On this day in Duluth in 1848, future Duluth Mayor Trevanion W. Hugo was born at Bodinnoc, Cornwall, England, and grew up in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied to be an engineer. He became a marine engineer on the great lakes, work that brought him to Duluth by 1878. He moved his family to the Zenith City in 1881 to take a job as the chief engineer of Grain Elevator B. In 1890 Hugo was elected alderman (similar to a city councilor) representing the Fourth Ward and was president of Duluth’s Common Council for eight years. He became mayor in 1900 and served on the Duluth Canal Bridge Commission, which brought Duluth the Aerial Transfer Bridge in 1905. In 1921 he stepped in to complete the term of Mayor Clarence Magney, who had resigned so he could run for a district judgeship. After his temporary Mayorship, Hugo refused a request to run for mayor. He died just two years later, in 1923, of complications with influenza. Hugo belonged to Duluth’s Commercial Club and Kitchi Gammi Club and was a prominent member of the Odd Fellows and Masons, said to be a “large contributor to Masonic Literature.”
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