Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. pp. 722-723.

ASBURY DUGLAY, senior member of the law firm of Duglay & Silver, of Bluffton, is a native of Allen County, Indiana, born on a farm near Churubusco, January 10, 1859, a son of Joseph S. and Margaret (Avis) Duglay, the father a native of France, and the mother born at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, of German parentage. Our subject was reared on the home farm in Allen County, and at the age of fifteen years his father allowed him to do for himself, when he began teaching school, he received the rudiments of an education in the district schools and at a select school at Churubusco. In 1875 he entered Fort Wayne College at Fort Wayne, Indiana. from which institution he graduated in the class of 1879, he having defrayed his college expenses by teaching in the schools of Allen, Whitley and Noble counties, Indiana, during the winter terms. In 1880 he began the study of law in the law office of Robertson & Harper at Fort Wayne, where he remained as a student one year, when he entered the law department of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, and graduated in 1882. In April of that year he came to Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana, and began the practice of law with J. J. Todd, under the firm name of Todd & Duglay. In April, 1885, he retired from the firm and became associated with Winfield S. Silver, when the present law firm of Duglay & Silver was formed. Mr. Duglay was married at Bluffton August 21, 1883, to Miss Julia Lusk, a daughter of Mrs. Mary Frees, of Bluffton. She was born in Wells County, Indiana, reared and educated in the schools of Bluffton, and before her marriage taught in the schools of Wells County. Mr. and Mrs. Duglay are the parents of one son, named Hugh. In politics Mr. Duglay affiliates with the Republican party. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a steward. Joseph S. Duglay, the father of our subject, immigrated to America when eighteen years of age, and first located in the State of New York. He removed to Indiana in 1840, locating in La Grange, where he was married. He remained at La Grange until 1848, when he removed to Allen County, where he worked at his trade, that of a blacksmith, until 1868. In 1858 he purchased a farm in Allen County, in the vicinity of Churubusco, where he followed farming until his death in April, 1882, at the age of sixty-six years, he having been killed by being thrown from his buggy. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for many years a licensed local preacher. The mother of our subject was also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died in Allen County in February, 1878, at the age of fifty-six years. They were the parents of seven children, four of whom are living and are residents of Indiana