Newton Co IN Biography

Newton County, Beaver Township.  From A Standard History of Jasper and
Newton Counties, 1915, Vol. II, p. 750
 
   ROSS LUCAS.  Most of his life Ross Lucas has spent in Newton County
and in and around the City of Morocco.  His has been an active and
prosperous career, whether as a farmer, business man or public spirited
citizen.  He began life dependent upon his own resources and had to 
swim against the current of circumstances for a number of years.  He is
now well established in business at Morocco, and has an honorable record
in all his relations with the community.
   He was born May 24, 1877, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, a son of
David T. and Sophia (Wells) Lucas.  His father, who traces his ancestry
back to Ireland, was born in Tippecanoe County and is now seventy-nine
years of age, having spent his active career as a farmer and carpenter.
The mother is still living at the age of sixty-nine.
   The younger of two children, Ross Lucas, secured a common school 
education, and at the age of sixteen took his place as a laborer on the 
farm.  In that way he spent six years, duly acquiring experience and 
accumulating a small capital for a future career. 
   On December 25, 1900, Mr. Lucas married Miss Laura E. Peterson,
whose father was a native of Denmark and his mother a native of Sweden.
Her father came to America and located in Brookston, Indiana, and in 
1861 went as a pioneer to Newton County, where he bought land in
Washington Township.  His was a life of hard work, thrift and honorable
integrity and it bore large fruits.  At one time he owned about 1,400
acres of land, and still identified with its management at the time of
his death in 1903.
   After marriage Mr. Lucas engaged in farming in Washington Township
for several years, but on January 4, 1912, removed to Morocco.  For 
one year he was in the garage business, then began handling automobiles
as sales agent.  He still owns a choice farm of 380 acres in Washington
Township, and had numerous business interests in this county and elsewhere.  He owns the electric light plant at Uniontown, Kentucky.
   Politically Mr. Lucas is an active republican and he and his family
worship in the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Of the four children born
to Mr. and Mrs. Lucas the only one now living is Willard, who was born
March 31, 1904.


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