Henry V. T. Huls

    Henry V. T. Huls, a native of Yates County, New York, was born October 30, 1825, and is one of seven living children in a family of nine born to James and Sally (Pruden) Huls, both natives of New York and of German and English descent respectively. Henry V. T. Huls moved with his parents to Illinois in 1843 where both parents afterward died.

    In 1848, he was married to Elizabeth Moore, a native of Washington County, New York. With the exception of three years, while in Iowa, farming and merchandising, he resided in Kane County, Illinois, engaged in agricultural pursuits until the breaking out of the rebellion, and September 6, that year, enlisted in Company A, Eighth Illinois Cavalry. On the 11th of the following February, he was made Quartermaster of the Third Battalion of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, serving as such until he was honorable mustered out of service on the 5th of August, 1862. Mr. Huls participated in the engagements of Winchester, Cold harbor, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, and was discharged at Harrison's Landing by special order from the War Department. He was engaged in various pursuits in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, until 1873, when he came to Fowler.

    He is at present engaged in milling. Mrs. Huls died in 1869 in Clifton, Iowa, and was buried at Columbus City. To her union with Mr. Huls, seven children were born, only three -Herbert, Jessie and Pearl -yet living. Mr. Huls is a Republican, and a member of the G. A. R. of Fowler, of which organization he is second in command.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.