BIO: Harry E. HUSTON, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 94. __________________________________________________________ HARRY E. HUSTON Saltillo, Pa. Merchant: Was born at Clear Ridge, Fulton Co., Pa., April 11, 1877. A son of Thomas W. Huston, a merchant almost all his life at Clear Ridge, Fulton Co., Pa.; he died in 1900, aged fifty-three years, and of Caroline (Irwin) Huston, a daughter of Samuel Irwin, a carpet weaver, of McConnellsburg, Fulton Co., Pa; died in 1895, aged forty-seven years, of typhoid fever. Harry E. Huston attended the Clear Ridge public schools; taught three terms, two in Fulton county and one in Westmoreland Co., Pa. In 1905 he succeeded C.B. Crum in the mercantile business at Saltillo, Pa. The building then was about 30x60 ft. Mr. Huston enlarged the building to 100x60 ft., making a large and commodious business place, establishing different departments, consisting of furniture, clothing, dry goods, groceries, builders' supplies, farm machinery and hardware. At present he is School Director; has held this office for fourteen years; has served also as a Councilman. Belongs to the Masonic Fraternity, Cromwell Lodge, No. 572, Orbisonia, Pa.; Harrisburg Consistory. In politics a Democrat. Has three brothers: Amos, married to Sarah Campbell, daughter of Dr. Wm. Campbell, Mount Union, Pa.; Charles Huston, married to Althea, daughter of B.K. Senft, Saltillo, Pa., and Dr. Samuel Huston, Brownsville, Pa. Three brothers are deceased. Clarence was run over by a wagon; was aged twelve years; John, a bookkeeper in Mississippi, drowned in a lake, aged 22 years; Dr. George W. Huston died recently. Sisters are: Ella, married to A.T. Hamilton, Three Springs, Pa., a Ford dealer; Millie, married to E.B. Evans, contract painter, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Lois, a school teacher, Bloomfield, N.J. One sister deceased, Grace, who died at the time of the flu epidemic in 1918; her husband, Brint Miller, also died of the same malady; both were buried in the same grave. Harry E. Huston was married to Mary Kimmel, a daughter of Margaret and S.W. Kimmel, of Saltillo, Pa. Three sons: Harry E., Jr., graduate Saltillo High School; also graduate Mount Union High School; he took a preparatory course at Mercersburg Academy; now a junior at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., a dental student; Malcolm K., graduate Saltillo High School; also a graduate of Mount Union High School; at present a student at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., a Sophomore; John D., Saltillo High School, a Senior; Mary, at Saltillo High School.