HUGLIN, John Albert - 1912 Bio (1869-1948)

HUGLIN, SWANSON, PORTER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 9/16/2007 at 12:05:28

History of Jefferson County, Iowa -- A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol II, Published 1912, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago
Pages 218-220

J. A. HUGLIN.

Thorough preparation has well qualified J. A. HUGLIN for the onerous professional duties which have devolved upon him since he took up his residence in this city. Laudable ambition was numbered among his salient characteristics at the outset of his career and prompted him him to gain an education that would qualify him for more than the simplest duties and labors of life. His own earnest toil provided the means for an education and his ability has been the source of his progress since he entered upon the practice of his profession.

Mr. HUGLIN is a native of Geneseo, Illinois, born September 14, 1872 (sic - 1869). His father, C. J. HUGLIN, was born at Rexby, England, June 25, 1825, and came to the United States when twenty-one years of age, settling first in Ohio, whence he afterward removed to Andover, Illinois, there enlisting in 1861 as a member of the Eleventh Ohio Battery, with which he served for three years and seven months. He was wounded five times and was in Andersonville prison for six weeks. He took part in the battle of Island No. 10, the sanguinary conflict at Gettysburg and the siege of Vicksburg, was with Sherman on the Atlanta campaign and the march to the sea and afterward participated in the grand review, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western hemisphere. He served as one of the cannoneers in his battery and was a most brave and intrepid soldier. When the war was over he returned to Illinois and in Andover, in 1867, was united in marriage to Miss Christian SWANSON who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, October 3, 1836. In 1875 they removed to Nebraska but the scourge of grasshoppers which destroyed all the crops caused them to leave that state and in 1878 they took up their abode in Boone county, Iowa. Mr. HUGLIN devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits and was the owner of a good farm in Boone county, upon which his death occurred in 1904. In February of the same year his wife passed away. They were the parents of seven children: J. A., of this review; C. L., a farmer living in North Dakota; Elizabeth, who is a nurse in the Kansas City (Missouri) Hospital; O. E., who is engaged in the drug business in Odebolt, Iowa; G. G., a resident and implement dealer of Dayton, Iowa; Tillie, who is engaged in school teaching at Pollock, south Dakota; and Ida, who is principal of the public schools at Jefferson, Iowa.

J. A. HUGLIN was only three years of age when his parents left Illinois and was a youth of six years when the family came to Iowa. He remained under the parental roof until 1888 and in the meantime not only actively assisted his father in the work of the fields but also acquired a good education, supplementing his public school training by a year's study in Western Normal College, at Shenandoah, Iowa, and by further work in Augustana University, at Rock Island, Illinois, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895. Afterward he went to Chicago, where he attended the Chicago College of Law, pursuing the evening course for two years, while during the day he was employed in a business way in order to meet the expenses of living and tuition. He then went to Des Moines, where he spent one year as a student in the law department at Drake University and was graduated May 17, 1898. At the same time he was admitted to practice in the federal courts. He entered upon the active work of his profession in Fairfield September 1st, 1908, and has since remained here, having an office over the Fairfield National Bank. He is accorded a good clienteage and his abilitiy is widely recognized by other members of the bar as well as by the general public. While working his way through school he earned his money mostly by traveling for a book publishing company and making extensive trips over the United States and Canada. While in the university he made a special study of modern languages. His mother was of Swedish parentage and he gave particular attention to the Swedish language, which he speaks as fluently as he does English. He also speaks German, Danish and Norwegian and has studied extensively both Latin and Greek.

In his political views Mr. HUGLIN has always been a republican, active in the work of the party throughout the period of his residence in Fairfield. He served for four years, or two terms, in the office of county attorney, beginning January 1, 1907, and there was only one other republican elected on the county ticket when he was first chosen to that position. His election therefore was indicative of his personal popularity and the confidence and trust reposed in him.

On the 28th of June, 1905, Mr. HUGLIN was married to Miss Clara Lenora PORTER, who was born in Boone county, Iowa, May 20, 1882, a daughter of E. A. PORTER, and they now have two children: Harold Q., born September 22, 1906; and Harvey P., born May 9, 1910. The parents hold membership in the English Lutheran church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part. For ten years Mr. HUGLIN has served as superintendent of the Sunday school and is a member of the church board. He has also been president of the Jefferson County Sunday School Association and president of the Tenth District Association of the Christian Endeavor for several years. He is deeply interested in all that pertains to moral progress and does everything within his power to promote christianizing influences which uplift man. He was also secretary of the first Jefferson County Commercial Association and is never unmindful of his duty in regard to local progress and improvement. He has an interesting military chapter in his life record, having in 1898 joined Company M of the Fifty-fourth Regiment of the Iowa National Guard, with which he served for six years. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a scholarly, cultured gentleman, whose innate talent and acquired ability have brought him prominence in professional circles, while his genuine personal worth has established him in a high and enviable position in the regard of his fellowmen.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.