Solano County Biographies

J. TUCK

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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born in York county, Maine, January 22, 1823.  When about seven years of age he 
went with his parents to Niagara county, New York, where he lived about seven 
years.  His parents then died and he went to Lawrence county, Michigan, where he 
made it his home, but was in Ohio a portion of the time until about eighteen 
years old.  He then went to Illinois and farmed and run a threshing machine for 
five years.  From here he went to Dodge county, Wisconsin, and farmed for about 
four years when he went to Appleton and engaged in grocery and lumber business 
until the fall of 1851, when he emigrated to California via Panama.  In January, 
1852, he settled on the Vaca grant, about two miles east of Vacaville, where he 
lived for about four years, and then settled on his present farm about two and a 
half miles south-east of Batavia.  He married Ella Eugle August 21, 1869. She 
was born in Indiana, December 13, 1840.  Frank E. and Geo. C. are their 
children.
 
History of Solano County�. � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 467