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P. HILL TUCKER

P. Hill Tucker, the subject of this sketch, is among
the young men who are "making Roanoke" to-day.
He is a member of the Board of Aldermen from Highland
Ward, having been
elected in June, 1910,
and is Vice President of
that body, Vice Chairman
of the Committee
on Finance, and a member
of the Fire and
Water Committee.

A son of John M.
Tucker, he was born
August 12th, 1875, and
received his education
in the public schools of
Roanoke. At the age of
eighteen he was appointed
Deputy Clerk
under Colonel S. S.
Brooke and served in
that capacity from 1893
to 1907, when he was
made Commissioner of the Revenue, which position
he held until 1910. He then became identified with
the real estate firm of Boswell & Tucker Company,
Incorporated, of which he is Secretary and Treasurer;
also Secretary and Treasurer Dominion Metal Products
Corporation.

He was married on March 19th, 1902, to Annie A.
Deacon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Deacon and
to this union two children have been born: Randolph,
aged six years, and Evelyn Ann, aged three and one-half
years.

Religiously he is a member of Greene Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Socially he is a member of Pleasants Lodge, A. F.
and A. M.; Murray Chapter, R. A. M.; Bayard
Commandery, K. T.; Roanoke Lodge, I. O. O. F.