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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement..
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821.
Pg. 667, 668, W. B. LUCAS, steamboat captain, Braddock, is a native of Greene Co., Pa., born in 1838 to JOHN and ELIZABETH (HUGHES) LUCAS, former also a native of Greene Co., 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 35 years has followed steamboating, having risen from cabin boy to captain, and since 19 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 Monongahela 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 Co. The captain has no children. He is a F. & A. M., and a republican.
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