Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Huffnagle, George W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   GEORGE W. HUFFNAGLE retired, P.O. New Hope, was born in 
Philadelphia, May 9, 1821, and is a son of John and Sarah E. 
(Franks) Huffnagle.  His father was a native of Lancaster 
country, Pa., and was a merchant in Philadelphia for many 
years.  In 1847 he removed to New Hope, residing there until 
his death.  His wife was a daughter of Colonel Isaac Franks, 
of Germantown, Pa., who entered the revolutionary army in 
1776, when 17 years of age, and served with distinction.  He 
was taken prisoner by the British in New York, but escaped 
to New Jersey.  He was appointed ensign of the 7th 
Massachusetts regiment by John Hancock, and was for a time 
assistant commissary at West Point under General MacDougall. 
 He retired at the close of the war as colonel, and soon 
after was appointed prothonotary of Philadelphia.  He owned 
the house and furniture in Germantown, which was rented and 
occupied by General Washington and his family in 1793.  The 
children of John Huggnagle were:  Charles, William K., Mary 
A., Benjamin F., George W. and Alfred.  Of these Charles was 
a physician and a graduate of the University of 
Pennsylvania.  He was surgeon of the ship "Star," from 
Philadelphia to Calcutta in 1826, and was for several years 
identified with a leading business house in India.  He was 
appointed consul to India by President Polk in 1847, 
receiving the first appointment to that position, which he 
held under the succeeding administrations as 
counsel-general, until his death in 1860.  At the great 
London exhibition in  1851, he received two bronze medals 
for the best collection of objects of art and industry of 
British India at the exhibition.  He died in London in 1860. 
 William K. Huffnagle was a civil engineer, and the first of 
the family to locate in Bucks county.  He afterward removed 
to Mount Holly, N. J., where he resided until his death.  He 
held the following positions:  principal assistant engineer 
in the construction of the Camden and Amboy railroad; 
principal assistant engineer in the construction of the 
Tide-water canal, and principal engineer for the eastern 
division of the state of Pennsylvania, for her railroads, 
canals, etc.  George W., the subject of this sketch, in 
early manhood located in western Pennsylvania, where he 
engaged in the mercantile business and other enterprises up 
to 1858, when he located in New Hope.  Since then he has 
lived a retired life.