My Genealogy Hound

IRWIN F. HUFF, M. D. In the list of citizens ably representing the town of Schnecksville, may be classed our subject, who is the leading physician and surgeon in the place. He is a native of this state, and was born in Montgomery County, May 16, 1860, to Franklin M. and Sarah A. Huff, natives of Hanover, that county.

When only two years of age, our subject was taken by his parents on their removal to Philadelphia, where they lived until he was ten years of age. They located in Trexlertown, this county. Here he made his home for eight years, in the meantime receiving a fine education, first in the common schools, and later in the normal department of Muhlenburg College at Allen town. After leaving that institution he began teaching school, which profession he followed for four terms, and during his spare moments read medicine. Later he devoted his entire time toward fitting himself to enter a medical college. He entered the office of Dr. S. C. B. Fogle, and read under his supervision for eighteen months.

Mr. Huff took a course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Vermont at Burlington, from which institution he was graduated in the Class of ‘85. After receiving his diploma he returned to Fogelsville, and for a short time assisted his former instructor. He then removed to Kempton, Berks County, where he was engaged in practice on his own account. He did not remain there long, however, and after his next move we find him in New Tripoli, and finally in Schnecksville, whither he removed in 1887. He has gained a wide reputation for what he has accomplished, especially in difficult cases, and takes a high place among the fraternity in Lehigh County.

Dr. Huff was married October 29, 1887, to Miss Belle Kistler, of Berks County, this state, and to them has been born a son, Willie K. The Doctor is a member of the Lehigh County Medical Society and socially is connected with Jordon Lodge No. 192, I. O. O. F. He is an ardent Democrat in politics, and his home in Schnecksville is a model of all that a home should be, and in him the good people of the place take just pride.