Greene-Washington County IN Archives Biographies.....Huff, T. D. 1847 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

    T. D. HUFF, one of the oldest established merchants of Bloomfield, was born
in Washington County, Ind., March 14, 1847, and is a son of Stephen and
Elizabeth Huff, natives respectively of West Virginia and Kentucky. He received
but a common education, taught school for some time, and when twenty-two years
old began mercantile life in Martinsburg, which he continued until 1864. In
February of that year, he opened a general store on the northeast corner of the
square in Bloomfield, with a $3,000 stock of goods, but in 1868 he removed to
the north side, where he continued selling goods until his removal to his
present location in 1878. In 1877, he began the erection of his brick business
block, which was completed the year following at a cost of $5,500. Mr. Huff has
been one of the most successful and reliable merchants ever in Bloomfield, and
by his own energy and industry has accumulated a comfortable fortune. He owns
one dry goods store, one grocery and provision store, and a two-thirds interest
in the hardware store of Huff & Rankin in Bloomfield. His capital invested in
merchandising in the town amounts to $20,000, and he yearly transacts a business
of about $65,000. Mr. Huff is a Republican, and to his marriage with Caroline
Andrews, which was consummated in September, 1859, live children have been born.
The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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