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Company, vice-president of the Savings
Bank and a director since 1867, an d treas-
urer of the Rockville Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company. On February 24, 1863,
the First National Bank was chartered,
and in 1864 he became a director. In
1868 he was elected president and has
been continuously in office until the pres-
ent time, 1917.
Prior to 1863, Mr. Talcott was con-
stable and deputy sheriff, and on his
father's death he succeeded him as trial
justice and later as associate judge of the
city courts, over which he presided three
years. He then became associate judge,
continuing in that office until 1897, when
he reached the age limit of seventy years
and retired from the office. He possesses
the judicial temperament and was one of
the ablest trial justices, administering the
office with fairness and impartiality. Not
the least interesting chapter of his life is
this judicial chapter, and to this day he
is as often greeted with the title of '"Judge"
as by any other.
For three-quarters of a century Mr.
Talcott has been a church member. He
was baptized in the South Congregational
Church, Hartford. In Rockville he
became a member of the old First Church,
later joined the Second Church and con-
tinued a member until it consolidated with
the Union Church, his membership still in
force and his attendance regular. He was
one of the early church singers, his boyish
alto changing to a tenor and finally he
ended his choir singing as a bass soloist.
He was also a member of the Talcott
Brass Band, named for his father, who
gave the band its instruments. Talcott
Park was also made possible by Phineas
Talcott, who started the subscription
paper with half the amount needed to buy
the property. He also planted many of
the great elms and as long as he lived
took pride in the park, a pride that de-
scended to his son, George Talcott.
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Mr. Talcott married (first) Rosanna
McLean; (second) Ella McLean; (third)
Clara McLean, who is now living. He
has two sons : George F., residing in
Pennsylvania; and Phineas M., of the
Ideal Manufacturing Company of New
Haven, Connecticut.
TUCKER, William,
Wholesale Merchant.
In the year 1830, a wholesale grocery
business was established at the corner of
Main and Ely streets, Hartford, by Joseph
Keney, which later became H. & W.
Keney, in 1855, Keney, Roberts & Good-
win, and subsequently Keney & Roberts.
In 1889, William Tucker and H. H. Goodwin
were admitted, and upon the death of
Walter Keney the firm became Keney,
Roberts & Company. Later when Henry
Keney died the firm reorganized as Rob-
erts, Tucker & Goodwin, continuing until
March 7, 1896, after the death of Mr.
Roberts. At this time the firm was again
reorganized as Tucker & Goodwin, with
William Tucker, then as now, the senior
head. His connection with the business
covers a period of thirty-eight years
eleven years as a clerk, and twenty-seven
as a partner, and twenty of the latter as
head of the firm. The business is one of
the oldest and best established in the city
and has ever been prosperous, and now
after eighty-eight years of existence is
solidly fixed upon foundations that should
ever endure.
Mr. Tucker is a son of Erastus Tucker,
and of the seventh generation of the fam-
ily in America, founded by Robert Tucker.
Robert Tucker was of Weymouth, Mas-
sachusetts, in 1635, removing to Milton,
Massachusetts, in 1662. He married Eliz-
abeth Allen. Their son, Ephraim Tucker,
was born in 1652, and for many year was
town clerk and selectman of Milton. He
married Hannah Culver. Stephen Tucker,
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