Johnson-Leavenworth County KS Archives Biographies.....Huggins, J. O. 1856 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  J. O. Huggins, a well known and successful Johnson county farmer, is a native
of the Sunflower State. He was born 011 Salt creek, Leavenworth county Kansas,
August 8, 1856, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Amanda (Hundley) Huggins. The
father was a native of Tennessee and the mother of Kentucky. Benjamin F. Huggins
came to Kansas in 1850, and was married after coming to this State. He preempted
government land on Salt creek, in Leavenworth county, and was a pioneer of that
section. He remained in Leavenworth county until 1865, when he came to Johnson
county and settled on the Black Bob reservation, and followed farming there
until 1883, when he removed to Olathe, where he died in 1895. He was a Democrat
and a veteran of the Civil war. He and his wife were ardent supporters of the
Free-State cause and endured many hardships during the days of the Border war,
although they adhered strongly to their anti-slavery convictions. The mother
died in 1891. They were the parents of ten children: Eretta, deceased; Jennie,
who married Robert Baker, of Olathe; George F., of Belton, Mo.; a girl who died
in infancy; J. O., the subject of this sketch; Martha Frances resides in Olathe;
Prudie married George Folmer, of Olathe; Henry Sterling, of Olathe township;
Robert G., of Olathe, and William S., who died at the age of fifteen. J. O.
Huggins was reared in Johnson county and attended the Black Bob district school.
This was one of the primitive, pioneer school houses of Johnson county. In 1883
he went to South Dakota and took up government land, and remained in that State
for nineteen years. He then sold out, and after spending about two years in
Colorado, returned to Johnson county, in 1903, and bought a fine farm of 160
acres, three miles northwest of Olathe, where he conducts an extensive dairy
farm. He milks from forty to forty-five cows, mostly Holsteins. However, he has
some Jerseys and Shorthorns. Mr. Huggins was married, July 4, 1880, to Miss Ida
May Phillips, a native of Illinois, who came to Kansas with her parents when two
years old. They located on the Black Bob reservation, and her father, David
Phillips, now resides in South Dakota. To Mr. and Mrs. Huggins have been born
eight children, as follow: Orpha married George Trotter, Syracuse, Kan.;
Benjamin F., Geddis, S. D.; Joseph F., Geddis, S. D.; Walter, a farmer of Olathe
township; Ray and Ora, twins, both associated with their father in the
management of the home place; Archie and Fred died in childhood. Mr. Huggins is
a Democrat, but has never aspired to hold political office; however, he has
served as clerk of the school board and held other minor offices. He is a member
of the Grange, the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Baptist church.

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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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