Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 611
REV. GEORGE MEAD HUGHES

Rev. George Mead HUGHES, present pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Logan, came to Harrison County in 1889, and will form the subject of this biographical notice.

He is the son of Rev. George and Mary (MEAD) HUGHES, natives of New York and New Jersey. The father was born in England, and came to this country in 1837. Our subject is one of a family of five children, he being the second in number, and the only son. He spent his early life in New Jersey, and took a four years course at the University of Hackettstown, graduating in 1885. He graduated from the Wesleyan University, of Middletown, Conn., in 1889, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and began preaching in September of the same year at Logan, Iowa, in the Methodist Church.

Politically, Mr. HUGHES is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, and is well posted on all the current political issues of the day.

He was united in marriage September 3, 1889, at Catasauqua, Pa., to Margaret Alice FUNK, a native of the Keystone state, and the daughter of Samuel and Emeline FUNK, of Pennsylvania.

Mr. and Mrs. HUGHES were the parents of a child who died in infancy.

Unlike the early ministry of the Methodist Church, which today stands in educational point of view, as high as any in the land, our subject though but a young man, has received a liberal education, and stands out like a rising star in the firmament of the theological world, with a promising future before him, for it is men possessing characters, such as our subject, who are to be the future heralds of the Cross.

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