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Hughes, George Wartz

soldier, civil engineer, congressman, was born in 1806, in New York. In 1830 he was appointed a civil engineer in the general government, in which position he remained until 1838, when he was transferred to the corps of topographical engineers in the regular army. He resigned in 1851, and was made president of the Northern Central railroad. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-sixth congress. He served with distinction in the war with Mexico, receiving two brevets. He died Dec. 3, 1870, in West River, Md.