Bayard Tuckerman
Bayard Tuckerman | |
|---|---|
.png) | |
| Born | July 2, 1855 New York, New York, US |
| Died | October 20, 1923 (aged 68) Ipswich, Massachusetts, US |
| Education | Harvard University |
| Occupations | Biographer, historian |
| Employer | Princeton University |
| Spouse |
Annie Osgood Smith (m. 1882) |
| Children | 4, including Bayard Tuckerman Jr. |
Bayard Tuckerman (July 2, 1855 – October 20, 1923) was a United States biographer and historian.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Bayard Tuckerman was born in New York City on July 2, 1855, the son of iron manufacturer Lucius Tuckerman and Elizabeth Wolcott Gibbs Tuckerman.[1]
He studied for two years in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at the Pension Roulet, and later graduated from Harvard in 1878, and became a writer on historical and literary subjects. He lectured on English literature for Princeton University from 1898 to 1907. He married Annie Osgood Smith in 1882; they had four children, among whom was Bayard Tuckerman Jr., a noted jockey.
Bayard Tuckerman died at his home in Ipswich, Massachusetts on October 20, 1923.[2]
Works
[edit | edit source]- A History of English Prose Fiction (New York, 1882)
- Life of General Lafayette (1889)
- The Diary of Philip Hone (1889)
- Peter Stuyvesant, Director-General for the West India Company in New Netherland (1893)
- William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery (1894)
- Life of General Philip Schuyler (1903)
Notes
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]
- Works by Bayard Tuckerman at Project Gutenberg
- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).