Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing
Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington",
published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
WILLIAM P. LUCAS is engaged in
the hardware business in Davenport, Washington. He was born near
Oskaloosa, Jefferson county, Kansas, February 3, 1870, the son of Joseph
and Catharine (Altiza) Lucas, both of whom are now living at Spangle, Washington.
Mr. Lucas came with his parents to Spangle
in 1884, where he learned the tinner's trade with O. W. Ames, who was conducting
a hardware store in Spangle, and whom William P. Lucas, with his brother
Elmer E., succeeded in business, in 1890. He continued in the hardware
business at this point until January, 1903, he and his brother having in
the meantime purchased a large interest in the A. W. Turner hardware establishment
in Davenport. Upon selling his interests in Sapngle he removed to
Davenport, where he has since made his home.
Mr. Lucas was married September 9, 1899, to
Miss Sarah Merle Drake, whose father, Elmer E. Drake, was for a number
of years county superintendent of schools of Spokane county.
While a resident of Spangle, Mr. Lucas was
for a time mayor of the town. He is a graduate of the Spokane Business
college, and a man of good education. Socially, he is a member of
the A. F. & A. M. at Cheney, and of the Chapter at Davenport.
He is considered to be a man of good business
integrity and of the sterling qualities that win and retain friends.
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