The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 60

WILLIAM IRVING HUXTABLE.

The fine home of William Irving Huxtable is situated only about a mile west of
Yakima. Here he has twenty acres of land planted to fruit and his is one of the
attractive properties in his section of the state. Mr. Huxtable is a native of
Tazewell county, Illinois. He was born March 15, 1857, of the marriage of
William and Barbara (Robinson) Huxtable, the former a native of England and the
latter of Scotland. They came to America with their respective parents in
childhood days, the Huxtable family taking up their abode in Illinois in 1838.
The Robinson family also settled there in pioneer times. In 1883 William
Huxtable and his wife removed to Adams county, Nebraska, where he engaged in
farming until his life's labors were ended in death in 1904. His wife passed
away when she had reached the age of seventy-six years.

After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools William
Irving Huxtable started out in farm life, purchasing school land in Nebraska. In
1894, however, he made his way to the coast, establishing his home at Hemet,
California, where he was engaged in fruit farming until 1899. In that year he
came north to Yakima, where he arrived in October, and in 1901 he purchased
twenty acres of land a mile west of Yakima, upon which he has since resided. }1e
planted this to fruit, specializing in peaches, and he is today one of the
largest peach growers of the county. Upon his place he erected a fine modern
residence, large and substantial barns and made all other necessary
improvements, and his is now one of the fine ranch properties of the district.
In addition to his home place he has a seventy-acre tract planted to apples and
peaches and he has made a close study of everything that pertains to fruit
growing in this section. He knows the needs of the soil, the best methods of
protecting his trees and the results achieved are most gratifying.

Mr. Huxtable was married to Miss Charlotte M. Wells, a native of Illinois, and
they became parents of five children: Mary B., the widow of W. Ross Stewart, by
whom she had two children, now making her home with her parents; Ora De Witt, a
farmer who married Edith Cole; Philo L, who is farming with his father in Yakima
county and married Lola Hopper, by whom he has a son, Robert, now five years of
age; Elsie, the wife of G. P. Labberton, of Yakima, by whom she has two sons;
and Orpha, the wife of John I. Preissner, a mining engineer living on Vancouver
Island.

Mr. and Mrs. Huxtable are members of the Baptist church. He has served on the
school board and the cause of education finds in him a warm friend. In fact.
actuated by a progressive spirit, he stands for all that pertains to the
progress and upbuilding of the community along intellectual, social, material
and moral lines.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.