A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . pranks, in the man developedan optimistic temperament. And his was anoptimism of the right kind—one that not onlymade him think and talk optimistically, butact so. He was a man of clean life and strongprinciples, and his influence was always onthe side of every elevating and progressiveenterprise. His death in January. 1902. re-Tuoved an honored citizen, loved and respectedb\- all with whom he came in contact. GEORGE WASHINGTON HUGHES. Ina
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . pranks, in the man developedan optimistic temperament. And his was anoptimism of the right kind—one that not onlymade him think and talk optimistically, butact so. He was a man of clean life and strongprinciples, and his influence was always onthe side of every elevating and progressiveenterprise. His death in January. 1902. re-Tuoved an honored citizen, loved and respectedb\- all with whom he came in contact. GEORGE WASHINGTON HUGHES. Ina state noted for magnificent scenic effects, theview from Signal Hill is not one of the leaststriking. Stretching only two miles from thegreat ocean and south of the Sierra Madre range,it aftords an attractive view of both, as well as oftwenty-seven cities and villages. Those who arefamiliar with its landscape claim as the chiefbeauty its ever-changing views with the passingof morning, noon and night. Every morning theisland of Catalina may be seen on the one handand the great city of Los Angeles on the Kt^cjlJ-^^,.^ HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RI-CORD. 040 Every evening the stars shine down upon myr-iads of lights gleaming from lighthouses andpiers, or swinging from ships and yachts, ortwinkling through the windows of countlesshomes. Near by is the city of Long Beach, withits auditorium seating six thousand, its hotelcosting nearly one-half million dollars, its bankbuilding costing $100,000, its pier costing $100,-000 and eighteen hundred feet in length, and itspopulation growing with unprecedented promoter of Signal Hill and the presidentof the Signal Hill Improveiiient Company is G.^V. Hughes, a young man of great energy andprogressive spirit, who was born near Vincennes,Ind., July 10, 1870, being the eldest among eightchildren, four sons and four daughters. His par-ents, John B. and Abbie G. (Wannan) Hughes,were natives of Indiana and Illinois, and th
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