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their son, was born April 8, 1691, in Milton,
and in 1715 settled in Preston, Con-
necticut. He married, August 30, 1716,
Hannah Belcher, and their son, William
Tucker, was born in Preston, May 28,
1737, and died November 5, 1819. He
married Esther Morgan. Stephen Tucker,
the son of William and Esther (Morgan)
Tucker, was born in Preston, April 30,
1768, and died August 15, 1853. During
the War of 1812, he was captain of an
artillery company at Stonington Point.
lie married, January 17, 1793, Eunice
Baldwin, of Stonington, Connecticut, and
their son, Erastus Tucker, was the father
of William Tucker, of this review. He
was born in Griswold, Connecticut, Au-
gust 10, 1794, and died in Hartford, September,
1868. He was a paper manufac-
turer, and was located in Hartford the
greater part of his life. In 1812 he was
called out as a soldier and served at
Stonington. He married (first) Eliza
Hovey, born July 29, 1804, and died
March 9, 1837, the daughter of Dudley
and Mary (Moore) Hovey, of Windham,
Connecticut. They were the parents of
four children : Mary Frances, who mar-
ried D. W. C. Pond; Edwin, deceased;
Henry, married Amelia E. Olmstead
George, married Emma H. Hunt. Mr.
Tucker married
Emma Augusta
(second)
Dresser,
March 6, 1838,
born May II,
1812, and died June 14, 1874, the daugh-
ter of Captain Samuel and Dolly (Ingalls)
Dresser, of Abington, Connecticut. Her
father was captain of a New London
Company during the War of 1812. By
his second marriage Erastus Tucker was
the father of the following children
John Dresser, born December 19. 1838,
married (first) Sarah Louise Ingham
(second) Kate Abbott Fox ; Eliza Emma,
born June 3, 1846; William, of further
mention.
William Tucker, son of Erastus and
; :
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Emma Augusta (Dresser) Tucker, was
born in New Britain, Connecticut, February
5, 1848. He was quite young when
his parents moved to Hartford, where he
has resided ever since. His early educa-
tion was received in the public schools,
after which, at the age of nineteen years,
he became a clerk in the wholesale dry
goods house of Collins Brothers & Com-
pany, continuing with that house for
eleven years, acquiring a sound business
education and valuable experience. In
January, 1878, he formed a connection
with the business house of which he is
now the honored head. He became a
partner in 1889, and has maintained that
relation until the present time, the firm
reorganizing under its present name of
Tucker & Goodwin, March 7, 1896. They
are wholesale grocers, doing a large and
profitable business. Mr. Tucker has
devoted the best years of his life to the
development of his business, and has confined
himself closely to its management,
having few outside interests. He is a
thorough master of his business, a hard
worker and capable in every department,
ever courteous and kindly. The firm
bears a high reputation, the result of long
years of fair dealing with customers. Mr.
Tucker was a member of Park Church,
Hartford, and is identified with its suc-
cessor, the Immanuel Congregational
Church, Incorporated, and is a member
of the Twentieth Century Club. He has
never married.
MASON, Carlos V.,
Business Man.
An enterprising and progressive citizen
of Bristol. Connecticut, Carlos V.
Mason holds a foremost place among the
business men of that town. He was born
November 23, 1863, in Unionville, Con-
necticut, son of Carlos L. and Frances E.