joined the county police. However, he soon gave up his position on the police force and secured employment in a sugar refinery at Plymouth, later on joining as a volunteer H. M. S. "St. George," on which the young Duke of Edinburg was a "middy." The vessel anchored off Osborne, England, and was there inspected by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, in person, and the royal family, and then proceeded to Barbadoes islands, West Indies, where she arrived in February, 1861, and spent the next four months in cruising among the islands of the neighborhood. From there she sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, visiting Prince Edwards island, and in November, 1861, hoisted anchor and spread sail for Jamaica. About this time the "Trent affair" occurred; the new government of Mexico, having repudiated the debts of the old government, the bond-holders appealed to their respective governments, and England and France combined to make a demonstration against Mexico, Spain having already sent a force for that purpose. The "St. George" was among the vessels rendezvoused off Cape Antonio, West Indies, and early in January, 1862, sailed for Vera Cruz. They found the Spanish already in possession, and the French there agreed to pay the debts and assume the war indemnity, and the anticipated excitement was allayed. News of the death of the prince consort reached the ship about this time, and she at once proceeded to England. On arrival Mr. Tucker was discharged at his own request and took up farming in Devonshire, but on learning that land could be obtained on favorable terms in America, he decided to come to the new world. He accordingly sold his property in England for $750 in gold, and April 9, 1897, embarked from Liverpool for America, arriving April 21, at Boston. He proceeded direct to Sioux City, Iowa, thence to Dakota territory, and pre-empted a claim in Prairie township, Union county, on which he remained two years, proved up, ands then sold out. March, 1874, he came to Civil Bend township and bought some timber land, paying $45 per acre, and he has lived here for the last twenty-two years, carrying on farming and the wood business. He is now the owner of 200 acres, and all the improvements he has made himself. He is a member of the Seventh Day Adventists, the Sunday-school of which he has been superintendent, and has always taken an active interest in all religious matters. He was for seven years clerk of the school district, and is now in his thirteenth year of service as school treasurer. Politically he is a Republican, liberal in his views, and has advanced ideas on all current topics. He has been assessor of Civil Bend township for fourteen years, and in 1817 was elected to the territorial legislature, serving one term.

Mr. Tucker was married in England, while a member of the county police force, November 29, 1858, to Mary Ann Hay ward, of Exeter, England. This young lady was a daughter of William and Fannie (Shipman) Hayward, both natives of Devonshire and the parents of four children, Mrs. Tucker being the eldest, and then in the order of their birth: Elizabeth Jane Stevens, who now resides in Normana, Tex. ; Mrs. Eliza Smith, of England, who is the mother of five children; and Mrs. Emma Cobley, who resides in Devonshire and has seven children. Mrs. Tucker was born May 9, 1836, and she and her husband have had a family of ten children, seven