Husband Hon. George Franklin Huff 1 2 3 4
Born: 16 Jul 1842 - Norristown, Montgomery Co, PA 2 5
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Died: 17 Apr 1912 6
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Father: George Huff (cal 1812-1858) 4 5 7
Mother: Caroline Kreps Boyer (1817-1876) 2 4 5 8
Marriage: 16 Mar 1871 5 9
• Additional Image: George F. Huff.
Wife Henrietta Hubley Burrell 10 11 12
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Father: Hon. Jeremiah Murry Burrell (1815-1856) 13
Mother: Ann(a) Elizabeth Richardson ( -Aft 1905) 10
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1 M Lloyd Burrell Huff 5 12 14 15
Born: 8 Dec 1871 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 14
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Died: May 1915 or 1916 15 16
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Spouse: Eleanor Warren Moorhead ( - ) 15 17
Marr: 21 Jun 1897 17
2 M Julian Burrell Huff 5 12
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3 F Carolyn Burrell Huff 12
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Spouse: Murray Cobb ( - ) 16
4 M Burrell Richardson Huff 12
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. George Franklin Huff
He was born in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and when about four years of age was taken by his parents to Middletown, Dauphin County, to which place they removed, and where he attended the public schools. They removed in 1851 to Altoona, Blair County, where he went to school till about the age of eighteen years, when he entered the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company there located, to learn the car-finishing trade, at which he was engaged for some three years. He then, on recommendation of his railroad employers, received invitation to position in the banking-house of William M. Lloyd & Co., where he was occupied until 1865, when he was sent by that company to Ebensburg, Cambria County, to establish there a banking-house, of which he was made cashier. He remained there a year, mean-while putting the bank on a firm footing, and was then recalled to the home house in Altoona. Remaining there a year he was again sent out on missionary work, this time to establish banks at Latrobe, Greensburg, Irwin's Station, and Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, which he did, and became one of the firm owning and controlling the same, under the name of Lloyd, Huff & Co. The business of all of these banks was conducted by Mr. Huff, successfully at first, but in the panic of 1873 they were overwhelmed in the general disaster, on account of the extending of aid by Mr. Huff to others connected in business with him.
Immediately thereafter, or in 1874, the Greensburg Banking Company was organized, and Mr. Huff was appointed cashier. This banking-house under his management enjoyed the confidence of the public, and did a large and flourishing business.
In 1871 "The Farmers' National Bank of Greensburg" was established, with a capital of $100,000, Mr. Huff being made its president. But in 1873 he resigned his post, the bank being at that time reorganized, Gen. Richard Coulter becoming its president, and Mr. Huff being unanimously elected its cashier. In consequence of the general depression in business incident to the panic of that time it was deemed advisable to remove the bank to Pittsburgh, where, legislation having been obtained to effect the purpose, it was re-established as the "Fifth National Bank of Pittsburgh," Mr. Huff being chosen one of its directors and elected as vice-president. He later severed his official relations with that bank, though a stockholder thereof, on account of the increase of his banking business at Greensburg, and because of various other enterprises in which he was interested. [HWC 1882, 525]
Besides banking, Mr. Huff was also largely interested in the coal and coke industry of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was the prime mover in organizing the Greensburg Coal Company, the Alexandria Coal Company, Mountain Coal Company, the Argyle Coal Company, the United Coal and Coke Company, the Mutual Mining and Manufacturing Company, the Manor Gas Coal Company, the Madison Coal Company, the Salem Coal Company, the Latrobe Coal Company, Carbon Coal Company, and several others. Most of these companies were later consolidated in the Keystone Coal and Coke Company, of which Mr. Huff was president. It and the companies with which he was connected, employed about 7,500 men and produced in the neighborhood of six millions of tons of coal per year, or twenty thousand tons per day. He was also one of the organizers of the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the main line of which passed through the Connellsville coking coal region, he being its treasurer until the offices were removed to Philadelphia. He was one of the founders of the Greensburg Electric Street Railway Company, the Greensburg Fuel (artificial and natural gas) Company, and the Greensburg Steel Company. He was formerly president of the Greensburg Electric Light and the Westmoreland Water companies. He was also a director of the American Surety and Trust Company of Washington, D. C., the president of the Westmoreland Hospital Association, and was further interested in coal companies outside of the Keystone Coal and Coke Company in nearly every section of the bituminous region in Pennsylvania.
Adjoining Greensburg he had a large landed estate containing about 500 acres, on which the family residence was built. It consisted of highly cultivated farm land and original forest, all of which was beautified by a system of landscape gardening and parks; and through the entire farm there were winding driveways over four miles in length, which were kept up by Mr. Huff, and were at all times thrown open for the public to enjoy.
Mr. Huff was a progressive Republican. His political career began in 1880 when, as a member of the Chicago Republican Convention, he was one of the 306 who supported General U. S. Grant for a third term as president. In 1884 he was a candidate for the office of state senator in the thirty-ninth senatorial district, composed of the county of Westmoreland. He was elected by a majority of seven hundred, although the county had for long years been regarded as the Democratic stronghold of the west. Thereafter the county was generally Republican. In 1888 Mr. Huff was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of Westmoreland County, but another was selected under the conferee system. In 1890 he was chosen as congressional candidate by the Republicans in the district and elected by a large majority, representing the counties of Westmoreland, Indiana, Armstrong and Jefferson. He served in congress until 1893, and in 1894 was elected congressman-at-large from Pennsylvania. In 1902, 1904 and 1906 he was returned to congress, and represented the counties of Westmoreland and Butler. He was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the governorship in 1906. [GPHAV, 820]
In 1882: He and his wife were the parents of six children; only two were living. In 1913: He and his wife were the parents of eight children; only four were living, four died in infancy.