During his episcopate bankers foreclosed on the cathedral church of the diocese, but he led a successful effort to pay off the indebtedness.
degree and membership in Phi Beta Kappa society from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
However, the Great Depression that began in 1929 caused pledges to dry up, and at the time of the cathedral's dedication on April 25, 1931, the congregation still owed $250,000 to the Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis, which had provided the financing.
In 1934, he went to civil court to remove the rector of Trinity Parish Church, without having gotten the approval of the Standing Committee of the diocese.
Between 1944 and 1947 fundraising, including a 1945 Civic Banquet, hosted by Emil Sick and Dave Beck, that netted $85,000, led to all indebtedness being paid off.
Their first child was Wilber B. Huston, who won the 1929 Edison scholarship contest and went on to have a long career with NASA.