Pueblo County, History of Colorado, BIOS: HUGHES, FRANK P (published 1918)
***********************************************************************
USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any
format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons.
Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain
the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative
of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof
of this consent.  The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb 
Archives to store the file permanently for free access.
***********************************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643
January 25, 2000
***********************************************************************

"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II


p. 460



FRANK P. HUGHES.

The time of the arrival of Frank P. Hughes at Boone antedates 
that of all other settlers of the locality and for an extended period 
he was identified with farming and stock raising interests but now 
rents his land, from which he derives a substantial Income. He was born 
in St. Louis, Missouri, on the 11th of July, 1858, a son of G. B. and 
Margaret Hughes. The father was born in Virginia and was of Welsh 
descent, while the mother was born in Pennsylvania and came of German 
ancestry. G. B. Hughes was a butcher by trade and carried on business 
along that line in order to provide for his family, with whom he 
removed to Colorado in the year 1873, settling two miles east of Boone. 
He afterward engaged in the butchering business up to the time of his 
death, which occurred in 1899, while his wife survived only until 1901. 
They had a family of seven children.

Frank P. Hughes, who was the fifth in order of birth, pursued his 
education in Clarksville, Missouri, and for a short time attended 
school in Colorado. He then engaged in handling horses and cattle and 
for a long period devoted his attention to the raising of live stock. 
In 1917, however, he sold his cattle and now rents his farm. He met 
with fair success and is today in possession of a comfortable 
competence that supplies him with a good annual income. He is the 
oldest pioneer living in this section. The railroad had not been built 
at the time of the arrival of the family and there were no fences to 
mark off boundaries over the broad prairies. It was a wild country in 
which the work of progress and improvement had scarcely been begun. Mr. 
Hughes and his family were among those who planted the seeds of 
civilization in this part of the western frontier and through all the 
intervening period he has been connected with the further development 
and improvement of the region, rejoicing in what has been accomplished 
and at all times doing his full share to promote public progress.

In February, 1893, Mr. Hughes was married to Miss Bertha McGur 
and their children are Charles. Arthur and Frank G. In his political 
views Mr. Hughes is a democrat and keeps well informed on the questions 
and issues of the day but has never been an office seeker. Fraternally 
he is connected with the Woodmen of the World.

Practically his entire life has been spent in this locality, for 
he was only a youth of fifteen years at the time of the removal of the 
family to Colorado. He is well known in this region, where his memory 
forms a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive 
present.