Jabez Bowen Hugg (1872-?)

Lawyer.

Born at Orillia, Ontario on 7 June 1872, son of Frank B. Hugg and Susan Waite Moffatt, he was educated at Orillia High School, and the University of Manitoba University (BA, 1895). He worked briefly as a schoolmaster at Orillia (1889) before coming to Manitoba in 1890 where he read law with Sir James Aikins, K.C. He was principal of the high school at Regina, Saskatchewan from 1896 to 1902, wascalled to the Manitoba Bar in 1904, and commenced practice in Winnipeg two years later.

On 27 July 1898, he married Mabel Winnifred Eddy of Regina, Saskatchewan, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

In 1911, Hugg was a barrister with the firm of Hugg & Hugg. By 1925, he was senior partner in the firm of Hugg, Johnston & Garson. He also served as Lecturer and Examiner in the area of corporate and municipal law with the Manitoba Law School from 1915 to 1918. He was Counsel for the Canadian Manufacturers Association and Employees Association of Manitoba. He was a Director of the Winnipeg Fur Company and the North Empire Fire Insurance Company; and a member of the Dominion Fisheries Commission to investigate Manitoba fisheries. He was a member of the Scientific Club of Winnipeg.

In the April 1919 issue of Industrial Canada he called for the government to “assert the authority of the state and ... suppress all unlawfulness no matter by whom committed.” With H. A. Robson he co-authored several important law texts, including Cases on Municipal Law (1915 and 1920).

He later moved to Chicago, Illinois after which no further information on his whereabouts has been found.

Sources:

Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, 1911. C. W. Parker, editor. Canadian Press Association, Vancouver.

Profile revised: 24 May 2009

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