Yolo-Colusa County CA Archives Biographies.....Laugenour-Huston, Sarah A. 1857 - 
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SARAH A. LAUGENOUR-HUSTON

    The descendant of German ancestors on the paternal side, Sarah A. Laugenour
was born on a southern plantation near Salem, Forsyth county, N. C., March 19,
1848, the daughter of Samuel H. and Lisetta (Fisher) Laugenour. The grandmother
on the maternal side was in maidenhood a Miss Hamilton from Scotland. Early
representatives of the Laugenour family were members of the Moravian Church and
located in the Moravian settlement in Forsyth county, where Count Von Zindendorf
had purchased a grant of land for the purpose of establishing a boarding school
for girls in Salem. A large brick building was erected for this purpose next
door to the church, and Salem College was founded in 1804. There is was that
Sarah A. Laugenour was educated, under the influence of religious and cultured
teachers. Her parents were members of the Baptist Church.

    The eldest of twelve children, four of whom died in infancy, Sarah A.
Laugenour was eighteen years of age when with her parents she came to California
by way of Panama. The family arrived in Yolo county, Cal., November 26, 1866,
and located on a farm near Knights Landing, continuing there for a few years or
until removing to College City, Colusa county. Before leaving Yolo county Miss
Laugenour had taught school up to the time of her marriage to Walter S. Huston,
January 20, 1869, when she became a resident of Knights Landing, where her
husband was engaged in the mercantile business. It was during their ten years
residence in that town that their first four children were born, Walter Samuel,
Arthur Craig, Edward P. and Mary, the latter dying in infancy. In the fall of
1878, after the disastrous flood of the preceding February, the family moved to
Woodland to make their permanent home, and it was there that their two youngest
children were born, Harry Lyle and Bertha Leora, the latter now the wife of
James L. Hare. At this writing, 1912, Mrs. Huston is the happy grandmother of
six girls and four boys. She and her husband united with the Woodland Christian
Church by letter from the Knights Landing Church soon after their removal from
the former city.

   An organization which claims much of Mrs. Huston's thought and attention is
the Woodland W. C. T. U., which was organized by Frances E. Willard in 1883.
After uniting with the organization she served as president-of the local union,
as county president and as county superintendent of press work for twenty-seven
years. She edited a column in the Woodland Daily Democrat when William Saunders
was its editor, and also supplied material for a column in the Woodland Mail
when it was published by W. E. Ellis. A paralytic stroke ended the business
career of her husband three and one-half years previous to his death, which
occurred September 8, 1894. With an invalid husband to care for and children to
educate, she took up the work outside of her home at the age of forty-three
years. She established the Home Alliance, a local newspaper devoted to the
prohibition of the liquor traffic and equal rights for women, the first issue
appearing July 7, 1891. Under her management the paper has been an important
factor in banishing the open saloon from almost the entire county, and a helpful
influence in securing the adoption of the state constitutional amendment giving
the ballot to the women of California. Mrs. Huston attributes the success of The
Home Alliance largely to the liberal support given it by her co-workers in the
W. C. T. U., in the churches, the professional and business men and women of
Woodland, and the farmers throughout the county. In the evening of life she is
enjoying congenial work and the society of her children, who are all married and
settled in their own homes, and of her ten grandchildren. While her business,
like all reform work, has not brought great financial gain, she is in possession
of what is far better in the satisfaction that comes only from service to God
and humanity.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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