Biography of John T. Huyck, pages 621 / 622.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John T. Huyck, farmer and stock-raiser, was born March 4, 1840, Huron 
county, Ohio, a son of John T. and Lucinda (Britten) Huyck,, his father a 
native of New York State, now deceased.  Our subject was reared to farm 
life and educated in the common schools.  In September, 1862, he enlisted in 
Company E., Fourteenth Ohio Infantry, to serve three months, and afterward 
served in Company C, One Hundredth Indiana Infantry, till the close of the 
war.  He was taken prisoner at Limestone Station Sept. 8, 1863, and was 
imprisoned at Belle Isle six months.  He was then removed to Andersonville 
Prison, and after undergoing all the horrors of that den for seven months he 
tried to escape, but was caught by blood hounds.  He was then removed to 
Savannah, but at the end of three weeks he and another man escaped through a 
tunnel sixty-five feet underground.  It was night when they found themselves 
in the city of Savannah.  A negro whom they met took them to the house of a 
Union lady, who kept them over night and the following day secured a room 
near by, where they were secreted two months when they made good their 
escape.  Mr. Huyck came to this county in the spring of 1868, and in the 
spring of 1880 settled on his present farm on section 28, Franklin Township, 
where he owns 150 acres of land.  He is a member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic.  He was married March 23, 1870, to Mary J. Jefferds, born in 
this township in 1847, and daughter of James W. Jefferds, (deceased). To 
them have been born eight children, six now living---Bertha J., Pearl, 
Charles L., Mamie M., Earl M. and Eva E.  Mr. Jefferds was a native of New 
York.  He lived in Toledo, Ohio, many years ago, and from there moved to 
Steuben County, Ind., and in 1842 he came to this county.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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