LUCIUS H. McHOSE is recognized as one of the wide-awake and enterprising businessmen of Catasauqua, where he is engaged in the manufacture of fire-clay brick in company with David Hunt. They enjoy an excellent trade, and their business has been successful and has steadily increased from the beginning.

While residing in Rittersville Samuel McHose was married to a daughter of the late Solomon Flores. She died seven years ago, leaving five children: Edwin, Monroe, Hiram, Lucius, and Mrs. A. T. Blank, of this city. Our subject was the youngest of the family, and carried on his primary studies at first in the common schools and later in the Allentown Collegiate Cadet School and in the Kutztown Normal. After leaving the latter institution he went to Providence, R. I., where he attended a preparatory school, after which he engaged in business with his father in the brick works in Allentown.

In the spring of 1877 our subject went West to Colorado, and remained in that state for seven years, prospecting. He met with fair success,and during his western trip visited the states of New Mexico and North Dakota. In 1884 he returned to Allentown, where he resided for twelve months, and then went to New Jersey and began working in the clay banks near Amboy. In November of the following year we find him in Catasauqua as foreman of the fire brick works, which he has superintended ever since.

In 1892 Mr. McHose, in company with David Hunt, leased the above plant, and in the manufacture of brick they are meeting with success. While residing in New Jersey our subject was married in Phillipsburg, in 1886, to Miss Sarah S. Weikle, who was born and reared in Allentown. Their union has been blessed by the birth of three children, Howard, Malcolm and Josephine.

The subject of this sketch is a demitted member of the Masonic fraternity, with which he was connected while in Colorado. In politics he follows the footsteps of his honored father and is a true-blue Republican. He is a Director of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company in this city, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of the leading businessmen of the place. Mrs. McHose is a devoted member of the Reformed Church. For a further history of her family the reader is referred to the sketch of A. T. Blank, found elsewhere in this volume.