"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 493.
 
HON. H. C. HUSTON
     Born in Washington county, Indiana, may 10, 1828.  He received his academic
learning in the same college where Hendricks and English graduated.  He moved to
Iowa in 1850; thence to Missouri the same year.  In April, 1852, he crossed the
plains to Oregon, and settled in Linn county on September twenty-fourth of that
year.  In the spring of 1853 he went to the gold mines of Northern California
and Southern Oregon, where he remained until the summer, then returned to Salem.
The fall of 1853 found him in Lane county, where he took a donation claim about
eleven miles west from Eugene City, in Spencer precinct and where he has since
continuously lived.  In the spring of 1854 he taught the first school in Siuslaw
precinct.  He joined Captain Buoy's company in 1855, doing service in the Rogue
river war, and in the spring of 1856 enlisted for the same service in David W.
Keith's company, and was orderly sergeant.  He was elected State senator in
1866, serving two terms.  He married Lydia Ann Zumwalt, and has seven children.
 
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
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