Tup Lucas

Title: Tup Lucas
Description: Tup Lucas purchased The Greer Citizen from P. W. Smith on June 1, 1936. He owned it five years until 1941. Tup had formerly been editor and publisher of the Easley Progress, and then was with the Seneca Journal.

In 1938, he began a commercial printing business in Greer called Economy Press.

The Greer Community Council was formed in April 1938, and Tup Lucas was named President. In July of that year Mayor H. J. Lanford appointed Lucas to a committee to study the possibility of bringing a modern hospital to Greer.

In August 1938 he was voted in as one of 12 directors of the Greer Chamber of Commerce. He served as president of the Chamber in 1939-1940.

On August 2, 1941, a Greenville News article reported that Lucas, the former owner of the Citizen, had purchased the Seneca Journal and was moving to Seneca.

In March 1942, Lucas purchased the Greer Citizen for a second time from Reese Combs. He sold the Seneca Journal and moved to Greer. On June 1, 1942 he brought in Edd Burch as publisher and editor; the Greenville News reported that Lucas would "remain connected with the weekly in another capacity." On June 11 the Walterborough, S. C. Press and Standard reported that Lucas had sold the Seneca Journal and moved back to Greer to "resume management of the Greer Citizen" and that he had "found a new editor" for the paper — referencing Burch. In May, 1943, a Greenville News article called Lucas the former owner of the Greer Citizen and reported that he had purchased the Philadelphia, Mississippi Neshoba Democrat, taking over on May 1. The family moved to Mississippi later that year.
Relation: The Greer Citizen

Item sets: GREER: people; GHM: archive

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