Elk County PA Archives Biographies.....Lucore Jr., Luther  October 28, 1833 - March 20, 1899
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Author: History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron & Potter, 1890, pp. 745-759

LUTHER LUCORE, JR., retired farmer, P.O. Benezette, was born in Emporium, 
Penn., October 28, 1833, the second son in a family of fifteen children born 
to Luther and Mary (Smith) Lucore, natives of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 
His father came to Emporium in 1818. Mr. Lucore worked upon his father’s farm 
and at lumbering until September 26, 1861, when he entered the United States 
service, and was assigned to the First Pennsylvania "Bucktail" Regiment, 
serving two years; at the battle of Fredericksburg he was struck by a minie- 
ball, which resulted in the loss of a limb. Returning to Emporium, he was 
engaged as clerk in the hotel of C.C. Fay, where he remained until 1865, when 
he went to Marion, Iowa, from which place he came, in 1867, to Benezette, 
where he was in the mercantile business until 1871, when he sold his store and 
engaged as clerk for B.E. Morey, of Caledonia, Penn. He married, in May, 1874, 
Mrs. L. E. Chase, widow of M.M. Chase and daughter of David and Jane (Cadwell) 
Wheeler, and they have two children: Emma L. and Mabel L. Mr. Lucore was a 
prominent farmer and is a wide- awake citizen; he has held various township 
offices and is a member of the Benezette Lodge, No. 988, I.O.O.F., also of M. 
W. Lucore Post, No. 216. G.A.R., of St. Mary’s.



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