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. Includes 19 maps of trenches and towns in France and Belgium during World War 1.
Dates
- 1890-1948.
Creator
- Tuck, John Bennett, 1868-1955. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Lawyer; Cornell University Class of 1893; Cornell University Alumni Trustee, 1930-1935.
Extent
8.6 cubic feet. (8.6 cubic feet.)
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. Includes 19 maps of trenches and towns in France and Belgium during World War 1.
Physical Description
Student papers, estate records, military records, correspondence, family papers, and other materials.
General
- 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
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, July 2017
- American Foundation
- American Legion
- Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
- Cornell Law Association
- Dey Brothers
- East Asia.
- F. P. Collins Company
- Guards of Liberty
- Harbin (Manchuria).
- Milmac, Inc
- Mowat Company
- New York (State). National Guard
- Prohibition.
- Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
- Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Veterans -- United States.
- Tuck, Charles H.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- United States.
- Young Workers League of America
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Strassberg
- Date
- January 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu