Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Huff, George 1843 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  George Huff, a Civil war veteran and representative of that type of pioneers
who settled and developed Johnson county, is now living retired at Olathe, after
a successful career. George Huff is a native of Illinois, born in Pike county,
October 2, 1843, and is a son of John and Mary (Bruner) Huff, the father a
native of Prussia and the mother of Pennsylvania. They came to Illinois at a
very early date, first locating in Pike county and when George, the subject of
this sketch, was a child, they removed to Adams county, where the parents spent
the remainder of their lives. The father died at the age of sixty-two and the
mother at seventy-five. They were the parents of the following children: Aaron,
who served three years in the Civil war, now deceased; George, the subject of
this sketch; John resides in Olathe; Lydia, married Nathan Barnes, both
deceased; Mary, deceased; Rachael, married John Pursell, Winfield, Kan.; Frank,
Sugar City, Colo.; Jacob resides in Adams county, Illinois; James, Pike county,
Illinois; Martha, married Clarence Herron and they reside in Oklahoma; Alice,
married James Richardson, Pike county, Illinois; Emma married a Mr. Cummings,
Oklahoma, and William, resides in Reno county, Kansas. George Huff was reared on
a farm, acquired a good common school education in the pioneer schools of the
times, and had just about reached manhood when the Civil war broke out. He
enlisted at Quincy, Ill., in Company D, Seventh regiment, Illinois infantry.
They were sent to Camp Butler and a few days later to New York City; thence to
Newbern, N. C., on a transport, and shortly after that joined Sherman's army in
South Carolina and was in that locality when Jefferson Davis, the Confederate
president, was captured. At the close of the war his regiment was returned to
Washington and took part in the Grand Review and was then sent to Louisville,
Ky., where he was discharged and later, in July, 1865, was mustered out at Camp
Butler, near Springfield, Ill. He then returned to Adams county and farmed for a
short time, and in 1866 came to Kansas, locating in Johnson county, where he
worked as a farm laborer about three years, when he returned to Illinois and was
married and brought his bride back to Johnson county and bought a farm ten miles
east of Olathe which he still owns. He added to his original farm from time to
time until he now owns 360 acres of land. He was successfully engaged in farming
and stock raising and has become one of the substantial men of the county. He
removed to Olathe in 1897 and since that time has rented his farms. Mr. Huff was
married September 12, 1869, to Miss Mary Ellen Chaplin, a native of Pike county,
Illinois, and a daughter of one of the pioneer families of Illinois. Her parents
were Simeon F. Chaplin and Polela J. Farmer and they were both natives of
Tennessee. They died in Pike county, Illinois. Mr. Huff is a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Franklin Post No. 68, and he belongs to the Grange, the
Anti Horse Thief Association, and he and Mrs. Huff are members of the Church of
Christ.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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