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LUCIA, Joel H.

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, pp 252-253

Joel H. LUCIA, lawyer, Montpelier [Washington County, Vermont], was born in 
Bridgeport [Addison County, Vermont], son of Charles T. and Paulina LUCIA. 
Educated in public schools, Barre Academy, and Middlebury College. Admitted 
to the Vermont bar June 1868; has since been engaged in law practice. 
Enlisted in August 1862, leaving college for that purpose, in Company D, 
Fourteenth Vermont Volunteers, served as private, corporal, sergeant; only 
engagement was at Gettysburg; discharged in July 1863; re-enlisted in 
February 1864 in Company H, Seventeenth Vermont Volunteers, and served until 
16 July 1865; sergeant until August 1864, when he was commissioned first 
lieutenant; was in all the engagements of the regiment from 04 June 1864; 
wounded at the battle of Poplar Spring Church, 30 September 1864; lost his 
left arm and was in the hospital until March 1865; attended the second 
inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as President; returned to his regiment and 
took part in the assault of Petersburg, 02 April 1865. Republican; states 
attorney for Addison County, Vermont, 1872-1874; justice of the peace, 
Addison County, 1866-1883; in Washington County more that ten years; register 
of probate, district of New Haven [Addison County] for several years; city 
clerk of Vergennes [Addison County, Vermont], two years; mayor of Vergennes, 
serving his third year when he moved to Montpelier; aide-de-camp with rank of 
colonel on the staff of Governors WASHBURN and HENDEE 1869 and 1870; judge 
advocate general, with rank of brigadier general 1874-1878; member of board 
of school commissioners, Montpelier, 1885-1901, chairman from 1889; 
superintendent of schools nine years; chairman of the second congressional 
district Republican committee. Episcopalian. Member of Montpelier Board of 
Trade; Loyal Legion; department commander, Grand Army of the Republic, 1901. 
In 1871 he [Joel H. LUCIA] married [Miss] Elizabeth B. REED, daughter of Hon. 
Charles REED, of Montpelier; they had three children: Daniel R., deceased; 
Rose; and Emily W., deceased.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly