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Samuel Bruce Huston (March 16, 1858 – November 30, 1920) was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon. Originally a Democrat and later a Republican, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was twice the mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon. A native of Indiana, he served in the state senate as a Democrat from one county his first term, but moved and changed parties by his second term 20 years later. ==Early life== Samuel Huston was born in New Philadelphia, Washington County, Indiana on March 16, 1858, to Oliver Wolcott Huston and Lucretia Pearson Huston (née Naugle).〔Colmer, Montagu, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. ''History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon''. Portland, Or: Historical Pub. Co, 1910. p. 159.〕 His father died while Samuel was young, with his mother remarrying in 1866.〔Gaston, Joseph. (''Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders: In Connection with the Antecedent Explorations, Discoveries, and Movements of the Pioneers That Selected the Site for the Great City of the Pacific''. ) Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co, 1911. Vol. 3, pp. 483-484.〕 The family moved from the southern Indiana town to Illinois, where Samuel received his education at a private school and the public schools in Grand Glade.〔〔 Huston earned his college education at Northern Indiana University (now Valparaiso University) in Valparaiso.〔 Afterwords he moved to Chicago where he attended a law school before reading law with George M. Parker in Robinson, Illinois, and at the law offices of Heffron & Zaring in Salem, Indiana.〔 He was admitted to the Indiana bar in December 1879 before entering private legal practice in that state.〔 Huston then briefly practiced law in Illinois before working for the Santa Fe Railroad Company in New Mexico, remaining until the Spring of 1883.〔 He then moved to Oregon, arriving on May 7, 1883, in Portland.〔 Settling for a short time in Forest Grove where he worked in a flour mill and on a farm, he moved to neighboring Hillsboro in January 1884 and set up a law practice.〔 On June 28, 1884 in Forest Grove, he married Ella Geiger, the daughter of Dr. William Geiger, Jr. of pioneer stock.〔 He was admitted to Oregon's bar in October 1884.〔 In 1894, they had a son, Grover Clay, who died five months after birth.〔(Hillsboro Pioneer Cemetery Inscriptions, Surnames E - H. ) Cemeteries. Retrieved on May 16, 2008.〕 Another son, Oliver, attended the University of Oregon and Yale University.〔Schmitt, Martin. (Catalogue of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library. ) University of Oregon. Retrieved on May 16, 2008.〕 The couple had two other children, Samuel Carl and Blanche.〔 In Hillsboro he served for 12 years as a school director.〔 In 1906, he moved to Portland, where he continued to practice law and served as a member of the city's commercial club.〔 In 1906, Huston and Martin L. Pipes represented a defendant in the Oregon land fraud scandal with Francis J. Heney as the prosecutor and Charles E. Wolverton presiding in Oregon's federal court.〔Puter, Stephen A. Douglas, and Horace Stevens. ''Looters of the Public Domain, Embracing a Complete Exposure of the Fraudulent System of Acquiring Titles to the Public Lands of the United States''. Portland, Ore: Portland Printing House, 1908. pp. 355-356.〕 Huston was involved with other cases of the land fraud as well as more than ten murder trials, primarily as a defense attorney.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel B. Huston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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