Placer
County
Biographies
GEORGE E. LUKENS
George E. Lukens, a prominent
business and professional man of Auburn, Placer County, California, is a native
of Wabash County, Indiana, born April 2, 1851.
The Lukens family is of Scotch origin and its first representatives in
this country were residents of Massachusetts.
Abraham Lukens, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was in
early life a Philadelphian. At an early
period in the history of Ohio he moved west to that state, and it was there
that his son Mathias, the father of George E., was born. In 1834 the family went over into Indiana and
settled on Eel River, in Wabash County.
Mathias Lukens married Miss Nancy Rentz, a
native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who survives him and is now seventy-three
years of age. He died in 1897 at the age
of seventy-eight years. For many years
they were prominent and active members of the Baptist Church, he serving as the
clerk of the church. To them were born
nine children, of whom five are now living, two of the number being in
California, Charles A., of Placerville, and George E.
George E. Lukens was educated in
Wabash Seminary and Franklin College and pursued a course in the Albany Law
School, of which last named institution he is a graduate, with the degree of
Bachelor of Law, in the class of 1885.
He came to California in 1873, and on the 15th of December,
1880, he was married to Miss Dora B. Cram, a native of El Dorado County. Subsequently taking up the study of law, he
applied himself to the same and was duly admitted to the bar. Then he was elected and served two terms as
the district attorney of Alpine County.
It was after this, in 1884, that he returned east and entered the Albany
Law School. Coming back to California
after his graduation the following year, he located at Clarksville. He practiced there and at Placerville until
1898, when he came to Auburn. Here he
purchased a residence and a store, and in addition to having supervision over
the store, continues his practice. The
store, in which they carry a stock of both new and second-hand goods, was
purchased for his sons, and it is the intention to turn it over entirely to
them as soon as they become of age. Mr.
and Mrs. Lukens have five children, namely:
S. Guy, Judson Earl, Nancy P., Gladis G., and
Dora May. Mr. Lukens is politically a
Republican and fraternally a Knight of Pythias.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 635-636. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.