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From: Ray LaFever <>
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] George Dugan update
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:16:39 -0400
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Found on the Fulton site that Dugan died December 12, 1941, age 102.
He died in Roxbury and was buried in Kortright. The date you have for
the Binghamton Press article is off, I think. I found it for April
14, 1941.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Patricia H Coyle <> wrote:
> Glad to pass on.
>
> The Binghamton Press, Friday Evening, May 29, 1936, page 3 from
> http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html has an article on him along with a
> picture.  Headline reads:  "Delaware's Last Civil War Veteran To Be 102
> Tuesday".  A birthday party was planned for Tuesday at the Roxbury Masonic
> Temple.  Article reports that he was in good health at time of article and
> says he was born in County Down, Ireland 15-Apr-1839 and came to the U.S. in
> 1847.  Was in 17 battles and many minor skirmishes.  He enlisted at Hobart,
> and was assigned to Co. C, 51st regiment, New York volunteers, as indicated
> on the Ancestry site in my previous message.
>
> Another article with a different picture in The Binghamton Press, Monday
> Evening, April 14, 1941, page 19, headlined: "George Dugan Served Nearly
> Four Years".  This article states he was among the first to enlist in
> Delaware county joining the Shepard rifles, which apparently later became
> the 51st regiment and was one of the most active in the war.  At the time of
> this article, he was living with a son, John Dugan, on the highway between
> Roxbury and Grand Gorge.
>
> You probably already know this but, apparently another surviving Delaware
> Co. vet turned 97 on 3-Dec-1940 named Andrus Crabb.
>
> Also, sure you know that the Fulton website is great!!  There appears to be
> several more articles throughout the years on George in The Binghamton
> Press, as well as The Otsego Farmer, Cooperstown, NY.  I haven't read all of
> them.
>
> Pat Coyle
> Conklin, NY
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Ray LaFever <> wrote:
>
>> Thanks very much Pat.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Patricia H Coyle
>> <> wrote:
>> > Ancestry (Source Citation: Year: *1890*; Census Place: *Harpersfield,
>> > Delaware, New
>> > York*; Roll: *49*; Page: *1*; Enumeration District: *123*.) shows a
>> George
>> > Dugan in the 1890 Veteran's Schedules in Harpersfield:
>> >
>> > Rank - Private
>> > Company - C
>> > Regiment - 51 NY Inf
>> > Enlistment - Sept 1861
>> > Discharge - July 1865
>> > Length of Service - 3 years, 10 months
>> > Disability Incurred - Wounded in right leg, diarrhea
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> >
>> > Pat Coyle
>> > Conklin, NY
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ray LaFever <>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Just found two discharges recorded in Delaware County for George
>> >> Dugan, born in Ireland.  Of course, having a discharge recorded in the
>> >> county doesn't mean he was from the county at the time of the war -
>> >> the discharges were recorded 3 years after the end of the war.  But he
>> >> must have been in the county soon after the war.
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