Tucker, Silas, Dd

Tucker, Silas, D.D.

one of five brothers, all Baptist ministers, was born May 16,1813, baptized in 1833, licensed the next year, studied in the seminary at Hamilton, N.Y., in 1837 became pastor in Cleveland, Ohio, subsequently of other churches in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and died at Aurora, Illinois, November 7, 1872. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. s.v.