Biography of Henry A. Lucas - Mercer Co. WV


The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
Page 372

Henry A. Lucas- Bluefield


     Henry A. Lucas is a building contractor who has been established at
Bluefield for the past seven years, and here and elsewhere has been
associated with a large and important volume of building construction.
He is a thorough master in his line and is a business executive capable
of working out plans and assembling all the facilities for their prompt
and though execution.
     Mr. Lucas was born in Floyd County, Virginia, October 24, 1890, son
of Aquilla Q. and Allie (Iddings) Lucas. His father was a farmer, and by
thrift and industry gained a fair competence for himself and family. He
was superintendent of his Sunday school and a very active member of the
Methodist Church and was a Virginian republican. He has reached the age
of forty-five and his wife is fifty years of age, Their family consisted
of three sons and three daughters, four of them still live in old
Virginia. One daughter, Mrs. K.E. Barham, lives in Kimball, West
Virginia.
     Henry A. Lucas attended school at Terrys Fork in his native county
and acquired his advanced training at Roanoke. He took a course in
architecture with the International Correspondence School, and spent one
year in the architect's office of H.M. Miller at Roanoke. He then
established a business of his own at Kimball, West Virginia, and was
soon engaged in contracting as well as in the architectural business. In
1914 he moved his business headquarters to Bluefield.
     The important construction work he had done would comprise a long
and interesting list. It includes the Hill Motor Company Garage at
Welch, Via Realty Company Apartments at Welch, Hill & Swope Department
Store at Welch, Steam Laundry at Welch, residences of A.C. Hufford, J.
H. Crockett: store building for the King Coal Co. at Kimball, residence
of the general manager of that company at Kimball, the A.P. World Store,
two store buildings for the L.H. Miller, hotel for L.C. Lucas, First
National Bank Building of Kimball: department store for Harry Totz at
Northfork and the Toney Department Store at Northfork: hotel at Mullins:
Hemphill-Caples High School and colored high school at Kimball: Junior
High School at Eckman, school at Herndon in Wyoming Co., Virginia: store
building for the Wright Drug Company and many others.
     On September 24, 1814, Mr. Lucas married Mabel O. Sisson, daughter
of T.S. Sisson, of Otey, Montgomery County, Virginia. They have three
children, Beatrice L., H.A., Jr., and James H. The family are members of
the Methodist Church. Mr. Lucas is affiliated with the Masonic Order,
Bluefield Lodge No. 85, Wheeling Consistory No.1, and the York and
Shrine, also with the Elks and Knights of Pythias, is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce, does his voting as a republican and while living at
Kimball held the office of recorder.


Submitted by Joan Wyatt <mewyatt@uakron.edu>

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