Huntington, Robert

HUNTINGTON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 13:56:15

Robert Huntington

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.29, Council Bluffs )
Robert Huntington, grocer, Council Bluffs, is an Englishman; was born in 1820, and, crossing the Atlantic in 1866, he came immediately to Council Bluffs. He has been twice married; first, in 1840. His wife dying in 1864, he again married in 1866, just before coming to America. He immediately bought a farm of 320 acres, and continued in the occupation of "tiller of the soil" for fourteen years. He has given to his children all of his land except 120 acres. He recently bought twelve acres near Fairmount Park. He built the first house on Graham avenue, also the first one in the township of James. Mr. Hungtington is Democratic in politics.