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JOSEPH B. HUFF, stock-dealer, Wilkinsburg, was born in Harford county, Md., in 1823. His ancestors were of English Quaker stock, and settled in Maryland in an early day. His grandfather, Abram Huff, was born there, as was his father, also named Abram. The latter married Mercy, daughter of Richard Webb, Quaker; she was born in England. Abram Huff, father of our subject, died of yellow fever when Joseph was a child; his widow survived till 1849. Joseph is the youngest of eight children, only three of whom are now living. He attended the common schools until sixteen years old, when he worked for an elder brother, who was engaged in the cattle trade, eventually becoming a partner. For twenty-three years he has been head of the firm of Huff, Hazlewood & Imhoff, livestock commission dealers at East Liberty, and has dwelt in Wilkinsburg for the same period, and owns a fine residence on Penn avenue. Mr. Huff’s first wife, Mary, daughter of James and Catharine Basor, of German extraction, was born in Mifflin, Pa., and bore him three sons and one daughter. She died in 1864, aged thirty-six. In 1871 Mr. Huff married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Zabias Henry. Jonathan Middleswath, father of Mrs. Henry, was an early settler and large land holder in Scott township, this county. Mr. Huffs eldest child, Charles C., is practicing medicine at Huron, Dak.; Joseph Henry was killed on the C. & N. W. Ry., in September, 1887; Mary K. resides with her father; William C. was drowned, July 17, 1888, while on a pleasure tour in Canada;. William H. is a republican.