Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938)
was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the
Tuck School of Business
The Tuck School of Business (also known as Tuck, and formally known as the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance) is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Founded ...
at his alma mater,
Dartmouth College
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. The son of
Amos Tuck
Amos Tuck (August 2, 1810 – December 11, 1879) was an American attorney and politician in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party.
Early life and education
Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810, the son of John Tuck, a s ...
, a founder of the
Republican Party, Edward Tuck served as the
Vice Consul
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in Paris, and grew his fortune as a partner of the banking firm .
Early life
Tuck was born in
Exeter,
New Hampshire
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on August 24, 1842. He was the son of Sarah Ann Nudd (1810–1847) and political figure
Amos Tuck
Amos Tuck (August 2, 1810 – December 11, 1879) was an American attorney and politician in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party.
Early life and education
Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810, the son of John Tuck, a s ...
(1810–1879). His half-sister was Ellen Tuck French (1838–1915), who was married to Francis Ormond French, President of the Manhattan Trust Company.
Tuck was educated at
Philips Exeter Academy and
Dartmouth College
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, where he roomed with future College
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William Jewett Tucker
William Jewett Tucker (July 13, 1839 – September 29, 1926) was an American Congregational minister who served as the 9th President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States, from 1893 to 1909.
Dartmouth presidency
The ''New York Ci ...
.
Career
He began his career in 1864, he was appointed by
U.S. President
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Abraham Lincoln
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as the
Vice Consul
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in Paris under
U.S. Ambassador John Bigelow
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. In the following year, he resigned, shortly before the
Franco-Prussian War, and joined the banking firm Munroe & Co., where he was made a
partner
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in 1871.
He retired from banking in 1881, and, in 1889, went to live as an expatriate in France, where he donated an art collection valued at $5 million, and funds for hospitals and other institutions.
Philanthropy
Upon graduating from
Dartmouth College
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, Tuck made a donation of one dollar to the College for "unrestricted use."
After his college roommate and longtime friend,
William Jewett Tucker
William Jewett Tucker (July 13, 1839 – September 29, 1926) was an American Congregational minister who served as the 9th President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States, from 1893 to 1909.
Dartmouth presidency
The ''New York Ci ...
, became president of Dartmouth, Edward Tuck became one of Dartmouth's most prolific benefactors. Tuck gave
Tuck Drive, an aesthetic bypass and 3,800 ft private highway; the College President's House; the Tuck School, and its grouping of buildings; art works from his private collection; and large cash contributions.
In 1899, Tuck initially donated $300,000 — in the form of 1,700 shares of preferred stock in the
Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota — to Dartmouth to endow the
Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, in memory of his
father
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.
He then donated another $100,000, in 1901, to build the first
Tuck Hall (now McNutt Hall). In 1929, after solicitation from
Ernest Martin Hopkins
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, the
11th President of Dartmouth, Tuck donated 600 shares of
Chase National Bank
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, which was sold for $567,766. His gifts to the Tuck School are estimated at over $18 million as of 2017.
Other recipients of Tuck's philanthropy included two hospitals (including
Stell Hospital), a school, the
American University Center in Paris, art collections in France, and the restoration of Roman monument,
Tropaeum Alpium
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. In addition, he donated funds to the
New Hampshire Historical Society
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to build its
New Hampshire History Building housing the
Tuck Library, and donated to his alma mater,
Philips Exeter Academy.
Personal life
In 1872, Tuck married Julia Stell of Philadelphia, for whom Stell Hall, the dining hall at Tuck School is named.
As a country residence, Tuck lived at Domaine de Vert-Mont and Château de Bois-Préau, near
Château de Malmaison
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and the western bank of the
Seine in
Rueil-Malmaison
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. The home was formerly owned by
Empress Joséphine
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, wife of
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, and
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Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
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, widow of King
Ferdinand VII of Spain
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who lived there with her second husband
Agustín Fernando Muñoz, Duke of Riánsares, until she sold the home in 1861 to
Napoleon III
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.
Tuck's wife died on November 12, 1929.
He died on April 30, 1938 in
Monte Carlo
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,
Monaco
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.
His funeral was held at the
American Cathedral in Paris,
and he was buried alongside his wife at the
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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cemetery.
His estate was valued at $3,514,487 at the time of his death.
Legacy
In 1929, Tuck received the Grand Cross as a promotion in the
Legion of Honour
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, the highest award in the Legion the French Government can bestow.
The Tucks were also awarded the
Prix de Vertu by the French Academy in 1916, the first Americans to receive the award.
In 1932, Tuck was made an honorary citizen of France, the highest honor the government could give.
In Paris, Avenue Edward Tuck runs a short distance between the
Petit Palais
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and the
Place de la Concorde
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...
, parallel to the
Avenue des Champs-Élysées
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.
In
La Turbie
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La Turbie was famous in Roman times for the large monument, the Trophy of Augus ...
,
France
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, a street is also named ''Rue Edward Tuck''.
In Rome, the
Edward Tuck Museum, on the site of the
Tropaeum Alpium
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, documents the restoration of the monument, of which Tuck funded.
Asteroid
1038 Tuckia is named after him and his wife.
[ The name was proposed by Mme. Gabrielle Camille Flammarion in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck, "generous friends of humanity and of France, benefactors of the Juvisy Observatory, of the ]Institut d'Optique
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and of so many other useful works"
''L’Astronomie'', Vol. 41, p. 229 (1927)
..
References
;Notes
;Sources
*''1939 Britannica Book of the Year'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.), p. 673.
External links
*
The Papers of the Tuck Familyat Dartmouth College Library
Franklin Brooks Collection on the Life of Edward Tuckat Dartmouth College Library
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1842 births
1938 deaths
People from Exeter, New Hampshire
Dartmouth College alumni
Tuck School of Business people
American diplomats
American expatriates in France
American expatriates in Monaco
19th-century American businesspeople
Activists from New Hampshire
Phillips_Exeter_Academy_alumni
Recipients of the Legion of Honour