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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