Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 570
PROF. JACOB H. LUKENS, Principal of the Third Ward School of Muscatine, was born in the Keystone State, in Bucks County, June 21, 1843, and is a son of Abraham and Mary B. ( Hogeland ) Lukens. The family numbered eight children , as follows : John, who is living in Pennsylvania ; Frank, who makes his home in the city of Philadelphia ; Jacob H., of this sketch ; Wilmer, who is also living in Philadelphia ; Harry, who is connected with the Disston Saw Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia ; Katie ; a resident of Bucks Co., Pa.; Susie, wife of Thomas Moore, of Montgomery County, Pa.; and Lizzie, deceased.

Our subject was reared to farm life in his native State, his father being an agriculturist. His early education was received in the schools of Feasterville and Brownsville, where he remained until eighteen years of age, at which time he entered the Millersville State Normal School. In 1862 he began the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years in his native county, when he went to Philadelphia and taught in the Benjamin Rush School of that city until 1869, when he emigrated to the West and located in Muscatine. For two years he engaged in the bakery business, after which he removed to Wilton Junction, Iowa, where he followed his profession; but in 1874 returned to this city, and was placed in charge of the Third Ward School, of which he has remained Principal continuously since.

In the year 1866 Prof.Lukens was united in marriage with Miss Hettie J., daughter of Garrett V. Scott, of Bucks Co, Pa. Four children have been born of their union, namely : Alvin, who was born April 7, 1867, and died Sept. 15, of the same year ; Clarence D., born March 18, 1869, is living at Easton, Pa.; Scott, born Feb. 6, 1873, died Sept. 23 1874 ; and Mary, born Oct 23, 1875, died Oct 4, 1878. Prof. Lukens and his wife have been communicants of the Methodist Church for twenty-six years, and now hold membership with the church in Muscatine. They are earnest Christian people, highly respected by all who know them, and are numbered among the best citizens of this county. In his political sentiments he is a strong supporter of the Republican party.

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