Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Huff, Daniel November 29, 1816 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 14, 2006, 5:02 pm Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) New Garden Township p. 655 & 656 & 657 Daniel Huff, son of John Huff, the son of Daniel Huff, the son of Daniel Huff, the son of Daniel Huff, was born in Surry County, N.C., Nov. 29, 1816, and in 1819 his parents, John and Mary Huff, emigrated to Wayne County, Ind., and settled a mile east of the New Garden Friends' meeting-house, and a mile and a half southeast of Fountain City. At that time the greater part of the land was heavily timbered. His ancestors were of English extraction. His mother, a member or the Burnside family, was born in Maryland, but moved with her parents to North Carolina when a little girl. She was a sociable, talented woman, and served as Clerk of her Quarterly Meeting most of time from 1819 till her death, in 1846, aged sixty-seven years. His father, John Huff, was uncommonly quiet, a peaceable, hard-working man, who was never known to have any trouble with anyone, though he lived to be over eighty years of age. He died in 1852. There was a family of eight children, six of whom lived till maturity---James, married Susannah H. Butler; Cristee, married Ann Blessing; Matilda, married David Maxwell; Amelia, married Jonathan Elliott; Daniel, married Emily Jane Nixon; Tamar, married Moses Spruy. All save Daniel are now deceased. He has undergone some of the privations of pioneer life. Has seen the bounding of the wild deer and heard the bowling of wolves from the old cabin door. He assisted his parents in opening the farm, remaining with them till twenty-one years of age. In the winter of 1837 he was employed by William Hough to work three months in a wagon shop, in what is now Fountain City. At the expiration of that time he was hired for the season, and has continued to work in a wagon and carriage shop for forty-six years. His education was a limited one, never attending school more than two months in the winter, and then in the early subscription school, taught in vacated cabins. He was married in 1844 to Emily Jane, daughter of Samuel and Rhoda (Hubbard) Nixon, of Fountain City, and sister of Dr. O. W. and William Nixon, of the Inter Ocean, Chicago, Ill. They have had five children---Rhoda Alice, wife of Solomon Woody; Roxanna, died in early childhood; Charles Sumner, a merchant of Martinsville, Morgan County, Ind., married Alsie Lasell, Oliver Nixon, a graduate of Ann Arbor Medical College, now a physician of Fountain City, Ind.; Atwood H., recently a salesman for Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, but now mailing clerk in the Inter Ocean office. Mr. and Mrs. Huff have always been members of the Society of' Friends, their children also adhering to the same faith. Politically, he first voted for Harrison in 1840. In 1844 voted for Birney, and from the Liberty went to the Free-Soil party; thence, in 1856, to the Republican party; still holds one foot on its wasting glory and the other on the Prohibition car, on a bee-line for prohibiting the manufacture and sale of all intoxicating liquors in the State, and expects soon to lift the other foot to the car and never change again. He was one of the freight agents of the Underground Railroad and was permitted to shelter some of the sable race while on their journey from whips and chains to a land of freedom; was one of the councilmen in midnight houses when owners were in hot pursuit. He was never a member of any secret order nor military company, looking on all wars as a relic of barbarism and in no sense belonging to a Christian nation or the peaceable kingdom of Christ. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/huff106gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb