Photo #111889
Last Name: Huston
First Name: Leon
Middle Name:
Subject's City: Fort McKinley, Portland
Subject's State: ME
Subject's County: Cumberland
Subject's Country: United States
Date: 1921-1940
Photographer: Wight
Photographer's City: Portland
Photographer's State: ME
Nee:
Type**: B&W
Comments: Leon Huston (Nee: ) | Fort McKinley, Portland ME United States | 1921-1940 | Comments: Cpl Leon Huston, Fort McKinley, ME, circa 1937.
This photo is from the Ethel Wight Studio, Portland, Maine.
This negative envelope says, “Mr. Leon Huston, Fort McKinley, ME - Co. M #1092.”
What I think I know:
• The rank insignia for this person is Corporal. The patch on his sleeve is from the 9th Infantry Division. The 9th Infantry Division was a Regular Army Inactive unit with personnel at the Army Base, Boston, Mass. The envelope the negatives were in suggest he was with Company M.
There was a Leon Leroy Huston, who was born 15 Dec 1897 in Portland, Cumberland County, He graduated from Lisbon Falls High School. In 1922 he married Pearl Snow at Lewiston. By 1927 the couple had moved to Academy, New York were he lived until after 1940. He did serve during WWI, but I can find no evidence of service in the 1930s. Additionally, photos on Ancestry for this individual do not appear to be the same individual as this photo.
Digital Image Only? YES
Everyone Listed In This Photo:
Leon Huston
