• Age: 43
• Interview Date: 10/22/2008
• Interviewer: Mark R. DePue, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• Interview Length: 65 minutes Sit Down Interview, 22 minutes Walk and Talk Interview
• County: McLean
• Matthew Hughes was born in Litchfield, Illinois in 1965 and grew up on a family farm. Matthew went to college at University of Illinois and then took several jobs in agriculture research and analysis before returning to farm over 2,000 acres of soybeans today.

Hughes Family Portrait from 1970: (seated) Rosemary, (standing) Ruth, Ann, Matthew, and Dale    Hughes Family Portrait from 1979: (seated) Dale and Rosemary; (standing) Matthew, Ann, and Ruth