Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Tucker, John Oliver 1865 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

JOHN OLIVER TUCKER

JOHN OLIVER TUCKER was born in the southern part of Indiana in December, 1865,
and came to Barton County in 1899. He left Indiana when he was nineteen years of
age and went to Illinois. He stayed there six months and then went to Missouri
where he remained a short time after which he made his first trip to Kansas
twenty-five years ago. He remained in the Sunflower state but a short time after
which he returned to Illinois and spent several years there and in Missouri
before he finally decided to locate in Kansas. Then he came to Barton County on
the date mentioned above, and immediately began the development of 160 acres of
land which now comprises his home place seven miles south of Great Bend. He was
married in 1895 to Miss Hattie B. Giddings of Minonk, Illinois. They are the
parents of two children, Albert R., sixteen years of age and Helen A., fifteen
years old, both of whom are students in the schools of Barton County. Mr. Tucker
is of an optimistic turn of mind and says that considering everything during his
residence in this county he considers the twelve years most prosperous ones. His
home place is nicely improved and contains a six room residence which has been
built at intervals, the first building being one room 18 by 24 feet. A fine an
up-to-date farmer using modern methods in all his work and his place is equipped
with all the necessary machinery and live stock barn is maintained which is 32
by 40 feet, exclusive of the corn crib which adjoins it on the south and is 20
by 32. In addition to the 160 acres on the home place Mr. Tucker owns a half
section of land in Morton county. He is for the successful cultivation of the
soil. He is an enterprising and progressive citizen and has helped in no small
way to make that section of Barton County one of the most productive and one of
the best in the State of Kansas.

[photo] Farm Residence of John Oliver Tucker



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