MASONIC RITES FOR A. N. LUCAS
December 30, 1936
Services for Retired Rail Executive to Be Tomorrow.
Masonic funeral rites for Abraham N. Lucas 74, retired railroad executive who died yesterday, will take place at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Ritter funeral chapel, 5304 W. North Avenue. Interment will be in Green Bay, where he was born. After schooling in that city, Mr. Lucas worked up from the ranks, starting as a boilermaker in railroad shops at Escanaba, Mich., and Green Bay. In 1901 he went to Dubuque, Ia., as foreman of the Milwaukee road's boiler shops there. Three years later he became general foreman of the road's boiler shops in Milwaukee. Eventually he became assistant superintendent of motive power for the Milwaukee road, and was nationally known as an expert on railroad motive power. He held patents on several locomotive improvements of his own invention. From 1920 until his retirement four years ago he was district manager of the Oxweld Rairoad Service company of Chicago. Mr. Lucas belonged to Lafayette lodge 265, F. and A. M., which will conduct the funeral services, to the Calumet chapter, Ivanhoe commandery 24, Knights Templar; Wisconsin consistory and Tripoli Shrine. He had attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Fergus R. Ellsworth of Wauwatosa, two sons, Fred and William, both of Milwaukee; a brother, James, Houghton, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Charles Penrod, Duluth, Minn.
December 30, 1936
Services for Retired Rail Executive to Be Tomorrow.
Masonic funeral rites for Abraham N. Lucas 74, retired railroad executive who died yesterday, will take place at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Ritter funeral chapel, 5304 W. North Avenue. Interment will be in Green Bay, where he was born. After schooling in that city, Mr. Lucas worked up from the ranks, starting as a boilermaker in railroad shops at Escanaba, Mich., and Green Bay. In 1901 he went to Dubuque, Ia., as foreman of the Milwaukee road's boiler shops there. Three years later he became general foreman of the road's boiler shops in Milwaukee. Eventually he became assistant superintendent of motive power for the Milwaukee road, and was nationally known as an expert on railroad motive power. He held patents on several locomotive improvements of his own invention. From 1920 until his retirement four years ago he was district manager of the Oxweld Rairoad Service company of Chicago. Mr. Lucas belonged to Lafayette lodge 265, F. and A. M., which will conduct the funeral services, to the Calumet chapter, Ivanhoe commandery 24, Knights Templar; Wisconsin consistory and Tripoli Shrine. He had attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Fergus R. Ellsworth of Wauwatosa, two sons, Fred and William, both of Milwaukee; a brother, James, Houghton, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Charles Penrod, Duluth, Minn.
MASONIC RITES FOR A. N. LUCAS
December 30, 1936
Services for Retired Rail Executive to Be Tomorrow.
Masonic funeral rites for Abraham N. Lucas 74, retired railroad executive who died yesterday, will take place at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Ritter funeral chapel, 5304 W. North Avenue. Interment will be in Green Bay, where he was born. After schooling in that city, Mr. Lucas worked up from the ranks, starting as a boilermaker in railroad shops at Escanaba, Mich., and Green Bay. In 1901 he went to Dubuque, Ia., as foreman of the Milwaukee road's boiler shops there. Three years later he became general foreman of the road's boiler shops in Milwaukee. Eventually he became assistant superintendent of motive power for the Milwaukee road, and was nationally known as an expert on railroad motive power. He held patents on several locomotive improvements of his own invention. From 1920 until his retirement four years ago he was district manager of the Oxweld Rairoad Service company of Chicago. Mr. Lucas belonged to Lafayette lodge 265, F. and A. M., which will conduct the funeral services, to the Calumet chapter, Ivanhoe commandery 24, Knights Templar; Wisconsin consistory and Tripoli Shrine. He had attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Fergus R. Ellsworth of Wauwatosa, two sons, Fred and William, both of Milwaukee; a brother, James, Houghton, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Charles Penrod, Duluth, Minn.
December 30, 1936
Services for Retired Rail Executive to Be Tomorrow.
Masonic funeral rites for Abraham N. Lucas 74, retired railroad executive who died yesterday, will take place at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Ritter funeral chapel, 5304 W. North Avenue. Interment will be in Green Bay, where he was born. After schooling in that city, Mr. Lucas worked up from the ranks, starting as a boilermaker in railroad shops at Escanaba, Mich., and Green Bay. In 1901 he went to Dubuque, Ia., as foreman of the Milwaukee road's boiler shops there. Three years later he became general foreman of the road's boiler shops in Milwaukee. Eventually he became assistant superintendent of motive power for the Milwaukee road, and was nationally known as an expert on railroad motive power. He held patents on several locomotive improvements of his own invention. From 1920 until his retirement four years ago he was district manager of the Oxweld Rairoad Service company of Chicago. Mr. Lucas belonged to Lafayette lodge 265, F. and A. M., which will conduct the funeral services, to the Calumet chapter, Ivanhoe commandery 24, Knights Templar; Wisconsin consistory and Tripoli Shrine. He had attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Fergus R. Ellsworth of Wauwatosa, two sons, Fred and William, both of Milwaukee; a brother, James, Houghton, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Charles Penrod, Duluth, Minn.
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