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HARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
November 26, 1999
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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. 340
CHARLES FLETCHER LUCAS. While several lines of busi-
ness and industry have claimed his abilities during the
passing years. Mr. Lucas would probably classify him-
self among occupations as a farmer and stockman. From
him has proceeded not a little of the enterprise responsible
for the development of the commercial interests of Har-
rison County, particularly Shinnston, of which community
he is a native son.
Mr. Lucas was born near Shinnston, June 14, 1868. His
paternal grandparents were George B. and Amelia (Rogers)
Lucas. His grandfather was born near Baltimore, Mary-
land, September 26, 1806, and was twelve years of age
when his family settled in Harrison County, West Virginia.
He became a farmer there, lived a useful life, was highly
respected as a citizen, and died December 5, 1892. He
married in 1830 Amelia Bogers, and they had a family of
three sons and four daughters.
James E. Lucas, father of the Shinnston business man,
was born in Harrison County, July 26, 1841, and is now
past the age of four score and retired after many years of
successful efforts devoted to farming and cattle raising.
At one time he was interested in the operation of the
flour mill at Shinnston. He served as a teamster in the
Union Army during the Civil war. James E. Lucas mar-
ried for his first wife Minerva Chalfant, who died in 1869.
His second wife was Virginia Robinson, but his children
were all by his first marriage.
Charles Fletcher Lucas as a boy on the farm attended
school regularly, and acquired a substantial training for
his career of usefulness. There has probably never been
an important length of time in which he has not had an
active interest as a farmer and stock raiser. When he was
quite a young man he and his father were associated in
the operation of the Shinnston Flour Mill, and eventually
he became owner of this establishment. In connection
with the mill for twenty years he looked after a number
of other business affairs. He was financially interested
in the Clarksburg Wholesale Company, the Clarksburg Auto
Company, the Clarksburg Trust Company, of which he is
one of the vice presidents, and is a director of the First
National Bank of Shinnston.
Mr. Lucas is a republican, a member of the Methodist
Church, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.
May 8, 1902, he married Sarah Marie Fowler, who was
born and reared at Pittsburgh, a daughter of Van Buren
Fowler. The two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas are William
Edward and Van Buren Lucas. Their home is a large and
handsome residence, the scene of generous hospitality on
the part of its owners.
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