Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Lucas, John 1836 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JOHN LUCAS, farmer, Sec. 4, and proprietor of the Farmers' Home Hotel,
Truesdell Station; P. O. Kenosha; born May 19,1836, in Radnorshire, Wales; came
to Paris, Kenosha Co., in 1843; to Pleasant Prairie in 1853, and worked for L.
C. Holt three and one-half years, then went back to Paris to his parents for two
years, during which time he owned and operated a threshing machine, at the same
time managing his farm. In the fall of 1858, was severely hurt by a runaway
team. In the spring of 1859, was elected Assessor of Paris Township, and served
two years. In 1860, went to college in Coshocton Co., Ohio, for one year, then
came to Pleasant Prairie, bought a farm, worked it two years, sold it and went
to work as a carpenter in Kenosha and elsewhere for four years. In 1865, bought
eighty acres of the Gideon Truesdell farm, and worked it till 1870, when he was
elected Sheriff of Kenosha County, for 1871-72; afterward returned to his farm,
still working as carpenter for two years, and was re-elected Sheriff in the fall
of 1874, serving two years; then, after managing his farm for one year, rented
it, and moved into his hotel, which he had bought in 1874. Married Miss Sarah J.
Everall, of Ohio, June 15, 1860; she died May 4, 1861. On March 7, 1864, he
married Miss Angeline Dabbs, of Pleasant Prairie; have five children-John C.,
born Oct. 7, 1865; Floyd G., Nov. 26,1867; Mabel L., Feb. 27,1870; Lottie L.,
June 26, 1872; Schuyler B., March 19, 1874. Mr. Lucas has also been Assessor of
Pleasant Prairie nine years at different periods; Chairman of Board of
Supervisors one year; Under Sheriff of Kenosha County, two years; Deputy Sheriff
of Kenosha County, four years; is now serving his seventh year as Justice of the
Peace, and is County Coroner. He is a member of Lodge No. 47, Masons. Mr. L. and
his family are members of the Congregational Church.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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