Bayard Tuckerman

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Bayard Tuckerman (July 2, 1855 – October 20, 1923) was an American biographer and historian. He was born in New York City to Lucius Tuckerman, an iron maker, and Elizabeth Gibbs Tuckerman. He spent two years studying in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at Pension Roulet, and then graduated from Harvard University in 1878. Tuckerman wrote about history and literature and lectured on English literature at Princeton University from 1898 to 1907. He married Annie Osgood Smith in 1882, and they had four children, including Bayard Tuckerman Jr., a noted jockey. He died at his home in Ipswich, Massachusetts, on October 20, 1923.