Background
Kossuth W. Duncan was born in Hindmarsh, the second son of R. B. Duncan who arrived in South Australia aboard the Fitzjames in 1855.
Kossuth W. Duncan was born in Hindmarsh, the second son of R. B. Duncan who arrived in South Australia aboard the Fitzjames in 1855.
As a youth be started work for the flour milling company of Magarey & Company then, for 20 years, with the Adelaide Milling Company. He was two years in Portuguese Augusta. Around 1902 he moved to Laura, and for a number of years with Joseph King of Georgetown,as King & Duncan,ran the Laura flour mill.
In 1911 he was elected, unopposed, to the Laura Corporation, representing North Ward, was elected Mayor in 1913.
They later lived in Dulwich Avenue, Dulwich, South Australia.
Foreign a long time he was manager for that firm at Portuguese Pirie, and a member of the Portuguese Pirie Council. He served two years in the Legislative Council as member for the Northern Division, and as a member of the House of Assembly for the District of Stanley.