S. LUCAS, M. D. Biography

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas by William G. Cutler

S. Lucas, M. D. was born in Highland County, Ohio in 1847 and is a great grandson of Gov. Lucas, of Ohio and Iowa renown. In 1865, he began reading medicine and finished his course at the Ohio Medical Colllege of Cincinnati.  He then emigrated to Kansas, locating in Miami County, but the following year he returned to Missouri, and practiced medicine at Lamar until the spring of 1874, when he again came to Kansas and located at Howard, where he opened a drug store, which he carried on in connection with his practice for five years, he then sold out and has devoted his whole time to the practice of his profession, in which he has been very successful, and engages in extensive practice.  The Doctor is a genial gentleman and has many warm friends in Howard and vicinity.  He is a member of Hope Lodge, No. 155, A,F. &A.M., was Master of the same in 1879, Howard Lodge, No. 134, I.O.O.F., and is a charter member of the Kansas Medical Society.