C. W. HUFF
Charles W. Huff, one of the prominent men of this township, enlisted in 1862, in the Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, and was made first lieutenant of company G. He fought bravely at Prairie Grove, and was in the siege of Vicksburg, and in all of the principal engagements of the army. He was promoted to a captaincy on the 15th of April, 1864, and was known as one of Iowa's best officers. Captain Huff received an honorable discharge at Davenport, in 1865. He was married in October, 1865, to Margaret A. Winder, a native of Knox county, Ohio. Mr. Huff was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 6th of January, 1836. After his marriage he moved to Madison, and there remained two years, when he came to Cass county, settling in Grant township, near Anita, and there remained until the spring of 1883, when he sold his real estate in that township, and bought two hundred and forty acres on section 13, Massena township, where he owns a fine and productive farm. Mr. and Mrs. Huff have been blessed with seven children--Rowena Ruth, died in infancy; Theodore, Charles, Blanche, Delpha, Laura and Frances.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 785-786.
