The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-06-23
Became Famous in Trust Probes
Which Stirred New York Sew
eraI Years AGO.
SON or BAPTIST CLERGYMAN
Made Governor Twice, but Left Chair
to Accept Supreme Court Place
Given by Presidential Hard
Worker.

Justice who has become Republican
candidate for president was an un-
known lawyer in New York city until
the newspapers there started an agi-
tatiOn against a gas trust and certain
big insurance interests. When the
authorities too VI the matter MIR.
Hughes was put in charge OF the
special Investigations. The work he
did made him famous. Opportunity
had knocked at his door.
Hughes comes Of good stock. His
father, Rev. David c. Hughes, who
was a Baptist minister, and his moth
er, whose maiden anne was Mary =.
Connolly, were Of more than usual cul-
ture and shaped the boys early educa-
ton with the object of preparing him
for the ministry.
Charles was born at Glens Falls, N.
Y, April II, 1862, but when he was
very young his parents removed to
Newark, n. j. Here the boy ATTENDED
the public schools, from which he was
graduated in 1873. Too youthful to
enter college, his father tutored him
for a year, the intention being that
Charles should enter the College or
the City of New York when old
enough.
Has Fine Education.
He matriculated at Madison univer-
sity of Hamilton, n. T., the school
which is now known as Colgate uni
versity. Remaining here until 1878,
No Inailnl tlnf thn n1JvrjnJpJIm nf
Brown university would suit him bet
ter, and there he entered and was
graduated in 1881. His degree Of A.
M. came in 1884, the same year in
which he was graduated from the Co
lumbia law school.
At the close of his college days
Hughes was Of extremely frail appear
ance and of delicate physique. His in
clination was to enter the educational
field, but he found difficulty In obtain
ing employment. The heads of the in
stitutions to whom he applied consid-
cred him a mere boy and refused his
application.
In 1884 Mr.. Hughes was admitted
to the bar i'll New York, and practiced
QIltll lCJl. III HIS IitHt AG Ndo IIiGS
fellow of the Columbia law school and
for a year of his term was a student
in the office of Stewart l.. Woodford,
United States district attorney. In
1882 he became a clerk in the offices
of Chamberlain, Carter & H~ornblower.
On December 5, 1883, he married in
Brooklyn Miss Antoinette Carter. the
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Der Of the firm.
His tendency to teach was still
strong within him, and despite the
protests Of his father-in-law, who
wished him to continue with the firm.
he accepted a chair in Cornell uniyer-
sity law school.
To Oregon for Bondholder5.
Soon after Mr.. Hughes resumption
of the duties of active practice he was
sent to Oregon as the representative
OF the b~ondholders Of an unsuccessful
railway property. He spent seven
months in the West arranging affairs,
and when he returned he became the
court member of the new firm of Car
ter, Hughes & Dwight. From 1893 un-
til 1895 he retained his interests in
Cornell. law school. where he frequent
~ appeared as special lecturer.
Three years ago when Edward
F. Dwight died, the title Of the
Hughes, Rounds & Shurman. The
death Of Mr.. Carter caused another
change, and the firm became Hughes,
Rounds & Shurman, with offices at SO
Broadway.
This brings Mr.. Hughes career
down to the beginning of the gas in.
yestigation in New York-an inyesti
nothing had stirred it since the Tweed
ring exposure.
Probably no n single investigation
ever produced such far-reaching re
suits as the insurance probe. II
stopped the practice Of great corpora
tons making gifts Of money to politi
cal campaign funds. 1t stopped thu
jugglery of trust funds between insur
ance companies and banks.
Charles Evans Hughes is the mar
responsible for stopping this crooked
ness. Even the gas and insurance
crowds admitted that.
Is Strong and Earnest.
In appearance Mr.. Hughes Is not 70
bust. He is about five feet ten niche,
in height, Of slight but well proper
toned figure. His hair is brown an
General Grant and Mark Twain.
How Mark Twain first met Genera
Grant is n of the incidents Of tn
May ~installment of Albert Bigeloy
Paine's Boys Life" Of the humoris
which is running seriaiiy in st. Mich
olas. Mark Twain was acting as
corrcspondent IN Washing