William Houghton1

M, #37951

Biography

OccupationMontville, CT, USA, a farmer
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Citations

  1. [S460] Marshall L. McClanahan, Ralph & Jane (Stow) Houghton - MLM, p. 102.

Henry Mershon1,2

M, #37952, b. circa 1672, d. 20 September 1738

Family: Hannah Haughton b. 7 Jan 1675, d. Oct 1738

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Birthcirca 1672Caen, Normandy, France, Ruth Ann Kunce: Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co., NJ4,5
OccupationMaidenhead, Hunterdon Co., NJ, USA, a weaver2
MarriageNewton, Long Island, Queens, NY, USA, Philip Mershon: a record of her marriage to Henry Mershon (French spelling Henri Marchand) on Long Island, NY. This was probably before 1698 as they were living in Maidenhead (now known as Lawrenceville), NJ at that time; MLM: Ann ___1,2,4
DeathSep 20, 1738Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co., NJ, USA4
Probate1Oct 27, 1738Trenton, NJ, USA, Lib. 4, p. 492
ResearchOct 3, 2008
Researchvia Elizabeth Mershon
Researchthrough Henry Mershon, b 1698
BiographyWikitree: Henry Mershon ...he arrived in New York at about age 13 (1685). His father apparently came to America with the one son, left him with Huguenot relatives in the NY area, returned to France to get the rest of the family, but never made it back, dying in France. [1]

In the "Register of Ancestors, The Huguenot Society of NJ, Inc. (1975), it was stated that "Henri, Jr. settled at Newtown LI, now Elmhurst, where he learned his trade as a weaver. The Newtown census of 1698 lists Henri "Marshan" with a wife and one child. This family removed abt 1700 to Maidenhead (Lawrenceville) NJ where he purchased extensive acres of and. He died 20 Sep 1738 and was buried in the Great Cemetery of the village. His will dated 19 Jul 1738 leaves to his youngest son, Houghton, the homestead plantation; the other nine children, 5 shillings each, indicating that they had previously been provided for; wife Ann sole executor".
Fifteen days after his death, his estate was inventoried. "1738 Oct 5. Inventory of estate. L.265.6.0 including 1 servant man, L10;one negro girl, L 40; 12 swarms of bees, L5; 3 looms and harness, L10; books L 1.5. Made by Stephen Minor and Peter Mershon. "Source:NJ Colonial Documents: Calendar of Wills: Hunterdown Wills.
The other nine children are listed as: Sons; Henry, Andrew, Peter, Thomas, and daughters; Mary, Ann, Rebeckah, Elizabeth, and Sarah.
These occupations are reflected in the inventory of estate which lists "12 swarms of bees" and "3 looms and harnesses"
23 March 1708 - Henry Mashon was appointed Constable for Maidenhead.[2]
An early map (c. 1745) of the Trenton - Amboy Road[3] shows a "Mashan" residence on the north side of the road, across from a Bainbridge residence on the south side. Both of these were just west of the Keith-Kitchin line that divided East and West Jersey.

Birth
Date: 10 Oct 1672 Place: Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Name
Henry /MERSHON/ (II)<
Name: Henri /Marchand/
Occupation
Occupation: Bee Keeper and Weaver
Place: Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey
Immigration
Type: Arrival
Date: 1685
Place: Long Island
Burial 1738 Lawrenceville, Mercer, New Jersey (Lawrenceville Cemetery On the Hill)
Also Known As:<_AKA> Henry /Marchand/ II
REFN: 2
Brought to New York by his father to escape religious persecution, sometime around 1685. See notes on Henri Marchand.
BIOGRAPHY: The ten children listed in the Family Records were named in Henry's will. See source.
1738, July19, MERSHON Henry, of Maiden head, Hunterdon Co., weaver; will of Wife, Ann. Son, Houghton, plantation of 111 acres, held by several deeds from---Revel, Benjamin Maple, Susannah Stockton and Daniel cox, being a second purchase. Wife, Ann, five acres of meadow bought of said Revel, in town of Maidenhead, adjoining five acres which belongs to Hezekiah Bonham. Sons -- Henry, Andrew, Peter and Thomas, Daughters -- Mary, Ann, rebeckah, Elizabeeth and Sarah. Wife Executrix.
Witnesses -- Stephen Minor, Philip Chapman, John Job. Proved October 27, 1738. Recorded in Libra 4, p. 149, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
1738, Oct 25, Inventory of estate (L265.6.0) includes one servant man, L10; one negro girl, L40; twelve swarms of bees, L5; three looms and harness, L10: books, L1.5. Made by Stephen Minor and Perter MERSHON.
BIOGRAPHY: Marchand spelling was changed to MERSHON sometime afterlanding in America.
BURIAL: Burial in what is now the Lawrenceville Cemetery On the Hill,approximately half-way down the south road in the cemetery is large fieldstone itih bronze plaque which reads:
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF HENRY MERSHON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 20TH SEP 1738
Will 1738 Burlington, New Jersey[4]
NJ-COURT: From the New Jersey Prerogative Court:
I, Henry C. Kelsey, Register of the Prerogative Court of the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the last Will and Testament of Henry MERSHON, late of the County of Hunterdon, deceased, and of the probate thereof, dated July 19th, 1738, as the same is taken from and compared with the original record (Recorded in Leber No. 4 of Wills, Page 149, etc.) now remaining on file and of record in myoffice.
NJ-COURT: Witness my hand and the seal of the Prerogative Court, at Trenton, this 25th day of October, A.D., 1883.
NJ-COURT: Henry C. Kelsey
(Seal)
Register
WILL: THE WILL OF HENRY MERSHON
WILL: In the name of God, Amen, the nineteenth day of July, Anno Dom. One thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight, I, Henry MERSHON of Maidenhead, in the County of Hunterdon and Western Division of the Province of NewJersey, Weaver, being weakly in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for it, and calling to mind the mortality of the body, and knowing that it is apointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament (that is to say) principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul to God who gave it me, and as for my body, I recommend it to the earth to be buried ina Christian-like and decent manner at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection, I shall receive the same again by the mightly power of God; and as touching my world wealth,wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with this life, I dispose of in the following manner: Item, I give to my well beloved wife, Ann, all the use and profits of my homestead place and plantation till my son Houghton comes to the age of twenty-one years, and afterwards, the one-half during her widowhood. I also give to my said wife Ann, her heirs and assigns forever, all my movable estate whatsoever as household goods, looms, heris and all my stock and utensils for husbandry, all bonds, bills and accounts, which shall be due to me at my death, and all of all sorts thatmay be called moveables, and she my said wife Ann, is to pay all my just debts out of said movable estate, and all legacies hereafter bequeathed is to be paid by my said wife Ann. Item, I give to my said son Houghton, his heirs and assigns forever, all my homestead plantation, containing by estimation one hundred and eleven acres of land held by several deeds, as one from Revel, one from Benjamin Maple, one from Susanna Stockton, and one from Daniel Coxe, being a second purchase. I also give to my said wife Ann five acres of meadow purchased of said Ravel, lying in said Town of Maidenhead, adjoining the five acres of meadow which did belong toHezekiah Bonham as undivided right. I also give to each of my otherchildren as followeth: To my son Henry, five shillings; to my son Andrew,five shillings; to my son Peter, five shillings; to my son Thomas, five shillings; to my daughter Mary, five shillings; to my daughter Ann, five shillings; to my daughter Reecca, five shillings; to my daughter Elizabeth, five shillings; to my daughter Sarah, five shillings.--Lastly, I appoint my said wife Ann my whole and sole executor, and do by these presents disannul and disallow of all other and former wills or testaments by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testamentIn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day above written.
Henry MERSHON
his X mark
(L.S.)
Signed. sealed, published, pronounced by the said Henry Merson as his last will and testament in presence of us.
Stephen Minor
Phillip Chapman
John Jobs
Stephen Minor and John Jobs, two of the witnesses to the within will, being duly sworn, did depose that they saw Henry MERSHON, the Testor in the within will named, sign and seal the same and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the within written instrument to be his last will and testament, and that at the doing thereof the said testator was of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, so far as they know and believe, and that at the same time Philip Chapman, the other evidence, was present and subscribed his name as a witness thereto, together with these deponents in the presence of the said testator.
Sworn at Burlington the 27th day of Oct., A.D. 1738, before me.
Joseph Rose
Surrogate
Be it remembered that the last Will and Testament of Henry MERSHON, deceased, having been proved as aforesaid, probate and letters testamentary were granted by his Excellency, Lewis Morris, Esq., governor, etc., unto Ann MERSHON, widow and relict of the said deceased, and sole executrix in his said Testament named, being duly sworn well and truly to perform the said will, to exhibit true and perfect inventory, etc., and render a just account when therunto lawfully required.
Given under the Prerogative Seal of said Province at burlington, the twenty-seventh day of October, A.D., 1738, p. me.
Arch'd Home
Register, &c. a
Ann's date of birth unknow; date of death unknow, but believed to have survived her husband, Henry.

If Ann was Henri Marchand II's only wife, they evidently married in Newtown, Long Island, New York, as his family of three is listed as one of the families of Newtown, in 1698.

Marchand spelling was changed to MERSHON sometime after the landing in America.
LDS Ancestral File Records states Ann's last name was Houghton. This has long been suspected, but no records have been found to verify this. This record also states that she was born about 1680, but here again, this date is unconfirmed.
Marriage and Issue
Henry Mershon

Birth 1672 Normandy France
married prior to 1698
Marriage 1698
Husband: Henry Mershon
Wife: Ann Houghton
Child: Rebekah Merson
learned weaving - Newtown Long Island
Landowner, New Jersey
Death 20 SEP 1738 Maidenhead, NJ
Burial 1738 Trenton, NJ
Husband: Henri Marchand
Wife: Ann Houghton
Child: Henry Mershon
Child: Mary Mershon
Child: Andrew Mershon
Child: Peter Mershon
Child: Anna Mershon
Child: Thomas Mershon
Child: Rebekah Mershon
Child: Elizabeth Mershon
Child: Sarah Mershon
Child: Houghton Mershon
Marriage:
Date: 1695 - 1698
Place: Long Island City, Queens, New York, United States
Note
Note: Some of the best documentation of this family and related families is found on Pat's Pages website (http://www.patpnyc.com/stout.shtml). She points out with specific documentation that he arrived in New York at about age 13 (1685). His father apparently came to America with the one son, left him with Huguenot relatives in the NY area, returned to France to get the rest of the family, but never made it back, dying in France.
In the "Register of Ancestors, The Huguenot Society of NJ, Inc. (1975), it was stated that "Henri, Jr. settled at Newtown LI, now Elmhurst, where he learned his trade as a weaver. The Newtown census of 1698 lists Henri "Marshan" with a wife and one child. This family removed abt 1700 to Maidenhead (Lawrenceville) NJ where he purchased extensive acres of and. He died 20 Sep 1738 and was buried in the Great Cemetery of the village. His will dated 19 Jul 1738 leaves to his youngest son, Houghton, the homestead plantation; the other nine children, 5 shillings each, indicating that they had previously been provided for; wife Ann sole executor".
Fifteen days after his death, his estate was inventoried. "1738 Oct 5. Inventory of estate. L.265.6.0 including 1 servant man, L10;one negro girl, L 40; 12 swarms of bees, L5; 3 looms and harness, L10; books L 1.5. Made by Stephen Minor and Peter Mershon. "Source:NJ Colonial Documents: Calendar of Wills: Hunterdown Wills.
The other nine children are listed as: Sons; Henry, Andrew, Peter, Thomas, and daughters; Mary, Ann, Rebeckah, Elizabeth, and Sarah.
These occupations are reflected in the inventory of estate which lists "12 swarms of bees" and "3 looms and harnesses".

Sources
? My folks; story of the forefathers of Oliver Francis Mershon, M.D. as told by himself, in the words of Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon. Main Author: Mershon, Oliver Francis. b. 1873. Other Authors: Mershon, Grace Lucile Olmstead. 1879-1974. Language(s): English. Published:     [Rahway, N.J.] Priv. print. [Quinn & Boden Co., 1946]. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061977575;view=1up;seq=14 [1]
? The Burlington Court Book of West New Jersey 1680-1709, page 330.
? Helen A. Titus, "Maidenhead, the Early Days", a publication of the Lawrence Tercentenary Committee.
? The Will of Henry Mershon
Mershons in America
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
Grace Olmstead MERSHON Title:     My folks; story of the forefathers of Oliver Francis Mershon, M.D. as told by himself, in the words of Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon. Publication: Name: 1946;
Author: compiled by Sara Morton Koehler (Mrs. Albert F. Koehler) Title: Huguenot Ancestors Represented in the Membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey Publication: Name: third edition in 1965; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Media Type: Book CONT
Riker, James, The annals of Newtown, in Queens County, New York; containing its history from its first settlement, together with many interesting facts concerning the adjacent towns; (1852). Newtown Census of 1698 Publisher: New-York, D. Fanshaw
Author: Edited by A. Van Doren Honeyman, Sumerville, NJ Title: "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey" Publication: Name: from Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Volume II 1730-1750;; NOTE The Unionist Gazetter Assoiciation, Printers 1918, p. 332-333 CONT
Title: New Jersey Prerogative Court NOTE See Notes under Will CONT
Title: "LDS Ancestral Files" Provo, UT:
"The Scudder Family of Trenton," Moses Bigelow, Compiler, Somerset Press, 1948, Page 28
Find A Grave: Memorial #11094993
Phillip Mershon, 2008 : Henry (Henri) was born in Caen, Normandy, France about 1672, and was brought to Elmhurst, Long Island, NY by his father, and left here at about the age of 12. His father returned to France, apparently to get the rest of the family, and maybe some others. He was reported to be a leader of the important Huguenot church at Caen. Nothing more is known of him, as to whether he was lost at sea, or was maybe arrested by the authorities on his return.5,6
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Richard Carlton, 2/1999.
  2. [S815] Marshall L. McClanahan, John Houghton, Pioneer of Hopewell NJ;, M, p. 1.
  3. [S1477] WikiTree, online unknown url, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Marchand-29
  4. [S415] E-mail from Ruth Ann Kunce, Feb. 15, 2001.
  5. [S415] E-mail from Phillip Mershon, Oct. 3, 2008.
  6. [S1477] WikiTree, online unknown url, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mershon-17

Rebekah Mershon1

F, #37953, b. November 1710, d. 12 March 1784

Family: Nathaniel Fitz-Randolph b. 1703, d. 1786

Biography

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BirthNov, 1710Hunterdon Co., NJ, USA2
MarriageOct 20, 1729Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
DeathMar 12, 1784Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA2
BurialPrinceton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA2
ResearchNathanael Fitz Randolph 1703-1786 = Rebekah Mershon b. 3 Oct 1711 Stoney Brook NJ- d. 3 Dec 1784 Princetown I
Samuel Fitz Randolph 1741-1825 = Elizabeth M Jackson
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James W Randolph 1797-1870 = Martha Patsy Bennett 1806-1870
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Charles Slagle 1828-1901 = Mary Polly Randolph 1830-1913
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Harrison R Hughes 1855-1943 = Martha Slagle 1857-1937 Bakersville N Car
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Warfield F Hughes 1881-1969 = Mamie Phillipps 1885-1977
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Rachel Leola Quinn 1915-1953 = Robert Bruce Hughes b. 25 Jun 1915 Bakersville NC

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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Richard Carlton, 2/1999.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Ruth Ann Kunce, Feb. 15, 2001.

Nathaniel Fitz-Randolph1

M, #37954, b. 1703, d. 1786

Family: Rebekah Mershon b. Nov 1710, d. 12 Mar 1784

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Birth1703
MarriageOct 20, 1729Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
Death1786
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Richard Carlton, 2/1999.

Mary Harriet Beckwith1

F, #37956, b. 21 May 1881, d. 1 January 1925

Family: Ernest Eugene Houghton b. 29 Oct 1878, d. 30 Aug 1967

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BirthMay 21, 1881Clarke Co., IA, USA, age 28 in 1910 census; age 34 in 1920 census1
MarriageOct 29, 1901Clark Co., SD, USA, age 23 and 172,1
1910 Census1910Willow Lakes, Clark Co., SD, USA, age 31, bureau of census enumerator3
Note19103 children born, 2 living
1920 Census1920Collins, Clark Co., SD, USA, age 42, grain elevator manager; and mother in law Selina Beckwith, 63, MO4
DeathJan 1, 1925Willow Lake, Clark Co., SD, USA1
ParentsDSelina Beckwith; father born in U.S., mother born in MO
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Bernie Hamilton, Jul. 18, 2001.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Jon Erickson, 2/1999.
  3. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Willow Lakes Ward 2, Clark, South Dakota; Roll: T624_1478; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 103;
    line 70, dwl 42-42.
  4. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Collins, Clark, South Dakota; Roll: T625_1717; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 78; line 32, dwl 9-9.
  5. [S415] E-mail from Bernie Hamilton, Sept. 3, 2000.

Jon Erickson1

M, #37957

Family: Patricia Blackford

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Corresponded with authorY
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Birth
Marriage2
AddressFeb, 1999[email protected]1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Jon Erickson, 2/1999.
  2. [S36] Letter, from Emily Gullickson, Dec. 25, 2001.

Barbara (?)

F, #37958

Family: Dale Flannery

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AddressNov, 1998[email protected]
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Abraham Lincoln Daby1,2

M, #37959, b. 8 October 1863, d. 10 November 1918

Family: Mary Lydia Ann Ott b. 7 Jul 1873, d. 18 Nov 1949

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BirthOct 8, 1863Delavan, MN, USA
MarriageOct 8, 1891Mankato, MN, USA1
DeathNov 10, 1918Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN, USA2
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Linda Ray, 2/1999.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Rick Darby, Aug 4, 2018.

Mary Lydia Ann Ott1,2

F, #37960, b. 7 July 1873, d. 18 November 1949

Family 1: Abraham Lincoln Daby b. 8 Oct 1863, d. 10 Nov 1918

Family 2: Bert Ernest Daby b. 7 Apr 1912, d. 25 Dec 1965

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BirthJul 7, 1873Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN, USA
MarriageOct 8, 1891Mankato, MN, USA1
Marriage
DeathNov 18, 1949Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Linda Ray, 2/1999.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Rick Darby, Aug 4, 2018.

Olive Daby1

F, #37961, b. 24 May 1858

Family 1: George Rorman

Family 2: Leon Pierce

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BirthMay 24, 1858Blackberry Station, Kane Co., IL, USA, age 18 in 1875 census; Ray: 18181,2
MarriageMay 25, 1873Delavan, MN, USA1,2
Census1875Marion, MN, USA
MarriageNov 19, 1887Mankato, Blue Earth Co., MN, USA
DeathCA, USA
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Linda Ray, 2/1999.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Rick Darby, Aug 4, 2018.

George Rorman1

M, #37962

Family: Olive Daby b. 24 May 1858

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MarriageMay 25, 1873Delavan, MN, USA1,2
Census1875Marion, MN, USA
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Linda Ray, 2/1999.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Rick Darby, Aug 4, 2018.

Ross R. Ihrie M.D.1

M, #37964, b. 24 March 1828, d. 28 June 1889

Family: Mary Ann Haughton b. 6 Aug 1835, d. 13 Oct 1901

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BirthMar 24, 1828Easton, PA, USA, age 31 in 1860 census1
Marriage1
1860 Census1860Middle Division, Chatham Co., NC, USA, age 31, farmer; property $3500-26,000; 2 houses from Mary's father2
Milit-Bega lieut.-colonel in the Confederate army1
ResidencePittsboro, NC, USA1
DeathJun 28, 1889Pittsboro, NC, USA1
Biographyson of Peter Ihrie (Peter, Conrad of Franconia, Germany) and Camilia A. Ross (daughter of the Mary Ross who presented the flag to George Washington at Philadelphia in 1777); Ross was born in Easton, Northampton Co., PA; attended Lafayette College in Easton in 1844-47; graduated from the Medical Dept. at the Univ. of Penn 1850. Lt. Col. of Confederate States: 15th NC Regt. 49th NC Militia, Assistant Surgeon1
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Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., V, p. 466.
  2. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Middle Division, Chatham, North Carolina; Roll: M653_892; Page: 84; sheet 236; line 20, dwl 709-641.
  3. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 403.

Mary Ann Haughton1

F, #37965, b. 6 August 1835, d. 13 October 1901

Family: Ross R. Ihrie M.D. b. 24 Mar 1828, d. 28 Jun 1889

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BirthAug 6, 1835NC, USA, age 15 in 1850 census; age 24 in 1860 census2
Marriage1
DeathOct 13, 1901
BurialSt. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Pittsboro, Chatham Co., NC, USA, Entire family buried here
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Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., V, p. 466.
  2. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Chatham Co., NC, Microfilm 432, Reel 624, P. 501A, Ln. 2.
  3. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 403.
  4. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Middle Division, Chatham, North Carolina; Roll: M653_892; Page: 84; sheet 236; line 20, dwl 709-641.

John Hooker Haughton1

M, #37966, b. 29 August 1810, d. 30 May 1876

Family 1: Mary Ann Williams

Family 2: Eliza Alice Hill b. 3 May 1812, d. 27 Feb 1864

Family 3: Martha Harvey b. 1 Jul 1835, d. 26 May 1875

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BirthAug 29, 1810near, Edenton, Chatham Co., NC, USA, age 40 in 1850 census; age 49 in 1860 census3,1
Marriage1
MarriageHailburn, NC, USA4
1860 Census1860Middle Division, Chatham Co., NC, USA, age 49, attorney; real estate $17,000- property $83,000, 18 slaves5
ResearchHaughton, Alice (b. - d. 26 Feb 1864) Wife of John H. Haughton. No marker. Info from St. B register, page 204. "died - very suddenly of what was supposed to be heart disease after pneumonia."1
Marriage1
DeathMay 30, 1876Pittsboro, Chatham Co., NC, USA1
BurialSt. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pittsboro, Chatham Co., NC, USA, Husband of Mary A. (Williams), Eliza A. (Hill) and (Marvey). Son of John and Mary Ryan (Hooker) Haughton. Born near Edenton NC. Died in Pittsboro NC. "Hope is the anchor of the soul."1
OccupationPittsboro, NC, USA, a prominent lawyer6
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Citations

  1. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://cemeterycensus.com/nc/chat/cem281.htm
  2. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Middle Division, Chatham, North Carolina; Roll: M653_892; Page: 84; sheet 236; line 20, dwl 709-641.
  3. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Chatham Co., NC, Microfilm 432, Reel 624, P. 500b, Ln. 42.
  4. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Chatham Co., NC, Microfilm 432, Reel 624, P. 501A, Ln. 1.
  5. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Middle Division, Chatham, North Carolina; Roll: M653_892; Page: 84; sheet 236; line 8, dwl 106-638.
  6. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.confederatevets.com/documents/…
  7. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., V, p. 466.

Julia Richards Houghton1,2

F, #37967, b. circa 1836

Family: Rev. James Ormsbee Murray D.D., LL.D. b. 27 Nov 1827, d. 27 Mar 1899

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Birthcirca 1836Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 14 in 1850 census; age 34 in 1870 census; age 37 in 1880 census3,2
Origin1856Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA1
MarriageSep 22, 18561
1870 Census1870New York, New York Co., NY, USA, age 41, clergyman3
1880 Census1880College of New Jersey, Princeton, Merced Co., NJ, USA, age 45, professor4
Living1899
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Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV.
  2. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Boston Ward 7, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_336; Page: 38; line 23, dwl 332-423.
  3. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , New York Ward 21 District 17 (2nd Enum), New York, New York; Roll: M593_1050; Page: 533; line 37, dwl 286.
  4. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey; Roll: 788; Family History Film: 1254788; Page: 138A; Enumeration District: 097; Image: 0277; line 39, dwl 71-85.
  5. [S95] Newspaper, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf

Rev. James Ormsbee Murray D.D., LL.D.1

M, #37968, b. 27 November 1827, d. 27 March 1899

Family: Julia Richards Houghton b. c 1836

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BirthNov 27, 1827Camden, Camden Co., SC, USA, 1897 given; age 41 in 1870 census; age 45 in 1880 census; Am. Biog Lib: 27 Nov 1817?1
Graduation1844Brown University, Providence, Providence Co., RI, USA, matriculated, and after an illness, graduated 1850.1
Occupationbetween 1854 and 1861Congregational Church, Danvers, MA, USA1
MarriageSep 22, 18561
1870 Census1870New York, New York Co., NY, USA, age 41, clergyman2
1880 Census1880College of New Jersey, Princeton, Merced Co., NJ, USA, age 45, professor3
Research4 speeches4
DeathMar 27, 1899Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA1
ObituaryMar 28, 1899NY Times

Burial1899Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer Co., NJ, USA5
Biographyson of James Syng and Aurelia Powell (Pearce) Murray. He was pastor at Cambridgeport, MA 1861-65; assoc. pastor of the Presbyter. church NY, 1865-73, and pastor 1873-75; Holmes professor of belles lettres and English at Princeton Univ. 1875-99, dean of the faculty, 1874-99. He was a trustee of Princeton theolog. seminary 1867-99, director 1874-99; vice-pres. of the board of trustees 1889-99. He received honorary degrees from College of New Jersey (D.D.) in 1867, A.M. in 1896, LL.D. from Brown Univ. in 1886. The Murray chair of English at Princeton was named after him. Authored many books.

See The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ... By Rossiter Johnson, Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917,1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV.
  2. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , New York Ward 21 District 17 (2nd Enum), New York, New York; Roll: M593_1050; Page: 533; line 37, dwl 286.
  3. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey; Roll: 788; Family History Film: 1254788; Page: 138A; Enumeration District: 097; Image: 0277; line 39, dwl 71-85.
  4. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi
  5. [S95] Newspaper, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf

Patty Howard1

F, #37969

Family: Stedman Nurse b. 27 Aug 1799

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
Corresponded with author?
Origincirca 1826Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA2
MarriageJun 4, 1826Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA1,2
Biographydau. of George and Parnel (Ames) Howard
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 98.
  2. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 236.
  3. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 213.
  4. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 214.

Henry Stedman Nourse1

M, #37970, b. 9 April 1831, d. 14 November 1903

Family: Mary Baldwin Whitney Thurston

Biography

NotableY
Corresponded with author?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
BirthApr 9, 1831Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA1,2
Graduationbetween 1849 and 1853Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, A. B. He taught in Lancaster to support himself. After graduating, he taught at Phillips-Exeter for 2 years as Professor of ancient languages. and became principal at Bristol Academy at Taunton.1,3
Occupationbetween 1858 and 1874Boston, MA, USA, Civil Engineer for Whitwell & Hanks. In 1859-1860 worked for Delaware Railway. In 1865 worked in MD and PA. In 1868 became superintendent of Bessimer Steel Works in Harrisburg, PA. Resigned in 1874
Mil. Enlsbetween 1861 and 1865Joined 55th Illinois Infantry; mustered out as a captain. He saw much action including Sherman's March to the sea in 1864.
Marriage1870Lancaster, MA, USA, A war widow
Office1882Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, representative from the 5th Worcester District.
A state senator in 1885. Trustee of Worcestor Insane Hospital in 1888. Trustee of MA State Library Commission in 1890. Board of Lunacy and Charity in 1898. Trustee of Lancaster Library for 25 years from 1878.4
Notable1894Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA, was the author of Lancasteria; Lancaster VRs; Early Records of Lancaster5,6
DeathNov 14, 1903Lancaster, MA, USA, GS
BurialOld Settler's Burial Ground, Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA
BiographyHe was professor of ancient languages at Phillips Exeter Academy, 1853-55. During the Civil War, he served in the Federal army as captain in the 55th Illinois volunteer infantry and as commissary of musters of the 17th armry corps, 1861-65. He was a constructional engineer and superintendent of the Bessemer steel works, Steelton, PA., 1866-74. He was a Republican state representative in Mass. in 1883; state senator, 1855-86; a trustee of the Worcestor Insane hospital, 1888-98; a member of the Mass. Free Public library commission, 1890-1903; a member of the Mass. board of charity, 1898-1903. He was a member of the Mass. Historical Society and of the American Antiquarian Society.

He was the author of Early Records of Lancaster, 1643-1725 (1884); The Story of the 55th Regiment of Illinois Infantry (1887); The Military Annals of Lancaster, 1740-1865 (1889); The Births, Marriage and Death Register, of Lancaster, 1643-1850 (1890); History of the Town of Harvard, Mass. (1891), etc.

Henry Stedman Nourse [1831-1903] was the guiding intelligence behind the development of the Lancaster Collection, for which he left an endowment in his will. The various scrapbooks of local source material that he complied provide a wealth of information not available elsewhere. Aside from his contributions to the local history collection, over a period of more than twenty-five years he donated many of his books in a variety of subjects to the general collection. Many of these titles now reside in the Library’s Rare Book Collection.

Henry Nourse spent the greater part of his life in Lancaster. Having been prepared for college primarily in this town, he attended Harvard. Upon graduation in 1853, he taught school for several years, then decided to change his profession. In 1858, he went to work for the Boston firm of Whitwell and Henck, an engineering company in charge of filling in the Back Bay.

In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, he joined the Fifty-Fifth Illinois Infantry. Participating in much active fighting, he served until 1865. After the war, he was hired as resident engineer to the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and began construction of that company’s Bessemer Steel Works near Harrisburg. He remained there as a superintendent from 1868 until 1874. Nourse married Mary Baldwin Whitney Thurston, a widow, in 1872.

Having fulfilled their commitments in Pennsylvania and vacationed in Europe for a year, the Nourses settled permanently in Lancaster. Henry Nourse devoted the rest of his life to public service and historical research. He was a member of the Lancaster School Committee and Library Board, and a trustee of the Worcester Insane Hospital. He was one of the original commissioners that formed the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

As a historian, Nourse possessed a single-mindedness and a fastidiousness about details that has made him a reliable authority to the present day. Realizing the importance of primary sources, he produced several major compilations of records pertaining to Lancaster, among them The Early Records of Lancaster (1884) and The Birth, Marriage and Death Register … of Lancaster (1890). He also wrote numerous historical articles for the Clinton Courant.

He was a descendant of John Alden on his mother's side and of Rebecca Nurse (hanged for witchcraft at Salem) on his father's side.

Although Abijah Perkins Marvin [1813-1889] rather than Nourse was asked to write the official history of Lancaster, Nourse made sure that his superior knowledge was not lost to the public. He painstakingly interleaved, extra-illustrated and annotated a copy of Marvin’s History of the Town of Lancaster (1879), his many corrections and voluminous – not to mention sometimes acerbic- notes expanding the original single volume into four volumes, which are now found in the Library’s Lancaster Collection.

Nourse’s annotated version of History of the Town of Lancaster… in four volumes forms the authoritative basis a student of Lancaster history requires to piece together a clear and lucid historical narrative.7,5
Research1894Lancaster MA VRs and Early History of Lancaster, Mass.
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Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 98.
  2. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 213.
  3. [S489] D. Hamilton Hurd, Worcester Co. MA Hx I, p. 45 (Lancaster section by Henry S. Nourse).
  4. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 336.
  5. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 1.
  6. [S12] Nourse, Early Records of Lancaster, p. 1.
  7. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 97-98.

Ann Elizabeth Nourse1

F, #37971, b. 4 September 1839

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
Corresponded with author?
BirthSep 4, 1839Lancaster, Worcester Co., MA, USA1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S11] Lancaster MA VRs, p. 214.

Carrie Ihrie1

F, #37972, b. circa 1856

Family: Edward William Pou b. 9 Sep 1863

Biography

Corresponded with author?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
Birthcirca 1856NC, USA, age 4 in 1860 census
Origincirca 1887Pittsboro, NC, USA1
MarriageOct 18, 18871
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 403.

Edward William Pou1

M, #37973, b. 9 September 1863

Family: Carrie Ihrie b. c 1856

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
Corresponded with author?
BirthSep 9, 1863Tuskegee, Macon Co., GA, USA1
MarriageOct 18, 18871
Biographyson of Edward William and Anna Maria (Smith) Pou. He was educated at Univ. of NC, 1881-1884; taught school in 1884-85; studied law with his father and admitted to the bar in Oct. 1885 and began practice with his brother James H. Pou and then with F. M. Simmons. He was a Democ. presidential elector in 1888 and solicitor of the fourth North Carolina judicial district in 1890, 1894, and 1898. He was elected to the 57the and 58th congresses, 1901-1905, serving on civil service reform and treasury committees.1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., IIV, p. 403.

Elizabeth Hastings Whitney1

F, #37974

Family: Isaac Pigeon Walker b. 2 Nov 1813, d. 1 Apr 1872

Biography

Corresponded with author?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
Birth
Marriage18401
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., X, p. 287.

Isaac Pigeon Walker1

M, #37975, b. 2 November 1813, d. 1 April 1872

Family: Elizabeth Hastings Whitney

Biography

Corresponded with author?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
BirthNov 2, 1813Lynchburg, VA, USA1
Occupation1834admitted to the bar and practiced in Springfield IL
Marriage18401
Immigration1841Milwaukee, WI, USA1
Officebetween 1847 and 1848Milwaukee, WI, USA, a representative1
DeathApr 1, 1872Milwaukee, WI, USA1
Biographyson of George W. and Rebecca (Haymer) Walker
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., X, p. 287.

Judge Joel Alexander Houghton1,2

M, #37976, b. circa 1825, d. circa 1882

Family: Catherine Ogle b. c 1832, d. c 1882

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectY
Corresponded with author?
Birthcirca 1825Augusta, Richmond Co., GA, USA, age 25, GA, in 1850 census; age 36 in 1860 census; age 45 in 1870 census; age 54 in 1880 census; 1880 census of son Eugene gives MS as bp; death cert of Seberon gives Augusta, GA1,4,5
Immigration1848Marshall, Hamilton Co., TX, USA, and settled in Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX6
MarriageSep 5, 1849Marshall, Harrison Co., TX, USA3,7
1850 Census1850Marshall, Harrison Co., TX, USA, age 25, a lawyer; with parents in law J. and C. Ogle8,5
NewspaperAug 31, 1850Northern Standard (Clarksville)-Saturday, 31 Aug. 1850 (this was copied by hand by George Allen, son of Josephine Houghton, and then typed by someone else)-
“The State of Texas To the Sheriff of Titus County-Greetings:
You are hereby commanded to summon JOHN JOHNSON, who is alleged under oath to be a non-resident of this state by causing this citation to be published for four successive weeks in the Northern Standard, a newspaper published in the town of Clarksville, to be and appear at the next term of Honorable District Court to be held at the Court House thereof, in the town of Mount Pleasant, on the second Monday in September, A.D., 1850....Witness-J.A. Houghton, clerk of the District Court for said County of Titus and the seal of said court hereon impressed at office in the town of Mount Pleasant this 16 day July AD 1850.

To John Johnson-You are cited to comply with the above copy.
July 24, 1850 J.A. Houghton, clerk J.W. Wither, Sheriff T.C.T.”6
ProbateFeb 5, 1858*Probate Packet H-16, Williamson Co., TX: (This probate information found in Williamson Co., TX helped to link Joel Houghton with his brothers Robert and Benjamin and sister Ann Eliza Curry.)

Filed 5 Feb. 1858-Application for Administration of Probate
· Estate of R.N, Houghton
· J.A. Houghton requests to be appointed Administrator
· States that Robert N. Houghton is his brother
· States that Robert died 24 April 1857
· States that the only property worth an inventory in the said county and state is an interest in a negro woman named Clarissa

Filed 27 Feb. 1858-bond as Administrator of the Estate of Robert N. Houghton
· J.A. Houghton as principle
· Ann Eliza Curry and B.T. Houghton as surities
Filed 28 April 1858-Inventory of the Estate of R.N. Houghton by J.A. Houghton
· "only property of Robert N. Houghton in this state worth inventory is a joint interest with Ann Eliza Curry of the state of Louisanna in a negro woman, Clarissa, worth $250.00."6
1860 Census1860Williamson Division, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 36, attorney at law9
Milit-Beg1861enlisting in Williamson Co. Company, 27th Texas Brigade of the army of the C.S.A.3
Research
Researchcirca 1862TX, USA
Residence1865Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, where he was a district judge of the 17th Judicial District of TX. He was friends (and supposedly law partners) with the famous Sam Houston of TX2,1
Office1865Joel was appointed by Unionist Texas Governor Andrew Hamilton to be a District Judge in 1865 and then was defeated in 1866 by a Confederate soldier6
1870 Census1870Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 45, a lawyer, property $3000-$20010
Divorce1871Williamson Co., TX, USA, Divorce records, Book 4, pages 159, 288 & 297 record Joel and Catherine's divorce in 1871 (case 988 or 488?). J. A. Houghton was plaintiff and Catherine was defendant (divorce not granted)
1880 Census1880Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 54, lawyer11
DeedSep 13, 1881Georgetown, TX, USA, 13 Sep. 1881, and give Joel’s place of residence as Llano County.6
Deathcirca 1882Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA12
BiographyElizabeth Randall, 2011: Notes for Joel Alexander Houghton:
Sources for this Family:
*Much of the initial information about the family members was taken from family records probably compiled by Jean Halliburton. Her typed family files, along with a letter, were given to me by my husband’s grandmother, Mary Alice McBride, and by Edwin Dalrymple of Austin, TX. I wrote several key descendants from her address list but did not get any responses. Her letter was dated 1986 and the information included our oldest son who was born in 1984. I suspect that Jean concluded her research about that time. My next step is to either join the National Genealogical Society of which she was a member and/or order her records from the Latter Day Saints. (Jan.
2011)
*In January 2001, I also hired a genealogist, Linda Emry, who lives in Round Rock, Williamson Co., TX to do some courthouse research for me at Georgetown. Linda found, copied, and interpreted the divorce proceedings for Joel and Catherine Ogle Houghton (divorce was not granted), deed, and probate records. She also looked for death information about the couple.

*Excerpt from Dallas Morning News William Adair article dated Sunday, Dec. 2, 1928 where Joel's son Seberon told of his family: "My father, Joel A. Houghton, a native of Georgia, having been graduated from a law school in 18__ , decided to seek his fortune and, along with it, all kinds of adventure, in Texas. With a party made up of young Georgians and Kentuckians, he set out for the new State, then but five years old, and still the talk of the country. They traveled, as traveled everybody coming to Texas in those early days, some on horseback and some in covered wagons, the moving tents of the nomad from the remotest times. Having traversed the wilderness of Arkansas, they stopped for a few weeks at Marshall, then a flourishing town, and, to their surprise, resembling in essential details any good town in Georgia or Alabama, for the leading men were slave owners who had emigrated from the old cotton States and brought with them their chattels and moveables, their habits and customs. While at Marshall, they visited Jefferson, the emporium and wonder of the Southwest, then in its zenith, a city of 25,000 or 30,000 population, but appearing to have the explosive force of an ordinary city of 100,000. From Marshall the party made their way over the old Mexican Trail to Williamson county. At the time there were many more Comanche and Tonkawa Indians in the county than white men and negroes combined. In fact, the white man had as yet made next to no
impression on that region. The settlers up and down the country reveled in three styles of architecture, the log cabin, the Indian tepee and the Mexican adobe hut. A settler named Stroud, panting for still greater variety, employed Mexican teamsters to haul the lumber from Houston, with which he built the first frame house in the county. Father rented the house and occupied it for several years...Father was Judge of the District Court, and the district comprised several counties, of which he made the circuit two or three times a year. When he held court at Georgetown he considered it no more than common politeness to invite the lawyers, the witnesses, the members of the jury, the litigants and the hangers-on of the court home to dinner with him. For some time before the courthouse was built he held court under the shelter of a tree. From the time I was a small boy I personally knew every man in the county as well as many men living in the adjoining counties..."
(See Seberon Houghton's file for the full article)

*Excerpt from a Dallas Morning News William Adair article dated 28 June 1931 where his son Seberon again talked about his family and his adventures: "...My father, Judge Joel A. Houghton migrated from Augusta, Ga., to Texas, and settled at Georgetown in 1848, three years after Texas was annexed. He declared his intention of locating permanently by building the first frame house that was erected in Williamson County. The lumber for the house was toilsomely dragged on Mexican ox wagons all the way from Houston. The structure, a rambling two-story, after the colonial style of architecture, occupied the middle of an eight acre yard or park, and shed quite an aristoractic influence. Father and Sam Houston were close friends, and the members of General Houston's family were among our first visitors. Father was a District Judge when, instead of having ten or a dozen district courts in one county, there were half a dozen or more counties in one district. He held court in Llano, San Saba, Burnet, Coleman and Brown Counties. The counties beyond Coleman and Brown had not been organized. For some time after Coleman and Brown were organized he held court under the shade of the trees, while the grand jury, similarly sheltered, held forth just out of hearing of the court. The court, the Sheriff, clerk and the attorneys for both the prosecution and defense traveled horseback or on wagons from county seat to county seat, camping at night. They once came upon the dead body
of a white man, full of arrows. Father brought some of the arrows home with him and he gave me two of them. At that time the strong bars of the State were those of Austin, Georgetown and Tyler. Some of the big lawyers were Charles West, Buck Walton, Judge Shelly, Joseph Lee, A.W. Terrell, A. Dalrymple..."
(See Seberon Houghton's file for the full article)

*U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918 (Ancestry.com):
Joel A. Houghton, Georgetown, Texas, Tax Year: 1866; Monthly and Special Lists: Dec. 1865-Dec. 1866-Items listed: Carriage-$125.00; Income-$305.00; Total amount of tax-$17. 25

*The Texas Almanac for 1862: The Portal to Texas History (retrieved 22 Jan. 2011 at http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/metapth123768):
District Court-District Attorneys: District 17-J.A. Houghton-Salary pr. ann. $500

*The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, July 1989-April 1990 (retrieved Jan. 22, 2011 at http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101213):
“Table 2-Profile of Unsuccessful Candidates on June 25, 1866-District 17-Joel A. Houghton-State of Birth: GA; Slave Owner? Yes; Service during Confederacy: Dist. Atty.”-“Seven of the twenty victors on June 26, 1866, apparently benefited from continuing popular approval of secession and the war effort in that they successfully challenged Unionist judges appointed by A.J. Hamilton in 1865...Thomas P. Hughes (a member of the secession convention who had voted “no” but then enlisted in the Confederate army) defeated Joel A. Houghton in the Seventeenth...” (Note: See the above New York Times- 9 Sept. 1865 - article where it mentioned Gov. Hamilton’s judicial appointment of Joel A. Houghton)

*Proceedings of the Republican State Convention, Assembled Austin, August 12, 1868: (1868)
“Proceedings of the Republican State Convention-Hall of Representatives, Austin, August 12, 1868-The Republican State Convention was called to order at 8 o’clock, A.M.....The roll of districts was called, and the following list of delegates presented their credentials: Counties of Williamson and Burnet-Joel A. Houghton, J.M. Young, R.E. Talbot, J.W. Talbot, A.M. Cox, E.W. Talbot...Judge Houghton raised the question of order; whether the election of a temporary, and not a permanent President, would be in order... (Note: This is an interesting twenty page account of the meeting of the Republican Convention following the Civil War. This book led me to believe that Joel Houghton had not been in favor of Texas seceeding from the Union during the Civil War because this convention had a ‘pro-unionist’ Texas seceeding from the Union during the Civil War because this convention had a ‘pro-unionist’ slant. Statements from this convention such as this one illustrate my assumption: “Resolved. That in the opinion of this Convention the Rebe State Legislatures, (so-called), which were inaugurated after the pretended act of secession, had no binding or legal authority to make laws for the government of the people of this State, and therefore, that all pretended legislation during the late rebellion was null and void from the beginning.” The family story is that Joel Houghton and Sam Houston were once law partners. I have not found evidence of this yet. But I do believe that they knew each other through their profession and perhaps during Houston’s governorship. I recently read where Sam Houston resigned his governorship because he did not believe that Texas should secede from the Union. I wonder if perhaps he and Joel were politically aligned in this. Another researcher stated that he found where Joel had joined a Confederate militia group in 1861, but to date, I have not found a roster for this group. We do know that Joel was appointed by Unionist Texas Governor Andrew Hamilton to be a District Judge in 1865 and then was defeated in 1866 by a Confederate soldier.)

*Deed Records:
“Found in a family file-Glasscock Addition (sketch shows Block 15 and Block 16)
Wm. C. Dalrymple To Deed Joel A. Houghton
The State of Texas-Know all men by these Courts and Bill of presents that I, Wm. C. Dalrymple, for and in consideration of the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars to me in hand paid have sold and by these presents do grant and sell unto Joel A. Houghton certain lands and premises being Block No. fifteen (15) also seven eighths of Block No. Sixteen (16) including the north east, north west, and south west corners of said Block Sixteen (16) all being and lying in what is known as Glasscock Addition to Georgetown and situated in the eastern portion of said Town...For testimony where of I have here unto set my hand and seal (being a scroll) this the first day of January A.D. 1852 W.C. Dalrymple

*Research done by Linda Emry-Linda wrote from her research done in Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX: “These two pages give you an idea of how many deeds there are for all the Houghton’s in general, and Joel in particular. These are ONLY the deeds that I have entered so far in my personal database. It would take hours to check them all. I went to the courthouse, looked at the index through 1890 to catch all of the listings for Joel, then I spot checked those that had Joel and Catherine’s name. There was no genealogical info in any of the deeds. However, the last entry I found for Joel was in Vol. 27, page 336 and another on page 339. He was giving power of attorney to William Dalrymple (his daughter’s father-in-law) to sell lots 2 & 3 in Georgetown. Both entries are dated 13 Sep. 1881, and give Joel’s place of residence as Llano County. Since Joel was on the 1880 Williamson County census, we can narrow down the time period when he moved to Llano County (probably the town of Llano, since it is the county seat, and Joel is a lawyer).” (Note: I have the list of deeds that she mentioned for future research.)

Additional Notes about Joel Houghton:
1825-alternate birth date and place-probably in Green Co., GA (where his parents married on 21 Feb. 1822)
1861-Joel enlisted in the Williamson Co. Company, 27th TX Brigade Army of the C.S.A.

(information from another researcher-I did not find any evidence of this)
1871-Either Joel or Catherine filed for divorce in 1871 in Williamson Co., TX-Book 4, pp. 159, 288, 297 (most documents showed Joel as the plaintiff and Catherine as the defendant, but some refer to Joel as the defendant)-On 5 July 1872, the case was dismissed on the motion of J.A. Houghton (court documents in my family file)

Family Rememberences:
Joel Houghton was a law partner with General Sam Houston in Georgetown, TX. ( A family recollection of Mary Alice Wharton McBride. Her husband, Ralph Houghton McBride, was Joel's grandson.)-This statement also was included in some family obituaries.

Note: To date, I have not been able to find any information to prove that Joel practiced law with Sam Houston or evidence that Sam Houston ever lived in Georgetown, TX. I did find information which showed that some of Houston’s children lived there as adults and older children. Seberon Houghton also mentioned in one of his newspaper interviews that he had gone with a son-in-law of Sam Houston on a cattle drive. I feel that perhaps the families knew each other through their children. Joel probably knew Sam Houston through their profession and perhaps during Sam Houston's governorship. (Jan. 2011)

Death Information:
In some family records given to me, it was listed that both Joel and his wife Catherine died in 1882 in Williamson Co., TX. However, to date, I have not been able to find any formal confirmation of these dates. Linda Emry, the researcher in Georgetown, found evidence that Joel was actually living in Llano Co., TX in 1881 because he sold land he owned in Georgetown, TX and his place of residence was listed as Llano. Three of his daughters and a son lived there at this time with their families. In another family story, I read where Nettie and her sister Ben Anna went to live with their older sister Nancy Augusta Houghton Antony in Cameron, Milam Co., TX after their mother died. The writer said that Nettie went to live with her aunt when she was eight years old which would have been 1878. That couldn't have been right because Joel and Catherine were in Georgetown with the younger children in 1880. The 1882 death date for both Joel and Catherine might be right, but I believe that one or both of them died in Llano, TX and not Georgetown. I've continued to check cemetery records at Georgetown and Llano online but have not found Joel and/or Catherine Houghton listed anywhere. I know that when their son Eugene was killed by William Van in 1886, he was buried in Llano, TX. But I have not been able to find his grave either. In the letter written to Judge Lee of Austin about his nephew's demise, Eugene's parents were not listed so I suspect that they were dead by 1886. I truly feel that Eugene, Catherine, and Joel were probably buried somewhere in Llano in perhaps a family cemetery. Later, another son, Joel A. Houghton, Jr., was also interred in Llano according to a newspaper article. His grave could be with the others there. More research is needed, but I may not ever find out exactly when or where the parents died. (Jan. 2011)6
ContributnElizabeth Randall
Notablelaw partner of Sam Houston of Texas
ResearchWilliamson Co., TX, USA, Both born Augusta, GA, ending up in Williamson Co., TX county.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2001.
  2. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., Herringshaw's, p. 47.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Apr 6, 2001.
  4. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  5. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Marshall, Harrison, Texas; Roll: M432_911; Page: 55; line 29, dwl 82-82.
  6. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.
  7. [S97] Marriage Certificate, Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Houghton Surname Search: County Court Records - FHL microfilm # 1403334 - 1403335.
  8. [S1202] 1850 TX Census, p. 977.
  9. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Williamson Division, Williamson, Texas; Roll: M653_1308; Page: 272; sheet 27, line 25, dwl 170-177.
  10. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  11. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Georgetown, Williamson, Texas; Roll: 1332; Family History Film: 1255332; Page: 436D; Enumeration District: 156; line 6, dwl 231.
  12. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  13. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Oct. 7, 2001.

Nancy Augusta Houghton1,2,3

F, #37977, b. 11 September 1855, d. 18 October 1927

Family: Edwin Le Roy Antony b. 5 Jan 1852, d. 16 Jan 1913

Biography

Corresponded with author?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project?
BirthSep 11, 1855Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, USA, age 6 in 1860 census; age 15 in 1870 census1,6
MarriageSep 20, 1876Cameron, Milam Co., TX, USA4,6
1880 Census1880Rockdale, Milam Co., TX, USA, Milton Antony (age 55, physician, b. GA, father b. VA, mother b.
GA); Margarett F. (wife, age 46, keeping house, b. GA, parents b. GA); Edwin L. (son, age 28,
lawyer, b. GA, parents b. GA); Nancy A. (daughter-in-law, age 24, b. Georgetown, TX, father
b. GA, mother b. IN); Alice A. (granddaughter, age 2, b. TX)7
1900 Census1900Cameron, Milam Co., TX, USA, Edwin Antony (head, b. July 1852, age 48, b. GA, parents b. GA,
married 24 years); Augusta H. (wife, b. Aug. 1855, b. TX, father b. GA, mother b. IN, 2 children
both living); Alice A. (dau., b. April 1878, age 22, b. TX, teacher in public school); Beryl P. (dau., b.
Jan. 1893, age 7, school); Margaret F. Antony (mother, b. 18___, age 66, b. GA, parents b. GA,
widow, 3 children 1 living)
(Note: This family lived next door to the Seaborn J. Houghton family, brother of Augusta Houghton
Antony.)7
1910 Census1910Paducah, Cottle Co., TX, USA, Edwin L. Antony (head, age 58, married 33 years, b. GA,
parents b. GA, attorney at law); Augusta H. (wife, age 54, 2 children both living, b. TX, father b.
GA, mother b. IN); Beryl P. (dau., age 17, b. TX)7
1920 Census1920Dallas Co., TX, USA, James A. Brown (head, age 60, b. GA, father b. GA, mother b. NC, singer
gospel); Alice A. (wife, age 41, b. TX, father b. GA, mother b. TX); Margaret (dau., age 12, b. TX);
Edwin (son, age 10, b. TX); Augusta H. Antony (mother-in-law, age 66, b. TX, father b. GA, mother
b. IN); Beryl Antony (sister-in-law; age 26, b. TX, teacher); Bennie McInnis (roomer, age 50, b. TX,
father b. GA, mother b. TX); Nettie H. McInnis (roomer, age 21, b. TX, father b. MS, mother b. TX,
stenographer government work)7
DeathOct 18, 1927Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, Augusta Antony-b. 11 Aug. 1855 in Georgetown, TX; d. 18 Oct. 1927 in Dallas, TX; age at death:
72 years 2 months 7 days; occupation: writer; father: Joel A. Houghton b. in GA; mother:
Catherine Ogle b. IN; informant: Mr. L.C. McBride; burial Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, TX3
BurialOakland Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA6
ObituaryMrs. Augusta Antony, 72, writer and widow of the late Congressman E. L. Antony, died suddenly
Tuesday morning at her home, 3415 Harvard avenue. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. A.
Brown of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Miss Beryl Antony of Dallas; three sisters, Mrs. L. C. McBride
and Mrs. H. R. McInnis of Dallas, and Mrs. James Slack of Menard; and a brother, S. J. Houghton
of Dallas. Mrs. Antony, the daughter of Judge J. A. Houghton, was born in Georgetown in August,
1855. She was married in Milam County in 1876 and moved to Dallas in 1910. She was a member
of the Dallas Penwomen's Club, the Texas Poetry Club, the Writers' Club and the Lawyers Wives'
Club. Her last piece of writing was a poem in tribute to the late Mrs. J. C. Muse. She was a member
also of the First Baptist Church. . . . Funeral services . . . will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday
afternoon at the home of her sister, Mrs. L. C. McBride, 5306 Gaston avenue. Mr. George W.
Truett, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Active
pallbearers will be Earnest R. Tennant, R. J. Thorne, John W. Forrester, A. L. Pearson, T. A.
Robinson, Leon M. Taylor. Honorary pallbearers will be: E. B. Muse, Judge Tom L. McCollough,
Herbert Prince, Judge J. C. Muse, Judge Dexter Hamilton, Mayor R. E. Burt, C. F. O'Donnell,
Newton Ayres, Cullen F. Thomas, Dr. C. M. Grigsby, Dr. R. B. McBride, John E. Forrester, J. N.
Mendenhall and R. L. Thornton. The Dallas Morning News. Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. October
1927.7
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Citations

  1. [S235] U.S. Census, 1870 US Census, Georgetown, Williamson Co., TX, Reel 1609, Sh. 373b, Ln. 27, dwl 24-24.
  2. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Williamson Division, Williamson, Texas; Roll: M653_1308; Page: 272; sheet 27, line 25, dwl 170-177.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 20, 2011.
  4. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., Herringshaw's, p. 47.
  5. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2001.
  6. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.
  7. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.

Edwin Le Roy Antony1

M, #37978, b. 5 January 1852, d. 16 January 1913

Family: Nancy Augusta Houghton b. 11 Sep 1855, d. 18 Oct 1927

Biography

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BirthJan 5, 1852near, Waynesboro, Burke Co., GA, USA1,2
OccupationJan 8, 1874admitted to the bar1
MarriageSep 20, 1876Cameron, Milam Co., TX, USA1,3
OfficeJun 14, 1892Waynesboro, GA, USA, Democratic congressman to 52 Congress, a gold standard Democrat1
NewspaperJul 18, 1892Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA, Dallas Morning News-18 July 1892-"Congressman E.L. Antony-He Talks About Leading Public
Questions-His Sketch of His Opponent Barber and Estimate of Third Party Strength-Indorsed
Homestead Workmen-San Antonio Express-The Hon. E.L. Antony of Cameron, Tex., who was
recently elected representative to congress from the Ninth district to fill the seat vacated by the
Hon. Roger Q. Mills upon the latter's election to the United States senate, was in the city a few
hours last Thrusday. He came in from the north at 9:45 a.m. and left at 6 o'clock for home. He is a
portly, well formed man and has the unmistakable look of the professional politician about him. He
has a clean-shaven, rather handsome face and an expressive, earnest countenance. His hand is
huge and brawny, and the grip which he gave the reporter for the Express, who called upon him
Thursday at the Menger hotel, was strong and hearty. He readily consented to answer any
questions of a political nature that might be put to him..."
Dallas Morning News-23 July 1896-"Edwin L. Antony..."-This article contained much of the same
information about him as the others listed here. The article also had a drawn picture of Edwin
LeRoy Antony with the caption "Sound Money Candidate for Congress from the Seventh District"2
DeathJan 16, 1913Dallas, Dallas Co., TX, USA2
Biography*Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century; Biographical
Directory of the American Congress; History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of
Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893); "Dallas
Morning News", 17 Jan. 1913; Biographies of Notable Americans, 1904:
"When Josephine Wingfield (Davis) Henry (1842-1899) was only ten years old, she became an
aunt when older sister gave birth to Edwin LeRoy Antony (1852-1913). His birth is recorded in
Josephine's family Bible
...Edwin Leroy Antony was born 5 January 1852 in Waynesboro, Burke County, Georgia. He was
the son of Dr. Milton Antony, Jr. and Margaret Frances (Davis) Antony. His maternal grandparents
were Milton Grant Davis, Sr. and America James (Fears) Davis. When he was seven years of age,
his family removed to Texas, settling in Brazoria county, and remaining there until after the Civil
War. In 1867 he took up his residence in Milam County, Texas, where he attended the commonWar. In 1867 he took up his residence in Milam County, Texas, where he attended the common
schools.
Two years later, in 1869, he entered the University of Georgia at Athens from which he graduated
with honors in 1873. In 1874 Antony was admitted to practice law in the courts of the state of
Texas, and he set up a law office in Cameron, Milam County, Texas.
Antony married Augusta Houghton on 20 September 1876 in Marion County, Texas. The couple
had two daughters, Alice Augusta and Beryl. Antony served as prosecuting attorney for Milam
County from 1876-1878, being also ex-officio district attorney of Milam County.
In 1886, during the illness of the regular district judge, Antony filled that office as special judge. In
1888, Antony recorded his thoughts on social life and customs in Texas Material at "A Bibliography of Milam County Publications">. He was an alderman in Cameron from
1890-1892, and was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in
1892, when Roger Q. Mills resigned to take a seat in the Senate. Anony resumed the practice of
law in Cameron at the expiration of his term.
It was said of him that "he was...an ardent supporter and admirer of President Cleveland and (was)
of the school of politics known as gold standard democrats". Edwin LeRoy Antony moved to
Dallas, Texas in 1910. He died at his brother-in-law's home in Dallas on 16 January 1913.
Interment was in Oakland Cemetery in Dallas County, Texas."
(Note: This article was retrieved from Ancestry.com in Jan. 2011)
*The Phi Gamma Delta, Volumes 1-4:
Jan. 1879-"Kappa Deuteron-'73-E.L. Antony is now practicing the law in Georgetown, Williamson
county, Texas. He formerly lived in Cameron, Milam county, Texas, where he was, in February
1876, elected County Attorney. He was married in the latter county to Miss Houghton, a daughter
of Ex-District Judge Joel A. Houghton, of Georgetown, Texas, an eminent lawyer. He is now
Grand Sentinenel of the Grand Lodge of Texas, of the Order of the Knights and Ladies of Honor."
(Note: This article was retrieved from Google books.com in Jan. 2011.)
*The Handbook of Texas Online-Antony, Edwin Leroy (1852-1913)- (retrieved on 9 Jan. 2001 at
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/AA/fan30.html)-this article is very similar
to the one above
*History of Texas (no author or date listed on this copy of the article)-"E.L. Antony-The subject of
this sketch is a native of Georgia, of which State his parents, Milton and Margaret F. Davis, were
also natives. The father was born in the city of Augusta, September 26, 1824, and the mother in
Morgan county, August 11, 1833. The parents were married in Morgan county, Georgia, February
6, 1849. Milton Antony was a son of Milton Antony, and both were physicians. The elder Antony
was an eminent member of his profession, being for years editor of the Southern Medical Journal
of Augusta and dean of the faculty of the Georgia Medical Journal of Augusta, of which he was one
of the founders. He died in 1839, of yellow fever, making his life the last offering to a profession
which he had long adorned. He left a scholarship to each of his sons in the institution with which
he was connected, six of whom availed themselves of the privilege and became regular practicing
physicans. Milton, after taking a literary course in Mercer University, then at Penfield, graduated in
medicine at the Georgia Medical College in 1845, and from that date until 1859 practice his
profession in Burke county, his native State. He came to Texas in the last named year and was a
resident first of Columbia, Brazoria county, then of Cameron, and later Rockdale, Milam county,
until his death, which occurred January 25, 1885. His life was devoted to the practice of medicine,
in which he met with reasonable financial success and did a vast amount of good for his fellow
man, being accounted among his neighbors and associates in the profession an excellent
physican. His widow is still living, an estimable lady, a descendant of an old and honorable family
of middle Georgia, daughter of Milton Grant Davis, who was a prosperous planter of antebellum
days and cousin of ex-Governor Hubbard of this State.
Edwin LeRoy Antony, the subject of this sketch, is the only surviving child of Milton and Margaret F.
Antony, and was born in Burke county, Georgia, January 5, 1852. His boyhood and youth wereAntony, and was born in Burke county, Georgia, January 5, 1852. His boyhood and youth were
passed at Columbia, this State, in the schools of which place he received his early education. He
attended Austin College at Huntsville and the old military institution at Bastrop, finishing at the
University of Georgia, at which he graduated in 1873, after four years' course. He read law, and
January 8, 1874 was admitted to the bar at Cameron, where he at once took up the practice and
has since steadily followed it.
Mr. Antony has won some distinction in his profession, having shown an aptitude for it far beyond
that possessed by the average practitioner. He has been busy also in politics and has been
honored several times with office. He was elected County Attorney of Milam county, in February,
1876, which position he held until November, 1878, discharging the duties acceptably to the
people. At the spring term of the Milam County District Court in 1876, Hon. W.E. Collard being
absent from his court on account of serious illness, Mr. Antony was elected by the members of the
bar as Special District Judge and held the term of court. More than sixty cases, civil and criminal,
were disposed of, with many trials, and so satisfactory were the proceedings to the people and the
bar that only one appeal was taken, and that case was affirmed by the Supreme Court. In June,
1892 Mr. Antony received the Democratice nomination for Congress from Roger Q. Mills' old
district and was elected to the seat in the Lower House made vacant by that distinguished
gentleman's promotion to the Senate. Mr. Antony's term in this position was too short to enable
him to make much reputation, but, so far as he enjoyed opportunity, he showed to the satisfaction
of his constituents and associates in Congress that, due allowance being made for the difference in
age and experience, he was a worthy successor of Texas' great commoner.
Mr. Antony is a stanch Democrat and has done his party good service both in council and on the
public platform. He is a ready debater, clear, calm, strong and forcible, and well grounded in the
political history of the country, and, an earnest believer in the principles of his party, He is a
formidable antagonist in the discussion of political issues before the people. He possesses in a fair
measure the acumen of the politician, the ready genius for combining dissimilar forces, reconciling
opposing ones and accomplishing, through the cementing of these, "results" in politics.
As a lawyer he is courteous to adverse counsel, circumspect to the court, logical, clear, compact
and convincing to the jury. In the discussion of questions of law before the court he is sound,
forcible and cogent, possessing that skillful generalization which readily seizes upon the strong
points of a case, that happy condensation of thought which at once extracts the substance of an
opponent's argument, that clear foresight and comprehension which immediately grasps the
angularities of an intricate legal problem and enables him to place it in a light that renders it at once
easy of understanding and makes it stick in the memory. In all things he is plain, making manner
subservient to matter and subduing it to pleasant speech.
September 20, 1876, Mr. Antony married Augusta Houghton, daughter of Judge Joel A. Houghton,
for many years a prominent lawyer of Georgetown, this State. Mrs. Antony is a native of Texas
and an excellent type of one of this great State's best product, an intelligent and refined lady. They
have two children, both daughters: Alice Augusta and Beryl Pauline.
In personal appearance Mr. Antony inherits, in a considerable measure, the physique of his father,
possessing a large frame which carries its due proportion of flesh, a swarthy complexion, dark hair
and eyes, and a remarkably strong cast of features. His physical make-up is of that kind that
would attract attention in an assembly of a hundred men, and is no bad index to his character; for
on closer observation and more intimate acquaintance he is found to be an even more interesting
man than his striking figure indicates."2
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Citations

  1. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., Herringshaw's, p. 47.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Feb. 21, 2011: Joel A. Houghton Descendency File.
  3. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Randall, Jan. 20, 2011.

Daniel Houghton1

M, #37979

Family: Sarah (?)

  • Marriage*: Daniel Houghton married Sarah (?)

Biography

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Marriage
ChurchAug 14, 1828Salem, MA, USA, rocf. with parents1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S818] Unknown author Enc. of Am. Quaker Gen - 3, p. 169.

Sarah (?)1

F, #37980

Family: Daniel Houghton

Biography

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Marriage
ChurchAug 14, 1828Salem, MA, USA, rocf. with parents1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S818] Unknown author Enc. of Am. Quaker Gen - 3, p. 169.