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William Henry Thompson Huie

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William Henry Thompson Huie

Birth
Sonoma, Sonoma County, California, USA
Death
28 Jan 1938 (aged 82)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section K | Lot 39 | Division N
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The family represented by William H. T. Huie, secretary and treasurer of the Eldorado Oil Works of San Francisco, comprises some notable characters in early and later California history, including Americans who came out to the coast at the beginning of the Mexican war.

Mr. Huie is a descendant of James Huie who came to America from Dumfrees, Scotland, prior to 1798. He was made a master in the United States navy in 1803. His son, James Blackman Huie, became identified with the City of Louisville. Kentucky. George William Huie, pioneer of the family in California, was born at Louisville. Kentucky, son of James Blackman Huie, graduated in medicine in 1848, University of Pennsylvania, crossed the plains to California and arrived during September, 1849. He practiced medicine in San Francisco, and in Sonoma County from 1852 until 1868 when, returning to Sail Francisco, he resumed his medical practice there until his death, August 6, 1877. He also owned and operated a drug store at the corner of Eleventh and Mission streets. While in Sonoma County he served as assessor in 1864-65.

On October 12, 1848, George William Huie married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Thompson. She was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, October 13, 1827, and died at San Rafael, California, October 18, 1905. Soon after her marriage she crossed the plains with her husband and his father under the leadership of her uncle, William Henry Thompson of the United States Navy. Her uncle had first visited California in 1846, with Commodore Stockton. William Henry Thompson had married a sister of G. W. Huie and she accompanied the party on the trip of 1849. Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Thompson was a member of the distinguished Slaughter family of Culpeper County, Virginia, and a daughter of Judge Robert Augustine Thompson, member of Congress from Virginia and judge of courts of California for many years, and Mary Ann Smith Slaughter, a daughter of Capt. Philip Slaughter and a granddaughter of James Slaughter, whose father, Robert Slaughter, was one of two brothers who were the first wardens of the famous St. Mark's Parish in Virginia, being chosen by the first vestry in 1731. Col. James Slaughter commanded a regiment at the first engagement of the Revolutionary war in Virginia. Capt. Philip Slaughter, his oldest son, went into the War of Independence in 1775. In 1778 at the age of twenty was promoted to captain and saw service until the close of the war. He was made first lieutenant of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, December 20, 1776; regimental paymaster, March 14, 1777; regimental paymaster of the Seventh Virginia, September 14, 1778; captain-lieutenant in November, 1778; captain in May, 1779, and retired February 12, 1781. He was a man of letters and wrote several books.

William H. T. Huie, son of George William and Sarah Elizabeth (Thompson) Huie, was born in Sonoma County, March 24, 1855. His brother, George B. Huie, a resident of Palo Alto, was early prominent in the National Guard of California, and was a first lieutenant of a battery during the Spanish-American war. Another brother, E. M. Huie, was a veteran of the National Guard of California. A third brother, R. B. Huie, who died in 1921, was for a number of years San Francisco manager for Grace & Company.

Educated in the schools of San Francisco, William H. T. Huie had his first employment in the Wells Fargo & Company Bank. After leaving there he took up surveying, acting as transit man on railroad surveys in Washington from 1880 to 1884, for the Southern Pacific in California during, 1885, and carried the transit on the Soledad and Ventura divisions with O. H. Barren. During the Cleveland administration he was assistant weigh clerk for the United States Mint in San Francisco. Resuming his profession as civil engineer he did transit work for the firm of Scurry & Owens in Seattle, and in California helped on the survey from Stockton to Bakersfield for the California Midland Railway under Oliver Emory. In 1892 he became cashier and bookkeeper for E. L. G. Steele & Co., later known as George A. Moore & Co.

Mr. Huie has been secretary and treasurer of the Eldorado Oil Works since 1896, nearly thirty years. This industry was established in 1812, with factories in Berkeley. The company manufactures cocoanut oil, and is the largest concern of its kind in the state. It crushes about 40,000 tons of copra yearly; the product being marketed as "Snow Flake Cocoanut Oil."

Mr. Huie has been active in patriotic organizations, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the National Society of Americans of Royal Descent and the Baronial Order of Runnymede, made up of the descendants of the sixteen signers of the sureties of the Magna Charta. Mr. Huie is a member of Oriental Lodge of Masons, California Chapter Royal Arch Masons, the Masonic Club, is a democrat and vestryman in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

He married November 19, 1905, Miss Lillie McMillen Reis, a native of San Francisco. Her father, Julius C. Reis, has been a well-known banker of San Francisco, and his brothers, Gus and Julian Reis, were pioneers of California. The wife of Julius C. Reis, Ellen Renshaw Dent, was a daughter of George Renshaw Dent, who was a brother of Mrs. Gen. U. S. Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Huie have one daughter, Lillian, a student in Miss Burke's School.

- "The San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 3" by Bailey Millard; Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924
The family represented by William H. T. Huie, secretary and treasurer of the Eldorado Oil Works of San Francisco, comprises some notable characters in early and later California history, including Americans who came out to the coast at the beginning of the Mexican war.

Mr. Huie is a descendant of James Huie who came to America from Dumfrees, Scotland, prior to 1798. He was made a master in the United States navy in 1803. His son, James Blackman Huie, became identified with the City of Louisville. Kentucky. George William Huie, pioneer of the family in California, was born at Louisville. Kentucky, son of James Blackman Huie, graduated in medicine in 1848, University of Pennsylvania, crossed the plains to California and arrived during September, 1849. He practiced medicine in San Francisco, and in Sonoma County from 1852 until 1868 when, returning to Sail Francisco, he resumed his medical practice there until his death, August 6, 1877. He also owned and operated a drug store at the corner of Eleventh and Mission streets. While in Sonoma County he served as assessor in 1864-65.

On October 12, 1848, George William Huie married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Thompson. She was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, October 13, 1827, and died at San Rafael, California, October 18, 1905. Soon after her marriage she crossed the plains with her husband and his father under the leadership of her uncle, William Henry Thompson of the United States Navy. Her uncle had first visited California in 1846, with Commodore Stockton. William Henry Thompson had married a sister of G. W. Huie and she accompanied the party on the trip of 1849. Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Thompson was a member of the distinguished Slaughter family of Culpeper County, Virginia, and a daughter of Judge Robert Augustine Thompson, member of Congress from Virginia and judge of courts of California for many years, and Mary Ann Smith Slaughter, a daughter of Capt. Philip Slaughter and a granddaughter of James Slaughter, whose father, Robert Slaughter, was one of two brothers who were the first wardens of the famous St. Mark's Parish in Virginia, being chosen by the first vestry in 1731. Col. James Slaughter commanded a regiment at the first engagement of the Revolutionary war in Virginia. Capt. Philip Slaughter, his oldest son, went into the War of Independence in 1775. In 1778 at the age of twenty was promoted to captain and saw service until the close of the war. He was made first lieutenant of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment, December 20, 1776; regimental paymaster, March 14, 1777; regimental paymaster of the Seventh Virginia, September 14, 1778; captain-lieutenant in November, 1778; captain in May, 1779, and retired February 12, 1781. He was a man of letters and wrote several books.

William H. T. Huie, son of George William and Sarah Elizabeth (Thompson) Huie, was born in Sonoma County, March 24, 1855. His brother, George B. Huie, a resident of Palo Alto, was early prominent in the National Guard of California, and was a first lieutenant of a battery during the Spanish-American war. Another brother, E. M. Huie, was a veteran of the National Guard of California. A third brother, R. B. Huie, who died in 1921, was for a number of years San Francisco manager for Grace & Company.

Educated in the schools of San Francisco, William H. T. Huie had his first employment in the Wells Fargo & Company Bank. After leaving there he took up surveying, acting as transit man on railroad surveys in Washington from 1880 to 1884, for the Southern Pacific in California during, 1885, and carried the transit on the Soledad and Ventura divisions with O. H. Barren. During the Cleveland administration he was assistant weigh clerk for the United States Mint in San Francisco. Resuming his profession as civil engineer he did transit work for the firm of Scurry & Owens in Seattle, and in California helped on the survey from Stockton to Bakersfield for the California Midland Railway under Oliver Emory. In 1892 he became cashier and bookkeeper for E. L. G. Steele & Co., later known as George A. Moore & Co.

Mr. Huie has been secretary and treasurer of the Eldorado Oil Works since 1896, nearly thirty years. This industry was established in 1812, with factories in Berkeley. The company manufactures cocoanut oil, and is the largest concern of its kind in the state. It crushes about 40,000 tons of copra yearly; the product being marketed as "Snow Flake Cocoanut Oil."

Mr. Huie has been active in patriotic organizations, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the National Society of Americans of Royal Descent and the Baronial Order of Runnymede, made up of the descendants of the sixteen signers of the sureties of the Magna Charta. Mr. Huie is a member of Oriental Lodge of Masons, California Chapter Royal Arch Masons, the Masonic Club, is a democrat and vestryman in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

He married November 19, 1905, Miss Lillie McMillen Reis, a native of San Francisco. Her father, Julius C. Reis, has been a well-known banker of San Francisco, and his brothers, Gus and Julian Reis, were pioneers of California. The wife of Julius C. Reis, Ellen Renshaw Dent, was a daughter of George Renshaw Dent, who was a brother of Mrs. Gen. U. S. Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Huie have one daughter, Lillian, a student in Miss Burke's School.

- "The San Francisco Bay Region, Vol. 3" by Bailey Millard; Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 1924

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