Grant Huffman (1872 - 1938)
	
Grant Huffman was born in Glasglow, Kentucky. He and his brother, Grant, came to Duncan Creek in 1900. In 1903, he owned a roadhouse midway up the creek. Huffman and Mark Evans met Harry MacWhorter and Jack Alverson at McQuesten River and they all decided to go where Davidson had found galena in that valley. They arrived at Davidson's Hell's Gate claim on 23 February 1913 and McWhorter staked it again as the Silver King claim. Alverson staked the Webfoot, Huffman staked the Mabel, and Evans staked the Adam.((Linda E.T. MacDonald & Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 60, 389.))

Alverson and McWhorter worked the Silver King that winter and in the spring McWhorter granted Alverson and Huffman a 100% lay on the claim for one year in exchange for claim development and the construction of a cabin. Gene Binet grubstaked the operation and Gilbert Rich, Huffman's nephew, was hired to pack supplies. A small crew was hired, and Rich and Huffman cut a ten-mile trail to Field Creek on the Duncan Creek road. Huffman and Alverson named Galena Creek and Galena Hill. Huffman and Alverson mined fifty-nine tons of the first ore ever mined in the Mayo district. They shipped the ore in 1914 and made a $10,000 profit.((Linda E.T. MacDonald & Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 60, 389.))  

Huffman was mining on Galena Creek in 1915-16 and took up a homestead in 1918 near the Mayo Canyon. He was a hunter for Treadwell Mines in the 1920s and supplied them with vegetables from his own garden. ((Linda E.T. MacDonald & Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 60, 389.)) Huffman used a Model "T" Ford to take mail, freight and passengers from Mayo to Keno Hill. A Yukon Archives 1922-23 photo shows the car just out of the garage at Field's Creek Roadhouse on the Duncan Creek Road.((Yukon Archives, Bill Hare fonds, 82/418 #6623 caption where Huffman is spelled Hoffman.)) 

Huffman returned to Kentucky in 1930, visited Mayo in 1936 and died in Kentucky in 1938.((Linda E.T. MacDonald & Lynette R. Bleiler, //Gold & Galena.// Mayo Historical Society, 1990: 60, 389.))