. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... I Thechildren - < parenl Horace. Aurelius, Albert, Serena. Regulus and Albert Tucker was reared on histher- farm and received an unusuall; Eeducation, for his method- from his earliest childh 1 were to make t 1 portunities. He excelled in mathen:thus ai an early day showing his readinesswith figures. All his education was securedat the old - during the win- tnd his summers were spent at hardwork on his fathers farm. Hi- la-t winterof schooli passed w
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... I Thechildren - < parenl Horace. Aurelius, Albert, Serena. Regulus and Albert Tucker was reared on histher- farm and received an unusuall; Eeducation, for his method- from his earliest childh 1 were to make t 1 portunities. He excelled in mathen:thus ai an early day showing his readinesswith figures. All his education was securedat the old - during the win- tnd his summers were spent at hardwork on his fathers farm. Hi- la-t winterof schooli passed when he wa- nine- teen years old. Thi- was in Richland coun-1 :io. where the old hoi When he wa- about twenty 1850, he concluded to -tart • -nt forhimself and accordingly, in compamAbe Huston, came on foot t Kosciuskocount v. Indiana, hut 011 the way the roads thing awful and the tvmen stopped and took a contract t -inch stumpsii -even days. By that time the roads haden and the)-continued their jour-Horace Tucker had preceded with him they found a home until theycould gel their bearings. Cpon hi- arrival. ^/(Z-^-Sl^ /l^f ^ 2 COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 455 [iere Albert Tucker possessed twenty dollarsin money. His father had previouslybought a tract of one hundred and sixtyacres in Franklin township, this count}, forfive hundred and seventy-two dollars, andthis land he gave to his son Allien. Thisgave the latter a fine start, hut it requiredtime and a vast amount of labor. At firsthe took jobs at clearing other peoples landand when he was not thus employed heworked at his own. and in this way madehis first clearing in the dense forest whichcovered the land. His object in workingout was to get money with which to stockhis farm and pay his running expenses. , as he progressed in the world, puthis money as fast as made into land and atone time owned twenty-seven hundred acres,worth about sixty dollars per acre, thus mak-ing his landed possessions aggregat
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