BIO:  John Klugh, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Franklin Township, Pg 106

CAPT. JOHN KLUGH, is a native of York County, Penn., was born May 11, 1816, and 
is a son of George and Hannah (Arnold) Klugh, of Lancaster and York Counties 
respectively.  His grandfather came from Germany, and settled in Lancaster 
County, where he engaged in farming.  George Klugh was a carpenter, and followed 
his trade in Franklin Township until 1878, when he died at the age of eighty-four 
years.  He was blessed with the following children:  John, George, Henry, 
Frederick, Peter, Joseph, Clarissa and Philip (deceased).  Capt. Klugh remained 
at home until his fifteenth year, when he began learning the carpenter’s trade 
which he followed for thirty years.  In 1860 he began mercantile business in 
Franklintown, where he was also postmaster.  In 1864 he was elected captain of 
Company I, Two Hundred and Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and with his 
regiment, was engaged in the battles of Hatcher’s Run, and Fort Steadman.  In the 
latter engagement he was wounded in the arm; being disabled for further duty, he 
returned home and resumed the mercantile business.  In 1881 he sold his stock of 
goods to his son-in-law, George Lehmer, and commenced farming, owning about 250 
acres of improved land; 100 acres of wood land, and 234 acres in Washington 
Township.  He also owns two houses and ten lots in Franklintown, all of which he 
accumulated by hard labor; held the office of jury commissioner, and is also a 
justice of the peace.  He was married in 1848, to Henrietta Ritter, daughter of 
Henry Ritter, one of the earliest settlers of York County, they have the 
following children:  Mary, Alice, Harry, John and Milton B.  They belong to the 
Lutheran Church in Franklintown, to which Capt. Klugh has given the ground, and 
is otherwise interested in the erection of a new church.