John Patrick Hughes

Brief Life History of John Patrick

When John Patrick Hughes was born on 9 April 1919, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Patrick Joseph Hughes, was 35 and his mother, Jane Frances Lernihan, was 28. He had at least 2 sons with Elaine Marie Prevost. He died on 21 December 2003, in Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

John Patrick Hughes
1919–2003
Elaine Marie Prevost
1921–1969
John Patrick Hughes Jr.
1949–2016
Brian Victor Hughes
1952–1968

Sources (2)

  • John P Hughes, "United States Census, 1920"
  • John P Hughes, Sr, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1920 · The Detroit Wall

The Detroit Wall is a half mile long wall that was constructed to serve as a wall of racial separation as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners in northwest Detroit. Today the wall is mostly gone with only a small portion of it located at a local park.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: variant of Hugh with genitival or excrescent -s.

Irish and Scottish: adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic surnames based on the personal name Aodh ‘fire’, for example Ó hAodha, Mac Aodha; see McCoy and compare McHugh .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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