Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - George B. Tucker GEORGE B. TUCKER

    George B. Tucker, a carriage manufacturer in Richwood was born in Cincinnati April 3, 1843, and is a son of Albert G. and Eliza J. (Evans) Tucker, the former of English and Welsh, and the latter of English descent.  His father was a jeweler and silversmith, and carried on business at Lebanon, Ohio, from 1849 until the time of his death, in 1858.  Our subject received his education in the Normal School at Lebanon, and learned the trade of a carpenter, which he followed until the breaking-out of the war.  In 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Infantry, and served three years, without a day of sickness, and was a participant in all the engagements in which his command figured.  In 1864, he came to Richwood and engaged in the manufacture of bodies for buggies and carriages, and in selling wagons.  In 1871, he married Sarah J. Moore, a native of Licking County, who died in 1880, leaving one child Elsie J. Mr. Tucker is Captain of Company G, Fourteenth Regiment Ohio National Guards, and Chief of the Richwood Fire Department, and has been Marshal of the village.  He is a member of the Protestant Church, of which he has been a Trustee, and takes an active interest in the Sabbath school.