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Luther Lucas

Male Abt 1867 - Abt 1958  (91 years)


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  • Name Luther Lucas  [1, 2
    Born Abt 1867  Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Residence 10 Jan 1920  4432 Champlain Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    age 53, married, owns home with mortgage, can read and write, born Ohio to Virginia father & West Virginia mother, Parlor Car Porter for Railroad Company as wage worker - Luther & Mollie 
    Luther & Mollie (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1920 Census at 4432 Champlain Avenue in Chicago
    Luther & Mollie (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1920 Census at 4432 Champlain Avenue in Chicago
    Residence 12 Dec 1922  4848 Evans Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    residence at 4848 Evans avenue after having sold Champlain avenue home to board of education 
    Luther Lucas - Newspaper - 12 Dec 1922 Chicago Tribune page 6 column 3
    Luther Lucas - Newspaper - 12 Dec 1922 Chicago Tribune page 6 column 3
    Article "Witness Hints Forgery in Deed Made by Bither" (columns 1-3) with Luther Lucas' testimony in case regarding apparent fraud in Chicago Board of Education purchases of land for creation of what is now Armstrong Park and Woodson South Elementary School at 44th-45th and Champlain, Langley and St Lawrence
    Residence 1935  4848 Evans Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    In 1930, 4848 Evans was rented to David & Bertha McTorrance == http://interactive.ancestry.com/6224/4584346_00787/84182956 (But 1922 newspaper shows Luther Lucas at 4848 Evans and so does 1940 Census. So where was he in 1930?) 
    Luther & Molly (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1940 Census at 4848 Evans Avenue in Chicago
    Luther & Molly (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1940 Census at 4848 Evans Avenue in Chicago
    Residence 6 Apr 1940  4848 Evans Avenue, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    surname as LUSKER, age 72, married completed school grade 8, born Virginia, same house in 1935, unemployed - Luther & Mollie (as Molly) with lodgers Dailue Page (48, married. seamstress on own account) & Bishop Jones (48, single, unemployed) 
    Luther & Molly (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1940 Census at 4848 Evans Avenue in Chicago
    Luther & Molly (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1940 Census at 4848 Evans Avenue in Chicago
    Death Abt 1958 
    Died Abt 1958  Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I185  Lucy's Tree
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2020 

    Family Mollie Suggs,   b. Abt 1867, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1948, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married Bef 1920 
    Last Modified 8 Jul 2020 
    Family ID F52  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Abt 1867 - Ohio, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Abt 1958 - Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Luther & Molly (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1940 Census at 4848 Evans Avenue in Chicago
    Luther & Molly (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1940 Census at 4848 Evans Avenue in Chicago
    Luther & Mollie (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1920 Census at 4432 Champlain Avenue in Chicago
    Luther & Mollie (Suggs Watson) Lucas - 1920 Census at 4432 Champlain Avenue in Chicago
    Luther Lucas - Newspaper - 12 Dec 1922 Chicago Tribune page 6 column 3
    Luther Lucas - Newspaper - 12 Dec 1922 Chicago Tribune page 6 column 3
    Article "Witness Hints Forgery in Deed Made by Bither" (columns 1-3) with Luther Lucas' testimony in case regarding apparent fraud in Chicago Board of Education purchases of land for creation of what is now Armstrong Park and Woodson South Elementary School at 44th-45th and Champlain, Langley and St Lawrence

  • Sources 
    1. [S1] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Chicago Ward 3, Cook (Chicago), Illinois; Roll: T625_313; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 162; Image: 338.
      1920 United States Federal Census
      1920 United States Federal Census
      Year: 1920; Census Place: Chicago Ward 3, Cook (Chicago), Illinois; Roll: T625_313; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 162; Image: 338


    2. [S7] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T627_928; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 103-215.
      1940 United States Federal Census
      1940 United States Federal Census
      Year: 1940; Census Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T627_928; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 103-215