Biography of Hiram Houston, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 14 Nov 2008
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Transcribed by Lisa Hamilton from 
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Hiram Houston is a native of this county, and as he was reared in a locality but
thinly settled, his advantages for a schooling were somewhat limited, but these
were enough to lay the foundation for his success in life as a farmer, which
occupation he engaged in for himself at the age of twenty-two, and now owns 223
acres of fine bottom land on the St. Francis River, seventy-five acres of which
are under a fair state of cultivation. He also owns a steam grist-mill and
cotton-gin. He was married November 2, 1884, to Miss Annie L. Clark, a daughter
of Thomas A. and Susan A. Clark, originally of Kentucky and Ohio, respectively.
They are the parents of three children, only one of whom is living: Nannie E.
(at home). Mr. and Mrs. Houston belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Alfred K. Houston, the father of our subject, was born in North Carolina in 1814
and died in St. Francis County in 1879, and was a most successful farmer. He
married Sarah E. Evans, a South Carolinian by birth, and who was the mother of
seven children, four of whom are still living: Margaret E. (widow of Robert
Anderson, of this county), William C. (a farmer of this county), Francis M.
(also a farmer of St. Francis County) and Hiram (the principal of this sketch).