George F. Huff, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1842, was a state senator from 1885 to 1888 and a U.S. congressman from 1891 to 1910 who was respected by both wealthy and working-class people for his business ability, character, manners, and leadership in politics, banking, and industry. He gave his name to the village of Hufftown, which was under Hempfield Township until it was incorporated as South Greensburg Borough on June 10, 1891. His first job was in the car shop of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Altoona, and after coming to Greensburg in 1867 he helped organize the South-West Branch Railroad in 1871 with Richard Coulter and served as treasurer until the office moved to Philadelphia in 1874. In 1874 he acquired a large portion of land first owned by Michael Rugh, and in 1881 he sold part of it to the Greensburg Coal Company, which merged in 1902 into the Keystone Coal and Coke Company. In 1874 he was also one of the organizers and owners of the Greensburg Coal Company with Richard Coulter, and when it became the Keystone Coal and Coke Company in 1902 he became president. In 1881 he was an organizer and board member of the First National Bank of Greensburg until his death. In 1888 he played the principal role in convincing the Kelly and Jones Company to move from New Jersey and build its plant at Huff Avenue, where he served on the board of directors; in 1925 the company became the Walworth Company. About fifty houses were built in 1888 to house workers for new factories, and those houses now stand between Sheridan and Coulter Avenues on Broad, Poplar, and Elm Streets. Widely known as one of the most enterprising and public-spirited men of Westmoreland County, he was closely identified with many of its industrial and financial enterprises and donated the South Greensburg Fire Department's first piece of fire equipment, a hand-drawn cart, in 1901. He married Henrieta Burrell on March 16, 1871, and they had eight children, four of whom died in infancy; the surviving children were Lloyd B., Julian B., Carolyn B., and Burrell Richardson. The family home in Greensburg covered about 500 acres called Cabin Hill, with cultivated farmland, original forest, landscape gardening, parks, and more than four miles of winding driveways maintained by the family and open to the public. He died on April 18, 1912, and was buried at St. Clair Cemetery in Greensburg.