. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... fc/U$cu ^Ut<^e*__. #: S^T^tzdC^ (1/K*~Oi COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. H3 ber 8, 1825. His grandfather, Ezra Tuck-er, passed his days in New Hampshire, andto him were born five sons and one daugh-ter, as follows: Daniel. John, Ezra, Cyrus,David and Eliza. Of this family, EzraTucker became a soldier in the war of 1812 ;John Tucker also enlisted and was musteredbut was not called into the service. Thelatter became the father of our subject. Hewas reared on a farm in
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... fc/U$cu ^Ut<^e*__. #: S^T^tzdC^ (1/K*~Oi COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. H3 ber 8, 1825. His grandfather, Ezra Tuck-er, passed his days in New Hampshire, andto him were born five sons and one daugh-ter, as follows: Daniel. John, Ezra, Cyrus,David and Eliza. Of this family, EzraTucker became a soldier in the war of 1812 ;John Tucker also enlisted and was musteredbut was not called into the service. Thelatter became the father of our subject. Hewas reared on a farm in Xew Hampshire,and received a limited education in the m schools. He possessed a goodmind and managed to educate himself to theextent that he could pass the recpuired ex-amination for teachers, then a function ofthe courts. About the year 1820 he came toRichland county, Ohio, walking the entiredistance of about eight hundred miles. Atthat time Ohio was a wilderness, filled witha few straggling settlers, many wild animalsand not a few Indians about as wild as theanimals. The soil was covered with an im-mense forest, with scarcely a
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