Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 473
HIRAM M. HUGG

Hiram M. HUFF, of Missouri Valley, has been a resident of Harrison County for thirty-six years. He came June 8, 1855, and located in what was then Little Sioux Township, but is now described as section 22, Jackson Township. He came to the country with a family named MARTIN. In 1856, Mr. HUFF went to section 4; remained a few months, went to Raglan Township and lived one year. In the spring of 1858 he purchased a quarter-section of land on section 2, Little Sioux Township, and there located.

He was born in Fleming County, Ky., in 1832. He is a son of Samuel and Hester (BLAIR) HUFF, both of Pennsylvania. Mr. HUFF's father was in the War of 1812, serving in an Ohio regiment. He and his wife are the parents of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. Eleven of the children grew to maturity, and our subject was the eleventh child, and there are four in all still living. William, Benjamin and Thomas, brothers of our subject, are living in Nichols and Mason Counties. William is seventy-five years old, and retired from active life; Benjamin is a carpenter; and Thomas, the youngest brother, is a farmer. The father was a farmer, and also a wagon-maker, and passed from earth August 22, 1877,in Kentucky. The mother died in June 1857.

Our subject's early education was received in Fleming County, Ky., which locality he left when he was twenty-three years of age, and went by rail to Louisville, and by boat to St. Joseph, Mo., and from that point came to this county by wagon.

Politically Mr. HUFF belongs to the Republican party, and has served in the capacity of a local officer in various ways, including the office of Justice of the Peace of Little Sioux Township, which he held for many years, and was also Township Trustee. He served the county as Drainage Commissioner at an early day, and has also been Justice of the Peace since residing in St. John Township. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Valley Lodge, No. 232, and was a charter member of the Magnolia Lodge, No. 126; also of Frontier Lodge, No. 382, at Little Sioux. He was made a Mason in Millersburg, Bourbon County, Ky., in January, 1855, and was the first Worshipful Master in Harrison County. He also conducted the first Masonic funeral in the county, taking charge of the last sad rites connected with the burial of Isaac Parish, of Calhoun, August 17, 1860.

Our subject was married January 24, 1856, in Harrison County, Jackson Township, to Lucinda MCGAHAN, a native of Illinois. Her father was of Irish ancestry, while her mother was a native of Tennessee. By this marriage six children were born, three sons and three daughters: John W., a practicing physician at Onawa, Iowa; Lenora, deceased at the age of eleven years, and buried in Jackson Township; Clara M., wife of M. T. WESTON, of Missouri Valley; Hattie B., deceased in infancy, and buried in Jackson Township; Benjamin F., a registered pharmacist employed by SHILEY Bros.; Thomas C., also a registered pharmacist, now in the employ of GOODWIN & MUNGER, in the drug business.

At the age of thirteen our subject left home and began battling in life for himself. Has seen many hardships, but may well count his life thus far a success, rearing as he has a family of intelligent children, who will be fitted to take up the work where he laid it down.

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