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The Hugo Historical Commission is currently contesting the claim that Hugo was named after Duluth mayor, Trevanion Hugo. The Postmaster of Hugo at the time, Michael Houle, was already using the name Hugo for the post office in 1882, when Trevanion Hugo was leaving Canada. The most quoted source for Trevanion Hugo is from Upham's book of Minnesota place names, which is rife with errors. Upham's source for Trevanion was from two local Masons - neither of which lived in Hugo, but were from Stillwater. Trevanion was a very high-level Mason. The publisher of the Duluth Zenith City Press and local author, Tony Dierckins, dropped the line from Hugo's biography about the city being named after him, as "I found no further information linking Trevanion Hugo with Hugo, MN, and wondered why the town was named for him as those sources claimed. I have no issue removing that statement from his bio." The Hugo Historical Commission only seeks to remove the definitive claim of Trevanion Hugo and leave the naming of the town "uncertain", as the Washington County Historical Society now does.