Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel Line Huston and Elsarene James




Husband Samuel Line Huston 1

           Born: 1 Aug 1870 - Dickinson Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Williamson Huston (1828-1900) 2
         Mother: Sarah Jane Line (      -Aft 1905) 2 3


       Marriage: 23 May 1901 1



Wife Elsarene James 1

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         Father: Wilmer James, M.D. (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary A. Strohm (      -      ) 1




Children
1 F Mildred Huston 1

           Born: 17 Jun 1904 1
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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Line Huston


He was born on the ancestral homestead in Dickinson township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was reared on the farm in North Middleton, and in his youth attended the country district school. Later he attended the public school of Carlisle and graduated from the Carlisle high school in 1888. On leaving the high school he spent a year in Dickinson College, which completed his scholastic education. He then settled down to work on the farm and at growing and shipping water cress. In the summer of 1897 he broke away from farm duties a sufficient length of time to make a trip to northwestern Ohio, where he visited relatives and friends. He traveled the entire distance going and coming, about 1,000 miles, on a bicycle, and made good use of the opportunity to see and study the country.
In the spring of 1902 he took charge of the farm in North Middleton, his mother moving to Carlisle and it is there that he and his family resided.


General Notes: Wife - Elsarene James


She was of the eighth generation of a James line who traced their descent back to a James progenitor who came from England with William Penn on his second voyage to America and settled in Chester county.
After completing the course of the public schools she entered Harrisburg Business College and graduated in stenography and typewriting. Afterward she held a position in Harrisburg. assisting in the compilation of the State Archives, afterward in Philadelphia, and then for three and a half years was stenographer, typewriter and assistant bookkeeper for the Neville Knitting Company.

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Sources


1 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 682.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 681.

3 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 463, 582.


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