OBIT: Laurence Hayden DUGGAN, 1948, Ancestors in York County, PA

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Duggan Had Family Connections Here

Laurence Hayden Duggan, a former State department official, who died Monday 
night, December 20, when he dropped from a window of his Manhatten office, had 
family connection in Paradise township.

Duggan, an expert on Latin-American affairs who served in the State department 
from 1930 to 1944, was a great-great-grandson of John Peter Zartman, who moved 
to Codorus township, York county, from Northumberland county in 1802.

He was a son of Stephen Hayden Pierce Duggan and Sarah Alice Elsesser, Stamford, 
Conn.  His mother was born and reared in Paradise township, York county.  She 
was a daughter of Lawrence George Elsesser and Anna Zartman Elsesser.  His 
grandfather Elsesser was born in Aschendorff, Germany, and emigrated to America 
when a boy.

The late Peter Elsesser, who was prominent in industry, church and Y.M.C.A. work 
in York for many years, was his uncle.

Associated Press reports at the time of his death said the circumstances of his 
death wer "undetermined pending further investigation."  Duggan died on the eve 
of the scheduled appearance before a spy-hunting grand jury of Francis B. Sayre, 
former assistant secretary of state, whose office secrets allegedly were 
filched, according to testimony in another phase of the inquirey.

At the time of his death, Duggan was president of the Institute of International 
Education.  The institute, devoted to promoting international understanding and 
the exchange of students among various nations, was founded with aid from the 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Duggan had a number of cousins living in York.

News Comet, East Berlin, PA, December 31, 1948