Sacramento County
Biographies
EDWARD PARRAMORE HUSTON
EDWARD PARRAMORE HUSTON.--A
representative business man of Sacramento,
well and favorably known in commercial circles far beyond the confines of city
and county, is Edward Parramore Huston, of the
popular firm of Elliott & Huston, dealers in real estate and
insurance. He was born at Knight’s Landing, on March 14, 1873, the son of Walter S. and Sarah (Laugenour) Huston, of North Carolina,
while Mr. Huston came from Missouri. He reached California,
after crossing the great plains, in December, 1849,
traveling by the Santa Fe trail, and then he journeyed by means of the steamer
“Senator,” from San Francisco to Sacramento. He mined for a while, and then settled in Yolo
County, in 1850; and taking up
farming, he also engaged in mercantile pursuits at Knight’s Landing. In 1878, he came to Woodland,
in Yolo County;
and held various offices of public trust in Woodland and Yolo
County, and died there in 1893,
leaving behind him an excellent record.
Mrs. Huston is still active, and enjoying life
to the full. Among their children, W. S.
Huston is in the stationery business at Woodland; and
Arthur C. and H. L. Huston are attorneys; while Bertha L. Huston has become the
wife of J. L. Hare, an attorney of Woodland.
Edward
P. Huston got such schooling as he could in a youth busy enough with the
problems of premature earning, and then he went to the Hesperian College, in
connection with the Christian Church, and to the Woodland
Business College. His first position when he was ready to do
something was with Ed. E. Leake, on the Woodland
“Democrat,” which he held until 1896, and after that he engaged in the general
insurance business in Woodland, and met with success, and was also secretary of
the Woodland Chamber of Commerce for several years, and served as city trustee
for five years. In 1905, he took up life
insurance as a specialty, and accepted the managership
of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company for northern California, and came
to Sacramento; and in 1906, he resigned, and joined G. S. Turner, in the real
estate business, and was afterwards with the J. G. Carly
Company, retiring from their service only in 1920, when he purchased a
half-interest in the firm of Elliott & Huston, and became a partner of
Arthur W. Elliott.
In
1895, Mr. Huston was married to Miss Vena A. Joslyn,
of Woodland, born in Vermont, who
came to California as a girl, the
daughter of Henry S. and Althera L. Joslyn. Two children
have blessed this union, Arloa J., the eldest, is married and has become Mrs. Marion L. Daviess, and they
have a daughter, Jeanette A.; and Elizabeth
is at home. Mr. Huston belongs to the
Masons, the Knight Templars, and the Shriners.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 787. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.