Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Houston, Joseph D. 1858 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Joseph D. Houston, of Wichita, Kan., is the senior partner in one of the most
prominent legal firms practicing in the Southwest, that of Houston & Brooks,
organized in 1898, with offices in the First National Bank building. The firm
engages in a general practice, but its specialty is corporation law, and acts as
counsel for many of the large corporations of Wichita and other parts of the
state of Kansas. Mr. Houston is a native of Kentucky, having been born in
Bourbon county, that state, on March 17, 1858. His parents were F. W. and Fannie
L. (Simpson) Houston. Mr. Houston obtained his education in the public schools
of his native state and at Kentucky University. After his graduation from the
latter in 1879 he began the study of law at Shelbyville, Ky., with the firm of
Caldwell & Howard, a noted legal firm in the state, and afterward supplemented
this by a course in the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law School. He was admitted to the bar
in 1879 and has since continuously practiced his profession. Finding the field
in Kentucky rather restricted, Mr. Houston looked about for a larger one, and in
1880 removed to Kansas. He located at Wichita and at once opened an office for
the practice of his profession and has been successfully engaged in general
practice since that time. Mr. Houston was married on April 8, 1885, to Miss
Fanny Eddy, of Hillsdale, Michigan, and from this union there has been issue two
children: Aleen and Gwendolyn Houston. Mr. Houston has taken an active interest
in the Masonic Order, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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