Dennis D. Hughes

biography

DENNIS D. HUGHES, a native of Kings county, Ireland, was born in 1838, and came to the United States in 1848-49. He learned his trade, that of tin-smith, in Brooklyn, New York, and four years later he was employed as a journeyman in Rochester, same state, and at the age of twenty-five years he was foreman of a shop. In 1864 he moved from Rochester to Meadville, this state, where he remained eight years. In 1872 he came to Titusville and took charge of the tin-shell department of the Roberts Torpedo Company, and continued to occupy this position until 1885.
In 1866 he went into the sheet-metal business, since which time he has done not only general tin work, tin roofing, etc., but he has also made a specialty of constructing and placing ceilings of steel sheeting, and for the last few years he has done a large business in this special line not only in Titusville but also in Oil City and other towns in the vicinity. His oldest son, E. T. Hughes, has for several years been associated with him, under the firm name of D. D. Hughes & Son. He put up the first galvanized sheet-iron cornice in Crawford county, and he also brought into the county the first block of American tin. Mr. Hughes is the father of seven children—five sons and two daughters.

Our county and its people: a historical and memorial record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania by Samuel P. Bates, 1899, pages 685-686.