George S. Tucker

As printed in 1914

GEORGE S. TUCKER.

George S. Tucker, the only living son of Samuel Wood Tucker, was born in Keokuk on the 28th of January, 1856, and at the age of twelve went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was educated and grew to manhood. After clerking in stores for a number of years he went to what is now North Dakota and engaged in ranching. For a part of the time he was in the employ of Theodore Roosevelt, receiving thirty dollars per month for his services. After this experience he returned to Keokuk and embarked in the ice business, to which general contracting has since been added. He is a member of the firm of McManus & Tucker and in addition to the two lines of business already named he is identified with numerous other enterprises of a local character.

Mr. Tucker married Miss Sophie E. Roche, of Warsaw, Illinois, and to them three children have been born, namely: Beatrice Thelma, Georgia Wood and Julia Anna. He was reared a republican and still gives his political allegiance to that party. For several years he served as a member of the city council, doing all in his power to secure an efficient municipal government. He is quite prominent fraternally, being a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Masons. He is a Knight Templar in the York Rite, has taken the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, and is also a member of the Shrine. He is popular socially and is known as a man of unimpeachable integrity and of kindliness of spirit.

As printed in Story of Lee County, Iowa; (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.