BIO:  George E. LOUCKS, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 79

GEORGE E. LOUCKS was born in Spring Garden Township December 10, 1850.  His 
parents were Z. K. Loucks and Sarah Ann (Ebert) Loucks, of York County, of whom 
he was the fourth child.  His youth was spent at farming, and his education was 
received at York, and one term at the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburgh, at 
which institution he prepared himself for his profession, but owing to feeble 
health was obliged to abandon his studies, and until his twenty-eighth year he 
worked about the farm.  In 1878 he was appointed agent of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, at Hellam, which position he has held ever since, devoting his whole 
time and attention to it.  He was married in his native township March 7, 1878, 
to Mary J. S. Myers, daughter of Samuel Myers.  Mr. and Mrs. Loucks belong to the 
Lutheran Church at York, at which place also his father, Zachariah K. Loucks, 
president of the First National Bank, and one of the wealthiest men of York 
County, has his residence.