Charles H. Lugg Biography


	This biography appears on pages 928-929 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES H. LUGG, who is the incumbent of the exacting and 
important office of superintendent of schools in Hutchinson county, was 
born in Geneva, Freeborn county, Minnesota, on the 21st of October, 
I862, being a son of Edward and H. Almira (Williams) Lugg, to whom were 
born six children, he being the eldest of the four surviving; the 
others are as follows: James E., who is a resident of Oakland, 
Minnesota; Samuel R., who remains at the parental home, as does also 
Laura Z. The father of the subject was born in Cornwall, England, in 
the year 1834, and there he was reared and educated. In 1858, at the 
age of twenty-four years. he severed the home ties and set forth to 
seek his fortunes in America, landing in Quebec and thence coming 
westward to Wisconsin. He lived in Racine county that state, a year and 
a half, at the expiration of which he went to Freeborn county, 
Minnesota, where his marriage was solemnized. There he filed entry on a 
quarter section of land, and while he was waiting for the passage of 
the homestead act, through the provisions of which he intended to 
secure title to his property, another person "jumped" the claim, filing 
a pre-emption claim and thus securing title to the land. Mr. Lugg later 
removed to Blue Earth county, that state, where he entered land, 
disposing of the same about a year later and returning to Freeborn 
county, where he purchased a farm, to whose improvement and cultivation 
he has since given his attention, being one of the well-known and 
highly honored pioneers of that section of the state. His loyalty to 
the land of his adoption has ever been of the insistent and 
uncompromising order and was manifested in a distinctive way at the 
time when the integrity of the Union was menaced by armed rebellion. In 
August, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company E, Tenth Minnesota 
Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until the close of the war, 
having made the record of a valiant and loyal son of the republic. He 
was mustered out in August, 1865, having participated in the battle of 
Nashville, after which he took part in the closing campaign which 
brought the crown of victory to the Union arms. He is a staunch 
advocate of the principles of the Republican party and a consistent and 
valued member of the Baptist church. His wife died in July, 1892. 

	Professor Charles H. Lugg was reared on the old homestead farm, 
and after availing himself of the advantages afforded in the district 
schools he entered the high school at Albert Lea, while later he 
continued his studies in the Northern Indiana Normal School and 
Business University, at Valparaiso. At the age of nineteen years, just 
after leaving the high school, he began his career as a teacher, and 
his efforts in connection with the pedagogic profession have been 
attended with most gratifying success, while he has devoted his 
attention to the same for more than twenty-one years, in Minnesota and 
South Dakota. He was for one year superintendent of the public schools 
at Olivet, this state. while for the long period of nine years he 
served in a similar capacity in the Parkston schools. In the autumn of 
1902 he was elected to his present office of county superintendent of 
schools, the preferment being one justly due him, by reason of his 
ability as an educator and organizer as well as on the score of his 
long and able service in the schools of the county. He assumed the 
discharge of his official duties on the 1st of January, 1903, and has 
shown marked administrative power and unlimited enthusiasm in his work, 
aiming to bring the schools of the county up to the highest possible 
standard of efficiency, while his personality is such that he enlists 
the hearty co-operation of the teachers of the county as well as of the 
official boards. In politics Professor Lugg gives an uncompromising 
allegiance to the Republican party, and his religious faith is 
indicated in the fact that both he and his wife are devoted members of 
the Presbyterian church, in which he was superintendent of the Sunday 
school for several years, while at the present time he is an elder in 
the Parkston church and has charge of the Bible class in its Sunday 
school. Fraternally, he is identified with Parkston Lodge, No. 99, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also with the adjunct 
organization, the Daughters of Rebekah, as well as the local lodge of 
the Home Guardians.  

	On Christmas day of the year 1894 was solemnized the marriage of 
Professor Lugg to Miss Mary A. Parrott, of Dubuque county, Iowa, and 
they are the parents of two children, Laura A. and Esther A.