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Mary Elizabeth (Logan) Tucker
Mary Elizabeth Logan Tucker, daughter of Major-General and
Senator John A. and Mary S. Logan, was born in Benton, Franklin
County, Illinois. In personal appearance and disposition she is
strikingly like her illustrious father, and has many of his
features and traits of character. She was educated at the
Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D. C, one of the oldest
schools in the United States. She was the organizer and founder
of the alumnae of her alma mater, March 3, 1893, and was elected
and served as its first president. Mrs. Tucker was married on
the twenty-seventh day of November, 1877, w the home of her
parents in Chicago, Illinois. Not long after her marriage she
removed to Santa Fe, New Mexico. General Logan having secured
the appointment of her husband as an officer in the United
States army he was ordered to that remote station.
Notwithstanding her youth she adapted herself to all the
inconveniences of army life which existed twenty-five years ago.
By her keen intelligence, happy disposition, knowledge of human
nature, generous hospitality and versatility in originating
entertainments, and helpfulness in all efforts for the
betterment of conditions and welfare of the army people, and in
all emergencies, she won for herself great popularity and the
highest esteem of the citizens of Santa Fe and her associates in
the army.
In 1886 her husband was ordered to Washington, hence it happened
they were both with her parents when her distinguished father
died. They remained with the widowed mother for eight years.
Part of this time Mrs. Tucker was engaged as one of the staff of
the Home Magazine, then published in Washington, D. C. Her
literary career was interrupted by her husband's orders to other
posts of duty as an army officer, including the stations of St
Paul, Chicago and Manila, P. I. Mrs. Tucker is the mother of
three sons, two of whom are dead. Her youngest son died in
Manila, August 5, 1905. Mrs. Tucker is a woman of marked
ability, keen perception, and dauntless moral courage. She has
traveled extensively, is an omnivorous reader, and has an
unusually extensive knowledge of affairs political and
otherwise, her perfect taste guiding her aright in the
refinements of life. She is deeply interested and ever ready to
join in every movement for the uplift of man-kind and the
advancement of civilization.
She is a member of the Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, Civic Federation and the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, and is to deliver an address before this Society at
the meeting, October 11, 1911, at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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