Museum of the Kansas National Guard. James White Frierson Hughes. Kansas 2. 2nd Adjutant General. April 0. 1, 1. 90. April 0. 1, 1. 90. Mayor of Potwin. Mayor of Topeka. Chief of Police Topeka. Topeka is a poorer city today because Colonel J. About the authorMike Adams aka the Health Ranger is a best selling author 1 best selling science book on Amazon. W. F. Hughes no longer walks its streets. He was born in Tennessee, but lived in Topeka from 1. He was a college graduate, very intelligent, friendly, kindly, very original, vigorous in his defense of the right and of the underprivileged, extremely courageous, the essence of politeness and courtesy, a gracious host and a man of many accomplishments and talents. Colonel Hughes had a deep seated love of city, county, state and nation. His patriotism was of the highest degree as is shown by his membership in the armed forces for most of his adult life. 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The 28th Infantry Division Keystone is a unit of the Army National Guard and is the oldest divisionsized unit in the armed forces of the United States. SR25 Pocket Pouch AWS, INC. YOUR TACTICAL GEAR IR PATCH HQS. Another great product designed for use with our 52813 Operators Choice Plate Carrier. Tina Marie Kersten Lightfoot Dhahran Saudi Arabia Scud Attack Hero. Two or three huge scrape books now in the library of the Kansas State Historical Society preserve the hundreds of newspaper clippings. Colonel Hughes was born at Columbia, Tennessee, January 1. He was the son of Judge and Mrs. A. M. Hughes. He had three brothers and two sisters. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1. He belonged to an honorary fraternity and also to an engineering fraternity, both Greek letter societies. He was married on October 6, 1. Miss Mary Adaline Clark, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. J. T. Clark of Topeka. To them three children were born James C. Hughes, a retired U. S. Regular Army Colonel of Artillery of Long Beach, California Mrs. Cecial W. Meredith, of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. Juliet Newcomb, Los Angeles, California. Colonel Hughes was always a loyal member of the Republican Party. Soon after coming to Topeka he became a member of the Topeka Republican Flambeau Club. John A. Mc. Call of Topeka patented the flambeau torch of 1. It had a membership of 2. The club took part in some of the most prominent demonstrations in the United States, among them the nomination of President Harrison at Chicago in 1. Colonel Hughes was the captain of their drill team of 8. Apart from activities already mentioned the Colonels career in local public service covered many years. Potwin, where he lived, was incorporated as a third class city. Col. Hughes was the Mayor of Potwin in 1. After Potwin was taken into the city of Topeka, he served a councilman from the 6th ward Potwin in 1. In 1. 90. 1 Col. Hughes was elected Mayor of Topeka. The canvassing board elected him. The Supreme Court counted him out after he had been in office ten months. The Supreme Court ruled his opponent had won by five votes. Hughes was chief of police of Topeka in 1. Mayor Cofrans administration. Colonel Hughes last public office was as a member of the board of education of Topeka. He was first elected in 1. He was a member of the Board at the time of his death. He served as president of the Board and also as the chairman of the Building and Grounds Committee. A set of tennis courts on West 8th street in named Hughes Courts in his honor. When Hughes first came to Topeka in 1. Santa Fe for a position in the engineering department, he presented a letter of introduction. He was told that a job he might have had was gone and asked where he had been in the thirty days since the date of the letter. The Colonel replied he had so many kinfolks it took a long time to bid them goodbye. A short time later he became chief clerk to J. M. Meade, Santa Fe resident engineer, a position he held five years. In 1. 88. 6 he became roadmaster at Arkansas City. He built 1. 55 miles of track between Arkansas City and Purcell. Soon after, he came back to his old position as chief clerk to Meade. In 1. 89. 1 he resigned from the Santa Fe and became the Topeka agent of the Pomeroy Coal Company of Atchison. Two years later, he purchased the coal yard and operated it for 1. After his period of service as adjutant general, he worked for Arthur Capper for a year on the front desk at the Daily Capital. This was the year 1. Then he represented the Illinois Life Insurance Company till it failed during the depression of the 1. From then onhe was the Topeka agent of the Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis. During the 1. 92. State Poultry Association for several years. J. W. F. Hughes had many titles, Major General, Brigadier General, Colonel, Captain, Lieutenant, Mayor and Chief. But of them all, he preferred to be called Colonel. And he was greeted with respect and affection as Colonel Hughes by many thousands of Topekans for over 6. Born just a week before the outbreak of the Civil War, his birthplace, Columbia, was in middle Tennessee, a region bitterly divided in its sentiments. His father was a United States district judge who was a believer in the Northern cause. Because of this sentiment, many of his kin folks damned him and never spoke to his branch of the family again. During the Civil War, Judge Hughes property was occupied first by the troops of one side and then by the troops of the other. By the end of War, Col. Hughes was old enough to be familiar with the trappings of war. Besides that, his ancestry included an officer of the American Revolutionary Army making him eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati which was formed in 1. Eligibility is limited by descent through males only. Whatever may have been his incitement, young Hughes joined the National Guard of his state when he was only 1. At the University of Tennessee, military training was compulsory. He received his commission as second lieutenant when he was a sophomore, having already passed through the grades as private, corporal, sergeant and second sergeant. When he graduated, June 4, 1. Among his extra curricular activities he was the drum major of the band. William Gibbs Mc. Adoo was the bass drummer. A photograph of that band in full dress uniform hung on the wall of his office for years. In later years when Mc. Adoo would go through Topeka on the train, Hughes would always go down to meet him. When the Colonel would say Hello, Billy, Mr. Mc. Adoo would say that sounded fine that he was so tired of being called Mr. Secretary. On coming to Topeka, Hughes joined the Kansas National Guard in which he became Captain, Co. A, of the 3rd Regiment, August 2. Colonel of the regiment in the following year. Following his dismissal during the Legislative War in 1. Brigadier General and Major General of the Kansas National Guard. From 1. 90. 5 to 1. Adjutant General of the State in the administration of Governor E. W. Hock. Other members of the Colonels family belonged to the Military establishment of the United States. A brother of J. W. F. Hughes was Archelaus Hughes, colonel of the 8th Immunes in the Spanish American War. Photo Blender For Pc 2017 - Full Version 2017. William N. Hughes, another brother, was a U. S. Regular Army Colonel of Infantry. William N. Hughes had a son with the same regular army rank. The Col. James C. Statistics With Stata Hamilton.