Hughes, Clinton B. 1876 - 1937

HUGHES, OPPERMAN, HEYLIN, FINEMAN, FLIEHLER, COOPER, BAXTER, ANDERSON, THATCH

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 5/17/2023 at 04:47:58

Clayton County Register, 13 Jan. 1937.

Strawberry Point: Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Congregational church for Clinton B. Hughes of Bloomington, Ill., with the local pastor, the Rev. Carrie V. Lucas, officiating. Burial was made in the Strawberry Point cemetery where the Masonic Order conducted rites. The four sons and two brothers, Andrew Hughes and Howard Hughes, were pallbearers.

The deceased, for a long time a Bloomington attorney, had suffered an illness which kept him in the state hospital near Peoria for some time, and death came as a relief last Saturday, Jan. 02.

Mr. Hughes was born on a farm near Strawberry Point on July 16, 1876. He was the son of the late Ambrose M. and Ida E. Hughes, the oldest of a family of eleven children. He was graduated from the Strawberry Point high school in 1898, and from the University of Iowa in 1900. In 1901 he began law practice here. Later he removed to Arlington where he served two terms as mayor. Later he moved to West Union, where he was also elected mayor. While there he became president of the Fayette County Bar Association. He was county attorney of Fayette county in 1912 and retained the position until 1916, when he moved to Bloomington. From 1917 to 1921 he served as assistant to Attorney General Brundage. In 1928 he was president of the McLean County Bar Association. During the World War, the committee of public information, Washington, D.C., made him chairman of the four Minute Men of McLean county, propagandist directors for Liberty Loans, Y.M. and Y.W.C.A. and Red Cross work. He was awarded recognition for having spoken 143 times on war subjects.

Mr. Hughes was married in 1902 to Miss Anna Opperman of Strawberry Point. She died several years ago. On Dec. 27, 1905, he married Miss Magdalena Opperman, sister of the first wife.

He was a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, the Modern Woodmen and the Masonic Arts and Crafts Lodge.

Besides his wife, he is survived by eight children: Mrs. Harry Heylin, Saumemin, and Lieut. Donald M. Hughes, all of Manistique, Mich. Harold Hughes of Sterling, Ill., Mrs. Irving Fineman of Shaftsbury Vt.; Theodore, Paul, Dorothy Jane and Clinton B. Jr., all at home; his mother, Mrs. Ida Hughes, of Strawberry Point; Five sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Cassy Fliehler of Iowa City, Mrs. Eva Cooper of California, Mrs. Mary Baxter of Crescent, Okla., Mrs. Jane Anderson of Gilbert, Mrs. Harriet Thatch of Boston, Mass., Andrew Hughes of Boone, Amos Hughes of Arizona, and Howard Hughes of Hampton. There are also six grandchildren.