Humiston Institute
Humiston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amos Humiston (1830–1863), American soldier * Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (1869–1948), first female Special Assistant United States Attorney *Mike Humiston Michael David Humiston (born January 8, 1959) is a graduate of Anderson High School, in Anderson, Shasta County, California. He was a member of the Tehama County (Calif.) Sheriff's Department for six years, where he served as a patrol officer an ...

Amos Humiston
Amos Humiston (April 26, 1830 – July 1, 1863) was a Union Army, Union soldier who died in the Battle of Gettysburg. Civil War Humiston served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Having previously been wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville, he was killed in action on the Gettysburg Battlefield#Borough areas of military engagements, Gettysburg Battlefield, dying with his children's image that his wife had mailed to him months earlier. A local girl found the image, and Dr. John Francis Bourns saw it at the girl's father's tavern and subsequently publicized the image: "wounded, he had laid himself down to die. In his hands … was an ambrotype containing the portraits of three small children … two boys and a girl ... nine, seven and five years of age, the boys being respectively the oldest and youngest of the three. The youngest boy is sitting in a high chair, and on each side of him are his brother and sister. The eldest boy's jacket is made from the same materia ...
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Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston
Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1869–1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. She was a graduate of the New York University School of Law and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes", starting with her work solving the cold case of Ruth Cruger who disappeared in New York in 1917. Early life and education Quackenbos Humiston was born Mary Grace Winterton on September 17, 1869 in New York City. Her father was Adoniram Judson Winterton, a well-to-do merchant and prominent in the laywork of the Baptist church. She was a great-niece of Admiral Hull, and her grandfather, Henry S. Hull, was the partner of William Lloyd Garrison of anti-slavery fame. She was educated at Hunter College in New York and graduated in 1888. She also taught for a short time at the Collegiate School on West 77th Street. With an independent fortune she entered the study of law at t ...
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