REV. FATHER ROBERT S. TUCKER - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 674 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


REV. FATHER ROBERT S. TUCKER, St. Mary's Church; P.O. Kansasville; was
born in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 11, 1840; was educated for the church in
Perry and St. Louis Counties, Mo.; ordained a priest in St. Louis Sept.
6, 1863; then went to St. Joe, Mo., and assisted in St. Joseph's Church,
the Rev. J. J. Hennessey (now Bishop), presiding at Dubuque, Iowa; he
officiated there fourteen months, returned to St. Louis, and officiated
there in St. Lawrence and other churches, until 1870, when he went to
Ripon, Wis., and took charge of St. Patrick's Church, where he remained
until 1872, when he came to Dover and took charge of St. Mary's Church,
which he has had in charge seven years.