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WILLIAM L. HUGHES, an industrious and thrifty farmer, owns a valuable homestead on section 13. township 47, range 24, Johnson County. Altogether his property comprises some three hundred and seventy-eight acres of superior and well improved land in this and Pettis Counties. He makes a specialty of raising grain and live stock, and for a young man has made rapid strides toward wealth and influence in the community where he dwells.

The parents of our subject, J. P. and Holly W. (Porter) Hughes, natives of Smith County, Tenn., were among the early settlers and respected inhabitants of this county. The grandparents died in Tennessee, and the father made the trip westward with some relatives. On reaching man’s estate he embarked in farming, and continued in that line of business until his death, which occurred January 11, 1890. His wife survives him and is hale and hearty, and has now reached her sixty-seventh year.

William L. Hughes is the second child and eldest son of his parents, and was born in this county March 23, 1862. He continued to dwell at the old home until past his majority, obtaining prior to that time a fair education in the district schools. He was early inured to the duties pertaining to farm life, thus being fitted for his future career. Industrious and thrifty by nature, he has been the main architect of his own fortunes, and is recognized as a young man of progressive ideas and one who is fully abreast of the times. In his political views he is a true-blue Republican, and has an abiding faith in the wisdom of his party’s doctrines.

April 24, 1890, a marriage ceremony united the fortunes of Mr. Hughes and Lizzie, daughter of Thomas S. and Elizabeth (Carroll) Foster. The former, a native of Kentucky, is still living, but his wife, whose birth occurred in Illinois, has been dead for several years. To Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were born three children, the eldest of whom died in infancy. Those living are Mary Foster and Wallace Ward, both of whom are extremely bright and interesting little ones. Mr. Hughes is a member of the Methodist denomination, while his good wife is identified with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.