The store was originally opened by A. W. Lugg as a “department store.” He took in Mark Seely as a junior partner and than sold it to Mark and relocated 11 miles west to Knoxville, PA. By 1920 it was a drug store and dry goods store. Mark is on the right. I think, but can’t be sure, that the customer is Henry Goodrich.
Mark was a 1st cousin of my maternal grandfather. Henry was the father of my maternal grandmother. Mark’s daughter, Lena, was the widow of Henry’s son, David.
I was thinking about how to describe my mother. I think of her as, in many ways, an Edwardian lady But the first words that came to mind were “strong character.” She had a strogn sense of duty — especially duty to the community. She exercised that by decades in the PTA – including state level office and other organizations. She taught in public schools (elementary & HS), innday School, and was active in Presbyterian Women’s organization She was proud of her early American heritage, of early setlers in MA, CT & New Netherlands and of her DAR membership. That meant a lot to her, so I was proud of her when I learned that she resigned in protest when the DAR refused to rent their concert hall to Marian Anderson.