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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

WILLIAM LUCAS. Among the British American citizens of North Branch Township,
Lapeer County, who for many years have been thoroughly Americanized and who,
during the Civil War cast in their lot with other patriots and fought for the
honor of the old flag, we are pleased to give the name of William Lucas. He was
born in Oxfordshire, England about seventy-five miles west of London on the 5th
of April, 1821. His parents, John and Mary (Manning) Lucas, were both natives of
Northampton, and his father, the son of a rich man who had lost his estate, was
a day laborer and unable to give his son a good education. This parent died when
our subject was but fourteen years old, and the boy after that worked out for a
living.

  When Mr. Lucas had reached the age of twenty-six he was married to Eliza
Fessey of Hardick, and they became the parents of four children—Elizabeth I.,
Robert F., Harriet M. and Janey. These children have all established families of
their own, and their mother was called from earth December 9, 1882. It was in
1853 when our subject brought his family to America, locating in Detroit through
the winter. He first worked for John S. Bagg as gardener. He then entered the
employ of John Hull on his stock farm on the river Rouge, and there had
oversight of the hired men. He was a trained gardener in England on the estate
of Lord Bute.

  Somewhat later Mr. Lucas removed to Oakland County, where he farmed for two
years, and coming to Lapeer County in August, 1856, he bought the place where he
now resides. It was then all an unbroken forest, and he has made every
improvement which is to be seen upon it to-day, besides doing much useful work
upon the road.

  He of whom we write enlisted December 11, 1861, in Company F, Tenth Michigan
Infantry. He was under Sherman in what was then known as the Army of the West,
and took part in the various marches of that body through Kentucky, Tennessee,
North and South Carolina and Georgia, and though he served until July 19, 1865,
he was not in any general engagements, and did not see much lighting. At the
expiration of the war he returned to Michigan with his health much impaired, so
he has been unable to do active work since that time. In his political views he
is in earnest sympathy with the Republican party, and he says that the party
which sustained the administration during the war, is good enough for him now.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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