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JOHN A. HUGHES
Vol. 3, p. 1192-1193
Book has photo

John A. Hughes is well known to the bar, not only in his home City
of Lawton, but throughout the state as a profound, painstaking,
careful and conscientious lawyer. While his residence in Lawton,
covering a period of five years, has been replete with engrossing
professional employment, which has placed him in the front rank of
practicing lawyers, he has found time to devote to the
responsibilities of good citizenship, and few progressive movements
are launched which do not have his name on their list of supporters.

Mr. Hughes was born in Russell County, Virginia, March 24, 1864, and
is a son of William H. and Emaline (DARNELL) Hughes. The founder of
the family in the United States was his grandfather, Bill Hughes, who
brought the family from Scotland during the '20s and settled in North
Carolina, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. Subsequently
he moved to Russell County, Virginia, and there his death occurred.
William H. Hughes was born in Scotland, in 1823, and was a small lad
when brought to America, where he followed in his father's footsteps
and became a farmer and planter. When the Civil war broke out he
enlisted in a Virginia regiment in the Union army, with which he
served four years, and at one time was captured and made prisoner on
Belle Isle. When the war closed he returned to his agricultural
pursuits and continued to be engaged therein until his retirement.
His death occurred in Wise County, Virginia, in 1905. Mr. Hughes was
a republican, was prominent and influential in civic affairs and held
numerous town and county offices in Russell County. In his latter
years he was a strong Missionary Baptist. He married Miss Emeline
DARNELL, who was born in Russell County, Virginia, in 1839, and died
in Wise County, Virginia, in 1909, and they became the parents of ten
children, namely: William G., who is a contractor of Dant, Russell
County, Virginia; Charles L., who is the proprietor of a livery and
sales stables at Coeburn, Virginia; John A.; J. R., who died in 1897
as a farmer of Wise County, Virginia; Robert L., who died at the age
of eighteen years; three children who died in infancy; Mary, who
married M. M. ROBINETT, a lumber man of Wise County; and Harry H., a
merchant of Wise County, whose death occurred in 1913.

John A. Hughes was given his primary education in the public and
high schools of Russell County, Virginia, following which he was for
four years engaged in teaching in the schools of that county.
Removing at that time to Wise County, he farmed for two years, and
then began the study of law under Hobart Miller, an attorney, under
whose preceptorship he remained two years. He next took a law course
in the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, being graduated
January 1, 1896, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and immediately
entered upon the practice of his profession in Wise County, that
being his field of endeavor until August, 1909, when he came to
Oklahoma. Mr. Hughes took up his residence at Lawton in April, 1910,
and here has continued in a general civil and criminal practice, his
offices now being located in the Boone-Hammon Building, at 321 1/2 D
Avenue. Mr. Hughes has been a manager of numerous cases calling for
deep knowledge of law and practice, readiness of resource, energy of
action and power of logical argument, and in all has acquitted
himself creditably. He enjoys high standing among his fellow
practitioners and is a valued member of the Comanche County Bar
Association and the Oklahoma State Bar Association. A democrat in
politics, he has not sought public preferment, but while a resident
of Virginia served in the capacity of commonwealth attorney of Wise
County. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Lawton Lodge No. 41,
Knights of Pythias, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South.

In 1886, in Russell County, Virginia, Mr. Hughes was married to Miss
Sabra MINTON, daughter of George W. Minton, and nine children have
been born to this union Fred, a graduate of the Coeburn High School,
Independence, Virginia, and now a merchant of Bristol, Virginia;
Elsie, a graduate of Coeburn High School, and the wife of Robert P.
LITZ, a coal broker of Coeburn, Virginia; Logan L., a graduate of
Coeburn High School, and now a railroad man in West Virginia; Hattie,
a graduate of the same school, and now engaged in the millinery
business at Temple, Oklahoma; Arnold, who resides with his parents;
Myra, a talented young lady who is studying vocal and instrumental
music; Garrett, living with his parents; and Hurman and Wanita, who
are attending the Lawton public schools.

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