Bugbee, Lucius H, Dd

Bugbee, Lucius H., D.D.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Gowanda, N.Y., November 25, 1830. He was converted in boyhood, licensed as an exhorter at eighteen, graduated from Genesee College in 1853 and Amherst College in 1854, became teacher in Cooperstown Academy in 1855, joined the Upper Iowa Conference in 1857, and was appointed president of its university; in 1860 was transferred to the Rock River Conference, and served several important stations; in 1865 became president of the Female College, Evanston, Illinois; in 1868 of that in Cincinnati; in 1875 of Allegheny. College; being then transferred to the Pittsburgh Conference, in which, in 1882, he was appointed to Monongahela city, but his health failed, and he died at Geneva, N.Y., July 28, 1883. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1884, page 323; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.