Biography of Hiram DeWitt Huffman - Mercer Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Page 316

    HIRAM DeWITT HUFFMAN,   general manager of the Economy House &
Material Company, and one of the important business concerns of the City
of Bluefield, Mercer County, was born on a farm near Harrisonburg,
Virginia, on the 14th of January, 1891, and is a son of John S. and
Margaret Ann (Carpenter) Huffman, the former of whom died in 1920, at
the venerable age of eighty-two years, and the latter of whom resides at
Weyers Cave, Virginia.  John S. Huffman was one of the extensive farmers
and substantial citizens of that part of Virginia in which his entire
life was passed and which he represented as a gallant soldier in the
Confederate command of Gen. J. E. B. Stewart in the period of the Civil
War.  The genealogy of the Huffman family traces back to sterling
Holland Dutch origin, and the family in many generations held to the
faith of the Dutch Reformed Church.
   Hiram DeWitt Huffman is the youngest in a family of four children,
his brother Otho C. being general superintendent of the W. E. Deegans
Coal Interests of Huntington, West Virginia.  The early education of Mr.
Huffman included an academic course at Woodstock, Virginia, and a course
in a business college at Staunton, that state.  After leaving school he
was for some time engaged in clerical work in the coal fields, and in
connection with the coalmining industry he finally became identified
with the construction work of the Consolidated Coal Company at Fleming,
Kentucky, where he remained two years.  At Jackson, that state, he then
assumed charge of the business of the Jackson Lumber & Supply Company,
with which he continued his connection until the spring of 1920, when he
took the position of assistant manager of the Minter Homes Corporation
at Huntington, West Virginia, but within a short time he came to
Bluefield, where he is doing an excellent promotive and constructive
service as general manager of the Economy House & Material Company,
which handles all kinds of building materials, has a department devoted
to house construction and controls a large and substantial business.
Mr. Huffman is an active member of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce and
the local Kiwanis Club and is a vigorous and enterprising young business
man of sterling personal qualities.  In the Masonic fraternity he has
completed the circle of the New York Rite and is a member of Jackson
Chapter of Jackson, Kentucky, London Commandery of London, Kentucky, and
Oleika Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Lexington, Kentucky.  His first
personal name was given in honor of one of his uncles, Hiram Huffman,
and his second personal name was given in honor of Rev. DeWitt Talmadge,
of whom his father was a great admirer.
   In 1916 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Huffman and Miss Minnie
Davis, daughter of Judge H. F. Davis, of Jackson, Kentucky, and the two
children of this union are Francis M. and Helen Davis.


Submitted by Susie Lloyd <eslloyd@impop.bellatlantic.net>

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