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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  W. I. HUMISTON. Among the business and professional men of Worthington are

many who came to the town as boys, and among the number is the subject of this

biography, who came in June, 1872, and who has ever since made his home here.



  Mr. Humiston is the son of Edwin R. and Mary A. (Davis) Humiston. He was born

in Lesueur county, Minn., on Christmas day, 1861. The night following his birth

the log cabin in which the family lived was burned to the ground, and his

mother, taking the infant in her arms, waded the snow drifts over a trackless

forest two miles to the nearest neighbor, a feat that only a woman of the

pioneer days could have accomplished.



  In his native county Will Humiston lived until June, 1872. Then he came to

Worthington with the family, the father having arrived the year before. He was

educated in the public schools of the village, attending the school winters and

herding cattle summers, which occupation he began at the age of thirteen years.

In June, 1885, he went into the hardware business as the senior member of the

firm of W. I. Humiston & Co., and was so engaged eighteen years, part of the

time being sole proprietor of the store. After going out of the hardware

business Mr. Humiston engaged in the implement business, which he conducted

three years. He is now engaged in raising thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle and

Duroc-Jersey swine. He owns a fine home in the city and ten Nobles county farms.



  In 1887 Mr. Humiston was married in Worthington to Lilly L. Glass, a native of

Kentucky, and to them have been born three children: Lee I., Lillian and Harry.



  Mr. Humiston served six years as a member of the Worthington village council.

He is a member of the Masonic lodge.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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