Dr. John Francis Tuckerman was born June 13, 1817, graduated from Harvard College in 1837 and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1841. He then entered the United States Navy as an assistant surgeon and was assigned to the United States ship John Adams. He married Lucy Saunders Saltonstall, daughter of the Honorable Leverett Saltonstall, the first mayor of Salem, Massachusetts. They had four children: Leverett, Francis, Charles, and Mary. Soon after his marriage, he resigned his commission in the Navy and engaged in other pursuits. He was a trustee and manager of private trusts in Boston. He was also an accomplished musician and composed a number of hymns. A small volume of his church music has been published. At the time of his death he was the trustee and manager of a large number of private trusts. He died in 1855.

Mary Saltonstall Tuckerman was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 12, 1856. She was educated at private schools kept by Miss Caroline H. King and Miss Jane Phillips. In 1877 she married William Phineas Parker (1855-1923), a businessman and cousin of Salem's famous Parker Brothers, the game manufacturers. They had two sons, Francis Tuckerman Parker in 1889 and William Bradstreet Parker in 1890. In the 1890s Mary Parker authored and published several books on Colonial Revival themes. In the first decade of the 20th century, Parker created embroidered samplers, one of which was featured on the cover of House Beautiful magazine in 1915. She died in 1920.

Francis Tuckerman Parker was born on February 17, 1889. He attended the Noble and Greenough School in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1911. From 1911 to 1913 he attended New School of Design, an art school in Boston. From 1913 to 1914 he taught at "Red House" in Groton, Massachusetts, which was a prep school for the Groton School run by Mr. C. A. Shaw. From 1915 to 1918 he had his own private school for boys for ages eight to fifteen in Lynn, Massachusetts. In May 1918, he enlisted in the Naval Reserve. When discharged, he worked at Parker Brothers, in Salem. He married Hildred Elizabeth Kavanaugh on April 8, 1919. He served as Chairman of the Board of Assessors in Salem and had a real estate business. Francis Parker was a master of the Salem Marine Society, a trustee of the Essex Institute, and president of the House of Seven Gables Association. He died in1973.

William Bradstreet Parker was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 24, 1890 and graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in Boston in 1908. He worked at the Old Colony Trust Company. He held various town offices in New Hampshire and was a member of the New Hampshire State legislature for several terms. He was a member of the Salem Marine Society and treasurer and warden of Christ Episcopal Church, North Conway, New Hampshire for 25 years. He was a well-known violinist and played for many years in the Conway town orchestra.