W. Henry Huffman (1911-1997) oral history: Wilmette Public Library Local History Collection

W. Henry Huffman (1911-1997) oral history

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Henry Huffman p.1
 
M: January twenty-fourth. My name is Briggs Maselli and I will be interviewing W. Henry Huffman for the Oral History Group. Mr. Huffman, would you tell me your name and where you presently live and how long you've been there?
 
HH: My name is W. H. Huffman. H-U-F-F-M-A-N. My nickname is Heine. H-E-I-N-E. I presently live at 3253 Sprucewood Lane in Wilmette. And have lived at that location since 1962. 

I was born in Pierre, South Dakota, arch, 1911, leaving that location with my parents the same year to Pekin, Illinois. We left Pekin, Illinois in 1914, moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

We moved to Wilmette in 1918. My father was in the construction engineering department of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and his first assignment with that property was at Pierre, South Dakota where he was constructing the railroad from Pierre to Rapid City, South Dakota. When that project was completed, we moved to Pekin, as I indicated earlier, where another segment of railroad was being constructed.
 
Moving to Milwaukee, he was in charge of the construction of the grain elevator for the same railroad and was in the process of constructing another grain elevator in South Chicago when we moved to Wilmette.
 
Henry Huffman, cont. 2
 
M: Would you tell me if you have any brothers and sisters? And where you went to school?
 
HH: I have one brother twelve years younger than I who was born in Wilmette, and my schooling consisted of grammar school from third grade through eighth at the Byron Stolp School, located at that time at Central and Tenth Street in Wilmette. I continued my education at New Trier. And now there are two; but at that time, and at this time, it is now called New Trier East. I continued my education at Purdue University graduating in 1932 with a bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. And then I received a Master of Science in Civil Engineering in 1933.
 
M: Now would you please tell me a little bit of your early recollections of growing up in Wilmette?

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Huffman, W. Henry, 1911-1997, Interviewee

Maselli, Briggs

, Interviewer

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Interview with Henry Huffman by Briggs Maselli in Wilmette, Illinois, on January 24, 1977.

Abstract:
Wilmette 1918
Tornado 1920
New Trier High School
Northwestern Railroad history
Purdue Engineering School
Christmas parties of Mrs. Huffman

Place of Publication:

Wilmette Public Library

Date of Original:

24 January 1977

Subject(s):

Oral histories
Huffman, W. Henry, 1911-1997

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R977.31 HU

Language of Item:

English

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