Biography of William B. Huestis
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Huestis, William B., was born in Saratoga Springs in the Huestis House, October 18, 1853, a son of John and
Mary (Barner) Huestis. -He was educated in the public schools of his native village and his business life has been
entirely connected with the hotel business. He was first associated with his father, who built the Huestis House
fifty years ago, and has been proprietor of it since 1883. He has greatly enlarged the house and modernized it
in every way, so that it is to-day one of the leading hotels in the State and has ample accommodations for 250
guests. Mr. Huestis is widely known as an enterprising and genial hotel man. In 1880 Mr. Huestis married Alinira
Merrill, and they have two children, John M. and Mary W.
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