“James Richard Huffaker, M.D.

  Dr. Huffaker is a native of this county, and was Born in Baker township,

March 17, 1847.  He is the son of John W. and Eliza Fuffaker, both pio-neers of Linn county.  James was reared on the place where he was born, and laid the foundation of his education in the common schools of his neighborhood, and at eighteen years old attended the Carlisle Academy at Carlisle, Indiana.  He was about a year at this school, and then came back home and taught school in Linn and Chariton counties, alternately teaching and going to school till 1968.  In that year he entered the State University at Columbia, Missouri, and remained three years, graduating in 1871.  Immediately thereafter he began the study of medicine under Dr. L. E. Cross, of Brookfield, and, after reading one year, went, in the winter of 1872-73, to the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio, and there took a course of medical lectures.  He began practice in the spring of 1873, succeeding to the practice of his old preceptor, Dr. Cross, of Brookfield.  Again in 1878, he attended lectures, this time at the St. Louis Homeopathic College, and after graduating from that institution, resumed his practice at Brookfield.  The same institution, in 1880, conferred the honorary degree of ad eundem on Dr. Huffaker.  He  has an extensive and lucrative practice in Linn and adjoining counties.  He was married May 26, 1974, to Miss Dora Rooker, daughter of T. M. Rooker, of Linn county.  They are the parents of three children, Edith, Mabel, and Elva Steel Rooker, all born at Brookfield.  Dr. Huffaker is a member of Hope Lodge No. 29, A. O. U. W. of Brookfield.”

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