BIO of Alvah E. Luce, formerly of Chautauqua County, New York

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From "History of North Washington" Published 1904 

Transcribed by: Candy Grubb (candyg@theofficenet.com)

ALVAH E. LUCE
    Alvah E. Luce is one of the substantial men of southwestern Stevens
county, and although he has spent most of his life on the frontiers of the
west, still he has never practiced the use of intoxicating beverages or
tobacco and has never gambled, always preferring to keep his integrity rather
than mingle in the excesses of so many frontiersmen.  He was born in
Chautauqua county, New York, on June 8, 1861, the son of Aaron and Victoria
(Christy) Luce, natives also of the county where our subject was born.  Alvah
spent his early days in his native place and secured a good educational
training from the public schools.  When seventeen he came to Bramah county,
Michigan, and wrought for three years on salary.  Then came a trip to his home
and thence he went to Brown county, Dakota.  He took a preemption there when
he could see but three houses.  When he left a short time later, he could
count one hundred and twenty-five claim houses from his door.  He went back to
Minnesota and in 1885 came to Lincoln county and followed breaking horses. 
Mr. Luce never found that a horse yet which he could not subdue and his
reputation for taming and handling wild horses was of the very best in Lincoln
county.  On one occasion he assisted to round up two thousand horses in one
band.
    On April 5, 1892, Mr. Luce married Miss Ollie, daughter of William and
Minerva Markwick, and to them have been born six children, Homer A., Ruth O.,
Irene, Herbert H., Ethel, and Hazel.  Following his marriage, Mr. Luce devoted
himself to farming and raising stock and in 1902 he came to his present place,
four miles south from Fruitland.  Here he owns two hundred and forty acres of
good land, which is supplied with comfortable improvements, good orchard, and
plenty of water and is especially adapted for raising stock.  Mr. Luce is a
member of the W.W., and has one brother and three sisters, Elbert M., Eleanor,
deceased, Mrs. Georgia Russell, and Mrs. Leanore Russell.