BIOGRAPHY: William HUEY, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 635.

  WILLIAM HUEY, Allensville, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in County Tyrone, 
Ireland, July 12, 1816.  He is a son of Andrew and Rebecca (Somerville) Huey.  
Andrew Huey, with his wife and four children, came to America from Ireland in 
1819, landing at Philadelphia.  They bought fifteen acres of land in the west 
end of the Kishacoquillas valley, and there established their home.  Andrew Huey 
was a progressive and industrious man;  he greatly improved his land, and added 
to it year by year, so that at the time of his death the farm consisted of 300 
acres of well cultivated land.  He devoted his life to farming and was very 
successful.  Mr. Huey was a Democrat, and was interested in all local 
enterprises.  On the voyage over from Ireland, the Hueys came in the same ship 
with Mr. Robert Wallace, the father of the late ex-Senator Wallace, of 
Clearfield county.  Andrew Huey died in April, 1865;  he was an earnest 
Christian, and won the respect of all his neighbours.
  William Huey was one of eight children;  he received his education in the 
district schools of Huntingdon county, in Henderson, now Brady township, and 
remained with his father, assisting him on the farm until he reached the age of 
thirty years.  He then began to farm on his own account in Henderson township, 
Huntingdon county, where West Huntingdon is now situated, and remained there two 
years.  He then removed to Dublin township, where he remained fifteen years.  In 
1865 he came to Allensville, and the following winter began business as a 
merchant;  in this occupation he has continued successfully up to the present 
time.  He is a Democrat.
  William Huey was married, January 12, 1847, to Ann, daughter of James and 
Annie (Beatty) Cook.  Their children are:  James Andrew, who died aged eighteen 
months;  infant twins, deceased;  Robert C., who married Sadie Hazlett, has 
seven children;  Anna Belle (Mrs. Dr. Heddings), of Juniata county;  Rebecca 
Jane (Mrs. Dr. E. J. Zook), of Cumberland county, Pa.;  and Agnes M.   Mrs. 
William Huey died October 23, 1894, aged seventy-six years.  She was an earnest 
member and a faithful worker of the Presbyterian church, and was loved and 
esteemed by all who knew her.  Mr. Huey also is a member of the Presbyterian 
church;  he has served as elder for over forty years.