Sacramento County
Biographies
ROBERT F. HUGHES
ROBERT F. HUGHES.--An experienced builder and jobber who has fortunately become a very successful contractor in growing demand in and around the California capital, is Robert F. Hughes, a native Californian who first saw the light at San Rafael, on October 28, 1871. His father was Judge William S. Hughes, for a quarter of a century justice of the peace in the old Spanish town, a pioneer of 1847, who came across the great plains at a time when traveling was anything but luxurious, and who tried his luck in the mines, soon after the excitement about gold agitated so many thousands. He married Miss Frances Asbury, who had also braved the dangers and survived the fatigue of a cross-country journey; and both father and mother were of the right sort of folks, with respect to both their habits and principles, to help settle and develop the country.
Robert F. Hughes went to the schools in San Rafael, then farmed for a while, next worked on the railroad, and after a while joined the police force in Berkeley, and during the World War period he served as a deputy sheriff. He had learned the carpenter trade, and with such thoroughness that he is able to draw his own plans and to finish his designs; and for the past twenty-five years he has been following carpenter work and contracting, with results that may well be pronounced successful. He has erected a large number of attractive buildings, and done innumerable minor and yet particular jobs in alteration and repair, and he has thus been able to render a definite service, in the most creditable manner, to the community in which he is always deeply interested. He is a Republican, but too broad-minded not to give credit where credit may be due regardless of party labels.
Mrs. Hughes was Miss Achsa Belle Woods before her marriage, and she was born, a native daughter, in San Joaquin County, near the town of Woodbridge; and they have two children, Frances Willard and Ruth. Mr. Hughes is a Mason of the third degree; and he also belongs to the Knights of Security. He likes to go fishing; but he is especially fond of horse-back riding.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 825. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.