Biography of John A. Tucker, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames listed: Tucker, Stone, Morrow, Daily, Herring.

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Transcribed by: W. David Samuelsen
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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 238

John A. TUCKER

One of the earliest pioneers of this section.

Mr. Tucker was born in Virginia, near Petersburg, on December 31, 1834, being 
the son of William and Nancy (Stone) Tucker, natives of Virginia, and passed his
boyhood days near Mobile, Alabama, residing by the Tombigbee river. In his native
city, our subject received his educational training and then engaged with the 
Mobile and Ohio R.R., for three years after which time he joined the regular 
army, Company K, First Mounted Riflemen, where he served until just previous to 
the breaking out of the war. He enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, going from there to
New Orleans, then across the Gulf of Mexico, by way of Galveston, to Powderhorn,
and thence to San Antonio, where he rejoined his regiment. After this he entered
the employ of the government as wagon master in New Mexico and in 1862, he came 
to Union county and settled near Wingville, Three years later he removed to 
Bedrock creek and there was occupied with sheep raising and farming until 1895, 
when he bought the farm where he now resides and is engage din farming and stock
raising.

The marriage of Mr. Tucker and Miss Adelia, daughter of John and Irene (Morrow)
Daily, was solemnized on May 31, 1862, in Denver, Colorado, and they then came 
west. Mrs. Tucker's parents were natives of Kentucky and after their marriage 
removed to Missouri, where she was born, then they went to New Mexico in 1858, 
and thence came to Baker county. The parents removed from here to California, 
and since both have died there. Mr. Tucker was the first justice of peace in 
Bedrock precinct and has been clerk of the Erwin district for a number of years.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Tucker participated in the 
Seminole Indian war and also in many other famous frontier struggles from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific. In addition to his other interests, he has a share in  
the copper mines of his vicinity and also in other mining enterprises.

To Mr. and Mrs. Tucker the following children have been born: William A., 
deceased; Nancy, wife of C. Herring on Goose creek; Irene, married; John T., 
married; James B., deceased; Louiza, married; Phillip, married; Mary, married;
Harry, at home; Maud, married; Grover C., at home; Laura, at home.
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