Tuckerman, Joseph

TUCKER, BEVERLY DANDRIDGE: Protestant Episcopal assistant bishop of southern Virginia; b. at Richmond, Va., Nov. 9, 1847. During the Civil War he served, despite his youth, on the Confederate side, and after the close of hostilities resumed his studies, being graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1873. He was ordered deacon in the same year and advanced to the priesthood in 1875, and from 1873 to 1882 was minister and rectos in North Farnham Parish, Va. He was then rector of St. Paul's, Norfolk, Va., until 1906, when he was consecrated assistant bishop of southern Virginia.

TUCKER, WILLIAM JEWETT: Congregationalist; b. at Griswold, Conn., July 13, 1839. He was educated at Dartmouth (A.B., 1861), and, after

being a teacher for two years, entered Andover Theological Seminary (graduated 1868). He was pastor of Franklin Street Congregational Church, Manchester, N. H. (1866-75); pastor of Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York (1875-79); professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary (1879-93); and in 1893 was elected president of Dartmouth College, which position he resigned in 1908. At Boston he founded the social settlement called Andover House, and, in addition to assisting in editing The Andover Review, has written The new Movement in Humanity: From Liberty to Unity (Boston, 1892), and Making and Unmaking of the Preacher (Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale; 1899).

TUCKERMAN, JOSEPH: American Unitarian philanthropist; b. in Boston Jan. 18, 1778; d. at Havana Apr. 20, 1840. He was graduated from Harvard College, 1798; was pastor at Chelsea, Mass., 1801-26; in 1812 founded at Boston the first American society for the religious and moral improvement of seamen; in 1826 took charge of the "Ministry at Large," a city mission organized by the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches in Boston; visited Europe to promote similar organizations, and on his return, in 1838, published Principles and Results of the Ministry at Large. He has a permanent place in the front rank of those who have promoted reform in philanthropic effort. His principal writings were collected under the title The Elevation of the Poor (Boston, 1874).

Bibliography: His life was written by W. E. Charming,

Boston, 1841, and by Mary Carpenter, London, 1849.