Monongalia County, West Virginia    Biography of Charles Russell HUSTON

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 106

CHARLES RUSSELL HUSTON. Morgantown, his native city,
has been the scene of the varied experiences and achieve-
ments of Charles Russell Huston, an active business man
for over thirty years, and for many years president of
the Morgantown Savings & Loan Society.

Mr. Hasten was born in Morgantown, February 18, 1865,
son of Samuel P. and Louise (Murphy) Huston. His
great grandfather, Peter Huston, was a native of Ireland,
and about the close of the American Revolution came to
America and established his home in Somerset County,
Pennsylvania. His son, Chambers Huston, was born in
Somerset in 1809 and died in 1889. He followed the in-
dustry and trade of carpenter, and was a member of the
Methodist Church. His wife was Margaret Pritts, who
died in 1896. Their third son was the late Samuel P.
Huston, who was born in Somerset County, January 3, 1835,
and died in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1912. He also
learned the carpenter's trade, and moved to Morgantown
in 1858. TOT many years he had an extensive business as
a building contractor over that section of West Virginia.
He was a leader in the Methodist Church and superintend-
ent of its Sunday school and was an Odd Fellow. March 1,
1861, he married Louise Murphy, and they celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary. Her death also occurred in
1912. They had three children: Chauncey W., Charles
Russell and Louise.

Charles Russell Huston acquired a public school educa-
tion at Morgantown and spent two years in the University
of West Virginia. Leaving college at the end of his sopho-
more year, he took up the trade of sheet metal worker and
roofer, and from 1885 became a contractor in the roofing,
sheet metal and heating business. For twenty-six years
he was active in that line, with an organization capable of
handling the largest contracts. He finally sold the busi-
ness in 1911.

Mr. Huston has been identified with the Morgantown Sav-
ings & Loan Society since a few years after its organiza-
tion, was a director, and since 1900 has been its presi-
dent. He is also a director and one of the executive com-
mittee of the Bank of Morgantown and has been interested
in several local industries and is now department manager
at the Saberton plant of the American Sheet & Tin Plate
Corporation.

Mr. Huston and family are members of the First Meth-
odist Episcopal Church and he was for many years treas-
urer of the Sunday school. In December, 1905, he mar-
ried Miss Beula B. Hubbard, daughter of Mrs. Eva Hub-
hard, of Morgantown, formerly of Wheeling. Mr. and
Mrs. Huston are the parents of three children: Charles
Russell, Jr., born January 15, 1907; Louise, born Janu-
ary 19, 1909; and Helen, born May 17, 1911.