Rev. Frank Ranney Luckey, pastor of the Humphrey Street Congregational church of New Haven, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, November 23, 1858. His father, Charles P. Luckey, was also a native of Poughkeepsie, where he engaged in merchandising throughout the entire period of his business career. He was very successful in his undertakings and founded the largest department store between New York and Albany on the Hudson river It is still in existence under the name of Luckey, Platt & Company. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, the family coming from Ulster. Ireland, and the paternal grandmother of Rev. Luckey was a Hoffman. His mother bore the maiden name of Annie Brush and was a member through the maternal line of the Hatfield family, noted as a family of Methodist Episcopal ministers. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Luckey were born two children, a son and daughter, the latter, Annie, however, having passed away in childhood.

The son, Frank R. Luckey, pursued his education in the Poughkeepsie schools until graduated from the high school, at which time he received a state scholarship to Cornell, He then entered the university and was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1882. Determining to devote his life to the ministry, he next became a student in the theological department of Yale in 1885 and was graduated with the class of 1888. Having thus prepared for a holy calling, he was ordained to the ministry and installed as pastor of the Humphrey Street Congregational church on the 17th of May of that year. He preached his first sermon in the church in December, 1887, during the absence of the regular pastor, and continued to fill the pulpit until his ordination, when he was installed as the regular pastor and has since continued to serve, covering a period of over thirty years. The church at that time had been but recently organized and his labors have therefore been the potent element in its growth and progress through three decades. He is an eloquent and convincing speaker, his words carrying weight to the logical thinker, and as pastor as well as preacher he has endeared himself to his people and to the community at large. He has been president of the Congregational Club of New Haven and has been connected with his church for a longer period than any other minister of the city. He has also been active in the organized charities of New Haven and has taken a helpful interest in matters of local improvement and progress, lie is a member of the Civic Federation and has done everything in his power to uphold those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride.

In Poughkeepsie, New York. Mr. Luckey was united in marriage to Miss Celeste R. Rensley. a daughter of James D. Rensley, of that place, and they have one son, Charles P., who was a Yale student and is now with the Yale Unit of the American Field Ambulance Corps in France. Reverend Mr. Luckey finds recreation in golf and fishing. He belongs to the Adirondack League Club, also to the Yale Club of New York and to the New Haven Country Club. While a deep student, he has never allowed his interest in books to over-shadow that human interest which brings an understanding of man and his problems but with ready sympathy has constantly reached out a helping hand and his labors have wrought for good results in the development of Christian manhood.