Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....HUGO, Rosalie 
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  MRS. ROSALIE HUGO, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of Sullivan
  County and the widow of the late Charles Hugo, is a daughter of Frederick and
  Fredericka (Vitus) Bowers, both of whom were natives of Berlin, Germany,
  immigrating to America in 1855.
  
    Mr. Bowers met with many difficulties in trying to immigrate with his family
  to America. As they started in a small boat to board the sailing vessel they
  were stranded on a sand-bar, and, during a severe storm, the vessel in which
  they were to sail went down. Nothing daunted, and with the determination to make
  this country their home, they made another effort to fulfil their desires and
  set sail in another ship for America, landing at Baltimore after a tedious
  voyage of eight weeks. One small child died while they were at sea.
  
    Mr. Bowers, being a shoemaker by trade and having friends in Germantown, Pa.,
  settled there and worked at his trade. Being very desirous of owning a home for
  himself and family, he readily consented to purchase with his little savings,
  through some land agents, a small farm in a supposedly German settlement near
  Elkland, Merritt's Lake, in Elkland township. Taking his small belongings, in
  company with his family, he moved northward, and reached the destination, only
  to find that he had been swindled by rascals and left destitute in a wild land,
  far from home and with the winter season fast approching, Sheltering his family
  in one small room, the only one to be obtained, Mr. Bowers looked about to see
  how he could better himself. Many of our readers will doubtless recall the
  murder of Vitencruber and the subsequent conviction and execution of the
  murderer, Kamb. The room that these emigrants had they were obliged to share
  with this murderer and his wife. Using the remainder of his almost exhausted
  funds he bought a small piece of woodland and began to build a little log-cabin
  near the lake. But the severe winter, with its heavy falls of snow and keen
  frosts setting in, prevented him from finishing this structure, which was
  located not far from where Mrs. Hugo, the subject of this biography, now lives.
  Taking our subject, then a child of ten years, with him through the deep snow,
  he built a fire in the half-finished cabin, dug up the earth floor, and with his
  hands filled the cracks between the logs with earth to keep out the snow and
  cold. Then taking the others of his family to the cabin he began in this
  inauspicious way his struggle for existence in the New World. He lived on this
  place the remainder of his days, with the exception of the second winter, which
  was spent in Forksville, where, by economy, he was able to purchase a cow, and
  with this and his family he returned to the log cabin, working at his trade and
  doing odd jobs for his neighbors or any work which enabled him to keep the wolf
  from the door. Mr. Bowers died at the age of forty-five, and left six children,
  as follows: Rosalie, the subject of this sketch; A. Conrad; Veronica; Emma;
  Louisa; and Francis. His widow married Fred Smith and they have one child, who
  lives on the old homestead.
  
    Charles Hugo immigrated in 1850 to Philadelphia at the age of thirteen years,
  and later moved to what is now known as Merritt's Lake, where he bought a small
  farm. His title to the property proved to be worthless and he was left
  destitute, without a friend and in a strange country. Charles Hugo was born in
  Gilson, Germany, December 13, 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo began married life under
  adverse circumstances, and their final outcome proves that untiring energy and
  diligence brings success to those who labor for it. Shortly after their marriage
  they settled on the North Street road, buying 100 acres of the Eldred tract, Mr.
  Hugo working at farming for hire and in the mines. In the latter place he
  severely injured one hand, which incapacitated him from labor for some time. He
  accumulated a small capital and opened a small country store, but did not meet
  with the success he anticipated; thereupon, leaving his wife in charge of the
  store, he began to peddle, exchanging merchandise for produce. In this business
  he won for himself the reputation of an honest, reliable merchant, and found
  many willing friends to assist him. As his capital grew larger Mr. Hugo added
  farm after farm to his possessions; notwithstanding the fact that he and his
  wife endured more than their share of life's hardships, it is not strange that
  they, possessed of ambition and untiring energy and perseverance, succeeded in
  the end.
  
    At Mr. Hugo's death, in 1897, he left all of his children well provided for,
  and to his wife bequeathed a fine estate. His children were: Henry J., who
  married Christiana Banmunk, and is the father of three children, Fanny, Envoy,
  deceased, and Grace; Augustus, who married Annie Knupper, and has two children,
  Blanche and Pearl; Addie, the wife of Anthony Glockler, by whom she has two
  children, Mamie and Julia; Victor C., who married Bertha Crossley, and has two
  children, Beulah and Maud; George; Charles, deceased; Emma, deceased; William;
  Mary; Albert; Robert; and Frankie. Socially our subject's husband was a Mason
  and an Odd Fellow.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
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