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ford Court House, wliere lie commanded the Virginians and was severely wounded. He afterward commanded the right wing of Greene's army at Hubkirks Hill. He was vice-president of the Society of the Cincinnati of the state of South Carolina. He was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Lionel Chalmers, March 23, 17G2. He dio.l in Charleston, S.C, Oct. 6, 1797.

HUQER, John, delegate to the provincial congress of South Carolina, was born at Limerick Plantation, S.C, June 5, 1744; third sou of Daniel and Mary (Cordes) Huger and brother of Benjamin Huger (1746-1779). He was educated in Europe. He was a representative in the commons house of assembl}' of the province ; a delegate to the provincial congress in 1775 ; a member of the council of safety, and with his brothers took an active part in the Revolutionary movement of South Carolina. He was intendant of Charleston in 1792 ; secretary of the state for a number of years; and prominent in state and city atfairs. He conducted a large rice i^lantation. He was married, first, March 15, 1767, to Char- lotte, daughter of Jacob Motte, and secondly, Jan. 11, 1785, to Ann. daugliter of Robert Broun and widow of James Cusack. He died in Charleston, S.C, Jan. 22. 1804.

HUGER, Thomas Bee, naval officer, Avas born in Charleston. S.C, July 12, 1820 ; son of Benja- min (1793-1874) and Jane Templer (Bee) Huger. He entered the U.S. navy as midshipman, July, 1835, and at the siege of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1847, he was transferred to the land battery. He resigned from the navy on the secession of South Carolina and returned to Charleston, where he commanded a battery on Morris Island during the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April, 1861. He was made lieutenant-commander in the Con- federate navy and commanded the McRae, a converted Mississippi packet, in the defence of New Orleans. In opposing Farragut's fleet in its passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 24, 1802, he was mortally wounded. He was married to Marianne, daughter of Richard W. Meade, and sister of Gen. George G. Meade, U.S.A. He died in New Orleans, La., May 10, 1862.

HUGHES, Aaron Konkle, naval officer, was born in Elmira, N.Y., March 31, 1822. He en- tered the naval service, Oct. 20, 1838 ; was pro- moted passed midshipman, May 20, 1844 ; master, Dec. 19, 1852; lieutenant, Oct. 18, 1853; com- mander, Nov. 16, 1802 ; captain, Jan 19, 1871 ; commfjdore, Jan. 13, 1H79 : rear-admiral, Marcli 1, 1884, and was retired Marcii 31, 18s4, on attain- ing the age of .sixtj'-two years, after nineteen years' sea service and thirteen j-ears' shore duty. He made a voyage to Puget Sound in the sloop- of-war Decatur in is."), and defeated with his ship's crew .500 Indians in a fight on shore, Jan.

25, 1855. His service in the civil war was as commander of the Water Witcli in the Gulf. 1861-62; the Mohawk in the South Atlantic, 1862-63, and the Cimmarou, 1863-64, before Charleston, S.C.

HUGHES, Ball, sculptor, was born in London, England, Jan. 19, 1806. He studied modelling under Edward Hodge Baily for seven years. He was especially successful in bas-reliefs, statuettes, statues and busts, and won several medals at the Royal Academy. He removed to New York in 1829, and there executed a statuette of Alexander Hamilton for the Merchants' Exchange, destroyed by fire in 1835. He also executed a life-size monumental high relief of Bishop Hobart, placed in the vestry of Trinity church. Later he re- moved to Dorchester, Mass., where he made "Little Nell," and a group, "Uncle Toby and Widow "Wadman," preserved in plaster in the Boston Athengeum, but never produced in marble. He modelled an equestrian statue of Washington for the city of Philadelphia, a bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch for Mount Auburn cemetery, a statuette of Gen. Joseph Warren, a bust of Washington Irving, a " Crucifixion " and a "Mary Magdalen." He also produced notable burnt-wood sketches and lectured with success on art. He died in Boston. Mass., March 5, 1868.

HUGHES, Charles Hamilton, educator, was born in St. Louis, Mo., May 23, 1839; son of Harvey Jackson and Elizabeth Rebecca (Stocker) Hughes ; grandson of Richard Hughes of Ohio and of Zacchias Stocker of Indiana ; a de- scendant of Richard Hughes of the Revo- lutionary army from Harrisburg, Pa., la- ter of Rockingham county, Va., and of Welsh ancestry. His fatlier invented the compound lever

brick-press in 1846 and the horse or ma- ciiine power hemp- brake in 1859, thus inaugurating a revo- lution in brick-mak- ing and the manufacture of hemp. Charles Hamilton Hughes attended Deiuiison academy, Rock Island. 111., and Iowa college, Iowa, and was graduated from the St. Louis Medical college in 1859. During his student days he was engaged for one year as acting assistant physician in the U.S. Marine hospital at St. Louis, and at the outbreak of the civil war entered the Federal army as assistant surgeon. He was jiroinoted surgeon in July, 1862, and served as such and as