I. E. Lucas

LUCAS, RIDGEWAY, PERRIN, SLIMMER

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/24/2002 at 23:12:45

Bank Of Allison – This institution was organized on the 4th of April, 1880. The founders were, Ridgeway, Perrin and Slimmer. Messrs. Ridgeway and Slimmer, of Waverly, and Mr. Perrin, of Clarksville. The capital of the bank was nominally $7,000, yet was really unlimited. The bank was first opened in the drug store of J. A. Riggs & Co. The present bank building was soon after erected. It is a neat and tasty building, with glass front, standing nearly opposite the Allison Hotel.
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I. E. Lucas was the first and is the present cashier; a more accommodating and capable cashier never signed a draft. He was born in Carroll county, Indiana, in 1846, coming to Bremer county with his father, Parker Lucas, who settled on a farm in Lafayette township, in that county. Mr. Lucas was brought up on a farm, attending the public school at Clarksville for three years, and for one year a student at Osage College, in this State. He was engaged for a number of years in teaching in Bremer and Butler counties. For three years he was principal of the school at Clarksville, where he was formerly a student; also principal for a time of the school at New Hartford. On the organization of the Bank of Allison, April 4, 1881, he was made cashier. Mr. Lucas was a very successful teacher. Politically he is a republican.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 763