LUCA FAMILY SINGERS

LUCA FAMILY SINGERS. Concert ensemble (orig. in New Haven, Connecticut; fl. mid-nineteenth century). The family singing group was organized during the 1840s by the father, John W. Luca (b. 1805 in Milford, Connecticut; after d.1877 in Zanesville, Ohio), a shoemaker by trade, who taught music and directed a church choir in New Haven, Connecticut. The group included his wife Lisette, her sister Diana Lewis (who lived with the Lucas), and the four boys: John W., Jr. (b. 1820s; d...