The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 863 

A. C. WHITSON.

A C. Whitson, a resident of Yakima for fourteen years and now conducting a
successful and growing business under the name of the Whitson Plumbing &
Heating Company, was born at Morris, Minnesota, July 27, 1880, a son of Robert
and Hattie (Huntington) Whitson, who after residing for a number of years in
Minnesota removed to Pembina, North Dakota, in 1889. The father engaged in
railroad work, thus providing for the support of his family.

A. C. Whitson was a youth of but nine years at the time the family home was
established in North Dakota, where he acquired a public school education. He
afterward learned the plumbing business at Crookston, Minnesota, and there
remained until 1904, when he removed to the Pacific northwest, settling in
Yakima. For seven tears he was employed by the Yakima Hardware Company and
during this period carefully saved his earnings until his industry and economy
had brought him sufficient capital to enable him to engage in business on his
own account. In 1912, therefore, he organized the Whitson Plumbing & Heating
Company at No. 13 South First street and has since conducted a general plumbing
and heating business. He did the plumbing for the Wapato high school, for the
Country Club and in many of the leading residences of the city.

In 1900 Mr. Whitson was married to Miss Sarah Wellington, a native of Ohio, and
to them were born ten children: Hattie and Annie, twins, who have passed away;
one who died in infancy; Wendell; Robert; Verne; Helen; John; Alfred and
Florence.

Fraternally Mr. Whitson is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
and politically with the republican party. His efforts and attention, however,
are mostly concentrated upon his business affairs and in addition to his
plumbing and heating business in the city he owns a cattle ranch and a fruit
ranch in the Yakima valley, having made judicious investments in property in
this section and thus indicated his belief in the future of the district. He is
a self-trade man in that he owes his success entirely to his perseverance and
industry and his prosperity has indeed been well earned.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.