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Born 1838, Mad River Township
From The history of Montgomery county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; (1882), Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897)
WILLIAM HUFFMAN, stone dealer, Dayton. This gentleman, who is a son William P. Huffman, whose name appears elsewhere in this work, was born Septernsr 5, 1838, in Mad River Township, Montgomery County, on the hill where camp lOrwin was located in 1862. He received his education in the private schools of layton until he arrived at the age of sixteen; he then went on his father’s stock farm i Lreene County, where he remained until 1868, when he returned to Dayton and gaged as a contractor for cut-stone work. In 1875, he commenced quarrying stone, having three large quarries in Van Buren Township, and in this business.be still connues He was married, January, 3, 1862, to Miss Emily Huston, daughter of Israel id Elizabeth Huston, of Montgomery County. They have had eleven children, six oys and five girls, of whom four boys and four girls still survive. Mr. Huffman was a member of the Council from 1871 to 1875, and President of the same body in 1874, He was a member of school board for 1878-79-80. He is a member of Dayton Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and of the Masonic Order, being one of the first of the latter fraternity to take the Scottish Rite degree. He is an affable gentleman of easy manners, and is accounted one of Dayton’s solid business men.
As printed in The history of Montgomery county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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William P. Huffman was a banker and realestate dealer. He assisted to organize the Second National bank, and afterward the Third National bank, being president of each in succession, until he retired, in 1886. He was a trustee of Dennison university from 1867 until his death, which occurred July 2, 1888, when he was seventy-five years of age. Politically Mr. Huffman was a war democrat, and was, as his widow is, a member of the Baptist church.
William Huffman, the father of William P. Huffman, was born in New Jersey, May 24, 1769. His ancestry were of German descent, but came to this country from Holland, somewhere between the years of 1730 and 1740. He was married June 14, 1801, to Miss Lydia Knott, a native of New Jersey. Mr. Huffman came to Ohio in 1812, and was long engaged in business in Dayton. He built the first stone house in the place, either on the present site of the Third National bank or on that of the Beckel house. He was a volunteer in the war of 1812, and marched to Fort Piqua for active duty, but, the services of the company of which he was a member were not required. He had one son, William P., and four daughters. He died January 23, 1866, in his ninety-seventh year.
Samuel Tate, the maternal grandfather of the second William Huffman, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in 1818, settled near Dayton, and lived there until his death at eighty-three years of age. He was of Scotch- Irish descent, his ancestry coming from the north of Ireland. He was a distiller and a miller, and retired from business in the ’fifties.
William Huffman, the subject of this sketch, lived on the farm in Greene county until he was ten years old. Then coming to Dayton he attended the common schools for a time. Going back to the farm he operated the same, also a sawmill for some years, and then returning to Dayton he engaged in quarrying and selling limestone, and was thus engaged until June 6, 1896, when his death occurred.
Mr. Huffman was married January 30, 1862, to Miss Emily Huston, daughter of Israel and Elizabeth (Harshman) Huston. To this marriage were born fourteen children, nine of whom are living, as follows: Harriet, Emily, Daniel
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Mrs. William Huffman died April 2 5, 1885. She and her husband were members of Linden avenue Baptist church. Fraternally, Mr. Huffman was a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of Honor. He was in Masonry a Scottish-rite Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner. Politically he was a democrat, and as such served two terms as a member of the city council, and as president of that body for one term. He was a member of the Dayton board of education for three years, and also served on the school board in the country district in which he lived for a number of years. He was police commissioner in Dayton four years, and for three years a trustee of the water works, and during his incumbency of the latter office was largely instrumental in placing this department of the city’s business upon a paying basis. Under the new law creating a board of city commissioners, he was one of the first members of that body, and was actively concerned in securing sewerage and street paving. These improvements are among the most important in any city, and Dayton’s rapid and extensive adoption of them is in great measure due to William Huffman’s energy, public spirit and determination. Mr. Huffman held various offices connected with business concerns. At the time of his death he was manager of the Cooper Hydraulic company, and of the National Improvement company. He was a director in the City National bank, and in the Davis Sewing Machine company, and was president of the Miami Building & Loan association.
Mr. Huffman established his limestone business in 1873, and in busy seasons gave employment to about 1 50 men, getting out builders and contractors’ stone. He was not only successful in his business, but exerted a great influence in the political and public affairs of the city. He never lost interest in his early occupation as a farmer, and throughout his life owned and cultivated large tracts of land. Mr. Huffman was of a pleasant and genial disposition, and drew about him a large circle of loyal friends. He lived his entire life in Montgomery and Greene counties, most of the time in Dayton, and aided largely in the development of both county and city.
As printed in Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: William Huffman
Their biographies name William P. Huffman: Frank T. Huffman Joseph M. Ratliff (b. 1848) Philip Gilbert (b. 1845) Theodore Hollenkamp (b. 1834)
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