Alfred A. Tucker
Alfred A. Tucker, occupying the position of cashier in the Cincinnati Post office, Was born in this city March 12, 1857, and is one of four living children in a family of nine whose parents were George W. and Sarah (Huntsman) Tucker. The father was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 18o7, while the mother, a native of Pennsylvania was born in 1817. In early life George W. Tucker learned the harness maker’s trade and later engaged in business on his own account as a harness manufacturer. He came to Cincinnati in 1831, when the city had scarcely emerged from villagehood, and conducted a shop where the Traction building now stands.
His son Alfred A. Tucker was sent as a pupil to the public schools and when lie had completed the work of the grades entered Woodward high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1876. Thinking to devote his life to a professional career, he then entered the Miami Medical College, from which he was graduated in 188o. He practiced for two years but since that time has been in public positions. He served as cashier of the post office from 1891 and in 1899 was again appointed to this position, which he has since held, his incumbency in the office covering sixteen years. He has been retained under different administrations and his long connection with that office stands as incontrovertible proof of his ability and trustworthiness. He was also for several years connected with the Cincinnati Waterworks as receiving teller and for three years was bookkeeper in the county auditor’s office. His record as an official is one over which there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil.
Mr. Tucker has always given his political allegiance to the republican party and has been a faithful worker in its ranks for the promotion of its growth arid the extension of its influence. He has long held membership in the Mason fraternity, is a Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and has also the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He maintains membership relations with the Blaine Club and Stamina League.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; REv. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912