Henry A. Hughes
Phoenix
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

Dr. Henry A. Hughes is one of the oldest representatives of the 
medical profession in Phoenix, having practiced in this city 
since 1886 or for a period of thirty years.  He was born in 
Mahoning County Ohio, November 12, 1848 and is a son of 
Mordecai B. and Ann (Adams) Hughes, both of whom were 
natives of Virginia but at an early day removed to Ohio.  
The Hughes family is of Scotch and Welch descent and was 
founded in Virginia in colonial days.  Representatives of 
the name served in the Revolutionary War, aiding in winning 
American independence. Mordecai . Hughes was also a physician, 
devoting his life to the practice of medicine and surgery.

When comparatively young, Henry A. Hughes left home and made 
his way to Missouri but in 1870 became a resident of Texas.  
During the period spent in that state he resolved to make the 
practice of medicine his life and attended the Louisville 
Medical College from which he was graduated with the class 
of 1875.  He has since done considerable post-graduate work, 
thus keeping in touch with the advanced thought and progress 
of the profession.  In 1881 he pursued a postgraduate course 
in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia and at 
different times was a student in the University of New 
York and in the Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore 
Maryland.  For thirteen years, following his graduation 
he continued in active practice in Texas.  In an early day 
he did nearly all the surgical work in the Salt River Valley 
as in 1886 he came to Phoenix where he has since remained.  
He served as superintendent of the insane asylum and was 
honored with election as the second president of the Arizona 
Medical Association, which he assisted in organizing.  

In 1873 Dr. Hughes was united in marriage to Miss Mary Inge, 
a native of Texas and they are the parents of eight children, 
five of whom are yet living: Dr. Coit I; Bettie Damron; Erile 
Garner, Blanche Summers and Dr. Henry A. Jr.

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