Biography of Warren W. Lucas, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Lucas, Percival, Williams, Young.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page An Illustrated History of
Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical
Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 374

Warren W. Lucas

Hardly could the charge of incompleteness be refuted by the publishers of a
volume whose purview includes biographical mention of the leading men in Baker
county were there failure to accord due representation to the esteemed
pioneer, energetic and successful mining man and public-spirited citizen whose
name initiates this paragraph. Mr. Lucas was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio,
on August 15, 1833, the son of Thomas and Rachel (Percival) Lucas, natives,
respectively, of Vermont and Connecticut. He grew to manhood in the Buckeye
state, but on arriving at the age of twenty-two he set out across the plains
to the Willamette valley. After consuming six months and four days in making a
journey which would now require not more than the four days, he reached his
destination, not, however, without a brush or two with the Indians, by whom
some of the train's stock were stolen.

For the seven years succeeding the date of his advent in Oregon our subject
worked in various lines of endeavor, but in 1862 he caught the gold fever, and
came to Auburn, Baker county. He was engaged in mining there and around
Granite until 1884, in which year he went to Stein mountain and turned his
attention to farming and stock-raising. Three years at that, then he went back
to the mines, and his search for earth's treasure was not again renounced
until 1898. Then, however he purchased four hundred and eighty acres of land
five and a half miles southeast of Sumpter, and for the second time in life
engaged in farming, believing that industry better suited to his advancing
years than the more rigorous occupation of mining. He still has, however some
good quartz claims and some valuable placer diggings in Granite. His realty
holdings also include a fine two-hundred-acre farm within twelve miles of
Salem, Oregon.

Mr. Lucas married, in the Willamette valley, on August 18, 1859, Miss
Adelaide, daughter of Leonard and Emily Williams, pioneers of Oregon 1847.
Their union has been blessed by the advent of two children, Viola A. and
Andrew E., who married Libbie M. Young, and they also have two grandchildren,
Elsie and Libbie.

Mrs. Lucas died in the Willamette valley on January 17, 1862, and her remains
lie buried in the cemetery at Independence, Polk county.