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G. W. DUGAN, farmer and tobacco dealer, P. O. Higginsport. This gentleman is a brother to Jesse Dugan, mentioned in J. C. Dugan’s sketch, and we will here place upon record the births of his brothers and sisters in the order in which they occurred. The parents were Joseph and Debornh (Norman) Dugan. Of their children, Jesse, the first, was born November 30, 1794; Elizabeth, August 21, 1796, married Adam Foor, and died, and he married her sister Deborah; Basil, born April 23, 1799; Joseph, September 9, 1801; Debornh; William, January 23, 1807; Ivy, April 3, 1809; Benjamin, November 30, 1811; Maria, September 4, 1813; Jackson, October 22, 1815 ; Perry, April 21, 1818, and G. Washington, March 1, 1821, in Pleasant Township, where he grew to manhood and acquired his education in the common schools of that day. He has been a life-long farmer and trader, and since March 1, 1863, a resident of Higginsport. Since 1856, he has handled tobacco, which resulted profitably. He owns a good farm under fair cultivation and improvements. He is a well-to-do farmer and business man; having started with but little capital, he has made life a success. His marriage was celebrated April 11, 1844, with Harriet, daughter of John Boles; she was born November 21, 1820, in Brown County, where she has ever since resided. Her education was acquired in the common schools. She and husband were the parents of nine children, of whom four are now living, viz., Joseph P., born January 14, 1851; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Glaze, born January 31, 1853; Allen E., born May 14, 1856, and Eve E., born December 20, 1857. The other children all died in early life. The parents of Mrs. Dugan were John and Elizabeth (Shafer) Boles, both natives of Pennsylvania, where they married, and had born to them two children, when they came to Ohio and settled in what is now Brown County, when it was yet a wilderness. In this county both died, he about 1844, and she November 14, 1860. Of their nine children, five are now living.