Hon. H. J. Humes    

HON. H. J. HUMES, State Senator and attorney at law, Meadville, was born in Woodcock Township, this county, September 29, 1844, and is a son of James and Eliza (Snell) Humes, his father being a native of this county, of Scotch-Irish descent, and following agriculture as his life pursuit; his mother being of English descent, but born in Connecticut. Our subject was the second in a family of four children, and received his education in the common schools, at Edinboro Normal School and at Allegheny College, where he graduated in 1869. He studied law with W. B. Bole, in Meadville; was admitted to practice in 1871, and commenced business in Meadville in October, 1872, for himself, and has ever since continued here. In politics he is a Democrat. In 1873 and 1874 he was Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and in 1876 a member of the State Committee, and in 1882 was elected State Senator for the Fiftieth District of Pennsylvania, by 401 majority. As author of the Humes Bill, compelling the investment of the surplus funds in the State Treasury in State or United States bonds, he acquired a State reputation. He was married, in 1874, to Delia E., daughter of Thomas J. Lowery, who was an early settler of this county, and at one time Associate Judge. Mr. Lowery was of Scotch-Irish extraction. Mr. and Mrs. Humes have one child—Lowery E., born July 26, 1878. Our subject is a prominent member of the A. 0. U. W. He is preeminently a self-made man, and deserves credit for his success in life. 

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 746

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