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near his father’s farm and his iirst teacher was Craven Boswell.
He continued his education in Morganiield after he moved there
and he later attended, first, the Methodist College at Augusta,
Kentucky, then, St. Joseph’s (Catholic) College at Bardstown.
In 1841, he entered the Law Department of Harvard University
and two years later was graduated.
While on his way east in August, 1841, he met President Tyler ·
at the White House, and also Daniel VVebster, a member of
Tyler’s cabinet. At Harvard he met several famed men, including-
Judge Story, professor of law there and an eminent authority
on American jurisprudence; Lord Ashburton, who was search-
ing for records of the boundary between Maine and Canada; and
Noah Webster, the lexicographer. George Huston was appointed
Kentucky’s delegate to invite Charles Dickens to the State when _
that famed literary figure was visiting Boston. So great was his
desire to see Dickens that he took the invitation, which he might
have mailed, in person, He also met Longfellow, while at Har-
vard, though he admired him, not because he was a famous poet.
but because he was such a dandy——so exquisite in his dress
and manner.
At the age of twenty-two he married Sarah "Sally"_Brady, (
who was seventeen. One of their ten children was Nancy Huston · ,
Banks, one of Union County’s most outstanding writers.
He became the county judge shortly before the outbreak of the
War between the States. Mr. Huston was a slave owner but his
wife at one time remarked that it took the greater part of what
he made as a lawyer to support his slaves in comfort.
For many years he was closely associated with Archibald
Dixon of Henderson, a man of political prominence (U. S. Sena-
tor and Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky) and the leading
attorney of this section of the State. As a lawyer, Mr. Huston __
was a specialist in land litigations arising out of grants made x
to Revolutionary War soldiers. He died during the same year
that his book, Memories of Eigfaiy Years, was published by the
M organfield Sun.
FIELDING JONES (1760-1832), said to have been the first
white man to settle permanently   Union County, was born in
Henry County, Virginia. In his young manhood he served in the
Revolutionary War and attained the rank of colonel. For this
service, Virginia granted him one thousand acres of land in what
is now Union County. ln 1779 he married Sarah Hardin of