Guide to the John Bennett Tuck Papers,
1890-1948

Collection Number: 2604

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
R. Strassberg
Date completed:
December 1968
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, January 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
John Bennett Tuck papers, 1890-1948.
Collection Number:
2604
Creator:
John Bennett Tuck, 1868-1955.
Quantity:
8.6 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Student papers, estate records, military records, correspondence, family papers, and other materials.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes papers written when he was a student at Cornell University; estate records with material relating to the F. P. Collins Company, Dey Brothers, Milmac, Inc., and the Mowat Company; military records of his activities in the Spanish-American War, the New York National Guard, and World War I; and correspondence, notes, and other items concerning his association with the American Foundation, the American Legion, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Cornell University Trustees, the Cornell Law Association, the Guards of Liberty, and the Young Workers League of America; also, family papers referring largely to the sale of the Tuck farm in Ogdensburg, New York, and three letters (1917-1918) from his brother Charles H. Tuck which describe the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Far Eastern affairs from his vantage point as an import agent in Harbin, Manchuria.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lawyer; Cornell University Class of 1893; Cornell University Alumni Trustee, 1930-1935.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes papers written when he was a student at Cornell University; estate records with material relating to the F. P. Collins Company, Dey Brothers, Milmac, Inc., and the Mowat Company; military records of his activities in the Spanish-American War, the New York National Guard, and World War I; and correspondence, notes, and other items concerning his association with the American Foundation, the American Legion, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Cornell University Trustees, the Cornell Law Association, the Guards of Liberty, and the Young Workers League of America; also, family papers referring largely to the sale of the Tuck farm in Ogdensburg, New York, and three letters (1917-1918) from his brother Charles H. Tuck which describe the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Far Eastern affairs from his vantage point as an import agent in Harbin, Manchuria.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Tuck, John Bennett, 1868-1955.
Tuck, Charles H.
American Foundation.
American Legion.
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.
Cornell Law Association.
Cornell University.
Dey Brothers.
F. P. Collins Company.
Guards of Liberty.
Milmac, Inc.
Mowat Company.
New York (State). National Guard.
Young Workers League of America.

Subjects:
Spanish-American War, 1898--Veterans--United States.
World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--United States.
Prohibition.

Places:
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
East Asia.
Harbin (Manchuria).
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
John Bennett Tuck papers, #2604. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Brown, Howard K.
 Box 1 Folder 1-2
Cranwell Estate, Elizabeth Fenn - Judicial Statement
 Box 1 Folder 3
Dey, Donald Mitchell - Estate of, Lipe Trust Mortgage
 Box 1 Folder 4-6
Dey, Donald Mitchell, Mrs. - General File
 Box 1 Folder 7
Dey, Donald Mitchell - Claims
 Box 1 Folder 8
Dey, Donald Mitchell - Fayetteville Commercial Bank
 Box 1 Folder 9
Dey, Donald Mitchell - Inheritance Tax
 Box 1 Folder 10
Dey - Estate of Mary
 Box 1 Folder 11
Daugherty, James C.
 Box 1 Folder 12-13
Fitzgibbons, Catherine - Last Will and Testament
 Box 1 Folder 14
Haas, Barbara - Last Will and Testament
 Box 1 Folder 15
Kelley, George G.B. - Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 16
Kelley, George G.B. - Inheritance Taxes
 Box 1 Folder 17
Linehan, Daniel J.
 Box 1 Folder 18
Lucey, Dennis B. - Estate of
 Box 1 Folder 19-22
McCarthy, Anna V.
 Box 2 Folder 1
McCarthy, Dennis Percy - General
 Box 2 Folder 2
McCarthy, Dennis Percy - Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 3-4
McFarland, William J.R. - Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 5-6
Merrick, Mrs. Charlotte Day
 Box 2 Folder 7
Milmac Inc. - General
 Box 2 Folder 8
Mooney, Edward L. - Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 9-10
Meunch, William - Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 11-12
O'Connor, Mary A. - Estate of
 Box 2 Folder 13
Peck, Anna L. (Cary) - General
 Box 2 Folder 14-15
Peck, Anna L. (Cary) - Judicial Settlement
 Box 2 Folder 16
Peck, Anna L. (Cary) - The Adirondack Arrow Inc.
 Box 2 Folder 17
Peck, Anna L. (Cary) - Eagle Bay Property
 Box 2 Folder 18-20
Peck, Anna L. (Cary) - Armstrong, Gwendolyn B. Claim
 Box 2 Folder 21
Peck, Fanny F. Trust
 Box 2 Folder 22-23
Peck, Fanny F. Trust
 Box 3 Folder 1-2
Robertson, Edward - Will of
 Box 3 Folder 3-4
Tuck, Andrew - Estate of
 Box 3 Folder 5-7
Tuck, Estate of Andrew E. II
 Box 3 Folder 8
Tuck, John B. - the Chalet, The Gate House, Eagle Bay Property
 Box 3 Folder 9
Watts, Herbert C. - Will of
 Box 3 Folder 10
White, Estate of M. Thersa
 Box 3 Folder 11
1917
Military
 Box 3 Folder 12-14
1916-1917
Military and Personal
 Box 3 Folder 15
1918
Military
 Box 3 Folder 16-17
1918
Army Staff College - 3rd Course
 Box 3 Folder 18-20
1891-1921
Correspondence and Papers
 Box 4
1925-1931
Correspondence and Papers
 Box 6
1929-1943
Correspondence and Papers
 Box 7
1941-1946
Correspondence and Papers
 Box 7
1941-1946
Correspondence and Papers; also photographs
 Box 8
College course notes
 Box 9
Scrapbook
 Box 9
Delta Epsilon Song Book
Box 9
Thesis
 Box 9
Ledger
 Box 9
'93 Sourvenir Book
 Box 9
1918
A.E.F. class book
 Box 9
ca. 1890
Cornell material, letter from David Hoy, exams, papers, and speeches. Speech topics include Delta Upsilon, Freshmen banquet, Co-education, experiences with a general store, in a dentist chair, military, alumni association, James R. Fuller eulogy, papers on Benedict Arnold and other historical figures.
Box 10
ca. 1915
Maps of France, Paris, Metz, others, World War I era
 Box 11
Photograph - group, not identified
 Mapcase
Certificates
1898
Army Commission
 Mapcase
1911, 1917
Awards
 Mapcase
1907, 1913, 1917
National Guard Commissions
 Mapcase