Background
Frederick Tuckerman was born on May 7, 1857 in Greenfield, Massachussets.
He was the son of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman and Hannah Lucinda (Jones), and a nephew of the botanist Edward Tuckerman.
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Thomas Cooper of Boston and His Descendants
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Frederick Tuckerman
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Education
He received the degree of B. S. from both the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Boston University in 1878 and that of M. D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1882. Then he had a period of study in London and Berlin, 1882-83.
He went abroad again to study in London, Berlin, and Heidelberg; from the University of Heidelberg he received the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. in 1894.
Career
He lectured on anatomy and physiology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College until 1886.
After his return to America, he made his home at Amherst, Massachussets.
Having adequate means, he sought no university position, but gave his time to independent research in comparative anatomy and natural history and to genealogical studies. He also took an active interest in local church and town affairs.
Tuckerman's best genealogical work concerned his wife's family, the Coopers of Boston. He published "Thomas Cooper of Boston and His Descendants" and "Notes from the Rev. Samuel Cooper's Interleaved Almanacs of 1764 and 1769" in the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register (January 1890, April 1901) and "Diary of Samuel Cooper, 1775-1776" and "Letters of Samuel Cooper to Thomas Pownall, 1769-77, " in the American Historical Review (January 1901, January 1903).
An excellent biography of Charles Anthony Goessmann, professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Agricultural College, was written by him in 1911 and, in 1929, his Amherst Academy: A New England School of the Past was published posthumously. He was also a contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography.
He supported the Appalachian Mountain Club, contributing to their publication Appalachia in 1918, 1921, and 1926, and was considered an authority on the history of the White Mountains. His researches in comparative anatomy, especially on the gustatory and taste organs, were sound.
He died on November 8, 1929.
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Thomas Cooper of Boston and His Descendants
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Thomas Cooper of Boston and His Descendants
Membership
He was a fellow of Clark University.
He held membership in the American Society of Naturalists, the Boston Society of Natural History, Anatomische Gesellschaft (Jena), and the American Association of Anatomists.
Connections
On September 6, 1881, he married Alice Girdler Cooper, daughter of James Sullivan Cooper; she and two daughters survived him.
