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James B. Hughes
James B. Hughes was born in Berks County, Pa., Feb. 24, 1813. a son of John and Susan (Buchanan) Hughes, both natives of Berks County. In May, 1819, his parents removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and shortly after to Springboro, Warren Co., Ohio, where his mother died May 24, 1824. In 1826 his father came to Richmond, where in 1827 he married Hannah Cook, a native of Gloucester County, N. J. He died May 11, 1869, aged eighty-four years, and his second wife died Sept. 3, 1880. He had a family of six children — James B., Phoebe, John P., Eleanor S., Charles, and Susan, only two of whom, Charles and Eleanor, were married. Our subject learned the carpenter's trade of his father, and always followed that vocation. Although reared in a day when school advantages were limited, he acquired a good education, being well informed on all general subjects. He is a descendant of an old Quaker family, his great-grandfather coming to the United States with William Penn. His brother, John P., was a soldier in the Mexican war, and subsequently went to the Sandwich Islands, where he died in March, 1869. His brother Charles and a son were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion, his brother three years and his son four months.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2