"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 840.

JOHN C. HUFFMAN, a farmer and one of the most extensive fruit growers in Adams county, resides one and one-half miles southeast of Fletcher, which place is his post office. Mr. Huffman has been doing for himself since he was twenty-five years of age, and all his life he has been a farmer. He lived for the most part in the state of Indiana until coming to Washington in 1883. He came west with T. W. Martin and located a homestead and timber culture where he now lives, each tract containing a quarter-section. In 1894 he had all of his land under cultivation, when he purchased a half-section, plowed the greater portion of it and later sold eighty acres. In 1890 he began raising fruit on a large scale and has continued in the business since that time. His orchard contains all the varieties of fruits adapted to this latitude and annually yields great revenue to its owner. The farm of Mr. Huffman is in a capital location, and is well supplied with water for all purposes.
     John C. Huffman is a native of Virginia but at an early age his parents moved to Indiana, where he received a common school education and made his start in life. He was born on August 8, 1846, and is the son of Barney and Lucretia (Williams) Huffman, whose lives are touched upon in the sketch of Daniel Huffman, a brother of our subject, which appears elsewhere in this volume. The parents are both now living with the subject of this sketch, and although the father is eighty-three and mother eighty-two, they are enjoying remarkably good health.
     Mr. Huffman is a member of a family originally comprising twelve children, two of whom, Levina and Louise, are dead. The brothers and sisters of our subject who are living are Phillip, James, Robert, Daniel, L. C., Mrs. Ruby Purcell, and Hannah.
     Mr. Huffman is an active worker in the ranks of the Democratic party.. His church home is with the Christian denomination.

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