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Birth Date22 Aug 1830
Birth PlaceSpringfield, Washington County, Kentucky
Death Date20 Oct 1895 Age: 65
Death PlaceDallas, Dallas County, Texas
FlagsHughes Lineage
Misc. Notes
Dr. Frederic Venable Hughes was born in Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, August 22, 1831 and educated in Washington Academy of that town. He subsequently studied medicine in the medical college, St. Louis, graduating before he was 21 years old.
In 1850 he came to Texas and settle in Indianola. A year later he attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania and returning to Indianola, he engaged in the drug business.
He left Texas for Virginia where he farmed and practiced medicine. He returned in 1860 and started a plantation on the Guadalupe River. He attended the sick and wounded in New Orleans during the civil war.
In 1872 he moved to Dallas with his sons where engaged in manufacturing.