Biography

Julia Stell Tuck was the daughter of Philadelphia merchant William Shorter Stell and his wife Anne Eliza Stell. She was mentioned in a letter from William Seward to his daughter Fanny, written July 11, 1859, when he visited Manchester in 1859, "Mr Stell  is a retired American merchant, Mrs Stell  is of Baltimore  and her mother,  an adopted child of ten  and a bright intellectual family relation  of Baltimore make up the party." Julia eventually married Edward Tuck, an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater, Dartmouth College. They were philanthropists who donated millions of dollars in art as well as a hospital in France. 
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