Tucker
Tucker names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Tucker JOHN RANDOLPH, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN RANDOLPH, an American naval officer; born in Alexandria, Va., Jan. 31, 1812; joined the navy in 1826 and was promoted lieutenant in 1837. During the Mexican War he was ive officer of the bomb brig executive "Stromboli," and took part in the capture of Tabasco and other operations. He was promoted commander in 1855, and was assigned to the command of the receiving ship "Pennsylvania," stationed at Norfolk. He resigned from the United States navy in April, 1861, and became a commander in the navy of Virginia. In June of the same year he was placed în command of the steamer "Yorktown," which later was named the "Patrick Henry." With this vessel he took part in the various engagements in Hampton Roads, including the conflict between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac," on March 9, 1862. On the 13th following he was given command of the wooden squadron. He participated in the repulse of the National fleet at Drury's Bluff, and was soon after promoted captain and sent to Charleston, S. C., to command the naval forces as flag-officer. In February, 1865, after the surrender of Charleston, he organized the naval brigade at Drury's Bluff and commanded it till the Confederate army retreated from Richmond. During the retreat he served in the corps of General Ewell. In 1866 he took command of the Peruvian navy with the rank of rear-admiral. During the war between Peru, Chile and Spain, he had command of the combined squadrons of the two republics. He afterward settled in Petersburg, Va., where he died June Pe 12, 1883.
Tucker GEORGE, an American ed-Conr ucator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an American ed-Conr ucator; born in Bermuda in 1775; was graduated at William and Mary College 1797; studied law and practiced in Lynchburg. He was a member of Congress in 1819-1825. For 20 years he was Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Virginia (1825-1845). He wrote for many journals and periodicals; was the author of "Letters on the Conspiracy of Slaves in Virginia" (1800); "Essays on Subjects of Taste," etc. 822); "The Valley of the Shenandoah" (1824), a novel; "Principles of Rent, Wages and Profits" (1837); "Life of Thomas Jefferson" (1837); "History of the United States from their Colonization to 1841" (4 vols. 1856-1858); "Banks or No Banks" (1857); and "Essays, Moral and Philosophical" (1860). He died in Sherwood, Albemarle co., Va., April 10, 1861.
Tucker WILLIAM JEWETT, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM JEWETT, an American educator; born in Griswold, Conn., July 13, 1839; was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1861, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 186 1866; ordained in the Congregational Church and held several pastorates; was a professor in Andover Theological Seminary when he was called to the presidency of Dartmouth College in 1893. He retired in 1909. He wrote "Public Mindedness" (1910); "The Function of the Church in Modern Society" (1911), and other books.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three sketches still stand as factual outlines, with one obvious gap: when Collier's wrote this in 1921 William Jewett Tucker was living in retirement in Hanover, so no death is given; he died there in 1926, and Dartmouth still treats his 1893-1909 presidency as the founding of the modern college. George Tucker's reputation has shifted most: the 1921 entry files him as a moral philosopher and novelist, whereas historians of economics now read him as one of the first serious American economists and population statisticians, for work on rent, wages and profits and on the census returns. John Randolph Tucker's Peruvian chapter, dismissed here in one line, is the part most written about since ///Confederate exiles in South America and his hydrographic survey of the upper Amazon in the late 1860s and 1870s. Readers should also note that this Tucker is not his cousin and namesake, the Virginia congressman and legal writer, with whom he is often confused.
Written for this edition, 2026.