Background
Tucker, Gardiner Chylson was born on October 1, 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Levi (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Jeanette (Lee) T.
Tucker, Gardiner Chylson was born on October 1, 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Review Levi (Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws) and Jeanette (Lee) T.
Educated Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Illinois, 1862-1865. Doctor of Divinity, University of the South, 1931.
Ordained ministry Baptist Church, 1876, changed to Protestant Episcopal Church, 1881. Rector Christ Church, Collinsville, Illinois, 1881-1882, St. James Church, St. Louis, 1882-1885, St. John’s Church, Mobile, Alabama, since 1885. Chaplain 1st Regiment, Alabama National Guard, 1886-1898.
Mason, Odd.
Married Melville Leigh Eckford, December 13, 1873. Children: Gardiner Leigh, Melville Louise (deceased), Ernest Eckford, Royal Kenneth, Joseph Louis (deceased), Irene Robert (Mistress.