THE REV. PHILIP C. HUGHEY, JR.
Mr. Hughey is the fourth generation of Baptist ministers in his family. His father, the Rev. Philip C. Hughey, Sr., is pastor of the United Baptist church, Presque Isle. His late grandfather, the Rev. Albert A. Walsh, D.D., held pastorates in Gardner and Westbrook, was field evangelist for the Free Baptists of Maine and his last pastorate was in Allagash, where he organized the Allagash Baptist church.
His great-grandfather W.R. Pettengill, was pastor in Leeds.
Mr. Hughey attended college and was Eastern Baptist graduated from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary of Philadelphia in 1946. He was ordained at the Bethany Baptist church in Camden, N. J., serving as student pastor there. He also served as assistant pastor of the Wadsworth Avenue Baptist church in New York City and of the United Baptist church, Presque Isle, prior to receiving a call from his present parish in 1948.
He has served in various capacities as radio singer, trumpeter, youth speaker, instructor and counseller at the Aroostook Bible camp in Allagash and teacher at the Aroostook Bible Institute.
During his pastorate in Washburn, he has rendered an effective ministry among the youth of the community. His Sunday school class of high school age numbers 35. He has organized and directed a junior choir, and a youth choir. He was scoutmaster for several years.
Mrs. Hughey taught a Sunday school class for some time, was on the program committee of the Women's Missionary Society and is president of the Mary Philatheas.
They have three children, Philip Calvin, 3rd, Alberta and Susan Grace.
The First Baptist church in Clinton, Mass., is older than the city. It was organized as the Baptist society in 1816, before the town was incorporated.