Luther Tucker
(1834 - 1897)
Page 1110, # 3244
Luther Tucker, the grandson of John Smith and Lucy Cleveland, was placed with Timothy O. Strong of Middlebury, Vt, in 1815, to learn the printing business ; removed in 1817 to Palmyra, N. Y. In 1825 he was partner in the printing business with Henry C. Sleight of Jamaica, L. I. In 1826 he removed to Rochester, N. Y., and established .the Rochester Daily Advertiser. Oct. 26, 1826, the first daily paper west of Albany, still a flourishing newspaper, now called The Union and Advertiser.
He established at Rochester, Jan. 1, 1831, The Genesee Farmer (a weekly), which periodical was the ancestor of the present The Cultivator and Country Gentleman (also a weekly). He afterwards bought The Cultivator, merged The Genesee Farmer into it — adopting the name of broader scope.
Removed, in 1840, to Albany, where he, Jan. 1, 1853, established The Country Gentleman, at Albany. He continued The Cultivator as a monthly until 1866, when it was consolidated with The Country Gentleman. No change has taken place in the management since the start, Jan. 1, 1831, except the death of the founder and the accession, one by one, of two of his sons and one grandson. The Cultivator and Country Gentleman, since i860, has been published by the firm, Luther Tucker & Son, Albany. The journal is very much the oldest as well as admittedly the leading agricultural periodical of any class in this country. If anything else professes to date farther back — of which the editors are not sure — it can only be by counting from the establishment of some other and distinct periodical which had suspended publication. People sometimes revive newspapers that have been dead for years, and then number the volumes from the beginning, as if there had been continuity.
Luther Tucker m. 1st, at Rochester, Windsor co., Vt., Nov. 19, 1827, Naomi Sparhawk, b. Rochester, Vt., Oct. 19, 1807, d. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 4, 1832, a da. of Dea. Ebenezer and Azuba (Jefferson). He m. 2d, Rochester, Vt., Oct. 14, 1833, Mary Sparhawk, b. Rochester, Vt., Sept. 23, 1805, died Albany, Mar. 8, 1844, sister to his first wife.
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