William Austin Tucker

Tucker was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 3, 1850. He was the son of Rebecca (née Chamberlin) Tucker and James Tucker, senior member of the firm of James Tucker & Co., manufacturers. His brother, James Alfred Tucker, married Martha Hamlin Elms.

He was a descendant of Robert Tucker, who came to America from England in 1635.

In 1889, Tucker entered the field of banking and finance, at which time he organized the firm of Walter, Tucker & Co. Upon the death in 1892 of Walter, the firm of Tucker, Anthony & Co. was organized, with S. Reid Anthony as a member. Later Phillip L. Saltonstall, Nathan Anthony and Chauncey Eldridge joined the partnership, and the firm eventually became a leader among the banking and brokerage houses in Boston and New York. Tucker retired from active business in 1924, retaining only his interests as director in a number of corporations, including the Knickerbocker Trust Company.

In 1876, Tucker married Elizabeth Foster (1856–1937), a daughter of The Right Rev. Randolph Sinks Foster, Bishop of Ohio, and Sarah Ann (née Miley) Foster. Together, they were the parents of three children:

Ethel Tucker (1878–1942), who married Hon. Archibald Lionel Lindsay, second son of David Bethune, 11th Earl of Lindsay and Emily Marian Crosse, in 1900. They divorced in 1906, and she married Ezra C. Fitch Jr., son of Ezra Charles Fitch, president of the Waltham Watch Company, in November 1906. After Fitch's death in 1917, she remarried her first husband, Archibald, in 1921, before he inherited the earldom from his elder brother, Reginald, in 1939.

Randolph "Ralph" Foster Tucker (1879–1971), who married Mona Louise House, a daughter of "Col" Edward M. House and Elizabeth Louisa "Loulie" (née Hunter) House. Her sister, Janet House, married Gordon Auchincloss (brother of Charles C. Auchincloss and U.S. Representative James C. Auchincloss).

Marion Tucker (1882–1941), who died unmarried.

While spending the summer in Southampton, New York, he became ill and, after several weeks, Tucker died on October 25, 1931 at 399 Park Avenue, his home in New York. He was buried at Trinity Church Cemetery in New York. His widow died, also at 399 Park Avenue, in March 1937.