The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-01-22
PERSONAL REcoLLECTIoNs.
BY THE EDITOR.


On Saturday last Elihu johnson, Esq.
told me that Col James Hughes, form
erly citizen of this place, is dead, and
that his widow had written to him (Mr
Johnson) to secure her dover in certain
lands once owned in this place by Col.
Hughes.
James Hughes came to jackson nearly
forty years ago from Virginia. He was'a
young lawyer, unmarried. Between the
years 1886 and 1849, he was prominent
man, holding at times the positions of
Prosecuting Attorney, Representative in
the State Legislature, School Examiner,
Colonel of the militia, etc. He was a
man of fair education, great energy, and
some talent. OF his faults / do not in
tend to speak.
Under the old MALTA law the able
bodied men between the ages of Is and
As all met in general muster at Jackson
once year, generally about the middle
of September. A regiment was formed,
and James Hughes was Colonel during
several years, perhaps from 1886 to 1872
He was large, fieshy man, but he made
fine appearance on horseback, as he
galloped over the field in his uniform,
and his sword swinging in his hand
| Col. Hughes was the founder of the
Jackson STANDARD. In the spring or
summer of 1916 Charles W. Hoy and
George D. Hebard of Gallipolis brought
a little hand press and some old type and
started a little paper-the first ever
printed in the county. 1t was printed in
the Auditors Office, and was called "The
jackson Aurora" 1t was neutral in poll.
tics for few months, and then came
out Democratic. The Democrats of the
county then, as ever since, were not very
good supporters of Democratic paper
the proprietors said they must sell out OF
starve, and early in the year 1S47 they
sold the establishment to Col James
Hughes, and in March 1S47, he issued
the first number of his paper and called
it THE Standard 1t was Whig in poll
tics, and Col. Hughes claimed that it was
the first paper in the United States to
hoist the name of Gen. Taylor as the
Whig candidate for President of the
United States
The first certificate l obtained to teach
a public school was granted by Col
Hughes, on the 4th day of May, 1840.
commenced reading law with Col. Hughes
in March, 1845, and continued for more
than three years. He told me to reac
- IN
would take some four or five weeks tt
read a'Eolume of the;elementary works
and in little over three years 1 haC
read only about 81 volumes. / woulc
come to jackson, 13 miles, get two Oh
three volumes at time, read 25 to 81
pages in the morning before daylight il
the winter while teaching, and the sam,
amount in the morning before breakfas
while working on the farm in the sprin,
and summer. Col. Hughes then resided
on Main Street, where John F. Cool
now resides. had been well acquainte,
with him for years, and in getting and re
turning law books, l became acquaintet
with his wife, an estimable and nobl
looking woman She was a sister @
Prof. w. w. Mather, the great geologist
Col. Hughes left jackson about tn
| year 1S49, and went to Wisconsin 81
) was candidate for Lit. Governor of tina
State soon after, but he was not elected
He visited Jackson in the fall or winte
of 1862, during the time that the So
Regiment was stationed at Camp Diamon
and made a speech to the Regiment o.
. the occasion of dinner being given t
the soldiers by the citizens of Jackson
That was the only visit he ever made t
jackson since he left. nearly twenty-fv
: years ago.