Daniel Henry Hughes

Birth Date

1833-07-17

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Union County, Kentucky, attorney. Springfield, Kentucky, native. Son of John R. Hughes and Martha Hughes. Married to Wright Parker Hughes in Union County on December 18, 1855. Father of Bettie Hughes, Mattie Hughes, Nancy Hughes, and George R. Hughes. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1852. Admitted to the bar in January 1855. Attorney for Hughes, Dallam & Hughes law firm with Willis G. Hughes and Francis Henry Dallam. Attorney in Union County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Union County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 528. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 416A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 350B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, #000562202, p. 431 of 658 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). History of Union County, Kentucky: A Complete Account of the Settlement, Organization and Government of the County, Together with Facts and Figures Concerning the Society, Professions, Commerce, Industries, Agriculture, Coal, Railroads, Education, Religion, and Other Institutions and Resources of the County and Biographical Sketches of its Leading Citizens. (Evansville, In: Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers, 1886), 192-195.

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