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JOHN C. TUCK
The committee which was appointed to prepare a memorial commemorating the life, character, and services of John C. Tuck submitted the following memorial:
John Colborne Tuck, son of John and Mary Tuck, was born in York, Haldimand County, Ontario, May 20, 1867. He died in May, 1931, at the age of 64 years and 11 months.
He received his education in the common schools of Ontario, in the place of his birth. In 1891, he moved to Iowa, near the town of Corning. Three years later, he married May Anderson and they made their home on the farm south of Corning, where they lived until his health failed.
Mr. Tuck was a staunch Republican, having cast his first vote for President McKinley. Throughout his early years, he held numerous minor offices in the county and always kept in close touch with politics. During the war, his activities in various lines of patriotic endeavor were outstanding. Mr. Tuck represented Adams county as Senator in the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Fortieth Extraordinary General Assemblies. As such, he always stood for the right and was unmoved by any influence except that which appealed to his sense of honesty and justice.
In Ontario, John Tuck was a member of the Episcopal Church, and after coming to Corning he united with the Federated Church, where he worshiped as long as his health permitted. He was also a member of the Masonic lodge and the Knights of Pythias.
When he found that his health was breaking, Senator Tuck and his wife left their farm and made their home in Corning where they lived until his death. To the last he carried his suffering with a courage and fortitude to be found only in a man with such great strength of character as he possessed. He was devotedly attended during his illness by his wife and his sister, Miss Nellie Tuck.
He is survived by his widow, his sister, and two brothers, W. A. of Bradford, Ontario, and R. A. of Ashawa, Ontario.
In the passing of the Honorable John C. Tuck, the state has lost a worthy and valuable citizen, and his family and friends have suffered an irreparable loss.
The committee directs that a copy of this memorial be spread upon the Journal of the Senate as an expression of the life and worth of the deceased, and an engrossed copy hereof be transmitted to his wife and family.
CLAUDE STANLEY,
GEO. W. PATTERSON,
H. C. WHITE,
Committee.