San Joaquin County Biographies
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GEORGE W. LUCAS
A progressive land owner of San Joaquin County, who has done much to further the development of the resources of the state, is George W. Lucas, a native of Amador County, where he was born at Puts Bar, near Comanche, on May 15, 1862. His father, Ralph Lucas, came to California from Missouri in 1849, and mined on the Feather River. Later he settled down near Lancha Plana, where he acquired a small ranch, married Miss Rebecca Potter, and brought up a family of ten children: John L., still living at Amador; Andy, deceased; George, of this review; Ralph, of Clements; Robert, deceased; Sarah, of San Francisco; Ellen, now Mrs. Smallfield; James, living at Stockton; and William and Nels, both deceased.
George W. Lucas had the usual educational advantages enjoyed by the boys of his day and also took up the study of bookkeeping. He remained at home until he was past twenty-one, helping to support the large family, and then, for three years, worked for wages in the service of a Mr. Van Zandt. He next worked in the sawmills, in the mountains, for about one year, and after that worked for four years in Butte County, helping to handle lumber at the mills, at a flume that carried eighty thousand feet of sawn lumber each day down to Chico. He then came to Clements, and in partnership with his brother, Ralph, pursued farming four miles northeast of Clements, on the river. They operated a part of the Kissell place, and at one time farmed about 600 acres of land. This partnership was continued for a number of years.
In 1897 George W. Lucas married Miss Jennie V. Howard, a native of San Joaquin County, where she was born on the old Howard ranch, and the daughter of Daniel and Clara L. (Flanders) Howard, well-known pioneers. She attended the Washington school and was a society favorite when she met Mr. Lucas. Twelve years ago he bought 326 acres on the Mokelumne River, about six miles to the northeast of Clements, and put in nine acres of bottom land to alfalfa. He also has a family orchard, forty head of cattle, and twelve head of horses. Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas: Harvey Howard and Una Doris. Three years ago his home burned to the ground, and then he erected a fine new home, of one and one-half stories, on the site where the former residence stood. Mr. Lucas is a Democrat. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Washington district school, and for four years has been the director of the board. He belongs to the Odd Fellows of Clements, and has passed through all the chairs here; and he has also gone through all the chairs of the Clements Lodge of the Modern Woodmen of America. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lucas are members of the Rebekahs at Clements and have passed through all the chairs.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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