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OriginalNotes: CENSUS INFORMATION: 1860 Census, A. S. Hughes, age 39, b. OH

1880 Census Place:Crawfordsville, Montgomery, Indiana
Source: FHL Film 1254300  National Archives Film T9-0300     Page 365C 
Aaron S. Hughs, age 58, farmer, b. OH, FA b. MD, MO b. VA
Martha A. Hughs, age 58, keeping house, b. OH
John A. Hughs, age 28, b. OH, shoe salesman
Grace Hamlin, age 20, b IN, housekeeper
Elizabeth Collins, age 84, mother in law, b. VA
William F. Sharp, age 23, student

Crawfordsville Daily Journal, December 27, 1893
[viewed 28 July 2012 at http://www.ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/bios/r/rector-martha-a.htm]
Mrs. Martha A. Hughes: The funeral services of Mrs. Aaron S. Hughes will be held on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the late residence on south Green Street. The body will be placed in the vault at the Masonic Cemetery for the present. Mrs. Martha A. Hughes, who died at home on December 26, 1893, was born near Leesburg, Highland County, Ohio, on Feb 9, 1828(?), being at the time of her death over 70 years old. She married Aaron S. Hughes on June 20, 1844, and they had been married over 49 years. Mrs. Hughes was a member of the Methodist Church, having joined the church at Chillicothe, Ohio, over 50 years ago. Since their marriage, they have resided in this state at Evansville, Princeton, and Bloomington, and came to this city in 1852. They never had any children but partially raised six, one being an adopted son, John A. Hughes, of New York City, who was a nephew of the deceased. Mrs. Hughes' father's name was Rector, and she has one brother living, William Rector, of Winchester. Mrs. Hughes had been sick since the first of last September, and on the 25th of that month she fell and broke her hip, which accident kept her in bed from that time to her death. She had many friends in this city, and though a great sufferer for many years, she always tried to look upon her lot in life as being for the best. Her death was peaceful-the spark of life going out as the flickering out of a candle. Her husband survives and, with many others, can testify that she always delighted to make others happy.

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), March 9, 1895, p. 3
Mentions that Aaron Hughes intends spending a portion of his time in Winchester, but Crawfordsville will remain his home and voting place.

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), September 25, 1897, p. 1
"Over the Hills to the Poor House" Aaron hughes is taken There. After a determined struggle in life's battle, Aaron Hughes has finally given up the contest and has become an inmate of the county poor asylum, to there end his remaining days on earth. Hughes was among the early photographers of the State and for some years before the was did a prosperous business in Crawfordsville. Afterwards he became a carriage trimmer, commanding good wages and saving some money with which he purchased a residence here in town. But during the last few years bad luck has attended him. His property is gone, his family scattered and he inflicted with chronic ailments which have rendered him almost helpless. In his declining years, bent with age and misfortune, and without a dollar or friends to aid him, he has become a county charge to await patiently the call to go hence which all must answer. His case is but a repetition of history in the lives of many persons."

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), Saturday, October 2, 1897, p. 1
"Passed Away. Aaron Hughes, of whose former career and final settlement at the poor asylum was mentioned in our last issue, died on Tuesday morning and was buried in the cemetery at Winchester where his wife, who preceded him to the grave several years since, is interred. His age was 76, and he had resided here since 1852."
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OriginalSource: The News-Letter, Bloomington, Mar. 17, 1855, A. S. Hughes advertised as daguerreotypist. [as reported by James Marusek, 12/1/97 e-mail]

Craig's Daguerreian Registry:  He advertised in March, 1855 in Bloomington, noting he would close his rooms April 1. The ad implied he had been there for some time already.  Information corrected to April, 1998; © 1996, 1997 John S. Craig
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OriginalSource: Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), January 19, 1856, p. 3
Ad: "New Skylight, Daguerreotype and Ambrotype Rooms. A. S. Hughes respectfully announces to the citizens of Crawfordsville and vicinity, that he has fitted up rooms with a large sky and side light for the express purpose of Daguerreotyping and Ambrotyping, in Empire Block, directly over Sloan & Morgan's City Drug Store, and I am now ready to take Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes in A. No. 1 style and no mistake.-- Good pictures or no charges, shall be the motto. My Ambrotype Press is the same and practiced by Root of Philadelphia, and is thought by many first-class operators to be superior to the Daguerreotype, from the fact that no dampness nor climate can affect them in the least; and pictures can be taken in one-fourth the time by this process, which gives it a preference for small children and persons with weak eyes. Ladies and Gentlemen call and see the new rooms, whether you want pictures or not. Pictures taken for lockets, pins or finger rings, groups of families, and all work in the line done and on reasonable terms; satisfaction given. Good pictures can be taken in cloudy weather. Jan. 12, 1855. v7n26u1" [Ad ran through about February 21, 1857.]

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), May 16, 1857, p. 2
Photography. A. S. Hughes, the celebrated Daguerrean Artist of this place, whose life-like pictures have obtained such a celebrity, has introduced in his establishment the most wonderful off all art -- Photography, by which he is enabled to print the most perfect likeness's of persons upon paper, rivaling in point of elaborate execution, beautiful coloring and finish, the finest steel plate engraving. As this is but a recent discovery we presume our citizens will have a great curiosity to witness the process by which a likeness, truthful in every delineation, can be printed on paper, and which the most practiced eye can not distinguish from the most beautiful steel engraving. The remarkable cheapness which Mr. Hughes is enabled to furnish them will unquestionably induce every one to obtain a Photograph likeness of themselves. A dozen will not cost a trifling more than a common daguerreotype."

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), October 3, 1857, p. 4
Ad: "A. S. Hughes's Sky and Side Light Rooms, opposite Holton House, over J. & S. Robinson's Store, Crawfordsville, Ind. Daguerreotypes. Ambrographs. Ambrotypes. Malainotypes."

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), July 24, 1858, p. 3
"A Card. Crawfordsville, July 22, 1858. Ed. Review: Please inform your readers that the report that some people take great pains to circulate about me quitting the Daguerreotype business in this place, is all false. I have neither sold out nor been run out, as I know of, but am still on hand to accommodate my old and new customers, with better Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Malaineotypes, and all kinds of Sun Light Pictures, at as low of lower figures than any other establishment in the State. . . . As I contemplate being absent a portion of the time this summer, I would say to the public that Mr. J. W. O'Brien will have the entire charge of my rooms in my absence; and as he is an artist of my own training, all work done by him in my absence will be just the same as if I was here myself, for I guarantee all work done by him to be O. K. Rooms west end of Empire Block. 1-8 w. A. S. Hughes."

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), September 25, 1858, p. 1
List of Premiums Awarded at the Sixth Annual Fair of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society, September 15-17, 1858: A. S. Hughes won 3 prizes for best specimen of daguerreotype, ambrotype, and photographing. 

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), October 1, 1859, p. 1
List of Premiums Awarded at the Seventh Annual Fair of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society, September 14-16, 1859: A. S. Hughes won 3 prizes for best specimen of daguerreotype, ambrotype, and photographing.

Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), October 8, 1859, p. 2
Ad: Mentions he is best prepared for "Grouping." Offered cases and frames, the only place you can get the genuine Electro-Magnetic Daguerreotype, Ambrotypes, Malaineotypes, Photographs, and all kinds of Sun-light Pictures. Nearly opposite the Court House, 3d story in Empire Block.  A. S. Hughes. [Ad ran through August 24, 1861]

Crawfordsville Weekly Journal (Crawfordsville, Indiana), February 21, 1867, p. 1
Ad: "Photograph Gallery, A. S. Hughes Would inform his old customers and the public generally, that he has again established himself at the old stand, No. 1, Empire Block, third story, where he is prepared, with all the modern improvements in the Photographic art, to furnish porcelain pictures, photographs, melaineotypes, ambrotypes, and all other kinds of sun-light pictures in a style unsurpassed by any other artist. He invites the public to call and examine his work. Mr. H. would also correct the erroneous impression that he has left the city, by stating that he may, at all times, be found at his room, ready to accommodate all persons who may favor him with a call." [nov. 18, '66. - tf]
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OriginalSource: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, December 27, 1893, Obit. For wife Martha Hughes: States that they moved to Crawfordsville in 1852.

1858-59 Hawes Ind. State Gaz, p. 408 A. S. Hughes

1860 IN Census, A. S. Hughes, degarian artist

1862-1863 Hawes Indiana State Gazetteer, 
p. 296 Ambrotype, Daguerrian and Photographic Artists: A. S. Hughs, Crawfordsville, Montgomery

1862, October 18, Crawfordsvill Weekly Review, "Photographs in Oil Colors," photographer A. S. Hughes, Crawfordsville photographer, creating color photographs with the assistance of Miss Gobert.
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OriginalSource: 1860-61 Hawes Ind. State Gaz. & Bus. Dir., p. 499 A. S. Hughes, daguerreotype, ambrotype, & photograph artist, Vernon bet. Wash. & Green

Craig's Daguerreian Registry, p. 288 lists him as Aaron S. Hughes

Zach, "Photographers of Montgomery County"
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