Plumas-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Hughes, Thomas 1830 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

   THOMAS HUGHES.—Mr. Hughes is the son of Richard and Mary (Jones) Hughes, and
was born in Wales, May 13, 1830. In his boyhood he followed gardening, and at
the age of seventeen emigrated to the United States and settled at East Dennis,
Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. There he lived until 1854, when he came to San
Francisco, and engaged in gardening in what is now the heart of the city. In
1855 he was mining on Rush creek. In 1857 he mined at Soda bar, on the east
branch, and also opened a store and public house, which he kept until 1868. In
the autumn of 1869 he purchased from M. D. Smith the Meadow valley hotel and
ranch of 320 acres, on which he now resides. Mr. Hughes is now in the dairying
business, has thirty cows, and makes 2,000 pounds of butter annually. He is the
postmaster at Meadow valley. Mr. Hughes was quarried April 24, 1854, to
Elizabeth Pary, by whom he had two children; viz., Brainard B., born November,
18, 1857; Mary L., born August 18, 1859, at Soda bar, now the wife of E. E.
Philps of Meadow valley, and the mother of one child, Verbenia, born March 6,
1881. Mr. Hughes is a member of Quincy Lodge No. 88, I. O. O. F. He comes of a
long-lived family, and will doubtless live to a good old age.



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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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