Person:Abner Huston (2)

Walt’s neighbor at 330 Mickle Street was architect Stephen Decatur Button and his artist wife, Maria.  Robert P. Gordon (a clerk), Abner Huston (a locomotive engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad), and John Robertson (a paperhanger) all resided on the other side of Whitman at 326 Mickle. The 300 block is representative of all the blocks comprising Mickle Street, and in 1888 featured laborers, roofers, carpenters, railroad workers, a dentist and a physician, a baker, painters, clerks, sawyers, dressmakers, designers, a minister, machinists, a iron moulder, a blacksmith, a publisher, salespeople, and milk dealers.  At the northwest corner of 3rd and Mickle Streets stood the Third Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Whitman complained bitterly about the cacophony produced by the church’s choir.  Retail establishments on the 300 block in Whitman’s time included a fish store, a grocery store, and a pharmacy.