Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Samuel AUGE'
March 12, 1879
Samuel Auge (sic) died this morning at 5:25 o'clock, at his residence on South High street. He had been unwell for several weeks, but moved about the house until last evening, when attendants were obliged to carry him to bed.
He was born in Pennsbury township, Chester County, in August 1801. His father was Bennett Auge, who married a Miss Mendenhall. Bennett Auge was a Frenchman, who had accompanied, some time in the eighteenth century, his uncle as his clerk to Santo Domingo. During the insurrections on that island in the latter part of the eighteenth century he was forced to flee for refuge to the United States. Samuel, in his early years, lived with a farmer named Pyle, in Pennsbury township, and at the age of 16 was apprenticed to Samuel Harlan, a hatter, who manufactured at Hamorton. After learning his trade he worked as a journeyman for a short time, coming to West Chester in 1826 to superintend Mr. Hannum's shop, which had recently started in the old building which stood at the northeast corner of Gay and Darlington streets, then the "Edge of Town", and the same building which was opened the first grocery store. In a few months he succeeded his employer, being enabled to do so through the aid of the good-hearted farmer and his wife, with whom he had passed his boyhood. His first wife was Jane Mattson, of Delaware County. From this marriage came three children, two of them are living. A few years after the death of this wife, he married Sarah Darlington, daughter of Stephen Darlington, of Pocopson Township, who survives him. In 1837 he purchased a property on Gay street, between Church and High, of the assignees of Carpenter Jefferis, to which he removed his business. In 1868 he had the building remodeled, afte which he accompanied his son to Europe, sending home very interesting sketches of his travels. In 1874, bending under the weight of many industrious years, he sold his establishment to Wm W. Heed, and retired into private life.
Mr. Auge was a man of blameless character. He owed his business success to his constant application, though he himself said that it was mostly due to the faithfulness of his wife. No business man was better known to Chester Countians, and his store, the pioneer establishment of the town, is familiar to all.
American Republican
October 8, 1827
MARRIED- In Chester, on the 4th inst., by Samuel Smith, Esq, Mr. Samuel Augee, of West Chester, to Miss JANE, daughter of Aaron Matson, Dec'd of Willistown.
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