“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

J. W. HUFFHINES, a farmer near Richardson, Dallas county, was born in this 
county, in 1853, the eldest of five children born to Christopher and Martha 
(Smith) Huffhines, natives of Kentucky.  In 1852 the parents emigrated with horse 
teams to Dallas county, having been forty-eight days on the road.  They settled 
on White Rock, near Richardson, where the father bought a section of partly 
improved land.  In 1863 he enlisted in Colonel Stone’s regiment, Captain 
Stratton’s company, and died in July of the same year, near Mansfield, 
Louisiana, of disease contracted in the service.  The mother was married, in 
1868, to Thomas J. Stratton, and now resides in Armstrong county, Texas.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Huffhines had the following children:  J. W., our subject; J. F., engaged 
in farming and in the stock business near Amarillo, Texas; Mary, wife of W. B. 
Alkire, of North Dallas; Elizabeth, wife of T. J. Gillock, of Fort Scott, Kansas; 
Ophelia, now Mrs. Charles Chick, of Washburn, this Sate.

The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life and educated in the schools of 
Dallas county.  After reaching maturity he received from his father’s estate ninety 
acres of land, which he improved, and to which he has since added until he now 
owns 250 acres.  In 1887 he moved to the city of Dallas, and bought and 
improved his residence, having been one of the first to build in this portion of 
East Dallas.  Mr. Huffhines is identified with the Democratic party.  He is a 
member of one of the early pioneer families of this county, where he was born 
and reared, and has always taken an active part in everything for the good of the 
city or county.  He was married in Dallas county, in 1875, to M. A. Wright, a 
native of Kentucky, and a daughter of Merrick and Elizabeth (Pope) Wright, also 
natives of Kentucky.  They came to Dallas county, in 1871, settling near 
Richardson, but later moved near the city, where the mother died in 1889, and 
the father is still living.  Mr. and Mrs. Huffhines have one child, Elmo.  Mrs. 
Huffhines is a member of the Baptist Church.

Submitted by: L. Pingel