From the county histories, on West township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.
On the death of his father, *Stone Hall" and its lands became the possession of Col. Huyett, and with the exception of three years, 1851-53, passed at Neff's mills, West township, he always lived at the "Stone Hall." He received the education afforded by the common schools of the day, but the colonel was always a great reader, and had ‘" picked up" an education which enabled him to intelligently fill any position in life which he would accept. With the exception of the three years already mentioned, during which time he leased the farm, the colonel worked it himself. During the time he lived in West township he was employed as contractor in the construction of railroads. He was interested in the ownership of steam saw-mills, situated on the Racetown Branch of the Juniata River and at Fostoria (the first steam saw-mills in the county), supplying in large quantities timber and lumber for the canal and railroads. These enterprises did not always prove a success financially; on the contrary, he was a heavy loser thereby. His last venture in the building of railroads was on the West Pennsylvania, now a division ofthe Pénnsylvania Railroad. The firm of Huyett & Seeds were among the heaviest contractors. The original company becoming involved and unable to pay, the contractors were heavy losers, the colonel losing over eighty thousand dollars in that undertaking.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,666,499 of the scanned text
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- J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883)