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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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W. B. LUCAS, steamboat captain, Braddock, is a native of Greene county, Pa., born in 1838 to John and Elizabeth (Hughes) Lucas, former also a native of Greene county, latter a daughter of Thomas Hughes, of above-named county. They had twelve children, W. B. being the third in order of birth. The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in his native county; for thirty-five years has followed steam-boating, having risen from cabin-boy to captain, and since nineteen years of age has been a pilot on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, navigating between Morgantown. W. Va., and Louisville, Ky. In 1870 the captain came to Braddock, where he purchased a lot of ground on the banks of the Monogahela and erected a fine house, which he has since made his home. He was married, in 1869, to a daughter of Isaac Bailey, a well-known lawyer of Brownsville, Pa., and, she dying, he subsequently married Anna P., daughter of H. Johnson, of Allegheny county. The captain has no children. He is a F. & A. M., and a republican.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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