Dr. William George Hughes and Sarah Erwin Rankin

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Husband Dr. William George Hughes ¹

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            AKA: Dr. William T. Hughes 2
           Born: 26 Oct 1872 - North Hope, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hudson Hughes (Abt 1841-1881) 1
         Mother: Naomi Daubenspeck (1847-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 16 Apr 1901 3

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Wife Sarah Erwin Rankin ^{2 3}

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           Born:  - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: William W. Rankin (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Fannie Glass (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Francis Naomi Hughes ³

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           Born: 13 Jan 1904 3
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           Died: Abt Nov 1904
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M William Rankin Hughes ³

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           Born: 18 Mar 1905 3
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           Died: Abt 1906
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William George Hughes

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He was one of the first to graduate from the Pittsburgh Dental College. He spent his early life attending the public schools. His father died when he was but nine years of age, when a boy most needs the paternal care, and young Hughes was employed in a cigar factory at Oil City, Pennsylvania. Later he became a messenger boy in the employ of the B., N. Y. & P. railroad, in the office of the superintendent, where he became time-keeper. Not fully satisfied that that was the line of work he most desired, he went into the shops of the Innis Engine Company to learn the trade of a machinist, and from there went to the Oil City Boiler Works, then to Joseph Reed & Company, and next to the Standard Oil Company's "National Transit Company," where he remained for seven years, part of the time employed in the electrical department, over which he had charge for one year. During this engagement he attended night school, and in 1895 decided to take up dentistry for his profession and went to Warren, Ohio, where he was apprenticed to Dr. H. E. Dunn. The next year he came to Pittsburgh and entering the Western University of Pennsylvania (dental, department), graduated from that institution with the first graduating class which was sent out from the college. While attending college he ran the Monongahela House electrical plant, and when the Park Building was completed he operated the plant there. After completing his dental course he began the practice of his profession, at the same time carrying on business with A. S. Jones, equipping steamboats with electric plants, as well as other electrical work. He conducted his dental parlors at No. 6216 Penn avenue from 1899 to 1905, when he removed to a location at 6223 Penn avenue, where he enjoyed a lucrative practice.
He was a member of the Odontological Society; of the Free and Accepted Masons; and of Gourgus Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R. The Doctor was a member of the Second Presbyterian church of Pittsburgh.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 164.

2 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 243.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 166.