WV-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 85 Today's Topics: #1 Bio- Henry A. Lucas- Bluefield [Joan Wyatt ] #2 Luther B. Burk, MD..Marion Co. [Sherneff44@aol.com] ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:47:17 -0500 From: Joan Wyatt To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38E0A9D4.87A6EBA1@uakron.edu> Subject: Bio- Henry A. Lucas- Bluefield Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society Inc. Chicago & New York, Volume 111 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. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:59:48 EST From: Sherneff44@aol.com To: WV-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <48.3590d49.2612d9b4@aol.com> Subject: Luther B. Burk, MD..Marion Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 380 Luther B. Burk MD, Marion County Luther B. Burk MD, who is established in successful practice in the City of Fairmont, Marion County, as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear nose and throat, was born on a farm at Sand Fork, Gilmer County, this state, January 5, 1862, a son of Archibald and Malinda E. (Moyers) Burke, the former having been born on the same farm as the son, in the year 1835, and the latter having been born in Greenbrier County, Virginia, April 9, 1842. Her parents were pioneers of Greenbrier County, from which they removed to Braxton County. Archibald Burk, whose death occurred August 8, 1902, was a son of John Burk, who was born in Virginia and who became a pioneer of what is now Gilmer County, West Virginia, where he settled in the midst of the forest and instituted the reclamation of a farm. His father, John SR., was a native of Ireland, and came to America as a British Soldier in the British Army in the Revolutionary War, after the close of which he settled permanently in Virginia, now West Virginia. Doctor Burke was reared on the old homestead farm, and after attending the rural schools, he continued his studies in the State Normal School at Glenville, West Virginia, in which he was graduated in 1886. He had previously made a successful record as a teacher, and after his graduation he continued his service in the pedagogic profession nine years. From May 1888 to June of the following year, he was editor and publisher of the Gilmer County Banner at Glenville, West Virginia. In 1890, he entered the Louisville Medical School, and in the following year, after brief attendance in the Kentucky School of Medicine, he matriculated in the medical department of the University of Louisville, in which well ordered Kentucky institution he was graduated March 14, 1892, with the degree Doctor of Medicine. On the 1st of the following May he engaged in practice at Flemington, Taylor County, West Virginia, where he remained two years and six months. From October, 1894, until March 1897, he was engaged in practice at Lost Creek, Harrison County, West Virginia, and since that time he has continuously maintained his office in the same building at Fairmont save for an interval of one year. He has built a substantial and representative practice in his special field, that of diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, to which he confines himself exclusively. In 1896 he did post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic and in the national metropolis he did post-graduate work also in the Manhattan Eye and Ear and the Northwestern Hospital. In 1897 he availed himself of the clinical advantages of the Presbyterian Eye and Ear Hospital in Baltimore, and in 1899 he specialized further by attending clinics at the Wills Eye Hospital in the City of Philadelphia. In that city in 1899 he graduated in the Eastern College of Electro-Therapeutics and Psychologic Medicine, with a degree of Electro- Therapeutics.