Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Houghton, Levi 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Levi Houghton, retired farmer of Fulton, and an early settler of Whiteside 
County, was born in the State of New York, March 26, 1805, and is the son of 
Elijah and Martha (Oaks) Houghton. He removed with his family to Otsego Co., 
N. Y., in childhood, and from there to Herkimer County when he was 13 years of 
age, where he was married Sept. 30, 1830, to Clarissa Jackson, daughter of 
Samuel Jackson, whose father was a cousin of Gen. Jackson. They had five sons 
and two daughters: Harrison married Clarissa Blodgett and lives in Ustick; 
George died in childhood; Amelia C. is the wife of Mr. Conkey, of Grand 
Rapids, Mich.; Samuel N. married May McDaniels and lives in Nebraska; Clarence 
B. married Mary French and lives in Ustick; Sedate W. is the wife of James F. 
Ward, of Fulton; and Daniel S. is single and lives in Dakota. Mr. Houghton 
moved from Herkimer to Lewis Co., N. Y., soon after his marriage, and from 
there to Ustick, Whiteside Co., Ill., in 1845. He had a fine farm of 400 acres 
in that township, which he has deeded to his two youngest sons, reserving the 
income while he lives. Mrs. Houghton died Oct. 25, 1861. Mr. Houghton was 
married again April 15, 1862, and in the town of Ustick, to Miss Elizabeth 
Todd, daughter of Moses Todd, of Newburyport, Mass. Mrs. Houghton was born in 
Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Houghton retired from farming in 1872 and came to 
Fulton, since which time he has resided in this city. He was a Democrat up to 
1860, when he joined the Republican party. Mrs. Houghton is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church of Fulton.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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