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Permanent LinkRepresentative Edward W. Lucas View All Years
EDWARD W. LUCAS was born in Pike county, Ohio, September 13, 1825; he died at Iowa City, December 17, 1900. He came to Iowa with his father, Gov. Robert Lucas, in 1838. Soon after the family reached this State he became a clerk in the store of Ezekiel Clark. Some time later he formed a partnership with Messrs. Clark and Crosthwaite and engaged in locating lands, paying taxes and general banking business. The firm afterwards consisted of Clark, Kirkwood and Lucas. Their business transactions were mainly at Des Moines, but for a time at Fort Dodge. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned Lieut.-Colonel of the 14th Iowa Infantry, with which command he served for something over a year. He was taken prisoner at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and confined in Libby Prison until the following October. After he was exchanged he resigned to organize a cavalry regiment, which plan, however, he did not carry out, as orders were received from Washington that no more cavalry regiments were required. He was for something over two years postmaster at Iowa City under the Johnson administration. He served in the Nineteenth and Twentieth General Assemblies, where he was a leading and well-known member. He was one of the charter members of the Johnson County Agricultural Society and served as one of the directors for twenty-two years. He had filled many important places, always with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his fellow citizens.