Brief Life History of Robert Lester
When Robert Lester Lucas was born on 27 March 1891, in Russell, Lucas, Iowa, United States, his father, Arthur Perry Lucas, was 34 and his mother, Alice Jane Johnson, was 24. He married Gertrude D Brown on 29 October 1914, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States. He lived in Lincoln Township, Lucas, Iowa, United States for about 15 years and Chariton, Lucas, Iowa, United States in 1942. He died on 19 December 1957, in Wayne, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Oxford Cemetery, Chariton, Lucas, Iowa, United States.
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- Robert L Lucas, "United States Census, 1940"
- Robert Lester Lucas, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Robert L. Lucas, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch: from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’ (compare Lucio ). The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to Saint Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Loukas , Hungarian Lukács (see Lukacs ), German, Dutch, etc. Lukas , Polish Łukasz, Czech and Slovak Lukáš, Czech Lukeš, Slovenian and Croatian Lukež (see Lukes ). Compare Luke .
Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas ).
History: Jacques Lucas dit Lépine from Port-en-Bessin-Huppain in Calvados, France, married Françoise Capel in Trois-Rivières, QC, in 1653.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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