Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-04
EXCELLING HIS ANCESTORS
How Huguenot Fights for France ana
the United States at the Same
Time
Special Correspondence Evening Leao.,

Special Correspondence Evening Ledo.
PARIS, May II.
nE HUGER It's an old Huguenot nan,
~ And to fight is bred in the bones !,
the men who bear it. Thereby hangs thh
tale.
George f, Tyler. 1873 South Fourth ,tr..
Philadelphia, is one of many well-knovs
Americans who have furnished young Dar.
iel Elliot Huger, of New York, with LETTER,
Of Introduction and Recommendation IA
everybody that is anybody in Paris. priy,,.
citizens, Government officials and last bh
not least, Doctor Groh, who has under nj,
wing aspirants for flying honors in N,
Lafayette squadron of aviators fighting an
Dattles IN the French army under the
American flag.
few weeks ago. young Huger who I,
twenty years old felt the call of the blooS
And after fortfyng himself with NOR,
credentials than would be by any mean,
needed, he took ship for France Here h,
is, in an aviation school in instruction ear,
TO earn his right as a pilot and get at N,
Boche, riding in a fighting plane upou
which is painted the Stars and Stripes and
the profiled head of an American Indian
IL was quite natural thing to do for
Huger-this coming to France to fight for
her and at the same time and in the sam,
1ight battle for the ideals of his NATIVE
land
In l777 Edouard de Huger embarked
at Bordeaux with General Lafayette 10
tight under the tricolor I'm the cause a,
American freedom. He fought a good fight
was wounded and recovered to see ths
victorious day at Yorktown, settling after.
ward IN South Carolina, where in the time
decreed in Gods record, he died.
Ninety years afterward Colonel Lynch
Prioleau Huger, the de" having been soms
where in nearly century dropped from the
name, the young son of distinguish
south Carolina family of French Huguenot
origin, whose family records traced in direct
line from the confrere of Lafayette, enlisted
in the Confederate army. There he fought
with honor, and with honor bowed TO the
Union. In 1870, still young man, he came
10 the France of his ancestors and fought
IN the losing fight against the PrussianS
with peace, he returned to the South Caro-.
INA home, still young in heart and
strength In 1898 with the gray Of time In
his hair. he listened to McKinley's call
and fought under the Stars and Stripes 10
cuba. From this little war he emerged un.
scathed as he had in the two others OF
greater moment and in due time died peace.
fully in his bed, as had his ancestor.
ana now his grandson, of the same line
and the same blood, imbued with the same
IDEALS, comes to France fresh from brok.
er's office in New York, to fight for both
france and the United States. He is like.
~ boy with fighting CLEAN in his eye
instructors say he will make one real av.
ator. In less than sixty days, it is promised
from his aptitude, he will be on the job
where, If all signs count, he'll add to the
family record.
Young Huger lives at 206 West Ninety.
second street, New York His mother Is
Mrs. Theodore Reese. His father was the
late Colonel Lynch p. Huger, the son OF
his fighting father of the same identical
name and title, who saw service in three
wars. The boy was born in Palisades. ~ "
went 10 military school in Randolph, Va
later enlisting in the United States civilian
navy corps, where he made a Glass A
record as sailor. When the war broke
out he took a course of training at an
aviation school, but did not sail at once
through family objections Now having
oVerruied them, he is wearing the leather
In little time he will put one over" on
ooth his fighting ancestors. since at one
and the same time he will be placing bis
young life on the altar of the freedom Of
France and the freedom, too, of the United
States