From "History of North Washington" Published 1904
Transcibed by: Candy Grubb (candyg@theofficenet.com)
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ANDREW HUGHSON
	Andrew Hughson is one of the earliest settlers in the Colville
valley and is a worthy pioneer, a patriotic citizen and a good sub-
stantial man.  He was born in the north of Scotland on Shetland Isles,
on September 25, 1830 the son of Andrew and Sarah (Henry) Hughson,
natives also of Scotland, where they died in 1847 and 1871, respectively.
Or subject received a good education in his native place and worked 
for his father until nineteen, and then came to British Columbia.  This
was in 1850 and the next year he crossed to this valley.  He went to
Vancouver and four years later journeyed to California, remaining
four years.  Then Mr. Hughson returned to this valley and took his
present place, two miles south from where Colville is, as a homestead
and commenced the good work of developing.  He paid seventy-five dollars
for a little heifer and one hundred dollars for a cow and this was 
the beginning of his fine band of stock which he owned a few years
later.  In 1878 he had four hundred head and the next year he took a 
beef contract to furnish the government troops.  He bought land in 
addition to his homestead and put up vast quantities of hay and since
those early days has continued in the stock business.  When Mr. 
Hughson came here, there were but two white settlers and an officer
of the Hudson's Bay Company.  He has seen the growth and development
of this section until Stevens County is one of the leading counties of
Washington and already bids fair to be one of the greatest producers
in various lines of the northwest.  Mr. Hughson has a well improved
ranch, plenty of good hay land and a fine bunch of stock.  He has the
following brothers and sisters, Hugh, Robert, John, and Erasmus, all
deceased; Margaret Williamson; Henry, deceased; and Mary.  Mr. Hughson
is one of the stanch Democrats of the section and good service as 
county commissioner in 1873.  He is a man of capabilities as has been
shown in his successful career here and it is with pleasure that we are 
enabled to grant him representation in this volume.
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