Francis Pope Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1859 - (Tisbury, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: After 1930 - (Tisbury, Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Warren Luce (1819-1907)
Mother: Almira N Crowell (1824-1907)
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Belcher Harding (Cir 1859 - After 1930)
Marriage: 3 Dec 1882 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
res 1860, 1910, 1930 Tisbury
furniture merchant 1910
Gamaliel Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Oct 1757 - (Tisbury, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: 7 Jul 1796
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Timothy Luce (1704-1782)
Mother: Sarah Presbury (1713-1793)
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Abigail Allen b: OCT 1757
Child
Presbury Luce b: 20 JUN 1792 in Tisbury
Hannah Luce
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Aug 1751 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 17 Jun 1814 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Seth Luce (1713- )
Mother: Hannah Morton (1715- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Naaman Holbrook (Est 1730 - 5 May 1796)
Marriage: 19 Dec 1793 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
Status:
2. Ezra Finney (26 Nov 1743 - 1780)
Marriage: 12 Jan 1769 - Plymouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
father Seth LuceMarriage Notes (Naaman Holbrook)
mother Hannah Morton
Naaman Holbrook married second, Plymouth, Mass. 19 DEC 1793 to the widow Hannah (Luce) Phinney. (widow of Ezra Finney?)Marriage Notes (Ezra Finney)
See Plymouth, Mass. Church Records II:284
(Ray Wing)
Children
Hannah FINNEY b: 8 OCT 1769 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ezra FINNEY b: 1776 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Seth FINNEY b: 1780 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Lydia FINNEY b: UNKNOWN in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Elizabeth FINNEY b: UNKNOWN in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ephraim FINNEY b: UNKNOWN in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Hannah Luce
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1710 - Martha's Vineyard
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Henry Luce (1678-1743)
Mother: Sarah Look (1678-1743)
Henry Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1640 - Bristol, England
Baptism:
Death: Mar 1688 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Martha's Vineyard
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Death, May 1687 in Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Spouses and Children
1. *Remembrance Litchfield (Abt 1642 - After 1708)
Marriage: May 1664 - Scituate, Plymouth Colony
Status:
Children:
1. Robert Luce (1667-Between 1711)
2. Remember Luce (1669-1739)
3. Isreal Luce (Between 1671-1727)
4. Deacon Experience Luce (1673-1747)
5. Eleazer Luce (1675-1740)
6. Henry Luce (1678-1743)
7. Thomas Luce (1679-1727)
8. William Luce (1680-1734)
9. David Luce (Abt 1683-1752)
10. Josiah Luce (Abt 1685-1727)
11. Samuel Luce (Abt 1687- )
Notes
General:
"Henry LuceMarriage Notes (Remembrance Litchfield)
The ancestor of the largest island family left behind him fewer traces of his movements, before and after his coming to the Vineyard, than any other of the first settlers. The first record we have of him is on November 13, 1666, when he was a juror in Scituate, where he may have resided, and in 1668 he was admitted as a proprietor of purchased lands in Rehoboth. [Plymouth Col. Records; comp. Suffolk Deeds, VII, 163. The History of Scituate says he was of Barnstable (vide, p. 305).] The similarity of the name to Lewis, together with the varieties of spelling both names in early records, renders identification difficult. Lewis was written Luis, Luice, Lewes; and Luce appears as Lews, Lewse, Luice and Luse. The origin of the name is unknown to the author, as it is of the rarest occurrence in early English records, though the name Lucie or Lucy is well known. The Connecticut branch has a tradition that the family is of Huguenot extraction, while another statement is to the effect that it originated in Wales. [History of Windham, Windham Co., Ct; comp. N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., XXXI, 415. The spelling of the name in the island records is uniformly Luce and his signature is in that form. There was a Thomas Luce in Charlestown, according to Farmer (Gen. Dictionary), who had a son Samuel b. 1644, but of whom nothing further is heard. It is probable that this was Lewis.] When he came to the Vineyard, or through what connection, is not known, but he had acquired before Feb. 1, 1671, a home lot on the west side of Old Mill river about forty rods north of Scotchman's Bridge road. [Tisbury Records, 5. The name is spelled Lewes in this case.] There is no record of the purchase, and he is not known to have been related to any of the settlers in the town. When he came here he had already married, probably in Scituate, Remember, daughter of Lawrence and Judith (Dennis) Litchfield of that town, about 1666, and had brought with him two or more children to his new home. His wife was born about 1644, and estimating him a few years older, it would make 1640 as the probable date of his birth. He joined the ''Dutch Rebellion" of 1673; was chosen surveyor of highways, 1675; juror, 1677, 1681, and selectman, 1687; the last recorded appearance of his name being on May 12 of that year. In March, 1689, his widow Remember is mentioned, and his death occurred between those dates. He was then a comparatively young man, but left behind him ten sons, all of whom married and seven of them begat large families to perpetuate the name. In 1807 there were 41 distinct families of Luce on the Vineyard, the largest quota of any of the island patronymics, and it has probably maintained the supremacy in the century which followed.
Besides his home lot, he owned at Great Neck, and by the several proprietors' divisions had land at Kepigon. To this he added by purchase 60 acres in Christian town bordering on Great James pond. There is no record of any division of his estate among the heirs, all minors probably at the time of his death, but there are scattering references to such an allotment. The same obscurity attends the wife and widow of Henry Luce as followed him. This grand old Puritan mother of ten children was living as late as 1708, but the date of her death or burial place is not known. She left not less than 42 grandchildren, of whom twenty were boys, on the Vineyard, which is exclusive of those of the Connecticut and New Jersey branches.
HENRY Luce's family was probably from Gloucestershire and the Bristol areas of England. He might have resided in Barnstable, but no records found. Henry was a resident of Scituate in 1666; of Rehoboth in 1668; and he removed to the Island of Martha's Vineyard ca. 1670 where he lived until his death which occurred between May 1687 (last record of him) and Mar 1689 (when his wife mentioned as "widow, Remember Luce").
Henry died between May 1687 and March 1689.
Father: Israel LUCE b: 9 Oct 1605 in St James, Horton, Gloucestershire, England c: 9 Oct 1605 in St James, Horton, Gloucestershire, England
Mother: Remember MUNSON b: Abt 1607 in St. James, Horton, Gloucestershire, England 1
"LUCE FAMILY
The biographical sketch of Henry1 Luce in Vol. II, Annals of W.T., pp. 54-6, makes no definite mention of the English origin of this family and the author regrets that the somewhat extended researches made by him since that time have not resulted in conclusively establishing the parentage of the ancestor of this pioneer. The results of these researches, however, afford much hope that the real clue to the early home of Henry Luce has been followed almost to a successful conclusion and the results will now be briefly stated: A descendant of the Long Island branch of the family through Eleazer (6) b. 1800, has left the following definite statement of family tradition regarding his ancestors:
"My great great great great grandfather Israel Luce lived and died in Wales. My great great great grandfather Henry Luce was born in about 1645 and brought up in Wales. He married Remember Munson.[Her name was Remember Litchfield. The name Munson is not known on the Vineyard and it may be the name of the wife of the traditional Israel Luce of Wales, as family loie usually mixes facts and generations.] He sailed with his wife and three children to America in 1676, and landed and settled in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. where he reared a family of seven children."
While this statement contains several errors, it gives the only definite reference to a locality from which the Luce family may have originated. There is also a tradition that the family was of French origin with the intimation that it was originally De Luce. Of this possibility there is, however, not the slightest evidence obtainable, as far as the author knows, and the Welsh origin of the family is nearer confirmation as will be explained. The name of Luce in this country is confined exclusively to the descendants of Henry Luce of Tisbury and with one exception, no other person of the name of Luce settled in New England prior to 1750. That exception exists in the person of one "Harke" Luce who was a resident of Scituate in 1643, twenty years before the appearance of our Henry Luce in the same town. This singular baptismal name of "Harke", which the author now believes to have been a copyist's error for a similar name, has proven to be a clue to an English family of the name of Luce living in the west of England in 1600 near the border of Wales. The name of "Harke" Luce appears but once in the records of Scituate in a list of those able to bear arms in 1643, and an examination of thousands of English surnames of that period in English documents fails to disclose it, or one near enough like it to be mistaken for it except Harker or Hawke. In one county of England the family name of Luce has been found, namely: Gloucestershire, which borders on Wales and whose chief city is Bristol, the great seaport from which so many emigrants sailed for their future homes in New England.* A family of Luce lived in the parish of Horton, county of Gloucester, as early as 1550 and they are found there and in a number of surrounding parishes for a century and a half afterwards. Of this Horton family one Abraham Luce married 8 Oct. 1604 Cicely Darke, and this name is believed by the author to be the name originally copied in the Scituate records as "Harke", and Darke Luce of 1643 is offered as the possible progenitor of Henry Luce of the same town 1666. If not, he was a probable near relative who influenced the migration of Henry Luce and all the surrounding circumstances make this the nearest probable origin of the Vineyard family in the matter of their English home. It should be stated, however, that Abraham and Cicely (Darke) Luce had no child named Darke and the name of Darke does not occur on the parish records of Horton. The similarity of the names, Harke and Darke, is too great to be ignored when combined with the rare name of Luce, and while researches so far made have failed to uncover a Henry Luce in the parish of Horton, the adjoining parishes still unsearched may reveal the lost record of his baptism.
Horton is but sixteen miles in a direct line from the Welsh border, and it is of general knowledge that thousands of people of Welsh origin are to be found in the parishes of Gloucestershire; thus the traditional story that Henry Luce was a son of Israel Luce "of Wales" is helped by the discoveries made by the author concerning this Gloucestershire family living so near to the Welsh border. Strengthening proof is added in the naming of Israel (4) a son of Henry (1). See remarks on the English origin of the BEVAN FAMILY in Addenda.
1. Henry Luce, b. abt. 1640; res. Scituate (1666), Rehoboth (1668), came to T., abt. 1670, where he lived until his death which occurred between May 1687 and Mch. 1689.
*The author during recent visits to England found Luce families in Cornwall, Devon and Kent, all of them having Henry as a Christian name. Scituate, Mass. was largely settled by emigrants from Kent and in the parish of Lyminge that county is recorded in 1614 the marriage of a Henry Luce. It is here noted as a reference for future investigators, but the family in Gloucestershire seems to offer the probable solution."
Residence: 1673 west side of the old Mill River in Tisbury 2
Henry Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Apr 1678 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 28 Feb 1743 - Edgartown, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Henry Luce (Abt 1640-1688)
Mother: Remembrance Litchfield (Abt 1642-After 1708)
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Look (3 Apr 1678 - 1743)
Marriage: 1698 - Edgartown, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Thankful Luce (1703- )
2. Silvanus Luce (1706- )
3. Hannah Luce (1710- )
4. Sarah Luce (1715-1751)
5. Christopher Luce (1720-1795)
2. Alice Daggett (1675 - Abt 1711)
Partnership:
Status: Unmarried
Children:
1. Henry Luce (Cir 1697- )
Notes
General:
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Henry was a blacksmith, a resident of Edgartown; known as "White-eyed Henry", and was town constable in 1736.
Prior to his marriage to Sarah Look, Henry became the father of "Black Henry" born 1697 to Alice Daggett the daughter of an Indian Princess.
Alice/Ellis Daggett did not marry; but had 3 children out of wedlock. Each was named for their father. All were mentioned in her will dated 19 March 1711 and probated in May of 1711. Her father, Joseph was executor and he fulfilled the trust. The will was allowed, even Though the children were illegitimate and property passed to Henry Luce; money to Samuel Look and movable estate to Patience Allen.
(1) Henry born 1699, son of Henry Luce
(2) Samuel born 1702, son of Samuel Look
(3) Patience Allen born c.1704, prob. daughter of Joseph Allen married to Patience Bourne, res. of Tisbury.
(History of Martha's Vineyard by Banks)
Marriage 1 Sarah LOOK b: 3 Apr 1678 in Nantucket
Married: 1698 in Edgartown
Children
Thankful LUCE b: 1703 in Edgartown, Dukes Co., Ma
Sylvanus LUCE b: 14 Sep 1706 in Edgartown, Dukes Co., Ma
Hannah LUCE b: Abt 1710 in Edgartown, Dukes Co., Ma
Sarah LUCE b: Abt 1715 in Edgartown, Dukes Co., Ma
Christopher LUCE b: 18 Oct 1720 in Holmes Hole, Tisbury, Dukes Co., Ma
Henry Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1697 - Martha's Vineyard
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Henry Luce (1678-1743)
Mother: Alice Daggett (1675-Abt 1711)
Israel Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1719 - Martha's Vineyard
Baptism:
Death: 1797 - Nomans Island (Chilmark), Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Notes
General:
"Another early settler was Israel Luce removed to Nomans Land as a young man and spent the rest of his life there as a resident and was buried there. "
Isreal Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Between 1671 and 1674 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 20 May 1727 - Windham, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Henry Luce (Abt 1640-1688)
Mother: Remembrance Litchfield (Abt 1642-After 1708)
Spouses and Children
1. *Grace Baker (Cir 1678 - 18 May 1730)
Marriage: 16 Dec 1701 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Grace BAKER b: 1674 in Holmes Hole, Tisbury, Dukes Co., MaMarriage Notes (Grace Baker)
Married: 16 Dec 1701 in Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Ma
Children
Joseph LUCE b: Abt 1703 in Holmes Hole, Tisbury, Dukes Co., Ma
Hannah LUCE b: Abt 1706 in Holmes Hole, Tisbury, Dukes Co., Ma
Benjamin LUCE b: 26 Nov 1709 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
Eleazer LUCE b: 21 Feb 1711/12 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
Israel LUCE b: 8 Apr 1712 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
Thankful LUCE b: 28 Nov 1715 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
Mary LUCE b: 9 May 1718 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
Ann LUCE b: 14 Aug 1721 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
Rebecca LUCE b: 28 Mar 1722 in Windham, Windham Co., Ct
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20. Joseph, 3 b. (1703); m. Elizabeth Root 18 July 1727; res. Windham.
21. Hannah, b. (1706); d. 10 Nov. 1715.
22. Benjamin, b. 26 Nov. 1709; d. 1759 s. p.
23. Eleazer, b. 21 Feb. 1711; d. 12 May 1727.
24. Israel, b. 8 Apr. 1712; d. 3 May 1727.
25. Thankful, b. 28 Nov. 1715; m. Thomas Butler.
26. Mary, b. 9 May 1718.
27. Ann, b. 14 Aug. 1721. 4
James Norton Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Sep 1795 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Martha N Wilbur (Abt 1815 - After 1870)
Marriage: 22 Dec 1829 - Edgartown, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. West Luce (1836-After 1880)
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Olive HAMMETT b: 18 SEP 1792 in Chilmark, Dukes Co., MaMarriage Notes (Martha N Wilbur)
Married: 13 SEP 1812
children, all at Edgartown
James W LUCE b: ABT 1831
Asa R LUCE b: JAN 1833
Martha W LUCE b: 19 MAY 1834
West LUCE b: 5 MAR 1836
Benjamin N LUCE b: JUL 1840
Grafton A LUCE b: ABT 1842
Adrianna Eaton LUCE b: ABT 1848
Fanny A LUCE b: ABT 1853
Charles T LUCE b: JAN 1845
Jesse Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1812 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Jesse Luce (1772-1831) 5
Mother: Mary Daggett (1777- )
Captain Jesse Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 5 Jan 1746 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 2 Apr 1815 - At Sea
Burial: in Crossways Cemetery, Tisbury
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Rowland Luce (1725-1767) 6
Mother: Mary Butler (1726-1793) 6
Spouses and Children
Notes
General:
gravestone:
Capt. Jesse Luce
drowned
April 2, 1815
AE 69
Mrs. Elizabeth
his wife died
[Aug. 22], 1842.
Captain Jesse Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Sep 1772
Baptism:
Death: 7 Oct 1831 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Burial: in Vineyard Haven cemetery
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Jesse Luce (1746-1815) 6
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Daggett (27 Aug 1777 - )
Marriage: 10 Feb 1795 - Maine
Status:
Children:
1. Jesse Luce (1812- )
2. Charles E Luce (1814- )
3. Captain Warren Luce (1819-1907)
Joanna Luce
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Jun 1714 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 28 Jun 1798 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Elijah Look (17 Nov 1713 - 30 May 1799)
Marriage: 1733 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Status:
Jonathan Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1696
Baptism:
Death: 1763
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Lydia Burgess (1704 - 1777)
Marriage:
Status:
Joshua Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Sep 1716 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 3 Nov 1795 - Somers, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: William Luce (1680-1734)
Mother: Anne Crosby (1678-After 1734) 7
Notes
General:
Joshua, b. 12 Sept. 1716; res. C, weaver, prob. rem. to Somers, Conn. 8
Josiah Luce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1685 - Holmes Hole (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 26 May 1727 - Windham, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Henry Luce (Abt 1640-1688)
Mother: Remembrance Litchfield (Abt 1642-After 1708)
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Sarah ALLEN b: 1687 in West Tisbury
Married: 1703 in Holmes Hole
Josiah2 Luce, (Henry 1), b. abt. 1685; res. C, rem. to Windham, Conn. 1707, where he d. abt. 1727; m. Sarah Allen
Will 26 May 1727.
children in Windham, Ct
90. Judah3 (Paddock), b. 30 Sept. 1705. (Judith?)
91. Joshtta, b. 16 Dec. 1707; m. Mercy Bishop 17 Oct. 1733; res. Windham.
92. Jonathan, b. 8 Aug. 1710; m. Jemima Luce 3 Jan. 1733-4; res. Windham.
93. Nathaniel, b. 31 Dec. 1712; m. Mary Prentiss 25 Dec. 1735.
94. Ebenezer, b. (1715); m. Anna Robinson 26 Oct. 1749; res. Windham.
95. Mary, b. ; m. Ephraim Wealthy.
96. Sarah, b. ; m. John Coye 9 Jan. 1749-50.
97. Elizabeth, b. ; m. John Mackworth.
98. Mercy, b. 9
Lavinia Luce
Sex: F
AKA: Lovina Luce 11
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Jun 1785 - (Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard)
Baptism:
Death: 12 Aug 1818 - Tisbury, Massachusetts 11
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Clement Vinson (7 Aug 1787 - 5 Nov 1822) 10
Marriage: 3 Apr 1809 - Tisbury, Massachusetts 10 12
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 33-1-24
Lucretia Luce
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Oct 1794 - Vineyard Haven (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 3 Jul 1879 - Vineyard Haven (Tisbury), Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Warren Cleveland (23 Feb 1789 - 20 Mar 1863)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Abigail Luce Cleveland (1827-1873)
Lyman H Luce M.D.
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Apr 1846 - West Tisbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 30 Jan 1892 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Burial: in West Tisbury Village Cemetery
Cause of Death: cerebral tumor 13
Parents
Father: William Horace Luce M.D. (1814-1893)
Mother: Abbey Jurnegan Davis (1822- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth W Lawrence (1846 - 1 Feb 1880) 13
Marriage: Oct 1870 - Falmouth, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Bessie Luce (Abt 1874- )
2. Mary Cleveland West (2 Mar 1856 - 25 Feb 1903)
Marriage: 28 Mar 1884 - Tisbury, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
General:
"Dr. Lyman H. Luce (1846-92): Physician-Naturalist of Martha' s Vineyard, Massachusetts"
Dr. Lyman H. Luce, physician and naturalist, was born and spent most of his life on Martha's Vineyard, the largest island in New England. A descendant of Henry Luce and his wife of Gloucestershire, England, who settled on the island at Tisbury, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century, Dr. Luce practiced medicine there and on Cape Cod during a lifetime of forty-six years. Upon his death in 1892, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal noted that 'he was the author of several articles on the climate and history of Martha's Vineyard, as well as on different medical subjects.
... It was at West Tisbury that Lyman Horace Luce was born on 10 April 1846. His father, Dr. William Horace Luce (1814-91), who had graduated from the Medical School of Maine in 1840, practiced medicine and kept a drugstore there. His mother, nee Abbey Jernegan Davis, came from the nearby town of Chilmark.
Lyman attended the Dukes County Academy at Edgartown and the Pierce Academy of Middleboro before entering the Harvard Medical School in Boston. After two years of study at Harvard, he transferred to his father's alma mater, the Medical School of Maine, and received his m.d. degree in 1869. His doctoral thesis. Dissertatio de Herbaria Medicinale [sic], is now in the Bowdoin College Library at Brunswick, Maine. A twenty-one-page manuscript, it surveyed the medical botany of his native locale.
...
Upon graduation Dr. Luce practiced for a few months on the Vineyard with his father, then moved to Falmouth on the mainland to succeed Dr. T. J. Everett. He was soon busy, covering much territory on Cape Cod—Pocasset, Woods Hole, Mashpee, and the Falmouth area. In addition he became a visiting surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital at New Bedford, serving with Dr. Henry I. Bowditch for four years there before being named a consulting physician. In 1874 he was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Five years later he became a charter member of the Succanessett Lodge, Knights of Honor, in Woods Hole. 13 14
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