William Ellery Hughes was born on 9 October 1857 in Phoenixville, Pa. He received both his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1880. His medical thesis was on the placenta. At Commencement Hughes received the Anatomical Prize for best record of anatomical anomalies found in the dissecting rooms. He set up private practice in Philadelphia, where he became a Consulting Physician to Philadelphia General, Presbyterian, and Miseriacordia Hospitals and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. Dr. Hughes was a Fellow of the American Medical Association and was elected to the Fellowship of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on 2 Nov. 1892. Hughes died in Philadelphia on 16 Mar. 1944 of arteriosclerotic cardiopathy.
From the description of A record of anomalies found in the dissecting room of the University of Pennsylvania, 1878-[1880?] / offered in competition for the prize offered by H. Lenox Hodge, M.D., [by] Wm. E. Hughes. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 145406441
