NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: HUSTON, Harold W. (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 78-79

        HAROLD W. HOUSTON, noted labor attorney, with offices in the
Citizens Bank Building at Charleston, has practiced law for a quarter of a
century, and the larger part of his business has been as representative of
labor unions.
        Mr. Houston was born at Freedom in Noble County, Ohio, March 10,
1872, son of Samuel W. and Emma A. (Guiler) Houston, his father a native of
New York State and his mother of Ohio. Samuel W. Houston went to Ohio when
a young man, and was in the lumber business for many years, moving to West
Virginia in 1874 and locating in Jackson County and about 1890 moving to
Charleston. He was a Republican and was a Union soldier in the Civil war,
serving as lieutenant in the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry. He was wounded at
the battle of Wool Pasture Mountain, and his brother, John A., was captured
and was confined at Libby prison.
        Harold W. Houston was the third in a family of five children, four
of whom are now living. He grew up in Jackson County, attended public
schools there, and completed his law education and was given a license to
practice law in 1900. Mr. Houston was in practice at Parkersburg until
1912, when he removed to Charleston. His work as a lawyer has brought him
connection with many famous cases, and he has probably been counsel in as
many criminal trials as any other lawyer in the state. It was Mr. Houston
who had charge of the noted treason cases against William Blizzard and
others, arising in Mingo County during the labor war there. Mr. Houston
showed such skill and resourcefulness in handling these cases that the only
man who, against the advice of Mr. Houston, made a concession.
        Mr. Houston married in October, 1899, Miss Sophia Graff, of
Parkersburg, who died in 1907. There were two daughters, Helen and
Christine, both of whom attended school at Parkersburg, while Helen
continued her education in Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,
and Miss Christine in the Pratt Institute at Brooklyn. Helen is now the
wife of Cecil M. King, an optometrist at Charleston. Mr. Houston in
October, 1918, married Wilda (Polen) McCool, who was born and educated at
Beaver, Pennsylvania. She died October 24, 1925. Mr. Houston attends the
Presbyterian Church.


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