Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES
LESLIE HUGHES
CHARLES LESLIE HUGHES--An energetic, experienced executive is Charles Leslie Hughes, the secretary of the California Breeders’ Sales and Pedigree Company, in the Ochsner Building in Sacramento. A native of the Empire State, Mr. Hughes was born on January 6, 1880, the son of L. E. and Anna (McGinniss) Hughes, worthy citizens who did their part to make better the locality in which they lived.
Charles Hughes attended public schools, and then went to Colgate University. After that, he worked at various undertakings, trying insurance, then the cattle range, and after that real estate, so that when he came out to California in 1905, he was equipped with a varied and valuable experience. He found an excellent engagement with a business house in San Francisco, and for five years traveled as their salesman, thereby getting better acquainted with California. He then bought the “Livestock and Dairy Journal,” of Sacramento, and published it for five years, through that channel doing much to foster certain departments of the greatest importance in California agriculture. In 1916, Mr. Hughes entered upon the varied duties of his present responsible post. In politics, he is independent enough of mere party and partisan influence to be able, especially as an enthusiast for local reforms, to wield thereby a wider influence. He is attached to his home, but he is nevertheless fond of outdoor life, opportunity for the enjoyment of which one finds a-plenty in Sacramento County.
On June 4, 1921, Mr. Hughes was married to Miss Mae Cook, a popular lady of San Francisco, who has shared his work and his pleasures, and who doubtless deserves no little credit for his professional success. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hughes are indeed popular, representing as they do the best spirit of Northern California.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 928. Historic
Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.