In 1900 Mr. Huffman purchased eighty acres of land in Polk county, Iowa, five miles south of Maxwell, but after living there for five years he traded his place for a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Indian Creek township, this county, where he continues to reside. He owns one of the best improved and most valuable farms in the county and here he raises Duroc Jersey hogs and shorthorn cattle and is known as one of the successful and substantial agriculturists of Story county.
Mr. and Mrs. Huffman are the parents of three children : Roy S., who is a senior in the Maxwell high school; Mark R., deceased; and Blanche M., a sophomore in the Maxwell high school. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church, of which the parents are members. Mr. Huffman's fraternal relations are confined to the Masonic order, his present membership being in Herald Lodge, No. 455,,A. F. & A. M.
The republican party has always claimed his political allegiance, its issues at all times receiving his hearty support. That his party fealty has been appreciated is indicated by the fact that while a citizen of Iowa county he served as township assessor and at the last election in Story county he was elected to the board of township trustees. Although he never neglects his private interests, at the same time he is always ready and willing to fulfill his duties as a citizen by giving such assistance as he can to the furtherance of. any movement which promises the betterment of local conditions, and this fact alone would entitle him to the position he holds in the community where he resides.
JASON T. STANTON.
As a young man Jason T. Stanton, now seventy-nine years of age and living retired at Collins, became acquainted with the trials and adventures of frontier life. Later he located in Iowa and for forty-five years has been a witness of the development of Jasper and Story counties, being actively identified with the agricultural and stock-raising interests. He was born in Wayne county, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1832, a son of Henry and Minerva (Smith) Stanton, both of whom were natives of Connecticut. They were married in their native state and soon afterward removed to Wayne county, Pennsylvania, and about 1840 to Lake county, Ohio. There Mr. Stanton cleared away the forest and established a farm but later he removed to Geauga county, where he continued until his death, which occurred when he reached the advanced age of ninety-six years. The Stanton family in America is descended from Thomas Stanton who on the 2d of January, 1635, took passage from England on the merchantman Bonaventura and landed in Virginia. Later he removed to Connecticut. Our subject's grandfather, Jason Stanton, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war and also of the war of 1812. He was born in Preston, Connecticut,