Gertrude Dugan interview, part 2

Gertrude Dugan interview, part 2

Gertrude Dugan was born at home at 69 James Street in 1914. Her father, William James Dugan, born in Basking Ridge, was employed at the Foote Estate as a driver for Robert Foote. He married the girl next door, Mary Jane, and together they had four children: Gertrude, William, Paul, and Joseph. Her Irish born fraternal grandfather, also William James, came to America in 1848. He took care of the pedigreed hunting dogs at the Foote Estate and lived with Gertrude's family. Her grand-uncle Thomas was a foreman at the Foote Estate as well. Her mother was a dressmaker and sewed or knit most of her family’s clothing. Gertrude's parents often played cards at home with cousins who also worked at the Foote Estate. She recalled Little Dublin as a stable, quiet neighborhood whose residents did not move away much. Gertrude was a competent and trustworthy teenager; in her teens she was a bookkeeper for a small store on Madison Street and when the owners went on vacation, she ran the store for them. She was a bank clerk in Morristown for 21 years, and retired in 1979. She was a graduate of the Bayley High School class of 1931 and was a member of the Church of the Assumption and its Rosary Society. She lived in the house where she was born until her death in 2007.

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