Alfred Lacey Hough Papers 1861-1924 1869-1889

Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870

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Thomas was born at Newsom's Depot, Southampton County, Virginia, five miles (8 km) from the North Carolina border. His father, John Thomas, of Welsh descent, and his mother, Elizabeth Rochelle Thomas, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, had six children. George had three sisters and two brothers. The family led an upper-class plantation lifestyle. By 1829, they owned 685 acres (2.77 km2) and 24 slaves. John died in a farm accident when George was 13, leaving the family in financial diffi...

Hough family

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Hough, Alfred Lacey, 1826-1908

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Alfred Lacey Hough (1824-1908) was born into the Southern New Jersey, Quaker, landed gentry on April 23, 1826. In 1853, he joined the artillery corps of the Washington Grays, a Pennsylvania home militia organization. He married Mary Jane Merrill in 1857. On April 18, 1861, Hough went with the Washington Grays into the 17th Pennsylvania Volunteers, but was discharged from that regiment to allow him to take a regular commission as Captain in the 19th U.S. Infantry. As a member of that regiment, Ca...

Hough, Mary J. (Mary Jane)

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Hough, John N. (John Newbold), 1906-

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Alfred Lacey Hough (1824-1908) was born into the Southern New Jersey, Quaker, landed gentry on April 23, 1826. After beginning his business life as an apothecary clerk, Alfred Hough became a commission agent in a paper-manufacturing house in which he soon became a partner. In 1853, for social and business reasons, he joined the artillery corps of the Washington Grays, a Pennsylvania home militia organization. The move foreshadowed a loss of his Quaker faith. He married Mary Jane Mer...