Tuckerman, Edward
educator, author, was born Dec. 7, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He was a professor of botany at Amherst college in 1858-86; and the author of Genera Lichenum; Synopsis of the North American Lichens; and Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild within Thirty Miles of Amherst. He died March 15, 1886, in Amherst, Mass.
TUCKERMAN, FREDERICK GOD- DARD, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 16, 1821, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and writer of Boston whose only published book was a volume of poems. He died May 14, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE, author, poet, was born April 21, 1813, in Boston, Mass. Much of his life was spent abroad, largely in Italy, his intimate acquaintance with Italian affairs appearing in his earliest works, The Italian Sketch - Book; and Isabel, or Sicily, a Pilgrimage, republished as Sicily and Pilgrimage (1852).
His subsequent writings include Thoughts on the Poets; The Book of the Artists; Essays Biographical and Critical; Artist Life; Rambles and Reveries; Characteristics of Literature; The Criterion; Maga Papers about Paris; Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer; Life of J. P. Kennedy; America and Her Commentators; The Optimist, a series of essays; A Sheaf of Verse; Poems; Mental Portraits; and The Collector, a volume of essays. He died Dec. 17, 1871, in New York city..