“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

WILLIAM M. LUCK, of the firm of Luck  & Coverton, of the Eagle Ford Mills, 
Dallas county, Texas, forms the subject of this biography.  He has been identified 
with the interests of the county since 1860, and merits representation in its 
history.

Mr. Luck is a native of North Carolina, born in Rockingham county, September 
14, 1830, son of John and Lucy (Gains) Luck.  The father was born in Germany 
and came to this country at the age of twenty-six years, and the mother was a 
native of Virginia, daughter of Thomas Gains, who was reared in Halifax county, 
that State.  Grandfather Gains was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  After the 
birth of William M., his father moved to Henry county, Virginia.

Mr. Luck was reared in the Old Dominion, with the exception of a few years spent 
with his parents in North Carolina.  At the age of eighteen he became an 
apprentice to the trade of millwright, and after serving two years was made 
foreman, building mills through Virginia and North Carolina and doing an 
extensive business.  He was married, in 1855, to Miss Ruth Dean, also a native 
of Henry county, Virginia, daughter of Edmund Dean and descended from an old 
Virginia family.  Mr. Dean still resides in that State, having reached the advanced 
age of eighty-eight years.

October 18, 1859, Mr. Luck and his wife and two children, in company with his 
father’s family and a party of neighbors – over forty in number, - started with 
horse teams for the frontier of Texas, and after a journey of seventy-two days 
reached  Waxahachie, Ellis county, where all but two of the company located.  
The following year Mr. Luck came to his present location and built the mill of 
which he is now proprietor.  He built a mill at Pleasant Run for Hop & Miller, and 
afterward another for Miller.  He subsequently built one at Pater’s Bluff and one 
at Cleveland.  In 1867, he engaged in milling in Ellis county, conducting a 
successful business there for ten years.   After that he came to Dallas county and 
located permanently.  To him and his wife three children were born:  John E., of 
Seymour, Texas; Emma, wife of J. H. Nichols, Haskell, Texas; and William, who 
died at the age of seven years.  Mrs. Luck died in 1878.  She was a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, was an earnest Christian and a devoted wife 
and mother, and her loss was deeply felt by her family and many friends.  Mr. 
Luck is associated with the A. F. & A. M., and in politics is a Democrat.  He is a 
self-made man, the success in life to which he has attained being the result of his 
own industry and foresight.  He has accumulated considerable property, and by 
his honorable business dealings and upright life has won the confidence and 
esteem of his fellow citizens.

Submitted by: L. Pingel