Charles Lukens M. D.1

M, #2430, b. 1 August 1786, d. 23 June 1825
Last Edited: 2 Mar 2011

Parents:

Father: David Lukens1 b. 7 Oct 1753, d. 3 Oct 1831
Mother: Sarah Lloyd1 b. c 1755, d. 20 Feb 1824

Family:

Rebecca Webb Pennock b. 1794, d. 1854

Notes

  • Note*: Lived in East Fallowfield and Brandywine townships, and in Coatsville, Chester county.
    In 1816 he assumed control of the Brandywine Iron Works, later Lukens Steel Company...became the first manufacturer of boiler plate in America.

    Roberts book cites Chester Co. meeting records, Col. Fam. of America V:334, Poulson's Am. Daily Advertiser 25 Jun 1825 & The Phila. Inquirer 3 Jul 1935. Children & grandchildren are named.2

Citations

  1. [S455] Society of Friends, Horsham Monthly Meeting, now Montgomery Co., Pa.. Original records, at Swarthmore. FHL Microfilm 20,400. Births & Burials, 1782-1889, p. 11, Children of David & Sarah Lukens.
  2. [S405] Roberts, Clarence V., Ancestry of Clarence V. Roberts & Frances A. (Walton) Roberts : comprising a chart and sketches of some fifty-six ancestral families who settled mostly in or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Wm. F. Fell, printers, 1940), p. 173-175.   Roberts--Roberts.pdf