Humble was originally established as a sawmill town along the Houston East & West Texas Railway in 1886.
Sterling went on to become governor of Texas in.
In 1911, the Humble Oil Company was founded by Ross Sterling and other men from the Humble oil fields.
Humble and neighboring Moonshine Hill became places where million-dollar fortunes were made and lost.
Humble became a boomtown overnight when oil was discovered in 1904.
It was named for Pleasant Smith Humble, the town\'s first US postmaster.
Humble was originally established as a sawmill town along the Houston East & West Texas Railway in 1886