The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-12
REV. SHIRLEY c. HUGHsoN.
Father Hughson Raised to Headship
of Order-Career Of South Carolina
Clergyman Prominent in Journal
istic Circles Early in Life.

of Order-Oareer or SOGlt0 CarOIln;'
Clergyman Prominent in Journal
istic Circles Early in Life.
(The State)
The September number of The Holy
Cross Magazine, published at West
Park. New York, ''in the interests OF
Catholic Religion and the Regular
Life by the Order of The Holy Cross
a Religious Community for Priests
and Laymen of the American
Church. contains the following
note"
Our meeting of chapter last
month brought the time for the trien-
NAL election of the superior OF the
| Order. Father Hugson was elected
Superior. He has been professed IN
the Order for 16 years. He will re-
main in office as master of novices
Father Harrison has been appointed
assistant superior
This will be read with great inter
est bv students of South Carolina Col
lege during the early sos, by many
readers of the newspaper press OF
Charleston during the Tillman move
ment, and by thousands in the South
ern and Eastern States, lovers OF III
erature, sacred and profane, Whc
have heard, or who have watched WIN
abiding interest the brilliant career
of the Rev. Shirley Carter Hughson
If he has had any ambition, othel
than to do good, during the last "a
| wears of his life, surely it has been
attained when the brothers OF his Or
der have elected him their superior
or chief.
A brief sketch Of his career, unique
| perhaps, among South Carollnlans'
can not fail to be Of interest in this,
his native State.
Father Hughson, O.. H. c., is OF
South Carolina and Virginia stock.
Through his mother he is descended
from the Turner's, Shirleys and Car
ters of Virginia and the Legares OF
South Carolina His mothers grand
father was the Rev. DIR. Reynolds
Eascom. an eminent Presbyterian
minister. His father, the late Dr.
John Scott Hughson, a gallant solo1er
in the Confederate Army, and Tor
MANY years a leading citizen of Sum
ter. was the son of the Rev. VIII
liam E. Hughson, a devoted minister
of the Baptist church n this state
He was born at Cam n, February
IS. 1867; received his early education
at his home in Sumter, and in March,
1883 matriculated at South Carolina
College. He remained only two years
spending most Of his time, 1t is sald,
in the college library, where he was
an omnivorous reader, apparently not
caring much for scholastic distinction
OF preeminence in assigned duties.
Returning to Sumter he continued ms
studies on his own account, paying
special attention to history and Eng
lish literature, and occasionally Writ
ing for newspapers. In 1888 he be-
came a reporter of the Charleston
World and in 1889 entered the service
of The News and Courier.
During the memorable canvass or
the Hon. B. r. Tillman for governor
Mr.. Hughson was the chief actor IN
a dramtic episode at Marion, which
is still well remembered by many
and attracted much attention at the
time. 1t was distasteful to him chen
and to recall the details would be
doubly so now!-for he never cared
to play to the galleries, or courteo
the limelight." 1t proved to all men
his burning enthusiasm and personal
pluck.
Nil extremis was not to be founo
then, or probably now, in his vocaou-
larry: he knows no middle ground
he can at one time emulate the IN
finite pity and love for the erring thai
marked st. Francis Of Assist, and al
another he can denounce weakness i
vice in high places with all the ear
nestness, if not with the eloquence o.
| Bossuet.
Leaving The News and Courier ne
went to the University of the South
at Sewanee, in 1891 where he was as
sistant master of the grammar schoo
and pursuing himself certain lines Of
study. While at Sewanee he edltee
for a series of Laurel Crowned Let
ters," published by a great Chicago
|
Bysshe Shelley" His Introduction is
brief but charming essay on Shelley
showing nice and discriminating crit
ical ability. A second edition OF thi
work was published by William
Heinemann of London.
In 1892 he entered John Hopkin
University as a graduate student
making history his major" in nj
studies for the degree Of doctor
philosopy. His invaluable monograph
The Carolina Pirates and Colonla
Commerce, 0-1740"-although 1t
title is misleading, there having bee
no Carolina Pirates" Sis one OF TN
four best contributions to the State
history published since the war o
Secession. It convinced his fr1ends
his unquestioned ability as an histor
ical investigator, largely but not en-
tirely, in the modern science sense
Jr is known that Mr. Hughson mad