Hudson, Robert Weir – Hughes, James M
Hudson, Robert Weir
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 31, 1856, in Mississippi. In 1870 he moved to Texas; studied law; and was county attorney in 1876-77. In 1890 he became a member of the democratic state executive committee of Texas; and in 1891-92 was district judge of the thirty-sixth judicial district of Texas. He has been the vice-grand dictator of the grand lodge of Texas, Knights of Honor; and is prominent in various fraternal orders.
Hudson, Silas A
diplomat, was a citizen of Iowa. In 1869 he was appointed minister resident to Guatemala, where he remained until 1872.
Hudson, Thomas Jefferson
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1844, in Boone county, Ind. He received his education at the common schools and the Wabash college. He has been three times mayor of Fredonia, Kan.; three times district attorney; one time a member of the Kansas state legislature; and served with distinction as a member of the fifty-third congress. He was twice a delegate to the democratic national convention, in 1884 and in 1888; and once a delegate to the national populist convention, in 1896. He is a brilliant lawyer; and has contributed extensively to law literature and the periodical press.
Hudson, Thomson Jay
author, was born in 1834, in Ohio. He is the author of The Law of Psychic Phenomena; and A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life.
Hudson, William Henry
educator, author, was born in 1863, in England.
He has been professor of English literature at Leland Stanford Junior university since 1892; and is the author of The Church and the Stage; and Introduction to Study of Herbert Spencer.
Hudson, William Leverreth
naval officer, was born May 11, 1794, in New York. He entered the navy in 1816, and became lieutenant in 1826; commander in 1842; and captain in 1855. He died Oct. 15, 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y. as rabbi of a
Huebsch, Adolph
scholar, rabbi, author, was born Sept. 18, 1830, in Hungary. In 1866 he was called to New York synagogue, where he preached until his death. He published Gems from the Orient, a selection of Talmudic and oriental proverbs, and a volume of his sermons and addresses was issued in 1885. He died Oct. 10, 1884, in New York city.
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.
Huff, George Franklin
banker, congressman, was born July 16, 1842, in Norristown, Pa. He is at present engaged in the banking business at Greensburg, Pa. He was elected to the senate of Pennsylvania in 1884, and represented the thirty-ninth senatorial district in that body until the close of the term ending in 1888. He was a member of the fifty - second congress; was nominated by the state convention at Harrisburg in 1894 as representative at large; and elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
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, Ball
sculptor, was born Jan. 19, 1806, in England. The life-size monumental high-relief of Bishop Hobart of New York, now in the vestry of Trinity church, New York city, was made by him.
Among his later works are a model of an equestrian statue of Washington, intended for the city of Philadelphia, a Crucifixion, a statue in bronze of Nathaniel Bowditch that is now in Mount Auburn cemetery, a statuette of General Joseph Warren, a bust of Washington Irving, and a Mary Magdalen. He. died March 5, 1868, in Boston, Mass.
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.
Hughes, Francis Wade
lawyer, statesman, was born Aug. 20, 1817, in Montgomery county, Pa. He was appointed deputy attorney-general of Pennsylvania in 1839, resigned the office there several times, but was reappointed and held it for eleven years. In 1843 he was elected to the state senate as a democrat.
In 1851 he was appointed secretary of state, and in 1853 attorney-general of the state, which office he filled until 1855. He died Oct. 25, 1885, in Pottsville, Pa.
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.
Hughes, James
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1823,, in Hampstead, Md. He was appointed first lieutenant of the sixteenth regiment of United States infantry, one of the ten regiments in the Mexican war, and served until the close of the war. In 1852 he was elected circuit judge for six years; and in 1853 was elected professor of law in the university of Indiana, and served three years. He was elected a representative from Indiana in the thirty-fifth congress; in 1861 was appointed a judge of the court of claims; and in 1866 was appointed a cotton agent for the treasury department.
He subsequently settled in Washington city as an attorney at law, but was soon afterward elected to the legislature of Indiana.
Hughes, James F
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 17, 1839, in Wayne county, Ohio. He served three years in the civil war in the one hundred and second Ohio volunteer infantry as a noncommissioned officer; and from 1885-91 was judge of the circuit court of Illinois.
Hughes, James M
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1843 to 1845.