Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-10

was born in Glens Falls, n. Y, on the
l 1th of April 1862. When it is
said that his father, David Charles
was a Baptist preacher hav-
ing charge of the village fiocks of
Glens Falls and Sandy Hill, near by,
and that his sole revenue was the sal
airy usually paid to such a country
it is not necessary to en-
phasize the fact that Mr.. Hughes be-
gan his life, as the majority of Ameri-
can men who have gone farthest and
won the highest esteem of their coun-
trymen began theirs, in the rather
bleak but stimulating air of home
where money is scarce.
Ir one respect Mr.. Hughes had the
over many American boys
whose parents were poor. He did
not have to fight long, uphill bat
tie to get an education. Before his
father was ordained a minister at
Wesleyan University, he had been a
teacher of Latin, Greek and English
at West River Collegiate Institute in
Maryland. Moreover, Mr.. Hughes's
Her name was Mary c. Connolly when
Pastor Hughes first met her. She
was the daughter of highly respect
ed physician in Delaware county, New
York. and at ClaVerack Institute, from
which she was graduated, she had
won distinction for proficiency in the
languages, and, what is rather unusual
in young girls, for decided strength in
mathematics. Thus we have not very
far to seek for the source of that taste
for mathematics which is so pro-
nounced a part of Mr.. Justice Hughes
mental equipmer t, and which perhaps
is not disassociated with those pow
ers of continued concentration of
thought for which he is remarkable.
Educated BY Parents
Naturally, the son and only child of
such parents did not have to get out
and struggle for his early education;
it began right at home, and it began
as soon as he was able to absorb II.
Both his father and his mother taught
him languages and mathematics in the
little home parsonage. However, he
attended the public schools later on.
At Oswege, where his father labored
for a time as a preacher after leaving
Glens Falls, he went into the primary
grade school, and at Newark, New
Jersey, where the elder Hughes had a
subsequent pastorate, he attended the
high school, as he did few years
after in New York, when the family
went there to live. But in the mean
time the home tuition continued. The
Rev. David Hughes wanted his son to
follow his own footsteps and become a
Baptist preacher. So, coDcurrently
with his earlier instruction. his father
grounded him well in the rudimentS of
theolo6ical lore. But law, to young
Hughes, was ever a more alluring
topic than theology, and when, after
a year in Colgate, he entered the
sophomore class at Brown University,
it was with a well-fiXed purpose of
becoming lawyer and not preacher.
With such a college preparation,
and with habits of study thus incul-
Gated in him from childhood, it is not
surprising that he emerged from
Brown with flying cofors. AS a mat
ter of fact, he took about all the hon
ors there were-honors in the classics,
the Dunn premium in English, and,
above all, one of the two Carpenter
prizes given to the two students in
each graduating class showing the
greatest promise as based on scholar
ship and character He had the rep
utation too, of not studying very much
at Brown. He did not have to. His
home instruction and mental discipline
had been so thorough that he was at
marked advantage over most of his
fellow students. He had plenty of
time for college amusements, and he
went in for them heartily. He was
an enthusiastic fraternity man, and
has kept up his interest in Delta Up
slon during all the 80 years that have
elapsed since he graduated from
Brown.
1t was not until he was out of col
lege that the really hard grind of
work definitely began. First of all,
he had to earn the money to enable
him to get his legal education. To
do this he taught Greek and mathe-
mates in Delaware Academy at Delhi,
Now York StnhVinp nfin1n in the
law office of Judge Gleason. Then
lie went to Columbia Law School, read
ing at the same time in the office of
the Hon. Stewart l.. Woodford, subse-
quently Minister to Madrid at an in
teresting epoch in our relations with
Spain. At Columbia he duplicated
his experience at Brown, winning the
highest honor, the Prize Fellowship,
which carries with it an appointment
as tutor at five hundred dollars a year.
He did the tutoring and he earned the
very acceptable money. From 1884
till 1887 he worked as a law clerk by
day and taught law class in Colum-
bia by night.
Has Liberal Sense of Humor
But he had long before attracted
the notice of that eminent lawyer.
Walter S. Carter, noted as a collector
of etchings and of bright young men
in the legal profession. In 1888 Mr..
Hughes was made full member of the
firm of Carter. Hughes and Cravath,
and certain love affair, long smoul-
dering but very earnest, eliminated
soon after the law firm arrangement
on the 5th of December, 1888, Mr..
Hughes and Miss Annette Carter,
daughter of the young mans senior
law partner, were married. Miss
Carter was a graduate of Wellesley