Joseph Alston Huger, is one of the representative citizens of Savannah and one who stands prominent in business affairs, comes of stanch old Southern stock and is a veteran of the Civil War, in which he rendered yeoman service in defense of the cause of the Confederacy.
He was born in Pendleton, Anderson County, SC. May 15, 1813.
Dr. Joseph A. Huger was a skilled physician and surgeon, and also carried on an extensive
enterprise as a rice planter.
His father, Daniel Elliott Huger, was a distinguished and influential citizen of the state of South Carolina, a lawyer by profession, served with distinction on the circuit bench, and also represented his state in the United States Senate.
The wife of Daniel Elliott Huger, whose maiden name was Isabella J. Middleton, was a daughter of Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The founder of the Huger family in America was Daniel Huger, a French Hugenot, who came to this country in 1685, settling in South Carolina, with whose annals the name has ever since been identified, and the family has become linked, through marriages in several generations, with other prominent families of South Carolina, such as Middletons, the Pinckneys, the Rutledges and the Blakes.
The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this review was Mary Esther Huger, and she and her husband were second cousins.
Her brother, Gen. Benjamin Huger, was a distinguished officer in the Confederate service during the Civil war.
Representatives of the Huger family were found enrolled as patriot soldiers of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution.
Joseph A. Huger Jr. (b. 1843), received his early educational discipline in boarding schools of North Carolina, where the family had a summer residence, and in a military academy at Columbia, S. C, where he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war.
In the summer of 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he withdrew from school to enter the
service of the Confederacy, receiving a commission as second lieutenant and later being promoted to First Lieutenant.
At the close of the war he was in command of a light battery of Georgia regulars, having served during practically the entire course of the great internecine conflict. He took part in the battles of Port Royal and Secessionville, in many skirmishes along the coast from Charleston to Brunswick, and was with the command of Gen. Joseph Wheeler in the operations about Atlanta, his battery forming a parAt the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Huger was with Johnston's army in North Carolina.
He never surrendered, having succeeded in making good his escape and returning to his home.
Since the war he has given his attention to the rice planting industry, owning and managing the old homestead plantation which had been owned by both his father and grandfather, the fine old place lying opposite Savannah, in Beaufort County, SC.
He is also president of the company owning and operating the Planters' rice mill, in the city of Savannah, and president of the Georgia-Carolina Navigation Company.
In politics Mr. Huger gives unqualified allegiance to the Democratic party, but he has never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Savannah board of trade and of the Oglethorpe club.
Mr. Huger married Miss Mary Elliott, daughter of Dr. Ralph E. and Margaret (Mackay) Elliott, of Savannah, and the children of this union are five in number. Eliza Mackay is the wife of Robert C Harrison, of Savannah, a nephew of Gen. W. W. Gordon, and the names of the other children are Caroline Pinckney, Emma Middleton, Percival Elliott and Clermont Kinloch.
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
SAR Membership: 57486
Birth Date: 15 May
Death Date: 12 Apr
Name: Dr. Joseph Alston Huger (1815-1895)
Father: Daniel Elliott Huger (1779 - 1854)
Mother: Isabella Johanna Middleton (1780 - 1865)
Spouse: Mary Esther Huger
Children: Lynch Prioleau Huger
He was born in Pendleton, Anderson County, SC. May 15, 1813.
Dr. Joseph A. Huger was a skilled physician and surgeon, and also carried on an extensive
enterprise as a rice planter.
His father, Daniel Elliott Huger, was a distinguished and influential citizen of the state of South Carolina, a lawyer by profession, served with distinction on the circuit bench, and also represented his state in the United States Senate.
The wife of Daniel Elliott Huger, whose maiden name was Isabella J. Middleton, was a daughter of Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The founder of the Huger family in America was Daniel Huger, a French Hugenot, who came to this country in 1685, settling in South Carolina, with whose annals the name has ever since been identified, and the family has become linked, through marriages in several generations, with other prominent families of South Carolina, such as Middletons, the Pinckneys, the Rutledges and the Blakes.
The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this review was Mary Esther Huger, and she and her husband were second cousins.
Her brother, Gen. Benjamin Huger, was a distinguished officer in the Confederate service during the Civil war.
Representatives of the Huger family were found enrolled as patriot soldiers of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution.
Joseph A. Huger Jr. (b. 1843), received his early educational discipline in boarding schools of North Carolina, where the family had a summer residence, and in a military academy at Columbia, S. C, where he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war.
In the summer of 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he withdrew from school to enter the
service of the Confederacy, receiving a commission as second lieutenant and later being promoted to First Lieutenant.
At the close of the war he was in command of a light battery of Georgia regulars, having served during practically the entire course of the great internecine conflict. He took part in the battles of Port Royal and Secessionville, in many skirmishes along the coast from Charleston to Brunswick, and was with the command of Gen. Joseph Wheeler in the operations about Atlanta, his battery forming a parAt the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Huger was with Johnston's army in North Carolina.
He never surrendered, having succeeded in making good his escape and returning to his home.
Since the war he has given his attention to the rice planting industry, owning and managing the old homestead plantation which had been owned by both his father and grandfather, the fine old place lying opposite Savannah, in Beaufort County, SC.
He is also president of the company owning and operating the Planters' rice mill, in the city of Savannah, and president of the Georgia-Carolina Navigation Company.
In politics Mr. Huger gives unqualified allegiance to the Democratic party, but he has never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Savannah board of trade and of the Oglethorpe club.
Mr. Huger married Miss Mary Elliott, daughter of Dr. Ralph E. and Margaret (Mackay) Elliott, of Savannah, and the children of this union are five in number. Eliza Mackay is the wife of Robert C Harrison, of Savannah, a nephew of Gen. W. W. Gordon, and the names of the other children are Caroline Pinckney, Emma Middleton, Percival Elliott and Clermont Kinloch.
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
SAR Membership: 57486
Birth Date: 15 May
Death Date: 12 Apr
Name: Dr. Joseph Alston Huger (1815-1895)
Father: Daniel Elliott Huger (1779 - 1854)
Mother: Isabella Johanna Middleton (1780 - 1865)
Spouse: Mary Esther Huger
Children: Lynch Prioleau Huger
Joseph Alston Huger, is one of the representative citizens of Savannah and one who stands prominent in business affairs, comes of stanch old Southern stock and is a veteran of the Civil War, in which he rendered yeoman service in defense of the cause of the Confederacy.
He was born in Pendleton, Anderson County, SC. May 15, 1813.
Dr. Joseph A. Huger was a skilled physician and surgeon, and also carried on an extensive
enterprise as a rice planter.
His father, Daniel Elliott Huger, was a distinguished and influential citizen of the state of South Carolina, a lawyer by profession, served with distinction on the circuit bench, and also represented his state in the United States Senate.
The wife of Daniel Elliott Huger, whose maiden name was Isabella J. Middleton, was a daughter of Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The founder of the Huger family in America was Daniel Huger, a French Hugenot, who came to this country in 1685, settling in South Carolina, with whose annals the name has ever since been identified, and the family has become linked, through marriages in several generations, with other prominent families of South Carolina, such as Middletons, the Pinckneys, the Rutledges and the Blakes.
The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this review was Mary Esther Huger, and she and her husband were second cousins.
Her brother, Gen. Benjamin Huger, was a distinguished officer in the Confederate service during the Civil war.
Representatives of the Huger family were found enrolled as patriot soldiers of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution.
Joseph A. Huger Jr. (b. 1843), received his early educational discipline in boarding schools of North Carolina, where the family had a summer residence, and in a military academy at Columbia, S. C, where he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war.
In the summer of 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he withdrew from school to enter the
service of the Confederacy, receiving a commission as second lieutenant and later being promoted to First Lieutenant.
At the close of the war he was in command of a light battery of Georgia regulars, having served during practically the entire course of the great internecine conflict. He took part in the battles of Port Royal and Secessionville, in many skirmishes along the coast from Charleston to Brunswick, and was with the command of Gen. Joseph Wheeler in the operations about Atlanta, his battery forming a parAt the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Huger was with Johnston's army in North Carolina.
He never surrendered, having succeeded in making good his escape and returning to his home.
Since the war he has given his attention to the rice planting industry, owning and managing the old homestead plantation which had been owned by both his father and grandfather, the fine old place lying opposite Savannah, in Beaufort County, SC.
He is also president of the company owning and operating the Planters' rice mill, in the city of Savannah, and president of the Georgia-Carolina Navigation Company.
In politics Mr. Huger gives unqualified allegiance to the Democratic party, but he has never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Savannah board of trade and of the Oglethorpe club.
Mr. Huger married Miss Mary Elliott, daughter of Dr. Ralph E. and Margaret (Mackay) Elliott, of Savannah, and the children of this union are five in number. Eliza Mackay is the wife of Robert C Harrison, of Savannah, a nephew of Gen. W. W. Gordon, and the names of the other children are Caroline Pinckney, Emma Middleton, Percival Elliott and Clermont Kinloch.
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
SAR Membership: 57486
Birth Date: 15 May
Death Date: 12 Apr
Name: Dr. Joseph Alston Huger (1815-1895)
Father: Daniel Elliott Huger (1779 - 1854)
Mother: Isabella Johanna Middleton (1780 - 1865)
Spouse: Mary Esther Huger
Children: Lynch Prioleau Huger
He was born in Pendleton, Anderson County, SC. May 15, 1813.
Dr. Joseph A. Huger was a skilled physician and surgeon, and also carried on an extensive
enterprise as a rice planter.
His father, Daniel Elliott Huger, was a distinguished and influential citizen of the state of South Carolina, a lawyer by profession, served with distinction on the circuit bench, and also represented his state in the United States Senate.
The wife of Daniel Elliott Huger, whose maiden name was Isabella J. Middleton, was a daughter of Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
The founder of the Huger family in America was Daniel Huger, a French Hugenot, who came to this country in 1685, settling in South Carolina, with whose annals the name has ever since been identified, and the family has become linked, through marriages in several generations, with other prominent families of South Carolina, such as Middletons, the Pinckneys, the Rutledges and the Blakes.
The maiden name of the mother of the subject of this review was Mary Esther Huger, and she and her husband were second cousins.
Her brother, Gen. Benjamin Huger, was a distinguished officer in the Confederate service during the Civil war.
Representatives of the Huger family were found enrolled as patriot soldiers of the Continental line in the war of the Revolution.
Joseph A. Huger Jr. (b. 1843), received his early educational discipline in boarding schools of North Carolina, where the family had a summer residence, and in a military academy at Columbia, S. C, where he was a student at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war.
In the summer of 1861, at the age of seventeen years, he withdrew from school to enter the
service of the Confederacy, receiving a commission as second lieutenant and later being promoted to First Lieutenant.
At the close of the war he was in command of a light battery of Georgia regulars, having served during practically the entire course of the great internecine conflict. He took part in the battles of Port Royal and Secessionville, in many skirmishes along the coast from Charleston to Brunswick, and was with the command of Gen. Joseph Wheeler in the operations about Atlanta, his battery forming a parAt the time of Lee's surrender Mr. Huger was with Johnston's army in North Carolina.
He never surrendered, having succeeded in making good his escape and returning to his home.
Since the war he has given his attention to the rice planting industry, owning and managing the old homestead plantation which had been owned by both his father and grandfather, the fine old place lying opposite Savannah, in Beaufort County, SC.
He is also president of the company owning and operating the Planters' rice mill, in the city of Savannah, and president of the Georgia-Carolina Navigation Company.
In politics Mr. Huger gives unqualified allegiance to the Democratic party, but he has never sought or held public office. He is a member of the Savannah board of trade and of the Oglethorpe club.
Mr. Huger married Miss Mary Elliott, daughter of Dr. Ralph E. and Margaret (Mackay) Elliott, of Savannah, and the children of this union are five in number. Eliza Mackay is the wife of Robert C Harrison, of Savannah, a nephew of Gen. W. W. Gordon, and the names of the other children are Caroline Pinckney, Emma Middleton, Percival Elliott and Clermont Kinloch.
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
SAR Membership: 57486
Birth Date: 15 May
Death Date: 12 Apr
Name: Dr. Joseph Alston Huger (1815-1895)
Father: Daniel Elliott Huger (1779 - 1854)
Mother: Isabella Johanna Middleton (1780 - 1865)
Spouse: Mary Esther Huger
Children: Lynch Prioleau Huger
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