Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . ate George J. and Harriet (Sill) Tucker,and half-brother of Hon. Joseph Tucker, whose personal history andgenealogical memoirs are contained herein. George H. Tucker prepared for college in Pittsfield high school andwas graduated from Williams College, class of 1878. He succeededhis father as county treasurer in 1878, and served with the characteristicefficiency and uncompromising integrity of his predecessors up to July,1902, when he was called to the cashiership of the Pittsfield Nation
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . ate George J. and Harriet (Sill) Tucker,and half-brother of Hon. Joseph Tucker, whose personal history andgenealogical memoirs are contained herein. George H. Tucker prepared for college in Pittsfield high school andwas graduated from Williams College, class of 1878. He succeededhis father as county treasurer in 1878, and served with the characteristicefficiency and uncompromising integrity of his predecessors up to July,1902, when he was called to the cashiership of the Pittsfield NationalBank, of which he is incumbent. He has been a director of the Berkshire Life Insurance Companysince 1888, and a member of the finance committee since 1894; was adirector and vice-president of the Third National Bank of Pittsfield upto 1902; has been a director of the Housatonic National Bank of Stock-bridge since 1898, and of Pittsfield Gas, Coal Company since 1890, anda director of the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company from itsorganization until it was merged with the General Electric George J. Tucker. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 287 In all these important business relations, Mr. Tucker has won and re-tained the confidence and esteem of his business associates. He married September 7, 1892, Mary Talcott Briggs, who wastorn in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, July 4, 1853, and died November 4,1895, and who was a daughter of General Henry Shaw Briggs and MaryElizabeth (Talcott) Briggs. General Henry S. Briggs was a son of George Nixon Briggs, whowas a member of congress for twelve years from 1831, and governorfor seven years from 1843. Governor Briggs was born in Adams, Mas-sachusetts, April 12, 1796, son of Allen and Nancy (Brown) Briggs,of Cumberland, Rhode Island. He married in 1818, Harriet Hall,daughter of Ezra and Triphena Hall, of Lanesborough. CHARLES ALBERT BROWNE. Charles Albert Browne, inventor of the electric fuse, which provedsuch a valuable and effective agent in h
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