Edwin Holt Hughes papers

Collection

Identifier: MSD-0000-036

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a biographical sketch from Who's Who in America, correspondence in alphabetical order, and Rhodes Scholarship information. Clippings, articles, photographs and sermons are also included.

Dates

Creation: 1866 - 1950

Creator

Hughes, Edwin Holt, 1866-1950 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with the Archives and Special Collections, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN. All requests to publish or quote must be submitted to Archives and Special Collections.

Biographical Note

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Edwin Holt Hughes was born in Moundsville, West Virginia. He married Isabel Ebbert on June 8, 1892. They had six children: Isabel, Holt, Ebbert, Caroline, Anna Louise, and Francis. He studed at West Virginia University beginning in 1887 and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with an A.B. degree in 1889 and an A.M. degree in 1892. He attended Boston University School of Theaology. He began preaching in 1886 as pastor at Newton Centre, Massachusetts and later, Malden, Massachusetts.

Hughes was the ninth president of DePauw University from 1903-1908. In 1904, he was elected president of the Indiana State Teachers Association. During his time at DePauw, he was credited for doubling the university's endowment and enforcing student discipline.

During World War I he served as a chaplain. He had served as acting president of both Boston University and American University. From 1936-1940 he was head of the Methodist Board of Temperance and in 1941 was chairman of the church's war commission. Bishop Hughes was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and was a past national president of the organization.

During a speaking engagement in Muncie, Indiana, Hughes became ill and spent two weeks in a Washington, D.C. hospital with viral pneumonia. He died on February 12, 1950.