William H. Hughes (1902)

William Henry Hughes (September 30, 1864 – November 11, 1903) was an American businessman and politician from New York.

Life

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 hung himself on November 11, 1903, at his home in Granville, New York;[5] and was buried at the Elmwood Cemetery in Middle Granville.

Sources

  1. ↑ The New York Red Book by Edgar L. Murlin (1903; pg. 145)
  2. ↑ THE STAFF OF GOV. BLACK in the New York Times on December 13, 1896
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ Assemblyman Hughes a Bankrupt in the New York Times on September 18, 1903
  5. ↑ GEN. HUGHES A SUICIDE in the New York Times on November 12, 1903
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