This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi2.2ACIB/6264 Message Board Post: George E. Loucks was born in Spring Garden Township, December 10, 1850. His parents were Z. K. Loucks and Sarah Ann (Ebert) Loucks, of York County, of whom he was the fourth child. His youth was spent at farming, and his education was received at York, and one term at the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburgh, at which institution he prepared himself for his profession, but owing to feeble health was obliged to abandon his studies, and until his twenty-eighth year he worked about the farm. In 1878 he was appointed agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Hellam, which position he has held ever since, devoting his whole time and attention to it. He was married in his native township March 7, 1878, to Mary J. S. Myers, daughter of Samuel Myers. Mr. And Mrs. Loucks belong to the Lutheran Church at York, at which place also his father Zachariah K. Loucks, president of the First National Bank, and one of the wealthiest men of York County, has his residence. Taken from the book, “History of York County, Illustrated 1886” by John Gibson, Historical Editor