Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Huff, Socrates July 1, 1827 - September 26, 1907
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Author: Bailey Millard

Socrates Huff, who served four terms as treasurer of Alameda County, was one of 
the honored California pioneers of the year 1849.  He was born in Crawford 
County, Ohio, July 1, 1827, a son of William Huff.  He was about two years old 
when his parents numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers in Berrien 
County, Michigan, in 1829.  In that county Socrates Huff was reared to adult 
age, under the conditions and influences of the pioneer days prior to the 
admission of Michigan to statehood.  In February, 1849, accompanied by one of 
his brothers [Lucien Bonaparte Huff] and four other companions, Mr. Huff set 
forth for California, and, by way of Salt Lake and the Truckee Pass, he crossed 
the plains to his destination.  He mined for a time on Bear River, thereafter 
was in business a short time at Sacramento, and he then came to what is now 
Alameda County.  In August, 1851, Mr. Huff purchased a freighting vessel, which 
he placed in commission between Alvardo, San Francisco and Stockton.  In the 
fall of the following year he returned to the East, and in February, 1853, 
married Miss Amelia Cassaday, who was born in Pennsylvania and whose father 
later settled in Cook County, Illinois.  After his marriage Mr. Huff drove a 
herd of cattle from Iowa to Alameda County, California.  In 1859 he made 
permanent settlement at San Leandro.  In 1863 he was elected treasurer of 
Alameda County, and in 1886 he was again elected to this office, as was he also 
in 1888 and 1890.  He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 
1880, and was active in the local councils of his party.  Mr. Huff has valuable 
real estate and farm properties and became interested also in banking and the 
insurance business.  He and his wife became the parents of seven children, all 
daughters.” END

Additional Comments:
“History of the San Francisco Bay Region”
By Bailey Millard
Chicago: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924
Volume 3, page 358


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