"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 491.
 
JAMES HUDDLESTON
     Was born in Fayette county, Virginia, October 15, 1822, where he received
his education and resided until 1850.  On the twenty-second day of March of that
year, in the company of Capt. A. P. Ankeny, of Portland, he started to cross the
plains to California, but the feed falling short on that route they changed
their minds and proceeded to Oregon where he arrived October 2, 1850.  In the
following April, Mr. Huddleston proceeded to the Yreka mines and worked for six
weeks, when having been taken sick, he returned to Oregon and in July, 1851,
located in Eugene City where he has since resided.  He engaged in mercantile
pursuits until 1854, when he went on his present farm.  Married Samantha Ann
Davis who arrived in Lane county in 1847, and has one child.
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.