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Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1895

              [316-317]

              A. G. LOUKS, Sheriff of Luce county, Michigan, is a gentleman
           who is eminently qualified for the position he occupies, having
           by his long and faithful service proved the truth of this state-
           ment. As one of the county officials and representative men of
           the northern peninsula of Michigan, it is fitting thatmore than
           a passing notice be made of him in this volume.
              A. G. LOUKS was born at Lyndoch, Norfolk county, Ontario,
           July 7, 1852. His father, WILLIAM H. LOUKS, a native of Vermont
           and a farmer by occupation, lived to the age of fifty-nine
           years, dying in 1887. In his youth he was taken to Norfolk coun-
           ty, Canada, in the province of Ontario. In 1856 he located on a
           farm near Pontiac, Illinois, where he made his home nine years,
           at the end of that time returning to Canada. He married AGNES,
           daughter of GEORGE GRAY, a merchant of Lyndoch, and the issue of
           the marriage was as follows: WILLIAM, Lapeer, Michigan; A. G.,
           whose name heads this article; MRS. CHARLES ROOD, Lapeer; MRS.
           DR. GILBERT and MRS. WALTER WATT, both of Bay City, Michigan.
              In 1874 the subject of our sketch came to the United States,
           and during the seven teen years which followed gave his
           attention to lumbering. In the interval between 1873 and 1890 he
           had become a citizen of McMillan township, and was Supervisor
           for that township one term before Luce county was organized.
           When the county was formed, in 1887, he was elected its first
	   Sheriff, and he was elected to the same position the following
	   year. As the law prevented his holding the office the next two
	   yaars he was not a candidate for a third election at that time,
	   but in 1892 he was elected and in 1894 again received the same
	   honor. In the meantime he served as Village Trustee one term.
	   MR. LOUKS has always made himself a careful and conscientious
	   official, and attends to the duties of his office in such a
	   manner that he has made friends with all with whom he has had
	   transactions in an official way, and outside of his office he is
	   of a genial and social disposition and a gentleman with whom it
	   is a pleasure to converse. He is a terror to all evil doers, and
	   when a warrant is placed in his hands for the arrest of a crimi-
	   nal he will bring him to justice if it is in the power ofman to
	   do so. He is probably as well acquainted with Luce county as any
	   other man who has resided here for the same length of time, and
	   he thinks there is no place like the upper peninsula for health,
           wealth and general prosperity. Mr. Louks has a beautiful home in
           the city and a happy family to enjoy it.
              May 7, 1874, he married in Lyndoch, Ontario, MISS AGNES,
           daughter of THOMAS and MARY (MOORE) WEBB, and they have one
           child, MISS MAMIE, aged nineteen years. MRS. LOUKS is one of a
           family of four daughters, her sisters being as follows: MRS.
	   ANN MOORE, Gregory, Michigan; MRS. ALONZO LOUKS, Normandal,
	   Ontario; and MRS. WILLIAM H. GRIFFIN, Lyndoch.

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