The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-12-22
". HAROLD TUCK
IS NOW PASTOR OF
ATLANTA CHURCH
FORMER JOCKEY AND BARBER
OF COLUMBIA NOW HAS A
GOOD CHARGE.
HELPED BY SENATOR CARMACK
Martyred Statesman Financed Him
So That He Could Get an Educa.
ton So That He Could Enter the
Ministry-Sketch of the Man.

ton So That He Could Enter the
Minstry-Sketch of the Man.
Harold Tuck, well known to many
Columbians as one of the best tonso-
rial artists that ever piled the avoca-
ton in Columbia, is now the pastor Of
the Hemphill Avenue Methodist
church, of Atlanta, Ga. His success
in the ministry will be a matter Of
pride to his many friends here. He
was for a long time on the turf, and
was one of the best jockeys that ever
came from the Blue Grass section of
the State.
The Atlanta Constitution has the
following to say Of him.
Rev. w. Harold Tuck, former pro-
fessional baseball player, horse jock
ey, barber, newspaper reporter and
general utility man, was appointed
pastor of the Hemphill avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal church at the annual
session of the Georgia conference of
that branch of Methodism. He is a
transfer from the Holston conference
that held it's sessions in Knoxville
about two months ago. Rev.. Mr..
Tuck has been located at Townsend,
Tenn, for the past year as the pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church at
that place.
According to Mr.. Tuck his life
story is most interesting and intense
! ly romantic He states that his ia
Their brought him from England to
America when he was a mere child
and that he was reared to believe that
| his mother had died when he was an
! infant. He did not know the eXpe
rience of a mothers love and devotion
| but was in the custody Of others dur
| ing his tender years. He received a
meagre education and left his pater-
nal home during his youth. He fan
cied sports and soon became a jock
ey, riding some of tfhe fastest ami
mails that have been on the American
tracks. He was also proficient as a
| baseball player and he states that he
do dc in
leagues. At length he went to Wash
ington and learned the BARRIERS trade.
, He asserts that he shaved ex-Presi-
dents Cleveland, Harrison and Nc
Kinley, and that he now possesses a
hair brush with which he dressed the
hair of these lamented executives OF
the nation While in Washington he
met the late Senator E. w. Carmack,
of Tennessee who was one of the bar
Der shop patrons. Senator Carnack
took an interest in him, and Mr.. Tuck
states financed his higher education
that enabled him to qualify for enter
ing the ministry. In the strenuous
Patterson-Carmack campigns in Ten
nessee in late years, Mr.. Tuck was
an earenst advocate of the cause or
the late Senator.
"A few months ago Mr. Tuck's ia
Their died in the State of Maine. Pre-
vious to his death the father wrote
the son to come to his bedside; that
he had some good news to impart.
Mr.. Tuck believed that his father
would tell him that his mother was
still living. This belief was induced
by rumors that had reached him that
his mother was not dead, as he had
been taught to believe. The minister
sarted to Maine, but his father ex-
pired before he arrived However,
soon afterward he received letter
from an uncle, whom he states is
wealthy banker in London, England.
This letter told him that his mother
WAS Slill llNlu5 III IuSiohu, anu oi
ed him to visit the old country in an
effort to locate her. When this in
formation was impaired to members
of Mr.. Tuck's church, they gave him
a leave of absence and some financial
assistance, and early in the past sum-
mer he sailed for England. A fruit
less search was made for his mother.
He states that he was able to obtain
positive proof that she ives not dead,
as he believed, and he traced her
through England but was unable to
locate her whereabouts during the
last seven years. Finally leaping this
seven year period, he learned hat she
had left England, and was now in
Paris. He was unable to raise funds
sufficient to take him to Paris, and
consequently had to return to Amer
lea without the satisfaction of having |