Henry Mallory Hughes

He alternately taught school and attended Allegheny College for 7 years, then went to Kansas in 1857 "participating in the Free State cause," and was a contractor and brickmaker in Paola in Lykins County, KS. He was Deputy Sheriff, Register and Recorder of Deeds, Clerk of the County, Probate and District Courts, and was town Marshal. He returned briefly to Pennsylvania in late 1859, married, and returned to Paola. At the 1860 US Census he was a 29 year old shingle maker (with at least 5 employees) at Paola.

He enrolled at Franklin, PA and mustered on 18 October 1861 as First Lieutenant of Company K, 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry at Harrisburg.

He was with his Company in Maryland in 1862 and later said that he was knocked out of the saddle by Colonel Childs when that officer was hit by an artillery round at Antietam on 17 September 1862. Hughes was unhurt.

He was promoted to Captain on 1 November 1862 and was detailed to the Brigade as Assistant Inspector General in about January 1863. He mustered out on 18 October 1864.

He was US inspector of crude and refined petroleum and Revenue Agent at Plumer, Venango County, PA to about 1865, then speculated successfully in real estate. By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was in Franklin, PA; a founder of the Antwerp Pipe Line, and by 1870 was superintendent of that and the Oil City Pipe Line. By 1880 he was Secretary of United Pipe Lines, a company created by the consolidation of Antwerp and Oil City.

His service from the Card File1 and Bates.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and his bio sketch in H.C. Bell's History of Venango County (1890). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Annetta Richardson (1840-1901) in November 1859 and they had 10 children.

05/12/1831; Rockland, PA

09/09/1885; Valparaiso, New Brunswick, CANADA; burial in Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, PA