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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

HENRY HENNEGIN TUCKER.
    Henry Hennegin Tucker, secretary of the Fones Brothers Company, controlling
an extensive wholesale hardware business, of which he is part owner, has thus
gained an enviable position as one of the substantial business men of Little
Rock, his native city. He was born January 14, 1S8S, and is a son of Sterling W.
and Jennie (Hennegin) Tucker. Following the death of the father, the mother
later became the wife of D. G. Fones, of the Fones Brothers Hardware Company,
one of the mammoth business concerns of the capital city. When she passed away
she left this business to her two sons, Sterling W. and Henry H. Tucker.

    The younger son was educated in the public schools of Little Rock and also
attended the Arkansas Military Academy for two years before entering Cornell
University at Ithaca, New York, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. Having completed his education, he returned to his
native city and here became identified with the wholesale hardware house of
Fones Brothers. He has since been identified with this business and has
contributed in no small degree to the success and continued growth of the
undertaking. In June, 1912, he became secretary of the company, while his
brother, Sterling W., succeeded to the presidency in 1916. The brothers are now
joint owners of this business, which is one of the most important commercial
interests of the city, its trade relations covering a very wide territory. They
have always fully sustained the high reputation which the house has borne since
its founders first opened the doors of the establishment and at the same time
they have kept apace with the most progressive commercial methods, the gradual
expansion of their trade being the direct result of carefully formulated plans
and sound judgment.

    On the 5th of June, 1919, H. H. Tucker was united in marriage to Miss
Katharine Duke, who was born in Baxter, Arkansas, August 14, 1893, a daughter of
Charles Talbot and Willie (Slemons) Duke. The father, a native of Arkansas, is
now deceased and the mother has also been called to her final rest. To Mr. and
Mrs. Tucker has been born a daughter, Elizabeth Duke, whose birth occurred April
21, 1921.

    In his political views Mr. Tucker has always been a stalwart democrat but
never an aspirant for office. He and his wife are consistent members of the
First Methodist Episcopal church, South, and the nature of his interests aside
from the lines indicated is manifest in his membership relations with the Rotary
Club and the Country Club. That his has been a well spent life is indicated in
the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from
his boyhood to the present. He is a splendid representative of that class of
wide-awake, alert young business men who, meeting present-day requirements of
the commercial world, also measure their activities by the highest ethical
standards of trade.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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