ERNEST B. HUSTON
Ernest B. Huston, while treasurer of the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, one of the largest corporations of this character operating in
Oklahoma, has also found time and opportunity for activity along
other lines that have been of marked benefit to the state in the support of
high principles of American manhood and citizenship. Mr. Huston comes to the southwest from New England, his birth having occurred at
Newton, Massachusetts, August 5, 1876. He is a son of Daniel D. and Emma (Orchard) Huston, the former a native of Maine, while the latter was horn in England. They became the parents of two children, the brother of Ernest B. being William D. Huston, now living in Boston,
Massachusetts. The parents have departed this life.
Ernest B. Huston, having attended the public schools of his native city until he had completed the high school course there, started out
in the business world as an employe in a dry goods store of Boston,
in which he remained for a brief period. He then turned his attention to
the insurance business in Boston, in which he won notable success,
but the opportunities of the growing west attracted him and in 1904 he
made
his way to Independence, Kansas, where he continued for nine years, having charge of the financial interests of the Sinclairs at that
place. The year 1911 witnessed his arrival in Tulsa and through the intervening period he has been financial man for the Sinclair
interests
and his official position is that of treasurer of the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company. He thus controls very large and important interests, for
the corporation is one of the foremost operating in the oil fields of Oklahoma. One who has known him long and well says of him: "In a
business way he has always acted in a most straightforward,
considerate and upright manner, and I have always regarded him as a man of the
most sterling integrity. He has that fortunate and happy, although
uncommon, human faculty of being able to see the other man's side of the
argument as well as his own, and it certainly helps in this busy world of high strung humanity." Mr. Huston is ever painstaking in handling details, is an excellent organizer and an indefatigable worker. These
qualities have been strong elements in the attainment of his success, bringing him to the prominent and creditable position which he occupies in connection with one of the chief industries of Oklahoma.
In October, 1907, Mr. Huston was married to Miss Alice Chandler, a daughter of Joseph Chandler, a pioneer settler and prominent resident
of Independence, Kansas. They have become parents of one son, Donald E., born November 2, 1915.
Mr. Huston is a member and elder of the First Presbyterian church and is also serving as assistant superintendent of the Sunday school.
He has never neglected his religious duties but performs them in a
way befitting a true American Christian, being thoughtful of those in
distress and charitable to those who have needed kindly assistance.
He is one of the directors and the vice president of the Tulsa Young
Men's
Christian Association and his generous support is given to all movements that tend to promote moral progress. He seeks the best in
literature and keenly enjoys everything of an instructive or educational nature. A member of the Rotary Club, he was active on its
board and as one of its officials. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a
Knight
Templar and Shriner. The friends of his youth and early manhood as
well as those of his later years speak of him in terms of the highest
regard
because of the life that he has lived and the high standards which he has pursued. His position as a business man is today a very important
one in Oklahoma, but he is equally a dynamic force in the advancement of those interests which make for the up building of the community and
the commonwealth and for the uplift of the individual.
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