Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Hughes, John Aloysius October 25, 1860 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHN ALOYSIUS HUGHES, Master Car Builder. A member of a group of technical 
experts who were employed by the late B. F. Dillingham when he was 
constructing the Oahu Railway & Land Co., John A. Hughes, master car builder 
for the system, has been with the company since 1889, when, at Mr. 
Dillingham’s invitation, he came from San Francisco to Honolulu to join the 
organization. Mr. Hughes is one of a few men who have been with the railway 
company continuously since its first days. During the subsequent years he has 
designed and supervised the construction of practically all of the cars used 
on the railroad.
  Mr. Hughes has been an active Republican and a member of the party since its 
organization in Hawaii, following annexation of the islands by the United 
States, and was a member of its first executive committee. He served one term 
as representative in the legislature in 1907 and was the father of a public 
lands bill which was intended to carry out the principles of the 
rehabilitation movement for the restoration of agricultural lands to native 
Hawaiians and resident citizens. Another bill sponsored by Mr. Hughes provided 
for the return from Molokai to Honolulu of the non-infected male children of 
leprous parents. He is president in 1925 of the Columbus Welfare Association, 
an educational and charitable institution supported by the community, and for 
a number of years was a trustee of Palama Settlement. During the revolution of 
1893 Mr. Hughes was a member of the Citizens’ Guard.
  Born in Ireland, Oct. 25, 1860, the son of William Hughes, a California 
pioneer, and Ann (Collins) Hughes, Mr. Hughes had an interesting career before 
coming to America. Educated in the common schools of Ireland, he later learned 
navigation, receiving his instruction from J. P. Holland, inventor of the 
submarine, then a Christian Brother. He worked as an apprentice in boat and 
ship building, making his first sea voyage as ship’s carpenter from Liverpool 
to Burmah in 1879, and subsequent voyages as third and then second officer of 
vessels visiting the East Indies, Australia, North and South America.
  Arriving at San Francisco early in 1885 he left the sea and was employed by 
the San Francisco Bridge Co., then the largest railroad contractors in 
California, until his departure for Hawaii.
  Mr. Hughes and Katherine Matthews (deceased) were married at San Francisco 
in April, 1888. They were the parents of four children, William Charles, John 
Gerald (deceased), Irene Kathleen and Jerome O’Neill Hughes. Mr. Hughes is an 
Elk, a member and organizer of the Young Men’s Institute, and a member of 
Chiefs of Hawaii and the Commercial and Ad Clubs.


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