Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Tucker, John W. August 26, 1819 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

JOHN W. TUCKER, farmer, section 34, Big Prairie, was born at Hamilton, 
Ontario, Aug. 26, 1819, and is the 

son of Joseph C. and Sarah (Cady) Tucker.  The father is a native of New York 
and was born about 1783, and 

died in 1838.  The mother was born in New York about the same year as her 
husband, and died in 1838.  Both 

were of English extraction.

Mr. Tucker remained at home until he was 12 years old, and in 1831 came to 
Lapeer Co., Mich.  He stayed 

there two years and returned to the Dominion.  Two years afterward he came 
back to Michigan, stayed a year 

and again returned to Canada, where he resided eight years.  In 1855 he came 
to Decatur, Van Buren County, 

where he stayed two years, and then bought 120 acres of land in Big Prairie, 
where he has made a permanent 

settlement.  the tract of land of which he became proprietor was in its 
original condition, untouched by 

the hand of man.  He has made good use of his time and energies, and has 
placed 40 acres under good 

improvements and advanced cultivation.  In political affiliation he is a 
Republican.

Mr. Tucker was first married in Waterloo, Ont., in 1840, to Harriet Smith.  
She died Sept. 20, 1880, on 

the farm in Big Prairie.  Mr. Tucker was married a second time in January, 
1881, to Mrs. Jane McMicken.  

There is no child by either marriage.  Of her former marriage, Mrs. Tucker has 
five children, as follows:  

William John, James, Ellen, Samuel and Maggie Jane.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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