The subject of this sketch was born September 22, 1814, at Catawissa, Pennsylvania, died March 11, 1881, in Iowa City. He came to Iowa City in 1841, and was engaged i the printing business with General Van Amptworth, he was Staff Senator from Johnson County from 1846 to 1849, he was treasurer of Johnson County from 1855 to 1859. He was married September 15, 1841, to Miss Louisa King, of Dubuque, Iowa. They had four children Deha, wife of James Gow, of Greenfield, Adam county Iowa; Elias G., living in Portland Oregon; Annie G., living in Iowa City, with her mother, and Louisa E, principle of the Iowa City high school. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, he was a member of I O O F societies in Iowa City. He was a soldier in the late civil war, as quartermaster of the 28th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, commissioned August 1862, and was taken prisoner on the Red River expedition, and who held as much as fourteen months at Fort Tyler, Texas. He was a republican in politics since 1856, he was city clerk of Iowa City for the year 1869 70-71-72-78-79-80, and was clerk when he died. His health was broken down and he was partially blind in one eye from suffering in a rebel prison He received a paralytic stroke in 1865 and recovered from it, and had a second stroke in September 1880 and partially recovered, and finally died of paralysis of the lungs. Mrs. Hughes fell and hurt herself Thanksgiving day, 1881, and is probably a cripple for life, she was born August 23, 1823, in the city of Baltimore, and came to Dubuque, Iowa in 1839
---A History of Johnson County, p. 849
---A History of Johnson County, p. 849
The subject of this sketch was born September 22, 1814, at Catawissa, Pennsylvania, died March 11, 1881, in Iowa City. He came to Iowa City in 1841, and was engaged i the printing business with General Van Amptworth, he was Staff Senator from Johnson County from 1846 to 1849, he was treasurer of Johnson County from 1855 to 1859. He was married September 15, 1841, to Miss Louisa King, of Dubuque, Iowa. They had four children Deha, wife of James Gow, of Greenfield, Adam county Iowa; Elias G., living in Portland Oregon; Annie G., living in Iowa City, with her mother, and Louisa E, principle of the Iowa City high school. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, he was a member of I O O F societies in Iowa City. He was a soldier in the late civil war, as quartermaster of the 28th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, commissioned August 1862, and was taken prisoner on the Red River expedition, and who held as much as fourteen months at Fort Tyler, Texas. He was a republican in politics since 1856, he was city clerk of Iowa City for the year 1869 70-71-72-78-79-80, and was clerk when he died. His health was broken down and he was partially blind in one eye from suffering in a rebel prison He received a paralytic stroke in 1865 and recovered from it, and had a second stroke in September 1880 and partially recovered, and finally died of paralysis of the lungs. Mrs. Hughes fell and hurt herself Thanksgiving day, 1881, and is probably a cripple for life, she was born August 23, 1823, in the city of Baltimore, and came to Dubuque, Iowa in 1839
---A History of Johnson County, p. 849
---A History of Johnson County, p. 849
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