El Paso County, History of Colorado, BIOS: TUCKER, Beverly, M.D. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 403-404




	BEVERLEY TUCKER, M. D.

	Dr. Beverley Tucker, who since 1892 has engaged in the practice 
of medicine and surgery at Colorado Springs, where the name has long 
figured as a synonym for most efficient professional service, was born 
in Richmond, Virginia, in 1867. His father, Beverley St. George Tucker, 
was a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, and was fifty-five years of age 
when he passed away in 1894. He was the son of Judge Nathaniel Beverley 
Tucker of Virginia, who was a prominent lawyer of his day and was 
appointed United States district judge in the western circuit by 
President Pierce. The family is among the oldest and most prominent in 
the Old Dominion, the great-grandfather of Dr. Tucker of this review 
having been a half brother of John Randolph, of Roanoke.

	Dr. Beverley St. George Tucker was educated at William and Mary 
College of Virginia and afterward became a student in the medical 
department of the University of Virginia, while subsequently he entered 
the University of New York as a medical student and was there 
graduated. He was for some time connected with the hospitals of New 
York city, acting as interne in the Long Island Hospital at the time of 
the outbreak of the Civil war. He at once returned to Virginia and 
immediately offered his services to the Confederacy and rose to the 
rank of surgeon. He served throughout the entire period of hostilities 
on the staff of General Mahone. At the close of the war he took up his 
abode in Richmond, Virginia, where he remained until 1869, when he 
removed westward to Marshall, Missouri. There he resided until 1880, 
when he came to Colorado Springs and soon acquired a large practice in 
this city, remaining an active and prominent member of the profession 
here to the time of his death, which occurred on the 30th of March, 
1894. In early life Dr. Tucker was united in marriage to Miss Eliza C. 
Mercer, of Williamsburg, Virginia. They had six children: Lilie, 
Henrietta. John S., Beverley, Hugh and St. George. In the passing of 
Dr. Tucker the Colorado Springs Gazette wrote: "There are few citizens 
of Colorado Springs who have died in late years who have been so 
sincerely and universally mourned as Dr. Tucker."

	Dr. Beverley Tucker was only two years of age at the time of the 
removal of the family to Marshall, Missouri, where he began his 
education in the public schools, and later he pursued a high school 
course in Colorado Springs following the establishment of the family 
residence in this city. He afterward entered the University of Virginia 
at Charlottesville and was graduated in 1889 on completing the medical 
course. In further preparation for a professional career he went to New 
York and entered Columbia College, where he did post-graduate work 
until April. 1890. He afterward spent eighteen months as interne at 
Randall's Island Hospital and thus gained broad and valuable knowledge 
and experience such as could never be acquired as quickly in any other 
way as in hospital practice. Upon his return to Colorado Springs he 
entered upon practice in connection with his father and the partnership 
was maintained until the father's death. Since 1892 Dr. Beverley Tucker 
has continuously practiced in Colorado Springs, covering a quarter of a 
century, and his marked ability has placed him in the front rank among 
the representatives of the profession.

	On the 24th of June, 1896, in Oskaloosa. Iowa, Dr. Tucker was 
united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Wright and they have a daughter, 
Martha Christina. The religious faith of the doctor and his wife is 
that of the Episcopal church. Fraternally he is connected with the 
Masons and he also belongs to Colorado Lodge, No. 309, B. P. O. E. His 
political endorsement is given to the democratic party, and while he 
keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and is 
interested in all matters of progressive citizenship, he finds it 
necessary to concentrate his efforts and attention largely upon his 
professional duties, which are constantly growing in volume and 
importance. He keeps in touch with the trend of thought and progress 
along professional lines as a member of the El Paso County Medical 
Society, of which he has served as president, as a member of the 
Colorado State Medical Society and as a member of the American Medical 
Association.