Peter Stauffer Loucks and Mary A. Boyd

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Husband Peter Stauffer Loucks ^{1 2 3}

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            AKA: Peter Lacas 4
           Born: 3 May 1841 - East Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2 3 5
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         Father: Rev. Martin Loucks (1798-1869) 7 8 9 10
         Mother: Nancy Stauffer (1808-1900) 7 8 10

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       Marriage: 29 May 1878 3 5

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Wife Mary A. Boyd ^{2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 11 Mar 1855 4
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           Died: Aft 1912
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         Father: George W. Boyd (      -      ) 4 5 6
         Mother: Martha Smith (      -      ) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Arthur Boyd Loucks ^{3 5 6}

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           Born: 8 Jun or 18 Jun 1880 3 5 6
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2 M Edwin Ralph Loucks ^{2 3}

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           Born: 19 Sep 1882 2 3
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3 F Martha Grace Loucks ^{3 6}

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           Born: 17 Aug 1888 3 6
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4 F Nancy Irene Loucks ^{3 6}

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           Born: 10 Aug 1890 3 6
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5 M Preston S. Loucks ^{3 6}

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           Born: 13 Aug 1894 3 6
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General Notes: Husband - Peter Stauffer Loucks

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He was educated at home and in the common schools. His father was a great friend of education, and took pains to instruct his children at home, as well as to watch them when attending school, to see that they spent their time profitably and made progress in their studies. Indeed, he was exceedingly particular in the matter of the education, religious and literary, of his children. Peter continued attendance upon school in the winter season till about twenty-one years of age, and occupied himself on the farm under his father until, when about twenty-six years of age, he and his brother Martin were given by their father entire charge of the farm. After the death of their father, under the provisions of his will, they came into possession of the farm, and Martin, after about two years, sold his interest to Peter and his sister Catharine, who then owned the farm jointly. The farm was devoted to the common agricultural purposes and to the raising of stock for the markets. Mr. Loucks paid more or less attention to the rearing of improved breeds of Durham short-horned cattle and the imported English breeds of draught horses.
A portion of the farm, or about sixty acres thereof, was been laid out at different times into dwelling-house lots and sites for business houses, a considerable part of the most active or business portions of Scottdale occupying them.
In the spring of 1873 Mr. Loucks, in connection with his brothers and T. J. Larimer and William Leeper, under the firm-name of Loucks, Larimer & Co., established in Scottdale a planing-mill for the manufacture of all kinds of worked lumber necessary for building purposes, and took extensive contracts for building. After the death of Mr. Leeper in March, 1880, Mr. Loucks and his brother Jacob purchased the interests of all others in the concern, and carried on the business as the firm of P. S. Loucks & Co. till Jan. 1, 1882, when they leased the establishment to Ruth & Stoner, who then conducted the business. Mr. Loucks was actively engaged in promoting the interests of Scottdale and largely contributed to its rapid growth, and was the owner of several of the best buildings, dwellings, and business houses of that borough.
Mr. Loucks, with his brother Jacob, beginning in April, 1881, was engaged in the grain-shipping business, with Scottdale as the centre of operations, bringing grain from the West and elsewhere and distributing it to the East and various points.
In politics he was a Republican, but did not aspire to public office, other than to fill borough and township offices. [HWC 1882, 694]

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 688, 693.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 446.

3 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 81.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 357.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 694.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 447.

7 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 688.

8 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 253.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 310.

10 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 79.