Biographical Sketch of Lucas Brothers, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Lucas Brothers, show case manufacturers.  This is the only establish-
ment of the kind in St. Joseph, and their business extends over a vast
area of country.  Their cases are to be found on sale in Kansas, Ne-
braska, Dakota, California, Oregon, Wyoming and other states and terr-
itories.  J. W. Lucas is a native of Highland County, Ohio; was born
in 1842, and there resided until August 19, 1862, when he enlisted in
the Eighty ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in many notable
engagements, Fort Donaldson, Chicamauga and others.  At the latter 
place he was taken prisoner, and for fourteen months his time was spent
in Andersonville, Danville, Belle Isle, Macon and Salsbury and several
other "pens".  He was honorably discharged in 1865.  In 1866 he removed
to Montgomery County, Iowa, residing there until 1879, when he became
a resident of St. Joseph, engaging his his present business.  Mr. C. B.
Lucas was born in Highland County, Ohio, in 1850, and was there raised
to manhood and resided until the autumn of 1880, when he came to this
city and associated himself with his brother.

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