WAS A PIONEER OF MONROE
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COL. CONSTANT LUCE, WHO DIED THERE YESTERDAY.
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APROMINENT BUSINESS MAN AND A LEADING
CITIZEN.
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No Immediate Member of His Own Family Now
Living.
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Monroe, Mich.,
February 28.—Col. Constant Luce, one of the most prominent business men and
pioneers of Monroe county, died this morning at his resident corner of Second
and Macomb streets after an illness of only a few weeks.
At the outbreak of
the war he became colonel of the Seventeenth Michigan Regiment and served with
distinction throughout the war of the rebellion. Upon his return to Monroe he
again engaged in the abstract business, under the firm name of Redfield &
Luce. The name of his partner, Hon. Heman J. Redfield is prominent in the
history of the city and county. After the death of Mr. Redfield the firm became
Luce & Landon, and has thus continued to the present day.
Col. Luce is the “last
of his race,” so far as his own family is concerned. Two brothers and a sister
have preceded him into the silent land, and his only son died shortly after the
close of the war. His aged wife died recently, and since her death he has made
his home with a niece. He was a man of wonderful vitality, and until his last illness
was a well known figure here in the city, being as hale and active as the
ordinary man of 50. Mr. Luce was a member of Monroe Lodge, No. 27, F. & A.
M., and had been on the emeritus roll for twelve years. He was a Knight Templar
and one of the oldest Masons in Michigan. His funeral, on Monday, will be under
Masonic auspices.
SOURCE: The Detroit Free Press, Detroit,
Michigan, Sunday, March 1, 1903, p. 3
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