Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), pp 1241-1242.
WILLARD H. HUFF, one of the pioneers of Lincoln county, South Dakota, also one of its successful farmers and representative citizens, is a native of New York, and the son of Gabriel and Sarah Huff, who were born in Canada. When about twenty-one and twenty years of age, respectively, they came to New York. W. H. Huff was born in Orleans county, New York, in 1852. When a year old he moved with his parents to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and subsequently to Dover, Minnesota, where his father purchased a half section of land, which he improved, and on which he has lived and prospered to the present time. In 1873 he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and entered a quarter section of land and after proving up on the same, returned to Minnesota, where he is now living a life of retirement, having reached the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Huff, who died in 1897, bore her husband four children: Sarah, who died in 1896; Willard H., whose name introduces this sketch; Ida, living in Minnesota, and George, who lives with his father and runs the old family homestead in Minnesota.
Willard H. Huff was reared amid the rugged duties of the farm, attended of winter seasons, during his minority, the district schools of Minnesota and remained with his father until attaining his majority. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one, he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and took up one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 18, Lynn township, which he at once proceeded to improve and which, through his industry and persevering efforts, has been converted into one of the best and most valuable farms in the locality in which it is situated. Mr. Huff came west with but a meager capital, the sum total of his available cash upon his arrival amounting to only five dollars, but with an energy born of a determination to succeed, he addressed himself to the task of making a home, met and successfully overcame the many vicissitudes and hardships incident to pioneer life and in due time rose superior to every obstacle in his way until acquiring the handsome competency now in his possession. He is an up-to-date farmer, familiar with every detail of agricultural science, raises good crops according to the most approved methods and has expended considerable of his means very judiciously in improvements, among which are a comfortable and commodious residence. good barns and outbuildings and many other evidences to prove his place the home of a man of modern ideas and progressive tendencies. In I90I Mr. Huff increased his realty by the purchase of an additional quarter section, making him at this time the owner of four hundred acres of fine land, admirably situated in one of the richest agricultural districts of the country, and which, in all that constitutes good farm land and pasturage, is not excelled by any like number of acres in the township.
In politics Mr. Huff is a Republican and for a number of years past he has been one of the leaders of his party in Lincoln county. He served twelve years as supervisor and in 1903 was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, in which body he has already made a creditable record, proving an able and judicious lawmaker, and by his earnest desire to benefit his constituents and the state at large winning the good will of the people of the county, irrespective of political ties.
Mr. Huff, in 1884, was united in marriage with Miss Alice McKillip, of Naperville, Illinois, the union being without issue. Mrs. Huff died on the 20th of September, 1903. Mr. Huff is public-spirited in all the term implies and has encouraged every enterprise having for its object the material advancement of the community and the good of his fellow men, and his influence has always been on the right side of every moral issue.
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I think Alice was the daughter of David and Eliza (?)* McKillips. She was born, Jan. 13, 1849, *according to a Compilation written by Philora Slason Morse in 1930. She married Willard H. Huff on April 2, 1884. They had no children according to a 1900 Census when she and Willard had been married 16 years. However, with them that year Frank Gage (described as a son but was nephew or cousin) was living with them. Alice was the granddaughter of Emily Morse, born in New York on May 17, 1803. I do not know who marred Emily.
Information supplied by member Dana.
WILLARD H. HUFF, one of the pioneers of Lincoln county, South Dakota, also one of its successful farmers and representative citizens, is a native of New York, and the son of Gabriel and Sarah Huff, who were born in Canada. When about twenty-one and twenty years of age, respectively, they came to New York. W. H. Huff was born in Orleans county, New York, in 1852. When a year old he moved with his parents to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and subsequently to Dover, Minnesota, where his father purchased a half section of land, which he improved, and on which he has lived and prospered to the present time. In 1873 he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and entered a quarter section of land and after proving up on the same, returned to Minnesota, where he is now living a life of retirement, having reached the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Huff, who died in 1897, bore her husband four children: Sarah, who died in 1896; Willard H., whose name introduces this sketch; Ida, living in Minnesota, and George, who lives with his father and runs the old family homestead in Minnesota.
Willard H. Huff was reared amid the rugged duties of the farm, attended of winter seasons, during his minority, the district schools of Minnesota and remained with his father until attaining his majority. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one, he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and took up one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 18, Lynn township, which he at once proceeded to improve and which, through his industry and persevering efforts, has been converted into one of the best and most valuable farms in the locality in which it is situated. Mr. Huff came west with but a meager capital, the sum total of his available cash upon his arrival amounting to only five dollars, but with an energy born of a determination to succeed, he addressed himself to the task of making a home, met and successfully overcame the many vicissitudes and hardships incident to pioneer life and in due time rose superior to every obstacle in his way until acquiring the handsome competency now in his possession. He is an up-to-date farmer, familiar with every detail of agricultural science, raises good crops according to the most approved methods and has expended considerable of his means very judiciously in improvements, among which are a comfortable and commodious residence. good barns and outbuildings and many other evidences to prove his place the home of a man of modern ideas and progressive tendencies. In I90I Mr. Huff increased his realty by the purchase of an additional quarter section, making him at this time the owner of four hundred acres of fine land, admirably situated in one of the richest agricultural districts of the country, and which, in all that constitutes good farm land and pasturage, is not excelled by any like number of acres in the township.
In politics Mr. Huff is a Republican and for a number of years past he has been one of the leaders of his party in Lincoln county. He served twelve years as supervisor and in 1903 was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, in which body he has already made a creditable record, proving an able and judicious lawmaker, and by his earnest desire to benefit his constituents and the state at large winning the good will of the people of the county, irrespective of political ties.
Mr. Huff, in 1884, was united in marriage with Miss Alice McKillip, of Naperville, Illinois, the union being without issue. Mrs. Huff died on the 20th of September, 1903. Mr. Huff is public-spirited in all the term implies and has encouraged every enterprise having for its object the material advancement of the community and the good of his fellow men, and his influence has always been on the right side of every moral issue.
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I think Alice was the daughter of David and Eliza (?)* McKillips. She was born, Jan. 13, 1849, *according to a Compilation written by Philora Slason Morse in 1930. She married Willard H. Huff on April 2, 1884. They had no children according to a 1900 Census when she and Willard had been married 16 years. However, with them that year Frank Gage (described as a son but was nephew or cousin) was living with them. Alice was the granddaughter of Emily Morse, born in New York on May 17, 1803. I do not know who marred Emily.
Information supplied by member Dana.
Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), pp 1241-1242.
WILLARD H. HUFF, one of the pioneers of Lincoln county, South Dakota, also one of its successful farmers and representative citizens, is a native of New York, and the son of Gabriel and Sarah Huff, who were born in Canada. When about twenty-one and twenty years of age, respectively, they came to New York. W. H. Huff was born in Orleans county, New York, in 1852. When a year old he moved with his parents to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and subsequently to Dover, Minnesota, where his father purchased a half section of land, which he improved, and on which he has lived and prospered to the present time. In 1873 he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and entered a quarter section of land and after proving up on the same, returned to Minnesota, where he is now living a life of retirement, having reached the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Huff, who died in 1897, bore her husband four children: Sarah, who died in 1896; Willard H., whose name introduces this sketch; Ida, living in Minnesota, and George, who lives with his father and runs the old family homestead in Minnesota.
Willard H. Huff was reared amid the rugged duties of the farm, attended of winter seasons, during his minority, the district schools of Minnesota and remained with his father until attaining his majority. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one, he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and took up one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 18, Lynn township, which he at once proceeded to improve and which, through his industry and persevering efforts, has been converted into one of the best and most valuable farms in the locality in which it is situated. Mr. Huff came west with but a meager capital, the sum total of his available cash upon his arrival amounting to only five dollars, but with an energy born of a determination to succeed, he addressed himself to the task of making a home, met and successfully overcame the many vicissitudes and hardships incident to pioneer life and in due time rose superior to every obstacle in his way until acquiring the handsome competency now in his possession. He is an up-to-date farmer, familiar with every detail of agricultural science, raises good crops according to the most approved methods and has expended considerable of his means very judiciously in improvements, among which are a comfortable and commodious residence. good barns and outbuildings and many other evidences to prove his place the home of a man of modern ideas and progressive tendencies. In I90I Mr. Huff increased his realty by the purchase of an additional quarter section, making him at this time the owner of four hundred acres of fine land, admirably situated in one of the richest agricultural districts of the country, and which, in all that constitutes good farm land and pasturage, is not excelled by any like number of acres in the township.
In politics Mr. Huff is a Republican and for a number of years past he has been one of the leaders of his party in Lincoln county. He served twelve years as supervisor and in 1903 was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, in which body he has already made a creditable record, proving an able and judicious lawmaker, and by his earnest desire to benefit his constituents and the state at large winning the good will of the people of the county, irrespective of political ties.
Mr. Huff, in 1884, was united in marriage with Miss Alice McKillip, of Naperville, Illinois, the union being without issue. Mrs. Huff died on the 20th of September, 1903. Mr. Huff is public-spirited in all the term implies and has encouraged every enterprise having for its object the material advancement of the community and the good of his fellow men, and his influence has always been on the right side of every moral issue.
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I think Alice was the daughter of David and Eliza (?)* McKillips. She was born, Jan. 13, 1849, *according to a Compilation written by Philora Slason Morse in 1930. She married Willard H. Huff on April 2, 1884. They had no children according to a 1900 Census when she and Willard had been married 16 years. However, with them that year Frank Gage (described as a son but was nephew or cousin) was living with them. Alice was the granddaughter of Emily Morse, born in New York on May 17, 1803. I do not know who marred Emily.
Information supplied by member Dana.
WILLARD H. HUFF, one of the pioneers of Lincoln county, South Dakota, also one of its successful farmers and representative citizens, is a native of New York, and the son of Gabriel and Sarah Huff, who were born in Canada. When about twenty-one and twenty years of age, respectively, they came to New York. W. H. Huff was born in Orleans county, New York, in 1852. When a year old he moved with his parents to Green Lake county, Wisconsin, and subsequently to Dover, Minnesota, where his father purchased a half section of land, which he improved, and on which he has lived and prospered to the present time. In 1873 he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and entered a quarter section of land and after proving up on the same, returned to Minnesota, where he is now living a life of retirement, having reached the age of seventy-three years. Mrs. Huff, who died in 1897, bore her husband four children: Sarah, who died in 1896; Willard H., whose name introduces this sketch; Ida, living in Minnesota, and George, who lives with his father and runs the old family homestead in Minnesota.
Willard H. Huff was reared amid the rugged duties of the farm, attended of winter seasons, during his minority, the district schools of Minnesota and remained with his father until attaining his majority. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one, he came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, and took up one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 18, Lynn township, which he at once proceeded to improve and which, through his industry and persevering efforts, has been converted into one of the best and most valuable farms in the locality in which it is situated. Mr. Huff came west with but a meager capital, the sum total of his available cash upon his arrival amounting to only five dollars, but with an energy born of a determination to succeed, he addressed himself to the task of making a home, met and successfully overcame the many vicissitudes and hardships incident to pioneer life and in due time rose superior to every obstacle in his way until acquiring the handsome competency now in his possession. He is an up-to-date farmer, familiar with every detail of agricultural science, raises good crops according to the most approved methods and has expended considerable of his means very judiciously in improvements, among which are a comfortable and commodious residence. good barns and outbuildings and many other evidences to prove his place the home of a man of modern ideas and progressive tendencies. In I90I Mr. Huff increased his realty by the purchase of an additional quarter section, making him at this time the owner of four hundred acres of fine land, admirably situated in one of the richest agricultural districts of the country, and which, in all that constitutes good farm land and pasturage, is not excelled by any like number of acres in the township.
In politics Mr. Huff is a Republican and for a number of years past he has been one of the leaders of his party in Lincoln county. He served twelve years as supervisor and in 1903 was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, in which body he has already made a creditable record, proving an able and judicious lawmaker, and by his earnest desire to benefit his constituents and the state at large winning the good will of the people of the county, irrespective of political ties.
Mr. Huff, in 1884, was united in marriage with Miss Alice McKillip, of Naperville, Illinois, the union being without issue. Mrs. Huff died on the 20th of September, 1903. Mr. Huff is public-spirited in all the term implies and has encouraged every enterprise having for its object the material advancement of the community and the good of his fellow men, and his influence has always been on the right side of every moral issue.
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I think Alice was the daughter of David and Eliza (?)* McKillips. She was born, Jan. 13, 1849, *according to a Compilation written by Philora Slason Morse in 1930. She married Willard H. Huff on April 2, 1884. They had no children according to a 1900 Census when she and Willard had been married 16 years. However, with them that year Frank Gage (described as a son but was nephew or cousin) was living with them. Alice was the granddaughter of Emily Morse, born in New York on May 17, 1803. I do not know who marred Emily.
Information supplied by member Dana.
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