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L. R. HUGHEY
Vol. 3, p. 1119-1120

The science of stock breeding, under the ideal conditions offered in
the agricultural region of Oklahoma, has attracted the activities of
some of the most progressive of the farmers of this state, who have
directed their operations in such a capable and intelligent manner
that this state is becoming famous for its stock farms. One of the
foremost of these is to be found in Alfalfa County, thirteen miles
south of the City of Alva, where is located the breeding farm of L.
R. HUGHEY, a man who has made a lifelong study of his vocation and
whose success is strong evidence of the value of a scientific
training for those who make life stopped growing they vocation.

Mr. Hughey is a product of the farm and has spent his entire live
amid agricultural surroundings. He was born on his father's homestead
place in Clinton County, Ohio, November 12, 1874, his parents being
T. H. and Sarah (BOTTS) Hughey, who are natives of the Buckeye State.
Their lives have been passed in the pursuits of the soil, first in
Ohio, and later in Nebraska, to which state they migrated in 1884,
and from which they came to Oklahoma in 1899, being at the present
time residents of Texas County. They have been industrious and
energetic people all of their lives and are now in comfortable
circumstances, passing their declining years surrounded by the
comforts of life. They were married in Ohio in 1870, and have been
the parents of seven sons and three daughters, namely: Elbridge: L.
R., of this notice; Charles Otterbein; Alvira, who is deceased;
William M.; Harley; Leota, who is deceased; Albert; Izette; and one
son who died in infancy.

The early education of L. R. Hughey was secured in Clinton County,
Ohio, where he divided his boyhood between attending the public
schools and work on his father's farm until he was ten years of age.
In that year he accompanied the family to Nebraska, and there he
completed his education in the public schools and continued his
operations in agricultural work. From early boyhood he was interested
in the raising and breeding of stock, and as he grew older he became
convinced that scientific methods were the solution of the successful
breeding of animals, and particularly of horses and jack's.
Accordingly, he began to apply himself to the study of the subject,
securing all information available pertaining to the matter, and
finally entered Graham's Scientific Breeding School, of Kansas City,
Missouri, where he took a complete course and was duly graduated. In
1900 he left Nebraska and came to Oklahoma, where he purchased a
property in Alfalfa County, 41/2 miles from Dacoma and 13 miles
southeast of Alva, here he commenced the establishment of an up-to-
date stock farm. As the years have passed he has added from time to
his buildings and equipment and tell he now has a model farm on the
most modern character, complete in every respect, with large breeding
barns, all appliances in appurtenance of the most approved nature,
and a number of innovations which are inventions of his own. Here
have been bred some of the finest horses and jacks that have come out
of the State of Oklahoma. In his stable now are to be found such
noble and valuable animals as "Moselli," an imported stallion,
American No. 5117, Belgian stud book No. 58726, imported from Belgium
in July 1910, by a Finch Brothers of Vernon and Joliet, Illinois, and
said to be one of the finest Belgian draft courses in this country;
and "Governor Hadley," a jack, No. 29292, a registered Black Mammoth
animal, which was sired by "Cyclone II," a Missouri animal. Mr.
Hughey holds yearly demonstrations, during which breeders come from
all parts of the country. In his own particular field he has gained a
rapidly-growing reputation, of which he may be well proud, for it has
been gained through his own unaided efforts and following out of
ideas which originated with him.

Mr. Hughey was married April 15, 1895, to Miss Carrie PEAS, who was
born at Victoria, Illinois, daughter of Alfonso and Emily (STRONG)
Peas, of Johnson County, Nebraska. Four children were born to this
union: Lynn LeRoy, Harold and Charles, who are deceased; and Rozella,
who was born June 25, 1904, and is now attending the public schools.
Mr. Hughey and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, in the work of which he has taken the keen interest, having
been superintendent of the Sunday school for five years. His
fraternal connection is with the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows.

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