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Huffman, M. D., a prominent physician and
the leading druggist of Chesterfield, Macoupin County, whose portrait
accompanies this sketch, was born in Pike County, Illinois, in 1873, and is
a son of P. B. and Nancy (Clifton) Huffman.
P. B. Huffman was born
in Tennessee and was a son of Samuel Huffman, who was born in Virginia, and
who died in 1900, in Missouri, in his 95th year. In 1837 P. B. Huffman came
to Illinois and located in Vermilion County. There he married Nancy Clifton,
whose father was born in Kentucky, and died in Vermilion County, Illinois,
in 1870, in his 70th year.
Dr. Huffman was primarily educated in the
common schools of Cass County and subsequently attended the Western Normal
School at Bushnell, Illinois. He then entered the medical department of the
St. Louis University where he was graduated in 1896, serving then as an
interne for six months at the St. Louis City Hospital, being made junior
assistant superintendent. While clerking in a drug store at Greenfield,
Illinois, in order to perfect his knowledge of pharmacy by making a
practical use of it, he met and in 1895 married Nece McQuerry, who was a
daughter of John and Sarah McQuerry. Mrs. Huffman died December 29, 1901.
Our subject's second marriage was contracted on February 22, 1903, with
Clyde M. McQuerry, a sister of his first wife. John McQuerry, Dr. Huffman's
father-in-law, is a prominent resident of Greenfield, Illinois, where he
owns and operates a farm. He is a Republican in political belief, and is his
party's choice for minority Representative and his friends predict his
election.
Dr. Huffman soon after his first marriage entered upon the
practice of his profession at Pegram, Greene County, Illinois, where he
remained until he moved to Chesterfield in 1899. In 1902 he purchased the
old established drug business of W. A. Gary, who had carried it on in
Chesterfield for the preceding 21 years. Dr. Huffman built a new store on
the site of the old one and has fitted it up with all modern conveniences
and attractions; he carries a complete and carefully selected stock of the
goods usually found in an establishment of the kind, in addition to all the
standard remedies and drugs which have been selected by himself in order to
be confident that they are fresh and pure. Not only as a physician, but also
as a business man, is Dr. Huffman popular. He has made the pleasant village
of Chesterfield his home and in it are his interests centered.
In
politics Dr. Huffman is a stanch Republican. He was elected as one of the
trustees of the village in 1901, and served one term. Fraternally he is a
Mason, a Modern Woodman of America, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias,
and also belongs to the Mutual Protective League. In religious belief he is
a Methodist.
Extracted 2018 May 08 by Norma Hass from Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Macoupin County, Illinois, published in 1904, pages 488-490.
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