The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1917-08-10
Phil. Ii. Tuck Dead.

Philemon H Tuck, lawyer and club
man. and member of one of the oldesl
families of Southern Maryland, died or
Sunday morning at Buena Vista, Cal
vert county, where he had been living
for several months. He was about 6;
years old.
Mr.. Tuck had not practiced law OIL
been active in business since he suit
fered a paralytic stroke about Is
months ago.
He was the son of the late Judge
William Hallam Tuck, of the Maryland
Court of Appeals His home, for many
years, was in Annapolis, where he at.
tended St. Johns College. He studied
law at the University of Maryland, and
engaged in practice in Baltimore with
offices in the Calvert Building. Lend
ing money on land in Southern Mary
land was large part of his practice,
and he had interests in many great
tracts of land in that part of the State.
He maintained summer home on
West River.
In one transaction, the sale of his
estate in St. Mary's county. known as
Cedar Point, Mr. Tuck disposed of 753
acres lying on the Chesapeake Bay at
the mouth of the Patuxent river. That
was in 1911, and the transaction in
volved over $4,000. which was said at
that time to have been the largest
price paid for a Southern Maryland
farm since the Civil War. The pur-
chaser was Gen. James A. Buchanan,
U. S. A. The property had been a
country seat of Lord Baltimore.
Mr.. Tuck was a brother of Judge
Somerville P. Tuck, Deputy President
of the Mixed Tribunals of Egypt,
whom he visited in that country in
1906. Upon his visit to Rome, after
the trip to Egypt he was received by
the Pope, and he presented letter
from Cardinal Gibbons. Mr.. Tuck had
attended service at St. Peters, and
was in the immediate neighborhood
when the bomb outrage against the
cathedral was committed in that year.
Mr.. Tuck was married twice. His
first wife was Miss Grace Devries, of
Baltimore, who died several years ago.
In February, 1908, he married Miss
Dorcar V. Jamison, a native of Canada,
and descendant of the Scotch clans of
Campbell, Kinloch and Menche. Mrs.
Tuck had graduated from the training
school for nurses at Johns Hopkins
Hospital after completing her earlier
education in England.
For many years Mr. Tuck was presi
dent of the Alumni Association of ST.
Johns College, and a member of the
board of trustees. He was a member
of the Maryland and University Clubs,
and vestryman in Christ Protestant
Episcopal Church. He was also
member of the Society of Colonial
Wars. His home in Baltimore was at
926 Cathedral street, but he had not
lived there for some time.
Besides his wife, Mr.. Tuck is sur
vived by three daughters-Mrs. J. Pur-
Vance Bonsal, who is now in Maine.
Mrs. Alfred P. Devereux, of Philadel
phia, and little daughter, Dorcas
Tuck, about 2 years old. He was
cousin of George Weems Williams, the
lawyer and a nephew of Judge R. B.
B. Chew.
The funeral took place Tuesday
afternoon at o'clock at st. Anne's
Church. Annapolis.
The active pallbearers were DR..
Thomas Fell, DIR. Samuel 7. Earle, Jr.,
Samuel M. Jones, Joseph M. Amber,
Willis T. Goldsborough, Randolph Bar
ton. Jr,, Morris Tyson, Richard M. Du-
vail, Judge Walter P. Dawkins and
Judge Henry Harlan.
Honorary pallbearers were Joseph
H. Packard, Randolph Barton, Sr.,
William S. Hammond, Edward Lloyd
Winder, Judge Henry Duffy, Robert
Powell, Leonce Rabbillion, Samuel c..
Chew, Jr., Samuel K. George, George
Weems Williams, Gen. Lawrason Riggs
and William G. Getherell.