LUKE LUGERS Luke Lugers, bookkeeper for B. L. Scott’s lumber business and planning mill at Holland, Ottawa County, Mich,, was born in Allegan County, Mich., on the 2d of February, 1853, and is a young man of superior ability. His father, Benjamin Lugers, was born in Holland, and there was reared and educated. Being a carpenter by trade, the father thought to better his condition financially by coming to the United States, and in 1848 crossed the ocean. He decided to locate in one of the northern tier of states, and Michigan was the one chosen. He settled in Allegan County, entered a tract of Government land, all wild, and began improving and clearing off the heavy timber. To the original tract he has since added forty acres, making eighty acres of excellent land. Like all the native Hollanders, he was thrifty and industrious, and succeeded in accumulating considerable means. He was married in this county to Miss Henrietta Brinkman, daughter of Henry Brinkman, and six children were born to this union, five of whom are still living: Henry, residing in Allegan County; Fanny, Mrs. Denuyl, of this county; Mrs. Van Zanten, who resides in this county; Benjamin, residing on the old home place; and our subject. Hannah, died at the age of twenty-eight years. The parents of the above-named children are still living and are much esteemed residents of Allegan County. The father is a member of the Reformed Church and is an active worker in the same. His son Luke, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Allegan County, Mich., and secured a good practical education in the district schools. Later he attended the Normal School at Otsego and Wayland, in Allegan County, and subsequently began teaching school, continuing this for seventeen years in that county, and nine years in the same school. He was unusually successful in that profession and was classed among the best educators of the county. On account of poor health he was obliged to leave the school, and in 1887 he came to Holland, where he accepted the position he now holds. He has discharged the duties of his position in a very capable and efficient manner and is an exceptional well-informed man. The happy domestic life of our subject began in the year 1878, when he was married to Miss Lucretia Ann Ellenboss, whose father was a native of Holland, but came to this country in the year 1848. Mr Ellenbos was one of the pioneers of this county and assisted in clearing the wilderness and making possible the pleasant homes of today. To Mr. and Mrs. Lugers were born three children, as follows: Benjamin James, Georgiana Helena and Henrietta Lucretia. Politically, Mr. Lugers is a Republican, and after he was twenty-one years of age he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, which position he filled in a very satisfactory manner for ten or twelve years. He was then elected Township Clerk, and held that position one year, after which he was elected Supervisor and was the incumbent of that office until he moved to Ottawa County, a period of five years. He was School Inspector a number of years while residing in Allegan County. In the spring of 1893 he was made Supervisor of Holland Township, this county, being elected by a majority of one hundred and forty-three votes. He is a member of the Reformed Church in Allegan County and is a deacon of the church. He has been Superintendent of the Sunday school and teacher in the same for many years, and is well posted on all Biblical subjects. He owns twenty-eight acres where he lives and two houses in Holland, but nearly all his time is given to the duties of his office. Mr. Lugers was reared in the woods and has witnessed the growth and improvements of the county in the last twenty years. He remembers when deer were plentiful and when Indians were seen almost every day.

Portrait & Biographical Record of Muskegon & Ottawa Counties, Michigan 1893, Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company

Transcriber: Charles Armstrong
Created: 6 May 2003
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