Plumas County Biographies

Thomas Hughes

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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Mr. Hughes is the son of Richard and Mary (Jones) Hughes, and was born in Wales, 
May 13, 1830. In his boyhood he followed gardening, and the age of seventeen 
emigrated to the United States and settled at East Dennis, Massachusetts, on 
Cape Cod. There he lived until 1854, when he came to San Francisco, and engaged 
in gardening in what is now the heart of the city. In 1855 he was mining on Rush 
creek. In 1857 he mined at Soda bar, on the east branch, and also opened a store 
and public house, which he kept until 1868. In the autumn of 1869 he purchased 
from M. D. Smith the Meadow valley hotel and ranch of 320 acres on which he now 
resides. Mr. Hughes is now in the dairying business, has thirty cows, and makes 
3,000 pounds of butter annually. He is the postmaster at Meadow valley. Mr. 
Hughes was married April 24, 1854, to Elizabeth Pary, by whom he had two 
children; viz., Brainard B., born November 18, 1857; Mary L., born August 18, 
1859 at Soda bar, now the wife of E. E. Philips of Meadow valley, and mother of 
one child, Verbenia, born March 6, 1881. Mr. Hughes is a member of Quincy Lodge 
No. 88, I. O. O. F. He comes of a long-lived family, and will doubtless live to 
a good old age. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 252-253