GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES

FIELDING LUCAS, JR.
(3 September 1781 - 12 March 1854):
PORTRAIT BY SARAH MIRIAM PEALE

[Image credit: Peale Collection, Maryland Historical Society].

Prominent among the offspring of Zachariah LUCAS and Nancy BROWN was Fielding LUCAS, Jr. (3 September 1781, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia - 12 March 1854, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland), who was named after his uncle and who was married to Elizabeth Mary CARRELL on 15 May 15 1810 at St. Augustine's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fielding Lucas, Jr., was a leading partner in the publishing and bookselling firm of M. & J. Conrad. The publishing company focused on schoolbooks, maps and atlases, art instruction books, children’s books, and Catholic religious material. He headlined the effort to raise funds in order to build the Washington Monument, and also served as a director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was one of the founders of the Maryland Historical Society and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Reproduced above is the portrait of him that was made by Sarah Miriam Peale, from the Peale Collection of the Maryland Historical Society. The portrait is dated ca. 1840.

See Child 1: Zachariah LUCAS, under G0495A: Peter LUCAS in Descendants of Peter Lucas (ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781).

Fielding Lucas, Jr.
Daguerreotype, ca. 1850
[Image credit: Maryland Historical Society]

FIELDING LUCAS, JR.
(3 September 1781 - 12 March 1854):
MAP OF LOUISIANA

Fielding Lucas, Jr. published his map of Louisiana in 1823. It is possible that, upon his moving to New Orleans, George Augustine Lucas, the first cousin of Fielding Lucas, Jr., had occasion to make use of the map. See G0493 A: George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant in Descendants of Peter Lucas (ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781).

Orleans Parish, Louisiana:
Detail of Louisiana, published in 1823 by Fielding Lucas, Jr.

Baltimore City Certificate, 50¢, Issued 16 May 1837
Engraved and printed by Rawdon, Wright, and Hatch, New York
Signature of F. Lucas, Jr., Commissioner

This was scrip issued by the mayor and city council of Baltimore during the currency crisis of 1837 when hard money, redeemable in specie, declined in circulation.

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