ALLEN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: HUGHES, Kent Worley (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, Page 415

        KENT WORLEY HUGHES, judge of the Court of Appeals of the Third
District of Ohio, is a resident of Lima, and was born in that city.
        His father was Charles M. Hughes, who was born in Allen County,
Ohio, in 1833. He educated himself for the law, and during the Civil was
was captain of Company H. of the Eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
After the war he served as prosecuting attorney, was judge of the Probate
Court of Allen County, and then became judge of the Common Pleas Court. He
died January 10, 1892. Judge C. M. Hughes married Nancy Worley, who was
born at Piqua, Ohio, April 8, 1842, and lives with her daughter, Mrs. Belle
Steckel, at Bloomfield, Iowa.
        Kent Worley Hughes was reared and acquired his early education in
Lima, and was a student in Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania,
until June, 1893. Returning home, he took up the study of law in the
offices of W. H. Leete at Lima, continuing his education in the Law
Department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in June,
1896, and in the same month was admitted to the Ohio bar. In a busy law
practice that came to him in a few years he found time for an expression of
his public spirit in various ways, but was never a candidate for an
important office until 1916, when he was elected for an unexpired term as
judge of the Court of Appeals in the Third District, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge Michael Donnelly. In November, 1918, he was
elected for the full term of six years, and in 1924 was candidate for
reelection. He is a democrat in national politics. Mr. Hughes, as a young
man became a member of Company C of the Second Ohio Infantry, and was with
that unit of the National Guard for seven years before the Spanish-American
war. In that war he served with Company C of the Second Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and after the war became captain of Company K of the Second Ohio
Infantry, National Guard, serving with that rank for three years. Judge
Hughes is a member of all the Masonic bodies at Lima, is also affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. He is a member of the Church of Christ.
        He married at Greencastle, Indiana, in June, 1904, Miss Edith
Morris, daughter of Aaron H. and Anna (Harlan) Morris. Her father devoted
his active life to the ministry of the Church of Christ, and at one time
was superintendent of the Indiana Home for Sailors' and Soldiers' Orphans.
Judge and Mrs. Hughes have two children: Helen Ann Hughes, born In July,
1905, and Morris Kent Hughes, born in February, 1907.


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