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First, here are his parents:
1.1.5.4.7.3.2.2 Lucius Curtis, son of George (Elijah, William, Nathaniel, Robert, Robert, Robert) and Nancy Octavia (Gillette) Pease; b. 1834 in Charlotte, VT; d. 1873 in Winnemucca, NV; bur. in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, north of the Humboldt River; m. Mary Isabel Hutton; b. about 1841 in NY; d. before 1874. She was the daughter of John Hutton, a lawyer and superior court judge in Malone, NY. Lucius moved to Nevada in 1861 and was postmaster and Justice of the Peace in Humboldt City. He moved to Union Twp, NV in 1865, where he was a judge. Pease was credited for naming Winnemucca as part of Union Twp. He was involved in the promotion of the Humboldt Canal, acted as an agent for New York companies in mine development, and built a wholesale liquor store at West Fourth and Bridge Streets. He also owned a store near the Central Pacific Railroad. Because the town did not have a fire department, Pease started to build an adobe house, instead of the usual wooden structures of the day. He died just before it was finished. During the 1870 census, Lucius and his family were living in Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada and he is listed as working with mining supplies. Three of the five children of Lucius Curtis and Mary Isabel (Hutton) Pease, # 1 born in NY, others in Nevada:
1.1.5.4.7.3.2.2.1 Jonathan b. 1867 d.
1.1.5.4.7.3.2.2.2 Ellen Mary b. Mar 10, 1868 d.
1.1.5.4.7.3.2.2.3 Lucius Curtis b. Mar 27, 1869 d. Aug 16, 1963 Maplewood, NJ
And here's Lute:
1.1.5.4.7.3.2.2.3 Lucius Curtis Pease; b. Mar 27, 1869 in Winnemucca, a Nevada mining town; d. Aug 16, 1963 in Maplewood, NJ (although there are no records of his death in Maplewood, nor nearby towns of Livingston and Summit); m. Jun 22, 1905, Nell Christmas McMullin; b. Sep 1883 in Steubenville, OH; d. Aug 06, 1958 in Maplewood. She was an artist who studied at the Corcoran School of Art, and became an illustrator for the Pacific Monthly. Nell was also a former member of the Art Center of the Oranges, the Milburn-Short Hills Art Center, and the Newark Art Club. During the 1910 census, her father’s birth place is listed as PA and her mother’s as OH. She is not credited with being the mother of any children. Lute was orphaned at age five, and placed in care of his paternal grandfather in Charlotte, VT, where he stayed on a farm until age sixteen. He had artistic talents early; drawing barnyard animals at age six, and caricatures of his teachers in school. He was sent to New York for his secondary education, and graduated from Franklin Academy in Malone in 1887. At the graduation exercises at the Malone Opera House, he presented his English Composition, “Worlds Unseen” From there, he moved out west to become a teamster and ranch hand at the Elwood Cooper Ranch near Santa Barbara, CA. During the next fifteen years, he was employed as a horticultural salesman, mined for gold in the Klondike and Yukon, managed a hotel, and from 1901 to 1902, he was the first resident US Commissioner in Nome, Alaska for the Yotzebue Sound Point Hope District. During those years, Lute Pease was also a reporter and a political cartoonist (1895-1897) for the Portland Oregonian, a job he landed after submitting drawings of a murder and suicide he witnessed on the street, and one of his interviews was with Mark Twain. From 1897-1902, he was in Alaska, returning to the Oregonian after that. During his stay in Alaska, he sent publications to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. From 1905-1912, Lute Pease was the editor in chief of the Pacific Monthly in Portland, assisted by his wife, who was an artist, and during that time, he wrote a number of articles on the West, on Alaska, and on the Alaskan Gold Rush. From an article in the Morning Oregonian Jan 03, 1896: L. C. Pease started a coastal route horseback ride from Tia Juana to Ensenada last Monday. By Tuesday the trip got so rough that he was forced to shoot his horse that had been injured and continue by foot. Pease was so thirsty that he had to slit the animal’s throat and drink its blood. He reached Valesquez by Wednesday. By then his lips and throat were in a frightful condition from having chewed the pulp of cactus leaves in order to satisfy his thirst. Circulation of the Pacific Monthly paper increased from 40,000 to 100,000, and one of his articles appeared in Colliers (Sep 18, 1909). After author Jack London’s novel “Martin Eden” had been rejected by publishers in the East, Lute Pease accepted it for publication, and illustrated it for the Pacific Monthly. During the 1910 census, Lucius and Nellie were living on Morrison Street in the 4th Ward of Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon and he is listed as the editor of a magazine. In this census, he lists his father’s birth place as Illinois and his mother’s as NY. About 1913, Nell’s ill health forced the couple to Washington, DC, where she was treated. Lute did some freelancing, and in Jun 1914, he became a political cartoonist for the Newark, New Jersey Evening News. On May 02, 1949, Pease was awarded the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for “a distinguished example of a cartoonists work.” The work was a cartoon Pease had drawn in the Evening News on Apr 06, 1948. The cartoon, labeled “Who Me?” depicted a robed judge, labeled “Court Order” scolding a caricatured John L. Lewis (he was a United Mine Workers Union Leader during the Coal Strike of the Spring of 1948). Lewis was standing in front of a broken store window with a pick ax behind his back. The hole in the window was labeled “Coal Strike”, and the store itself labeled “US Economy”. Pease was 80 years old, making him the oldest person at that time to win the Pulitzer Prize. Lute Pease was also a painter, who was taught the fundamentals by his wife, Nell. A portrait of Wallace M. Scudder, president of the Newark Museum Association, done by Pease hung in the Newark Museum. One child of Lucius Curtis and Nell Christmas (McMullin) Pease born in Portland, OR:
1.1.5.4.7.3.2.2.3.1 Lucius Valentine, son of Lucius Curtis (Lucius Curtis, George, Elijah, William, Nathaniel, Robert, Robert, Robert) and Nell Christmas (McMullin) Pease; b. Feb 14, 1897 in Portland, OR; d. Jun 1972 in San Francisco, CA. Lucius was issued a US Passport Apr 19, 1920 to travel to Japan, China, and Hong Kong. He was scheduled to leave from Seattle, WA May 01, 1920 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was not stated where his ship was to depart from.
I don't know if they had any more children, or if Lucius Valentine married and had children.
Rick in Taunton, MA
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