Nicholas County, West Virginia    Biography: Oslo A. LUCAS

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 28-29

OSLO A. LUCAS is the vice president and general manager
of the Fulton Manufacturing Company, which conducts one
of the leading industrial enterprises at Richwood, Nicholas
County. He was born at Morley, Michigan, October 17,
1888, and is a son of Alexander and Ida J. (Dodge) Lucas,
both likewise natives of Michigan, where the former was
born at Carlton Center, Barry County, September 6, 1859,
and the latter, at Saginaw, December 21, 1865, the respec-
tive families having been founded in the Wolverine State
in the pioneer period of its history. Alexander Lucas, a
son of Thomas and Sarah Lucas, was reared on a pioneer
Michigan farm, and as a youth he became identified with
railroad operations, with which he continued to be actively
associated for a period of twenty-three years. He then
engaged in farm enterprise in an independent way, and
since his retirement he and his wife have maintained their
home in the beautiful little City of Coldwater, judicial cen-
ter of Branch County, Michigan, where his wife is an ear-
nest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their
four children the first born, Myron H., is deceased; Orlo A.,
of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Miss Beva C.
remains at the paternal home; and Lester M. is, in 1922,
a student in the University of Michigan.

In the public schools of Michigan Orlo A. Lucas contin-
ued bis studies until his graduation from the high school,
and thereafter he continued his residence in his native state
until July, 1905, when he established his residence at Rich-
wood, West Virginia, where he became a stockholder and
office executive of the Fulton Manufacturing Company, of
which he is now vice president and general manager, his
experience in this connection having covered the various
practical details of the manufacturing. H. H. Steele is
president of the company, and W. B. Headley is its secretary
and treasurer. The board of directors includes the execu-
tive officers and also Mrs H. H. Steele and Herbert J.
Beadle.

Mr. Lucas is actively affiliated with the Masonic frater-
nity, in which he is a member of Biehwood Lodge No. 122,
A. F. and A. M.; Richwood Chapter No. 37, R. A. M.; But-
ton Commandery No. 16, Knights Templars; Beni-Kedem
Temple, Mystic Shrine, in the City of Charleston; and the
West Virginia Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Wheeling,
in which he has received the thirty-second degree. He is a
past noble grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
and is a republican in political proclivities. His wife holds
membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Lucas married Miss Mary S. Meadows, of Richwood,
and they have two sons, C. Arnett and John E.