Cumberland County, Maine - William Lucas
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Biography
William Lucas
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 561-562


William Lucas, a prosperous brick manufacturer of Deering, who is also the
proprietor of a box manufactory and lumber-mill in Westbrook, Me., although a
man of modest and unassuming bearing is, nevertheless, possessed of good
business ability and judgment. He was born at Raskemore, County Tyrone, Ireland,
in August, 1848, and is a son of James and Ann (Lee) Lucas, both of whom are of
Scottish descent.

His grandfather, Robert Lucas, spent his life in County Tyrone, where he
followed farming as an avocation. James Lucas, father of William, was born in
County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1812. He received a practical, common-school
education, and took up farming in connection therewith, dealing to some extent
in horses. His wife, Ann, bore him nine children, five of whom are still living,
William being the sixth in order of birth.

William Lucas obtained his education in the public schools of his native town,
and remained upon the old home farm with his parents until the spring of 1866,
when he came to this country. After his arrival he learned the brick-maker's
trade of his two brothers who were engaged in the brick business in Dover, N.H.,
working for them two years. He then purchased the Lunt property in Deering and
established himself in the brick business. He afterward sold this property to a
brother, from whom he bought his present property at Nason's Corner, where he
still continues the manufacture of brick, giving employment to a number of men.
It is now nearly twenty-five years since he began business in his present
location. His wife, to whom he was married on December 15, 1872, was Miss Mary
C. Turple, a daughter of James Turple. Four children have been born of their
union, and three still survive, namely: Mary Ann; Robert Elmore, who married
Miss Adelaide Lumbard, of Portland; William James (deceased); and Moses Wesley.

Mr. Lucas is associated with the fraternal orders, being a member of Deering
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a
Republican.