Er ist verheiratet mit Harriet E. Dickens.
Sie haben geheiratet am 10. Dezember 1872, er war 25 Jahre alt.
Clarence A. Luce 1847-1925
CLARENCE A. LUCE, McGregor, Iowa, died December 30, 1925. Funeral January 3rd, 1926. Conducted by Masonic Order.
Clarence A. Luce was born among the green hills of Lamoille County, Vermont, May 27th, 1847. Both parents, his father Harvey and his mother, Mary A., were natives of Vermont, descendants of those earliest New Englanders whose sterling quallties running through our national life from its beginnings have been the element of stability which carries the Nation through every crisis without disaster.
Like his forebears, Mr. Luce, or "C. A." as his closer associates called him, was a pioneer. In 1855, when he was eight years of age, the family moved to Allamakee County, Iowa, to hew out a home in the virgin timber of the Mississippi bluffs. In common with pioneer boys and girls of his time, the district school, singing and writing school in the long winters, formed the basis of the splendid education which Mr. Luce continued to acquire through - out his life.
At the age of nineteen he answered the call of the Mississippi. The romantic era of lumber traffic was at its height, and to the _ _ _ ile youth of that day offered adventure, travel and profit. As a raftsman, therefore, piloting lumber down the river from the pineries of the north, sometimes as far as St. Louis, Missouri, for the next six years he followed the river, and here undoubtedly was the seed of adventure, that later took him west.
In 1872, he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet E. Dickens, of Clayton County, Iowa, second daughter of Edward and Ann Drusill, who were among the oldest pioneers of North - eastern Iowa, having come into the county in 1836. This union marked the beginning of an ideal companionship and tranquil ordered home life that (clipping is cut off)