Evening journal., 1916-07-22
brothers parted
IN CHILDHOOD, MEET
Eugene TeviS and Archie
Dugan See Each Other
After 80 Years
WILL SPEND TEN
DAYS SIGHTSEEING

After a lapse of thirty years. Eu'
gene Tevis, of No. 2O7 Connell street,
this city, and Archie Dugan, Of Brook
field, Ind, brothers, met for the first
tine. The meeting was affecting and
the two brothers. now that they have
met each other, no doubt will keep
in constant touch with one another
from now on. The first thing Mr..
Dugan and Mr.. Tevis have to do when
talking with friends is to explain why
their names are different. The explain
alton is simple enough. Mr.. Dugan,
at the age of two, was adopted by a
man named Dugan, whose name he
took upon the death Of his mother,
while Mr. Tevis remained with his
father
Mr.. Dugan arrived in this city from
Indiana on the 706 train at the Penn
sylvania station last night. Mr.. Tevis
was there to meet him and the only
way the brothers knew each other
was because Mr.. Dugan had told his
brother that he would wear a light
gray suit. AS soon as the sleeper
from the west pulled into the station
Mr.. Dugan jumped from the train and
was greeted by his long lost brother
Hello. Archie" said Mr. Tevis,
this is Eugene"
"Well. Eugene" answered Archie
I'D a known you a mile on
And so the long delayed greetings
between the brothers were eX'
changed.
Other introductions were in the or
der of the day as both brothers have
married in the interim and Mrs. Du
gan and Mrs Tevis had to be intro
duced. There was a happy reunion at
the Connell street home last night
and today Mr.. and Mrs. Tevis and
Mr.. and Mrs. Dugan will leave on a
motor trip that will take them to Bal
timore. Washington, Philadelphia
Mount. Vernon, Gettysburg, Valley
Forge and other places of interest
Mr.. and Mrs. Dugan will leave fol
their home in Indiana, after a ten
days visit here.
The history Of the separation OF
the brothers and their meeting again
reads like a Charles Dickens story
The boys" were born in Kentucky
Mr.. Tevis is three years older than
his brother and when his brother
was two years old their mother died
and Archie was adopted by a man
named Dugan, who took the boy tc
Indiana. while Mr.. Tevis. after he
had grown up in the West came East
and established himself in the photo
graphic business. He is now pro-
prietor of the Royal Studio with Of
fees in Market street. Mr.. Dugar
remained in the Middle West and IL
now connected with a large papel
concern at Brookheld.
Recently Tevis was mailing a mum
Der of holiday cards and thought tha
he would send one out into the worl'
70 hunt his brother. little thinking i
would find him. He mailed il Il
Felicity, Indiana. where they haG
lived when they were boys anC
friends forwarded it until it reached
Dugan at Brookfield. The only In
scription was Tevis' address and the
line. From a faraway friend" DugaI
answered the card. and the result was
the happy gathering of last night.
Mr.. Tevis says that his brother
and he look very much alike, although
his brother is a little taller. Today
they will pose for their pictures IL
Mr. Tevis studio. Mr.. Tevis said las
night that finding a brother who il
a way had never existed was verl
much the same as getting none!
from home