Orton L. Duggan was born in Sevier County on May 9, 1996, the son of Tennessee state Sen. Wilson L Duggan and Hanna Beaman Duggan. He attended the Belmont School and Murphy College in Sevier County and graduated from Maryville College. He was a teacher in the Belmont School in 1904.
After college graduation he started a scouting career as a scoutmaster in Detroit in 1912. He was active in scouting in Chicago; Saginaw, Michigan; Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Texas before coming to Knoxville in 1936.
He organized the Great Smoky Mountain Council which includes 18 East Tennessee Counties. When he came to Knoxville in 1936, it was the Knoxville Council, covering only troops in the city. He also started Camp Pellissippi on Norris Lake. He helped build and supervised the building of the camp there. In 1951 he was voted Scout Executive Emeritus for life by the council executive board.
Mr. Duggan retired as a scout executive in 1951 and that same year he and Mrs. Duggan built a home on land which originally was a part of his great-grandfather Robert Duggan's land grant. The land had been continuously in the family since 1784. As of 2011, Duggan descendants still live on this land.
In 1957, six years after he retired, Mr. Duggan was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, one of the highest given in the scout program. For several years after he retirement, he worked at a Gatlinburg motel, thoroughly enjoying the work since it placed him in contact with people from all over the nation.
On August 12, 1962, Orton and Frances Clemens Duggan celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They and their children – Orton L. Duggan, Jr., Robert Duggan, David Duggan and Ruth Duggan Hoglan (Mrs. Charles B.) and their grandchildren celebrated together. (This biography taken from an article by Beulah Duggan Linn, Sevier County historian, published in the Sevierville newspaper, 1976)
After college graduation he started a scouting career as a scoutmaster in Detroit in 1912. He was active in scouting in Chicago; Saginaw, Michigan; Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Texas before coming to Knoxville in 1936.
He organized the Great Smoky Mountain Council which includes 18 East Tennessee Counties. When he came to Knoxville in 1936, it was the Knoxville Council, covering only troops in the city. He also started Camp Pellissippi on Norris Lake. He helped build and supervised the building of the camp there. In 1951 he was voted Scout Executive Emeritus for life by the council executive board.
Mr. Duggan retired as a scout executive in 1951 and that same year he and Mrs. Duggan built a home on land which originally was a part of his great-grandfather Robert Duggan's land grant. The land had been continuously in the family since 1784. As of 2011, Duggan descendants still live on this land.
In 1957, six years after he retired, Mr. Duggan was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, one of the highest given in the scout program. For several years after he retirement, he worked at a Gatlinburg motel, thoroughly enjoying the work since it placed him in contact with people from all over the nation.
On August 12, 1962, Orton and Frances Clemens Duggan celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They and their children – Orton L. Duggan, Jr., Robert Duggan, David Duggan and Ruth Duggan Hoglan (Mrs. Charles B.) and their grandchildren celebrated together. (This biography taken from an article by Beulah Duggan Linn, Sevier County historian, published in the Sevierville newspaper, 1976)
Orton L. Duggan was born in Sevier County on May 9, 1996, the son of Tennessee state Sen. Wilson L Duggan and Hanna Beaman Duggan. He attended the Belmont School and Murphy College in Sevier County and graduated from Maryville College. He was a teacher in the Belmont School in 1904.
After college graduation he started a scouting career as a scoutmaster in Detroit in 1912. He was active in scouting in Chicago; Saginaw, Michigan; Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Texas before coming to Knoxville in 1936.
He organized the Great Smoky Mountain Council which includes 18 East Tennessee Counties. When he came to Knoxville in 1936, it was the Knoxville Council, covering only troops in the city. He also started Camp Pellissippi on Norris Lake. He helped build and supervised the building of the camp there. In 1951 he was voted Scout Executive Emeritus for life by the council executive board.
Mr. Duggan retired as a scout executive in 1951 and that same year he and Mrs. Duggan built a home on land which originally was a part of his great-grandfather Robert Duggan's land grant. The land had been continuously in the family since 1784. As of 2011, Duggan descendants still live on this land.
In 1957, six years after he retired, Mr. Duggan was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, one of the highest given in the scout program. For several years after he retirement, he worked at a Gatlinburg motel, thoroughly enjoying the work since it placed him in contact with people from all over the nation.
On August 12, 1962, Orton and Frances Clemens Duggan celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They and their children – Orton L. Duggan, Jr., Robert Duggan, David Duggan and Ruth Duggan Hoglan (Mrs. Charles B.) and their grandchildren celebrated together. (This biography taken from an article by Beulah Duggan Linn, Sevier County historian, published in the Sevierville newspaper, 1976)
After college graduation he started a scouting career as a scoutmaster in Detroit in 1912. He was active in scouting in Chicago; Saginaw, Michigan; Denver, Colorado and Dallas, Texas before coming to Knoxville in 1936.
He organized the Great Smoky Mountain Council which includes 18 East Tennessee Counties. When he came to Knoxville in 1936, it was the Knoxville Council, covering only troops in the city. He also started Camp Pellissippi on Norris Lake. He helped build and supervised the building of the camp there. In 1951 he was voted Scout Executive Emeritus for life by the council executive board.
Mr. Duggan retired as a scout executive in 1951 and that same year he and Mrs. Duggan built a home on land which originally was a part of his great-grandfather Robert Duggan's land grant. The land had been continuously in the family since 1784. As of 2011, Duggan descendants still live on this land.
In 1957, six years after he retired, Mr. Duggan was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, one of the highest given in the scout program. For several years after he retirement, he worked at a Gatlinburg motel, thoroughly enjoying the work since it placed him in contact with people from all over the nation.
On August 12, 1962, Orton and Frances Clemens Duggan celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. They and their children – Orton L. Duggan, Jr., Robert Duggan, David Duggan and Ruth Duggan Hoglan (Mrs. Charles B.) and their grandchildren celebrated together. (This biography taken from an article by Beulah Duggan Linn, Sevier County historian, published in the Sevierville newspaper, 1976)
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