A News Clipping
From Phebe CAMPBELL Hoyt's Scrapbook,
Undated, Prob. Feb. 1897 from the
Elkland Journal
Transcribed by her great-grandson, Wm. Thompson, Mar. 29,
2012
A Sketch of the Late A. W.
Lugg.
Mr.
Anthony W. Lugg, who died quite suddenly at Knoxville on the
20th ultimo, was a leading business man in the Cowanesque Valley for many
years. He had been as well as usual, and on the morning of his death he
arose and attended to the fires in the home. Soon after this he complained
of a pain in the region of his heart and lay down upon a couch and died in
about 15 minutes.
The funeral was held at Knoxville last week Monday, and
the remains were taken to Nelson for internment.
Mr. Lugg some time before his death prepared a sketch of
his life and requested its publication after his death. It being concise
and interesting, we copy it from the Knoxville Courier.
"I, Anthony W. Lugg, was born in the town of Bisley,
Gloucestershire, England, August 31, 1825, and immigrated with my parents
in 1830. We arrived in New York city in July, from whence we journeyed to
Beecher's Island, now known as Nelson. At
the time, my parents settled on a farm then owned by James Campbell, now owned by Philo Stevens. In
May, 1831, my parents returned to Gloucestershire, England, with a family
of five children, where they remained for two years, and in May, 1833,
returned to the United States. Sailing from Liverpool and arriving in New
York in the month of July, we continued our journey to Painted Post, N. Y.
My father, Charles Lugg, bought a farm
of Arthur H. Erwin on the west side of the Conhocton [sic] river, and lived
there about two months and sold out and moved again to Beecher's Island. My
father then bought a farm about one mile south of Nelson. Here my father
cleared a farm of two hundred acres. I remained on the farm with my father
until twenty-five years of age, when I married to
Ann E. Seely, daughter of
Nathaniel Seely of
Osceola.
"After my marriage, I moved to a small farm which I got
of my father, and which was west of my father's land. Here I remained about
five years, when my health failed. I then went into partnership with Morgan
Seely and James Bebe, and we began mercantile business at Nelson in 1855.
In two years Mr. Seely and myself purchased the interest of James Bebe, and
I remained in partnership with Morgan Seely for about twenty five
years.
"In the fall of 1877 I went to California for my health
and returned in the spring of 1878 and enjoyed fair health for about four
years, when my health failed and I went to California the second time, and
remained there till spring returning with my health much improved. Upon my
return I occupied the farm formerly owned by my father and where he lived
for over forty years. After remaining upon the old homestead for about four
years, I purchased a store of E. B. Phillips, at Knoxville, and went into
the mercantile business in March 1886, with my son,
Charles H. Lugg, and two years thereafter
A. Waldo Lugg, having attained his majority, was made a member of the
firm, and thus it has continued."
Copyright 2012 by Wm. Thompson. Commercial use prohibited.
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