Marin County Biographies

ABRAHAM HUFF

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              Was born in Montgomery county, New York, November 15, 
1830.  When he was four years old his parents moved to Oneida county, New York, 
thence to Oswego county after four years, and in 1840 moved to Orleans county.  
Here the subject of this sketch resided until 1857, when he took up his 
residence in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, and in the Fall of 1863 emigrated via 
the Isthmus to California, arriving in San Francisco January, 1864.  He resided 
in that city, with the exception of a short time spent in the mines, until he 
came to this county, settling first in Point Reyes.  In October, 1869, he came 
to his present ranch at Hamlet, where he is station agent for the North Pacific 
Coast Railroad and Wells, Fargo & Co.�s express; he is also engaged in 
merchandising.  He married Eugenia Goff December 10, 1857.  She was born in 
Monroe county, New York, June 22, 1838.  They have two children�Ettia E., born 
December 11, 1861; and Luella A., born May, 1870.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880