William H. Hughes
William Henry Hughes (September 30, 1864 – November 11, 1903) was an American businessman and politician from New York.
Life[edit]
He was born on September 30, 1864, in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pennsylvania. He owned stone quarries in New York and Vermont, and was a wholesale dealer in slate.[1]
Hughes was Quartermaster General of the State Militia from 1897 to 1898.[2]
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Washington Co.) in 1902 and 1903;[3] and was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in 1903.
On September 17, 1903, he filed schedules in bankruptcy.[4] On November 3, 1903, he was re-elected to the State Assembly. He hanged himself on November 11, 1903, at his home in Granville, New York;[5] and was buried at the Elmwood Cemetery in Middle Granville.
Sources[edit]
- ^ The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 145)
- ^ THE STAFF OF GOV. BLACK in the New York Times on December 13, 1896
- ^ Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes by Charles Elliott Fitch (Hurd Publishing Co., New York and Buffalo, 1911, Vol. IV; pg. 346 and 348)
- ^ Assemblyman Hughes a Bankrupt in the New York Times on September 18, 1903
- ^ GEN. HUGHES A SUICIDE in the New York Times on November 12, 1903