Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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RICHARD N. LOUCKS, 
 
one of the representative business men of the thriving and progressive city of 
Pomona, is a dealer in books, stationery, toys, etc., and has one of the best 
appointed and most complete stocks of goods in his line of business in the city. 
He came to Pomona in 1882, and was employed as a clerk in the store of E. J. 
Vanter, located on the corner of Second and Gordon streets, the site now 
occupied by his present establishment.  He was thus employed until early in 
1884, and then took the position of assistant book-keeper for the extensive 
lumber firm of Kerchoff & Cuzner until he entered into business, succeeding R. 
S. Bessett in that year. Mr. Loucks was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1848, 
and was there reared and educated. At the age of sixteen years he entered the 
military service of the Confederate States, and gallantly battled for his native 
State until captured by the Union troops just before the fall of Mobile. This 
ended his military service, and at the close of the war he returned to his home, 
where he remained until 1882, when he came to California and made Pomona his 
home. He is an enterprising and energetic man, winning his way to success in his 
business by sound business principles and honorable dealings, and gaining the 
respect of his associates. He is thoroughly American, and, though a soldier in a 
lost cause, accepted the results of the war and is now a strong believer in and 
a supporter of an undivided union of the United States. In political matters he 
is a Democrat. He is a member of the Pomona Board of Trade, and is an active 
worker in advancing such enterprises as will redound to the benefit of his 
chosen city. He is also a member of Etna Lodge, No. 107, Knights of Pythias, of 
Pomona. In 1872 Mr. Loucks married Miss Ida B. Roberts, a native of Louisiana. 
She died in 1880, leaving three children: George Roberts, Frank Henry and 
Sylvester Day. His second marriage was in 1885, to Miss Cora Cromer, a native of 
Indiana. From this union there is one child, Richard Frederick.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 507
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler