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3260 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSTwo years later tic was awarded his master's degree. It is noteworthy thatDoctor Hughlett paid his own way through school, his expense money havingbeen, saved during the five years lie taught school as a boy between the agesof sixteen and twenty-one, and it should also be mentioned that lie had soadvanced with his studies in those five years that he was able, to enterRandolph-Macon in its sophomore class. He finished that year's work, andthen returned to his teaching for a year, filling the position of principal ofthe schools in North Danville, Virginia, after which he returned to Randolph-Maeon in time to begin study with the junior class. During that and hissenior years the young student served the school as assistant professor inmathematics and Latin. In 1889, after receiving his A. B. degree, he foundedChesapeake Academy at Irvington, Lancaster County, Virginia, and thatschool is still in existence. ITc remained with the new school long enough tosee it well established and in 1890 he was made principal of Randolph-MacouAcademy for Boys at Bedford City, Virginia. This was one of severalacademic institutions founded by Randolph-Macon about this time at variouspoints in the state for hoys and girls. He served the Bedford City Academyas principal for eight years consecutively, and his work while there may bejudged from the fact that the academy of which he was principal during thoseyeai-s is accounted the leading boys' school in the State of Virginia today.For a period of seven years subsequent to 189R he was engaged in educationalwork in the States of Arkansas and Tennessee, the particular character of hisactivities being the organization of various schools in conformity with therequirements of the Board of Education of the Methodist Church, South.In l[)0n he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South,being admitted on trial to the West Tennessee Conference at Memphis, andassigned to the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of Jackson. Hoserved that church for four years. In 1907 ho was ordained deacon byBishop Ilcdrix, and in 1909 he was ordained elder by the same worthy churchman. He was transferred to the West Virginia Conference in 1909 andassigned by Bishop E. E. Eoss to St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church «tParkcrsbnrg, West Virginia. In 1910 be was again transferred, tins time tothe North Georgia Conference, his assignment to St. Mark Church, Atlanta,by Bishop A. W. Wilson, following soon thereafter.Doctor Hughlett served St. Mark as pastor for four years, and his recordwas a highly creditable one. This is one of the strongest churches in theNorth Georgia Conference, and it requires the ministrations of a. capableand faithful man. In November, 1914, he was appointed presiding elder ofthe Atlanta district of the North Georgia Conference by Bishop Collins Denny,and be is now serving in that capacity. He has his headquarters in Atlanta,but the duties of his office take him away from the city a great deal.In the spring of 1910 the, degree oE LL. D. was conferred upon DoctorHughlett, while he was pastor of the church at Parkcrsburg, "West Virginia.During his long experience as an educator in his native state Doctor Hughlettgained a wide prominence in the Old Dominion as a teacher in mathematics.He is the author of a treatise on Latin Syntax. He also published a series ofmathematical texts that brought him recognition iu educational circles, forthat subject was his specialty in his teaching days, and he was acknowledgedas a master in the art of imparting knowledge of the subject.Doctor Hughlett is one of the vice presidents of the American PeaceSociety, and is especially active in the good work of that organization.On August 28,1892, Doctor Hughlett was married at Petersburg, Virginia,to Miss Katherine Bradbury, who was born in Virginia, but whose paternalancestors were New Englanders. Her father was John W. Bradbury, ofPetersburg, Virginia, and her mother was Annie Wells, the daughter of anold Virginia family. John W. Bradbury was born and reared in Maine, andhis family was one of Revolutionary fame. He came to Virginia prior to