Early Life and Education
Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810, the son of John Tuck, a sixth generation descendant of Robert Tuck, a founder of Hampton (Winnacunnet), New Hampshire, in 1638.
Amos Tuck attended Effingham Academy and Hampton Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1835; he studied law and entered the bar. He married Davida Nudd and had a son, Edward Tuck, on August 25, 1842, and a daughter, Ellen Tuck French, who married into the British peerage. Tuck was an earlier supporter and donor to the Free Will Baptist's Parsonfield Seminary. He is the namesake of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
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