BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF EDWARD TUCKERMAN. 



The sad duty of presenting an account of the life and writings of 

 our lamented associate, Edward Tuckerman, has been assigned to 

 the writer by order of the Academy. 



Edward Tuckerman, the eldest son of Edward Tuckerman, a 

 merchant of Boston, and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, was born in 

 Boston, December 7, 1817. When a boy he attended Ingraham's 

 school, and later fitted for college at the Boston Latin School. He 

 then entered the Sophomore Class of Union College, Schenectady, 

 and received his Bachelor's degree in 1837. After graduation he 

 entered the Harvard Law School and obtained the degree of LL. B. 

 in 1839. He continued to reside in Cambridge for two years longer, 

 pursuing studies in law and also taking a special course at the 

 Divinity School. In 1841-42 he traveled in Europe, extending his 

 journey as far north as Upsala where he formed the acquaintance of 

 the celebrated Prof. Elias Fries. He returned to this country, it 

 would appear, in the summer of 1842, for in the autumn of that year 

 he made a trip to the White Mountains with Prof. Asa Gray. Soon 

 after, he took up his residence at Union College and there received 

 his Master's degree. He returned again to Cambridge in 1844 or 

 1845 and, wishing to obtain an Academic degree from Harvard, he 

 entered the Senior Class in 1846 and passed the regular examinations 

 with distinction, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1847. Although 

 he had already obtained two degrees from Harvard, he entered the 

 Harvard Divinity School two or three years later and passed through 

 its course of study and prescribed exercises, although it appears from 

 the Harvard Triennial Catalogue that he did not take the degree of 

 Bachelor of Divinity. It should be said in this connection that his 

 family were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church and he 

 himself remained a member of that denomination during his life, 

 although, at the time of his connection with the Harvard Divinity 

 School, it was under the control of the Unitarian denomination. 



In May, 1854, he was married in Boston to Sarah Eliza Sigourney 

 dishing, who still survives him. Soon after his marriage he removed 



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