Biographical Sketch of J. W. Tucker, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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J. W. Tucker, druggist, is a native of Maryland, the son of Walter and
Nancy Tucker, natives of eastern Maryland.  J. W. was born May 8, 1816;
educated at Brookville, Indiana; received his medical education in the
Cincinnati medical college, of Ohio.  After leaving college he practiced
medicine in Livingston county, Mo., until the Mexican War broke out when
he and Captain Slack raised a company of men, and the doctor was made
First Lieutenant of the Company, L, second regiment Missouri volunteers
commanded by Gen. Sterling Price; was in the battle of Canada, and was
discharged at Ft. Leavenworth in 1847; then returned home and engaged in
the drug business, first at Carrollton, and then at Brunswick, and last
at Waverly, in the year 1866.

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