History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . Alfred Armstrong, whencehe was transferred to Dickinson College, Carlisle,where he graduated in 1829. After clerking a shorttime for his father, they became associated in themercantile business, under the firm-name of & Son. On the retirement of his father thefirm became E. C. Humes & Bro. E. C. Humes wasmarried Dec. 7,1843, to Miss Lucy Alexander, a nieceof Mrs. W. W. Potter. In 1856, in connection withHon. A. G. Curtin and the late Hon. H. N. McAllisterand Hon. James T. Hale, he established the banking-house of Humes, McAllister,
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania . Alfred Armstrong, whencehe was transferred to Dickinson College, Carlisle,where he graduated in 1829. After clerking a shorttime for his father, they became associated in themercantile business, under the firm-name of & Son. On the retirement of his father thefirm became E. C. Humes & Bro. E. C. Humes wasmarried Dec. 7,1843, to Miss Lucy Alexander, a nieceof Mrs. W. W. Potter. In 1856, in connection withHon. A. G. Curtin and the late Hon. H. N. McAllisterand Hon. James T. Hale, he established the banking-house of Humes, McAllister, Hale & Co., to whichbe gave all of his attention and which soon obtaineda first-class credit in the State. This institution was merged June 8, 1864, into the First National Bank otBellefonte, of which Mr. Humes became and still re-mains the president. Huston, Hon. Charles, was of Scotch-Irish de-scent, his grandfather being one of the early emi-grants to Pennsylvania. He was the eldest son ofThomas and Jane Huston, whose maiden name was. --//^^U^^ Walker, and was born in Plumstead township, BucksCo., Jan. 16, 1771. A mere lad during the Revolu-tion, many of its incidents were indelibly impressedupon his memory. He was educated at DickinsonCollege, Carlisle, where he graduated in 1789 withthe honors of his class. During the years 1790 and1791 he taught a select school at Carlisle, meanwhilestudying law with Thomas Duncan, Esq., with whomhe was afterwards associated on the bench of the Su-preme Court of Pennsylvania. In 1792-93 he wasemployed by the trustees of the college as tutor ofthe languages. Among his pupils was the lateChief Justice R. B. Taney, of the Supreme Court ofthe United States. In his autobiography the chiefjustice says of him, I need not speak of his char-acter and capacity, for he afterwards became one ofthe first jurists of the country. He was an accom-plished Latin and Greek scholar, and happy in hismode of instruction. And when he saw that a boywas disposed
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