FIRST GENERATION


1. George Julian BUGBEE SR. was born on Aug 28 1876 in Benton County, In. He died on Mar 29 1944 in Chicago, IL. He was a graduate of Ind, University and was, with the exception of two intervals, engaged in public school work from 1897 until 1929. He was a private in Co. 1, of the 161st Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American war in 1898-1899. Upon the entry of the United States into World War 1 he entered the Officers Training Camp at Fort Snelling Minnesota. At the close of the war he was a Captain of Field Artillery. He was (1937) a Colonel in the U.S.Army Field Artillery Reserve.








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