The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1916-06-15
HUGHES GAINED fame
AS INVESTIGATOR
AND REFORMER..NOTABLE REC.
ORD IN GAS AND INSURANCE
CASES..CAREER IN BRIEF.

Son of Welsh father Rev David
G. Hughes and Scotch-Irish moth
er - Mary Catherine Connolly -
Charles Evans Hughes was born at
Glens Falls,N Y,April II, 1862. The
father was a Baptist clergyman. and
the sous early boyhood was divided
among the communities of Oswego,
Newark, N ] ,and the lower east side
of New York.
When ne was five years old the boy
announced to his parents that he was
ready to enter the schools Of Oswe-
go. A few months later he announc-
ed that he was ready 10 quit and
to take up "Chas f Hughes Plan of
Study" which he had devised for
himself because the other scholars
were very slow in getting theirles-
sons and the teacher goes over the
same thing tine after time"
. This pl.n of study was followed
! for tie next four years, the boy
adding to the elementary branches
German and French under his moth
er's teaching, and Greek and Latin
under his fathers. In Newark ne
tried the public schools again, COM
pleting the grammar course in 1873,
when, the family having moved to
New York, he entered Public School
No 35, then in East Thirteenth
Street. Thirteen years old at this
time, he had already proffered es-
says in such topics as The Limita-
ton of the Human Mind" and The
Evils of Light Literature. When
he was graduated his essay was on
Self Help"
Eager to enter the City College
the boy found himself too young by
some months to qualify. and once
more he began to study at home.
At the end of year he was ready
for college, and chose to 60 to Mad
, ison, now Colgate University. where
he remained through his sophomore
year. He matriculated then at
Brown and was graduated in 1881,
with a record of having taken about
every prize available to him and
with the added distinction of being
one of the FIVE members of the class
elected to the scholarship fraternity,
Phi Beta Kappa.
A place as teacher at Delaware
Academy, Delhi, N Y, took "Huggis"
Hughes-as he was nicknamed at
Brown-away from New York for
another year. Greek and mathe-
mates by day left little time for
law by night, however. and the
twenty.year.old boy entered Colum-
bia Law School. He was graduated
in 1884, with a prize fellowship that
made him a quiz master for the en-
suing three years. For a time he
was q clerk in the law Office of Gen
Stewart L Woodford. then shifted
his association to the firm of Cham
berlain, Carter & Hornblower.
From 1891 to 1893 Mr. Hughes
was professor and from 1898 to 1895
special lecturer at Cornell. Until
1900 he was lecturer at New York
Law School, and by that time he
had come to be known professional
ly as one of the four or five leading
lawyers of the bar in this city.
In 1888 MIR Hughes married An
toinette Carter, daughter of Walter
S Carter, his preceptor in law, and
in 1898 he became member of the
firm of Carter, Hughes & Cravath.
Soon the firm name was changed to
Carter, Hughes & Dwight. Mr.
Hughes being the court member.
With the death of Edward F Dwight
the firm became Carter, Hughes,
Rounds & Schurman, and with the
death of Mr. Carter, Hughes, Rounds
& Schurman, with Offices at No 96
Broadway.
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