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27 September 2001 - Davis Fields

Lifetimes of Frank L. and Mamie Levin Huff
and Timeline for Huff House

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  1852   The parents of Mamie Levin Huff (Joel Levin 1824-1909 and Mary Swall 1851/2-1901) come to California by wagon train from Illinois
  1863 The parents of Frank L. Huff (James Huff 1832-1915 and Emily Gard ?-?) come to California, also by wagon train, from ???
  1867   Frank L. Huff is born in Mountain View, California
  1878   Mamie Levin is born
  1883   Joel Levin purchases about 160 acres of land from S.B Emerson (?) for $16,000 (or about $100/acre). The property extends from today's Grant Road east to Stevens Creek. An east-west street built through the cener of the property is today's Levin Avenue.
   ~1888   Frank graduates from Washington College in Irvington (now part of Fremont, California)
  1891   Frank enters Stanford University's first class (also known as the "Pioneer Class")
  1898   Marriage of Frank (age 31) and Mamie (age 20)
  1900   Mamie's parents divide their 160 acres among their five children, with Mamie getting a plot of almost thirty acres
  1900   Birth of Frank and Mamie's only child William E. Huff
  1901   Death of Mamie's mother Mary Swall Levin
  1909   Death of Mamie's father Joel Levin
  1915   Death of Frank's father James Huff
  1917   Frank and Mamie's son William graduates from Mountain View Union High School, serving in his senior year as caption of both the football and basketball teams
  1922   Frank is named Mountain View postmaster by U.S. President Warren G. Harding, and serves until 1933
  1928   Frank and Mamie's son William marries Cecile Latreille
  1929   Construction begins on the dwelling now known as Huff House, on Frank and Mamie's property. The address is 1224 Levin Avenue.
  1930   Frank and Mamie's granddaughter Meredith Huff is born
   1933   Frank retires as Mountain View postmaster
   1938   Frank is killed in am auto-train accident
   1958   Frank L. Huff Elementary School is opened
   1960    Death of Mamie
   1962   Frank and Mamie's property is sold to Eichler Homes for development. Local resident Wayne Belshaw Sr. purchases the house and moves it nearly one thousand feet to its current location on Diericx Drive.
  1974   Death of Frank and Mamie's son William
  1980s   Wayne Belshaw Sr. sells Huff House
  1994/5   Huff House purchased by current owners
  1995/6/7   Death of Frank and Mamie's granddaugter Meredith Huff Wigglesworth
  2001   Current owners renovate landscaping to match the sytle of the house and the landscape at its original location