David Wesley Huffman was born in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois, the son of Isaac Huffman & Helen Eleanor Ann Grundyke. He married Almeda Louisa Rinehart on 5 Jan 1876 in Macedonia, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. To this union 15 children were born:
George Huffman, Albert H Huffman, Clyde H Huffman, Lydia Lucille Huffman Rogers, Arthur L Huffman, Leslie Huffman, Wesley David Huffman, Marion Huffman, Raymond Huffman, Minnie Huffman Sadler, Charles Huffman, Ralph E Huffman, Velma E Huffman Sadler, Myron Huffman and Harry Hill Huffman.

The Correctionville News, 17 April 1924, page 1:

The death of David W. Huffman, a resident of the Rock Branch community from 1882 to 1918 occurred at Wall, South Dakota, April 1, 1924. His death came very suddenly. He had been downtown and on his return home dropped dead on the sidewalk in the business section of town. While it was an easy death for him, it was a terrible shock to his many friends and loved ones, especially to his daughter, Mrs. Rogers in Wall with whom Mr. Huffman was making his home. He lived about three miles south of Rock Branch and upon leaving here a few years ago to make his home with the daughter in South Dakota, left a good many friends behind. The body was shipped to Moville soon after the death and funeral services under supervision of Rev. M.J. McCabe were conducted at the Rock Branch church on April 3rd. He is survived by three daughters and eleven sons, and numerous other relatives.

Past & Present of Woodbury County, page 620:

David W. Huffman, living on section 18, Kedron Township, is well known as a stockraiser, making a specialty of the breeding and raising of pure blooded Aberdeen Angus cattle. For this purpose he has extensive pastures in which he feeds his stock and he also has good improvements upon his farm, the buildings affording ample shelter for the stock in the winter seasons. He owns altogether four hundred and eighty acres of valuable land in northwestern Iowa, having 240 acres in the home place. Mr. Huffman is a product of the middle west-this section of the country which has had such rapid and substantial growth as to make its development appear almost marvelous. Becoming imbued with the enterprising spirit of his time and locality Mr. Huffman has so labored that his work has formed the basis of excellent success and his good management has guided him from humble surroundings to a position of affluence. A native of Bureau County, Illinois, he was born near Princeton on April 4, 1852, and is a son of Isaac Huffman, who was born and reared in New Jersey. The mother bore the maiden name of Eleanor Grundyke, and she, too, was a native of New Jersey. Removing to the west, Isaac Huffman settled in Bureau County, Illinois, and was identified with its early development, aiding in laying broad and deep foundation upon which its present prosperity and progress rested. There he opened a farm and continued its cultivation until his death, which occurred in 1854, when his son, David W., was a child of two years. The mother afterward married again. There were four children by the first union, including David W. Huffman, whose name introduces this review. He was reared as a farmer boy and had fair school advantages. When a young man Mr. Huffman came to Iowa, settling first in Pottawattamie County, where he purchased land and began the development of a farm, continuing its cultivation for ten years. It was during that period that he was married, having in 1874 wedded Miss Almeda Rinehart, whose birth occurred in Cook County, Illinois, and who was a daughter of H.W. Rinehart, one of the early settlers of Iowa. The year 1884 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Huffman in this county and he bought the farm where he resides. With characteristic energy he began its development and improvement. He had here 320 acres, but after a time he sold a portion of this, now retaining possession of 240 acres in the home place. The neat residence upon the farm was erected by him and the barns and outbuildings were also put up under his supervision. He has planted an orchard which is just now coming into bearing and good improvements of every character are seen upon his place. He has also purchased two other farms in Kedron Township and one in Miller Township and his landed possessions are now extensive and valuable. He makes a business of the raising of the pure blooded Duroc Jersey hogs and Aberdeen Angus cattle. He now has a herd of thirteen head of cattle with a fine imported bull at the head. In this way he has done much to improve the grade of stock raised in the county and prices paid for cattle and hogs have been thereby advanced. Mr. and Mrs. Huffman have become the parents of fourteen children, all of whom are living and four of the sons and one daughter have reached mature years and two of the sons are now engaged in business for themselves. As a citizen Mr. Huffman is interested in all that pertains to the progress and welfare of his community and in politics he is a staunch Republican who has served as trustee of his township, but has never been active in politics in the sense of office seeking, preferring to do his service as a private citizen rather than as a public official. He has been, however, a director of schools and believes in employing competent teachers and giving the children the best possible educational privileges in order to fit them for life's practical duties. A resident of Woodbury county for a quarter of a century, he has witnessed much of its growth and has been the champion of many of its reassures for improvement, so that he is now widely and favorably known. His success is justly merited and much enjoyed, for it yields to him the conveniences and comforts which go to make life worth living.