Biographical Sketch of H. H. Hughes, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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H. H. Hughes, General Agent for the St. Joseph & Des Moines Railroad,
one of the popular railroad agents in St. Joseph, and one who is de-
serving of more than a passing notice, is the subject of this sketch.
He was born in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, January 7, 1841, and 
there received his education and spent his boyhood days.  At the age
of eighteen, he became cashier in the Law and Fire Insurance Company
of London.  The duties of this important position he discharged 
creditably to himself and the satisfaction of his employers for ten
years.  At the same desk worked Mr. Charles Cushman, brother of Char-
lotte Cushman, America's favorite actress.  The lineage of the Hughes
family is traced back to the Norman conquest, as per De Brito Baron-
etage.  His father, William, was a barrister, and a son of the Rev.
Sir Robert Hughes, baronet.  In the spring of 1869, Mr. Hughes came
to the United States, taking up his abode in St. Joseph, Missouri,
and for five years was with George Olds, the General Freight Agent
for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad.  On 
November 1, 1878, he accepted his present position.  Few men in rail-
road circles stand higher or have a larger circle of appreciative 
acquaintances than Mr. Hughes.  He has been twice married.  First
to Miss Elizabeth Howell, daughter of Rev. H. Howell, an Episcopalian
minister of Hampshire, England.  By this union he had one daughter,
Beatrice.  Mrs. Hughes died in her native country.  His present wife
was formerly Miss P. H. Wilson, of London, England, whom he married
in 1869.

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