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HUGHES, DR. I. S. physician and surgeon, Kane, Ill. The above named gentleman is a native of Illinois; born in 1844; his parents, William S. and Maria Hughes, whose maiden name was Simmons, concluded to better their fortunes in the West, and accordingly located in Randolph County, about 1830; not long after their emigration West the parents of Dr. Hughes passed to that bourne from whence no traveller ever returns; thrown upon his own resources to battle with the world, the youth proceeded to St. Clair County, where he first worked as a farm hand, received the advantages of a common school education; in 1860, he wended his way to St. Louis, Mo., where he began the study of medicine under John D. Hodgen; an ardent student, possessed of an ambition beyond many who were more fortunately situated in life, he applied himself diligently to the prosecution of his studies; in 1862, he enlisted in Co. I, 117th Ill. Infantry; his advance in his medical studies were so rapid that from his first enlistment until the close of the rebellion he served in the medical department, where he gained a knowledge of materia medica that paved the way for future success; when the war closed he completed his studies at St. Louis, graduating from St. Louis Medical College in 1872, but prior to this date, owing to the rules of the establishment, he had practiced three years as a physician. Digressing a little from the subject in hand, shortly after the rebellion Dr. Hughes sought a new field of labor in Colorado, where he entered upon the mercantile business, under the firm name of Sickor & Co., a military clothing firm during the war. Returning to St. Louis in 1871-2, he practiced as a physician, while attending medical lectures, thence to Brighton, and thence to Kane in February, 1875, where he has gained a large practice among the prosperous people of Kane. Nov. 27, 1878, Dr. Hughes was married, at Springfield, to Miss Mary E. Freeman, a daughter of Abraham Freeman, one of the earlier settlers of Springfield.