William F. Huntting, one of the prominent business men of McGregor, was born in Southampton, Long Island, on the 7th day of May 1828. His parents, William and Ann (Foster) Huntting, had a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. William F., in 1856, married Mrs. Mary R. Smith, who died in 1872, leaving five children to mourn her loss-- Annie F., Fred H., Harry S., Charles E. and Mary R. In 1876 he married Charlotte M. Monson, a widow of Reuben Y. Cory. By this union there is one child--William F. Mr. Huntting came to the county in 1857, and has been identified with its business interests since. source: History of Clayton
County, Iowa, 1882, p. 988 |