Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Lucas, Harry Foster August 2, 1889 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HARRY FOSTER LUCAS, Insurance Broker. Member of a kamaaina family in Hawaii, 
Harry F. Lucas, an agent for the New York Life Insurance Co. since 1923, was 
born in Honolulu, Aug. 2, 1889, the son of John and Lydy (Foster) Lucas. He 
received his early education at Punahou School and studied for a short time at 
the University of Hawaii.
  Entering Yale in 1910, Mr. Lucas was graduated, A.B., with the class of 
1914. While in New Haven he helped to re-establish the Yale-Hawaiian Club and 
served as president of that organization in his junior and senior years. He 
was also a member, and in 1913-14, vice-president, of the Cosmopolitan Club at 
Yale.
  After graduation, he returned to Honolulu for a year of varied activity, 
teaching one term at the Honolulu Military Academy (at that time the Honolulu 
School for Boys), then working for a few months as proofreader on the Honolulu 
Advertiser, after which he became associated with his father in the Honolulu 
Planing Mill, Ltd., in the capacity of timekeeper on the construction of the 
U. S. Coaling Plant at Pearl Harbor.
  In the fall of 1915, Mr. Lucas returned to the mainland to take a year’s 
course in playwriting under Prof. George Pierce Baker at Harvard University. 
Returning to Honolulu in 1916, he again entered the employ of the Honolulu 
Planing Mill, Ltd., remaining with that firm until the opening of the first 
Reserve Officers’ Training Camp at Schofield Barracks. Mr. Lucas had joined 
the Machine Gun Company of the National Guard of Hawaii in 1916, and was one 
of those selected from the N. G. H. to attend the first R.O.T.C. at Schofield. 
He later attended the second Officers’ Training Camp at Schofield, but was not 
commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant until the National Guard of Hawaii was 
federalized and called into service on June 1, 1917. After passing 
examinations, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, remaining in 
the service with the federalized National Guard until he was honorably 
discharged in Feb., 1919.
  Prior to going into the insurance field, he was connected with H. F. Wichman 
& Co., Ltd., from 1919 to 1923. He is a member of Phi Chapter of Delta Kappa 
Epsilon fraternity, belongs to the University Club of Hawaii and is a member 
of the Native Sons of Hawaii.


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