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Huebschmann, Francis – Hughes, Felix T

Huebschmann, Francis

physician, was born April 19, 1817, in Weimar. He came to the United States in 1842, and settled in Milwaukee, where he resided He was presidential until his death. elector in 1848, a member of the city council and county supervisor from 1848 till 1867; and state senator in 1851-52, 1862, and 1871-72. During the civil war he entered the national service in 1862 as surgeon of the twenty-sixth Wisconsin volunteers. He died March 21, 1880, in Milwaukee, Wis.

Huffman, Samuel

clergyman, legislator, was born April 15, 1806, in Rockbridge county, Va. He was twice elected to the lower house of the Illinois legislature in 1844 and in 1846. He served as chaplain in the sixth Missouri volunteer infantry during the civil war.

Hufty, Jacob

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1809 to 1814.

Huger, Alfred

state senator, was born Nov. 1, 1788, in Charleston, S. C. He was a member of the South Carolina state senate for ten years; and was postmaster of his city. He died May 14, 1872, in Charleston, S. C.

Huger, Benjamin

congressman, was born Dec. 30, 1746, in Limerick Plantation, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1799 to 1805, and for a second term from 1815 to 1817.

Huger, Benjamin

soldier, was born in 1806, in Charleston, S. C. In 1861 he was made a brigadier-general in the confederate army. He died Dec. 7, 1877, in Charleston, S. C.

Huger, Daniel

congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1741, in Limerick Plantation, S. C. He was a member of the continental congress; and was a representative in the congress of the United States from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793.

He died July 1, 1799, in Charleston, S. C.

Huger, Daniel Elliot

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was a citizen of Charleston, S. C. He was a member of the legislature, state senate, and judge of her courts. He was a senator in congress from South Carolina from 1843 to 1846.

He died Aug. 21, 1854, on Sullivan's Island, S. C.

Huger, Thomas Bee

naval officer, was born July 12, 1820, in Charleston, S.

C. As lieutenant-commander in the confederate navy, he fought his vessel, the McCrae, a converted merchant steamer, when the national fleet under Farragut forced its way up to New Orleans, where he fell mortally wounded April 24, 1862.

Hughes, Charles

congressman, was born in Georgia. He settled in New York; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855. In 1862 he was appointed provostmarshal for the sixteenth district of New York.

Hughes, Daniel

banker, was born Dec. 6, 1847, near Liberty, Mo. He received his education in the country schools, and at the William Jewel college of Liberty, Mo.

He has attained success in financial affairs, and is the president of the First National bank of Liberty. Mr. Hughes has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state; and is a prominent member of various fraternal orders.

Hughes, Felix T

railroad president, was born Nov. 10, 1838, in Centerville, Ill. Since 1886 he has been president of the Keokuk and Western railroad.

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