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ADDISON D. TUCKER, proprietor of Wild Wood Park, raiser of horse-radish and vegetables; has drawn aside from the beaten track of hum drum farming, and began an innovation in the Southwest, of fitting up a park for a pleasure resort. He has inaugurated a new enterprise, which has surpassed even his most sanguine expectations, in raising horse-radish in wholesale quantities, manufacturing it for the trade and dealers, besides cultivating quite extensively the growth of garden vegetables. In all these ventures Mr. Tucker has been rewarded with great success, and is certainly not only to be commended but warmly congratulated. Addison D. Tucker the subject of this sketch, was born in Chenango county, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1843. At the age of fifteen he immigrated to Pawnee county, Neb. His father Charles, was a boot and shoe manufacturer, and died in Sept., 1875. Mr. Tucker enlisted from Buchanan county, Missouri, in the Jackson Guards, and subsequently in the First Missouri Cavalry, Confederate, serving four years. Mr. Tucker was married in Cole county, Mo., Oct. 19, 1865, to Matilda A, Kinser, who was born in Cole county, Mo., in 1837. Their children are Mary E., Cora, Joseph, Pearle, Albert, and Ollie. Mr. Tucker came to Jasper county, in 1866, and now lives on a farm on the banks of Spring River, three and one-half miles northwest of Carthage, comprising fifty-six acres, raising 400 bushels of wheat, 550 bushels of corn, besides plenty of small fruit, and quantities of vegetables; selling 500 quarts of berries. He makes a specialty of a business, novel in southwest Missouri, that of cultivating horse-radish, having three and one-half acres, from which he sells annually $500 worth in Kansas and southwest Missouri. Mr. Tucker was the pioneer lime burner of Jasper county, and is always in the van of any new enterprise. Wild Wood Park which he has fitted up is a picturesque spot, which is more fully described on page 300, where Mr. Tucker is a genius in his way, full of zeal, enterprise, and withal a genial and obliging gentleman.