Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Jacob HUFFENAGLE

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JACOB HUFFENAGLE - owns a farm of 550 acres in Fort Spring district, valued at $16,500, 
and devotes it largely to grazing. His residence is located in one of the most 
beautiful spots in the beautiful county of Greenbrier, and his old age has all 
material comforts. He was born in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1815,
a son of Jacob and Mary (RIDER) HUFFNAGLE, both of whom have been more than half
a century numbered with the dead.  His father died in 1819. Both were born in 
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. In July, 1834, the subject of this sketch made his
home in Greenbrier County, and in this county at Lewisburg, in 1840, he was 
united in marriage with Adelaide Johnson KOHLENBURG, who was born in Frederick
County, Maryland, in 1817.  Of their union three daughters were born: Anna, 
February 22, 1842, died January 6, 1860; Mary, March 3, 1844, whose home is 
in this county; Sue A., July 25, 1847, who lives at home.  Jacob HUFFNAGLE's
post office address is Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
 
Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.