Me. They were a race of farmers and lumbermen. Eliphalet, son of William, cleared two farms. His leg was broken when he was thirteen years old in his effort to carry an enormous backlog for the fire. His son William married Lydia, sister of Timothy Ludden, and settled on a farm in Peru, where Oscar M. was born. Our subject was reared on the home farm, and educated at Bates College, Lewiston. In 1862 he enlisted for nine months’ service in the 23d Maine Volunteers, Co. F, and served nearly a year in the Army of the Potomac. He then engaged in teaching in the west, at Indianapolis and Tonica, Lacon and Chillicothe, Ill. For the last thirteen years he has been a tutor in the preparatory department of the Western University, with home in Wilkinsburg. He is associated with the East End Baptist Church, the R. A. and the republican party. In 1867 he married a native of Peru, Miss Harriet Emily, daughter of William B. and Charlotte (Thomas) Walton, of English and Welsh ancestry, respectively, and one daughter, Myrtle May, has been born to them.