HUGHES
HUGHES
New York was erected into an archiepiscopal see,
with Boston, Hartford, Albany and Buffalo as
suffragan sees, and on Oct. 3, 1850, he was pro-
moted archbishop. He received his pallium
from the hands of the pope, in Rome, April 3,
1857. In August, 1858, he laid
the corner-stone of the new
Cathedral of St. Patrick, Fifth
avenue and Fiftieth street, in
the presence of . over 100,000
people. In the time of the civil
war Archbishop Hughes was
consulted by the President and
by Mr. Seward, secretary of
state, and in 1861 he was chosen
for a si^ecial min-
ister to France
to represent the
condition of pub-
lic affairs and the
relative claims of
the North and
South. He caus-
ed St. Joseph's
Theological semi-
CATHEDRAL OF ST. PATRICK. nary to be remov-
ed from Fordham to Troy. His last sermon was
preached at the dedication of a church in June,
1883, and his last public address was made from
his balcony in July, 1863, during the draft riots, at
the request of the governor of the state. His
funeral was attended by the citizens of New
York city irrespective of creed. Two hundred
thousand persons viewed his remains. The
courts and public offices of the city were closed
and resolutions of sorrow were passed by the state
legislature. A statue was erected to his memory on
the lawn in front of the college buildings at Ford-
ham, N. Y. He died in New York city, Jan. 3, 1864.
HUGHES, John, soldier, was born inNewbern,
N.C., March 30, 1830; son of Dr. Isaac Wayne
and Ann (McLinn) Hughes. He was graduated
at the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1848,
A.M., 1851, and became a lawyer and Democratic
politician in Schuylkill county. Pa. He was de-
feated as representative in the 37th congress for
his district and in 1861 he removed to his native
state where he entered the Confederate army as
captain in the 7th N.C. regiment. He was i^ro-
moted major and was division quartermaster to
Gen. R. F. Hoke, 1863-05 ; serving in Jackson's
and A. P. Hill's corps. He was defeated as
Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor of
the state in 1873 ; was president of Newbern
national bank, and receiver and subsequently
president of the Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad. He was married to Jane G., daughter
of John P. Daves, of Newbern, N.C. He died in
Beaufort, N.C, Sept. 9, 1889.
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HUGHES, Louis Cameron, governor of Ari-
zona, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 15,
1843 ; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edwards)
Hughes. His parents were natives of Wales.
They removed from Philadelphia to Pittsburg in
1845, where they both
died the next year
leaA'ing ten children,
Louis being next to
the youngest. He
was placed in the
Presbyterian orphan-
age at Allegheny City
and from his ninth to
his fifteenth year was
apprenticed to a far-
mer. He then at-
tended the village
academy and earned
his tuition by chop-
ping wood. He serv-
ed as a private in the
101st Pennsylvania regiment and after liis dis-
charge, in 1864, worked in a machine shop in
Pittsburg and became identified with the laboi*
movement and the leader of the eight-hour move-
ment which became a law of the United States.
He attended the state normal school, Edenboro,
Pa., for two terms in 1868-69 and took a partial
course at Meadville (Pa.) Theological school (Uni-
tarian), after which he studied law. He was
married to Josephine Brawley, of Meadville, and
with his wife became a worker in the temper-
ance reform among workingmen. In 1871 he
removed to Tucson, Arizona, for the benefit of
his health and the next j-ear was joined by his
wife, who was the second wliite woman to make
Tucson, then the largest settlement in Arizona,
a permanent residence. He acquired a large law
pi'actice. He was district attorney two terms, was
probate judge, L^.S. commissioner, attorney-gen-
eral for the territory, and in 1893 World's Fair
commissioner. He established tiie Arizona Star in
1877, publishing it daily after the first year as the
organ of the Democratic party in the territory ;
and organized and was first president of the Ari-
zona Press arssociation. He took a leading part in
establishing the public school system of Arizona,
and inaugurated tlie policj^ of separation of the
criminal element of the Apache Indians from the
industrious class, which policy restored order in
the soutliwest and was adojited by the govern-
ment after ten years' agitation by Judge Huglies.
He also introduced home rule in territorial
government ; a court of private land claims to
determine the titles to Spanish and Mexican land
grants covering 12.000,000 acres in Arizona : con-
ducted a crusade against the whiskey trafl^c,
and aided his wife in the organization of the
