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followed, the several Health Officers have carried on with excellent results, and a continuous
betterment of community health. Their work has been truly a fair vindication for the “citified
ideas” which cost Dr. Irons the opportunity to succeed as a practicing physician in Fulton County.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, February 25, 1936]
PUCKEY HUDDLE SETTLEMENT [Rochester Township]
Located on corner of 800E and 200N.
Some time before 1900 there was a store in Puckey Huddle.
Children attended Lakeview one room school, which was also sometimes called Puckey
Huddle, not the same Puckey Huddle on Old Fort Wayne Road.
Puckey/Pucky Huddle Settlement was not really a town but a settlement, consisting of
four or five cabins at the corner of 800E and 200N. The cabins originally were all built by
members of the Bryant family. Willie Bryant was called the “Governor of Pucky Huddle.”
Children attended Lakeview one-room school and sometimes it was called Pucky Huddle too, but
that was confusing because there was a school named Pucky Huddle in Rochester township on the
old Fort Wayne road, now George Thompson’s house.
Loren and Ann Sheetz, publishers of The Akron News, lived in Pucky Huddle over 20
years and had a sign in their yard: Pucky Huddle Pop. 4.
They owned an airplane which they called Pucky Huddle Airline. Loren’s father recalled
hearing when he was a boy that there used to be a store in Pucky Huddle (before 1900).
Today Leon Lunsford is called the Mayor of Pucky Huddle.
[Bigfoot and Pucky Huddle, Shirley Willard, Fulton Co Folks, Vol. 2, Willard]
PUGH, ALBERT G. [Rochester, Indiana]
See: Rochester Bands
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ALBERT G. PUGH (Biography)
A newspaper history of Rochester would certainly be incomplete without a biography of
Albert G. PUGH, the oldest newspaper man in this section of the state. He commenced life for
himself as a printer 35 years ago and is at a case on the Sentinel today. During all of the time from
1861 to the present, except three years in the war of the rebellion and one year in the restaurant
business, he has been with the Sentinel in the capacities of compositor, publisher, foreman, and
editor. He has always been at his post of duty early and late, and seems as much of a necessary
fixture of the office as the power press and the subscription list. He married Miss Lida KITT and
they own a home on Fulton avenue.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]
PUGH, BARBRA T. [Rochester, Indiana]
FULTON COUNTY GIRL IS AUTHOR
The SENTINEL editor has received a book entitled the “Chronicles of a Country School
Teacher” as a gift from Al S. Pugh, of Oak Park, Illinois. The author is Barbra T. Pugh, who is an
Indiana girl and at one time resided in Fulton county. She was a daughter-in-law of David Pugh,
well known thru Fulton county and a niece of the late Al A. Pugh, one time editor of the
SENTINEL, and later emp loyed here for years. The story is one with an Indiana setting thruout
and some of the scenes were laid partly in Fulton county. The editor has already started reading
the book and it gives promise of ranking with “The Hoosier School Master” and other well known
pieces of literature by state authors.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, November 7, 1919]