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Gilbert Milligan Tucker was the son of Luther Tucker and his third wife, Margaret Lucinda (Smith) Burr Tucker. He was born on August 26, 1847 at Albany, N. Y. , where his father was conspicuous in the field of agricultural journalism.
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Gilbert Milligan Tucker was the son of Luther Tucker and his third wife, Margaret Lucinda (Smith) Burr Tucker. He was born on August 26, 1847 at Albany, N. Y. , where his father was conspicuous in the field of agricultural journalism.
After preparation at the Albany Academy, he entered Williams College in 1864 and completed the four-year course in three years, earning the degree of A. B. with honors in 1867.
After graduation he at once became associated with his father and elder brother in the publication of the Cultivator and Country Gentleman.
In 1897 when the first part of the title was dropped, he became editor-in-chief, so continuing until the Country Gentleman was sold to the Curtis Publishing Company in 1911, when he retired from active business.
During his connection with the Country Gentleman, he served on various federal and state commissions dealing with agricultural affairs.
He was the author of Our Common Speech (1895); American English (1921); A Layman's Apology (1913), a volume of essays on religious subjects; American Agricultural Periodicals (an historical sketch, privately printed, 1909); and contributions to the daily press, North American Review, New Englander, Presbyterian Review, and other journals.
Tucker died on January 13, 1932 at Albany in his eighty-fifth year.
Gilbert Milligan Tucker is remembered for his writings, such as Our Common Speech (1895); American English (1921); A Layman's Apology (1913); American Agricultural Periodicals (an historical sketch, privately printed, 1909); and contributions to the daily press, North American Review, New Englander, Presbyterian Review, and other journals.
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He was a trustee of the Reformed Church.
In politics he was a Republican, although in later life he came to disbelieve in the policy of tariff protection.
Tucker's editorial policy was vigorous and forthright. He had strong opinions and limitless courage in their support, yet was open-minded and tolerant withal. He opposed strongly, and believed detrimental to agricultural interests, such policies as the expansion of the state canal system and the development of western farm lands--particularly by irrigation--at public expense, foreseeing the danger of over-production and consequently injury to agriculture.
He also disapproved of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, calling it "an absurd and dangerous anomaly. " He spoke and wrote frequently on these and kindred subjects.
Deeply interested in philological subjects, he was a student of New Testament Greek and a frequent writer on the English language, with special reference to the differences in its usage in England and America.
He maintained that the purity of English has been better preserved on the west side of the Atlantic, and held that most of the so-called "Americanisms" originated many years ago in the mother country.
He was deeply interested in, and at one time president of, the old New York State Agricultural Society.
He was a trustee of Cornell University, 1905-06; a member, elder.
He was also a Mason.
He was a member of the Order of Founders and Patriots.
On June 7, 1877, Tucker married Sara Edwards Miller, daughter of the Rev. William Augustus Miller of Albany. She died in 1930. They had one son, who survived his father, and one daughter who died unmarried in 1926.