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Oliver Lucas (Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and clerk of the board of alderman)

b. 1827-06 d. 1893-03-01

Louisville, Kentucky, newspaper editor and clerk. Orange County, Indiana, native. Married to James Ann Ross Lucas on January 18, 1856. Father of Mattie Lucas. Legislative correspondent of the Louisville Journal in 1856. Assistant editor for the Louisville Daily Journal in Louisville in 1860 and 1861. Clerk of the Board of Alderman of the City of Louisville from 1863 to 1892.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 2nd ward Louisville, p. 396. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Rolls #994027-994058, Jefferson County Marriages, p. unknown. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 326. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007128, Louisville Deaths, p. 179. Blades o' Bluegrass: Choice Selections of Kentucky Poetry, Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Authors (John P. Morton & Co., 1892), p. 314.

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Lucas, Oliver. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199381 (November 12, 2026).

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