Colonel Lucien Beckner, 1873-1963.

Beckner, the curator of the Louisville Museum of Natural History and Science for twenty-six years, was born in Winchester, Kentucky in 1873. He attended the Louisville Military Academy (later known as Kentucky Military Academy), Centre College, the University of Kentucky, Transylvania College, and the University of Pennsylvania, but did not earn a degree. At the age of twenty-one, Beckner married Marie Davis Warren of Danville. The couple had two daughters, Elizabeth and Marie.

Beckner practiced law in Winchester with his father, Judge William Beckner, and was editor and publisher of several newspapers in Clark County. An assistant on the Kentucky Geological Survey, he was also a consulting geologist, helping with subsurface explorations for the Louisville Gas and Electric Company. Another activity of Beckner's was his organization of the Burley Tobacco Grower's Cooperative Association.

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