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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Edward Burns HUGHES, M. D. 

[Surnames: BOYLAN, HUGHES, SAINS, STILLMAN, TUTHILL] 

HUGHES, EDWARD BURNS, M. D. 

    
The professional experience of Dr. Hughes has been acquired in the local schools in several towns in Illinois, including those near Cuba, where he was born July 25, 1840; Bernadotte, Ipava, Smithfield, and Canton, the last named city having been his home since October 1899. 
    
The doctor represents one of the early families of IL, long identified with agriculture, his parents being George Washington and Margaret Ann (BOYLAN) Hughes, the former born in Rome, GA, and the latter in Ohio. George W. Hughes enlisted from Lewistown, IL, in Captain SAINS' Light Horse Cavalry during the Black Hawk War, and participated in the battle which resulted in STILLMAN's defeat near Rock River. 
    
George Hughes died near Lewistown, IL, in Mar. 1849, when the son Edward B. was less than nine years old. 
    
His mother, having married again in 1855, the subject of this sketch was thrown upon his own resources. After receiving his primary education in the local public schools he also took a course in Hedding College at Abingdon, IL, and in 1858 began teaching which he continued for 25 years, in the meantime studying medicine, and for ten years of this period (1873-83) practiced medicine in conjunction with is calling as a teacher, having previously taken a course in the Medical College at Keokuk, IA. He was esteemed for his thoroughness in instruction and his excellence in discipline, and his schools invariably maintained a high standard of practical scholarship and deportment. During this quarter of a century he was more than an educator, his energies reaching out into an interest in politics, during which he received the support of the Democratic Party in many offices of trust. In Bernadotte Twp. he was Town Clerk and Road Commissioner, and Clerk in Cass and Pleasant Twps. 
    
Dr. Hughes married Angenette TUTHILL in Bernadotte Twp., on Aug 25,1869. Of this union there is a son, Claude David. Mrs. Hughes was a native of Rochester, NY, and was educated in the schools of Bushnell, IL. She died July 10, 1890, after a lingering illness of neurasthenia ascites, or general dropsy. He has not since remarried. 
    
He has one son who is unmarried. 
    
Dr. Hughes is a member of different branches of the Masonic fraternity: A.F.&A. M, R.A.M. and R.&S.M., Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Modern Woodmen of America. 
    
He possesses in generous measure the qualities which make him personally popular as well as a financially successfully physician, and his reputation is firmly established as an earnest, cautious, and painstaking healer of men.