Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Thank you so much, Judge Huber, for taking time to talk with us this morning. To begin the interview would you tell us where and when you were born? William Huber: March 26, in Bridgeton, New Jersey in Cumberland County where my father was a county agent, county agricultural agent.
WH: Well, he was born in Woodbridge and raised [there], he had two sisters. I think his father had a grocery store one time and they really didn't have much money. The sisters both went to Trenton Normal School and ended up as school teachers in the Woodbridge School system, and he went through the Woodbridge schools and came to New Brunswick and entered Rutgers in, I guess it would be He would have graduated in He broke his foot in playing basketball and he then graduated with a subsequent class.
He majored in agriculture and met my mother at Trenton Normal School, where she was a roommate of his sister, and then they married. But between college and marriage he went off to World War I and he was a pilot. All the pilots were in the Signal Corps in those days and they used to fly over the lines observing, and so forth.
I guess, some of them fired their machine guns but I don't recall him saying that he did. He was a county agent in Cumberland Countywhen my mother had an initial child named John, who she miscarried after a fall on the porch where she was living.
All of us married. We're … kind of a prolific group. I have seven children. George has seven and did have eight, I think he lost his first son. Mary had eight and Dave had four. WH: Well, my mother lived on a farm in East Brunswick. Her father was married twice.
