Tuck, Amos (1810-1879)

Name:

Tuck, Amos (1810-1879)

Title:

Teacher, Pembroke Academy
Teacher, Hampton Academy
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1842-
Member, United States House of Representatives, 1847-1853
Delegate, Peace Congress, 1861
Naval Officer, United States Customs, Boston, 1861-1865
Land Commissioner, Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, 1870-1873
Land Commissioner, Southern Pacific Railroad, 1870-1873
Trustee, Phillips Academy, Exeter
Trustee, Robinson Female Seminary, Exeter
Trustee, Dartmouth College
Member, Free Soil Party
Founder, Republican Party

Born:

08/02/1810

Birthplace:

Parsonsfield, ME

Died:

12/11/1879

Death Location:

Exeter, NH

Residence:

Parsonsfield, ME 1810,
Pembroke, NH
Hampton, NH
Exeter, NH 1858-1870, -1879
Washington, DC
St. Louis, MO 1870-1873

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Teacher
Lawyer

Father:

Tuck, John (1780-1847)

Mother:

Towle, Betsey (1783-1860)

Relations:

In-Law: Major Benjamin Brown French (1800-1870; Clerk to U.S. Congress)
Grandson: Amos Tuck French (1863-1941)
Great-grandson: S. LeRoy French (1895-1974; donor 1971.54)
Great-grandson: William Henry Vanderbilt (1901-; co-inheritor of Vanderbilt fortune)

Spouse:

1. Sarah Nudd (1810-1847), October 5, 1835
2. Catharine P. Shephard,
1847

Children:

Abbie Elizabeth, born 1835; died 1908
Charles, born 1836; died 1842
Ellen, born 1838; died 1915; m. Francis Ormond French, 1861
Edward Arthur, born 1842; died 1938; m. Julia Stell; banker; French Consul; res. France
Isabella, born 1844; died 1844
Charles, born 1845; died 1849
Amos Otis, born 1846; died 1848

Notes:

Charles H. Bell, The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, Including Biographical Notices of Deceased Judges of the Highest Court, and Lawyers of the Province and the State and a List of Names of Those Now Living. (Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1894), 697-698.

"Hon. Amos Tuck of Exeter...Appointed...Land Commissioner," Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, NH, September 10, 1870, 2.

Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH