My Genealogy Hound

T. L. HUGHEY, steamboat engineer, post office Groveton. Since 1790 this family have been identified with Allegheny county. William Hughey, at that date, immigrated to this county from New Jersey, his native state, with his wife and children, and purchased nearly five hundred acres in Robinson township. He was remarkable for his great strength and physical endurance. Adam Hughey, his son, was born in 1785, and at the death of his father inherited two hundred of the five hundred acres. He married Margaret Logan, of Chambersburg, Franklin county, Pa., whose parents were of Scotch-Irish descent, and came to Western Pennsylvania in an early day. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hughey, four now living: T. L. (the subject of this memoir, born in 1829), Mary A., Sarah A. and Eliza Jane. T. L. is now the only male survivor of the family, He owns thirty-six acres of the original tract purchased by his grandfather. He was born and reared on a farm, but for the last thirty-five years has followed steam boat engineering on the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi. He married, in 1865, Teressa, daughter of William Jones. He is a Freemason and a republican.