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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



HOUGHTON, ALVIN, born June 12, 1810, in Madison, Somerset county, Maine, was married Sept. 6, 1835, at Skowhegan Falls, Maine, to Betsy Hilton, who was born June 17, 1815, at Anson, Maine. Alvin Houghton came to S ringfield, Illinois., in June, 1837, and brought his wife in the spring of 1840. He was a carpenter by trade, and worked at that business for about twelve years, after which he kept a dairy until 1851, when he moved twenty miles east of Springfield, on a farm, and remained there until the fall of 1869, and then moved to Washington county, Kansas. Alvin Houghton and wife had five children--

AMELIA, died in her second year.

ERVIN, O., born Dec. 14, 1841, in Springfield, Ill., was married Sept. 13, 1866, in Sangamon county to Sarah Jane Wall, who was born Feb. 6, 1842, in Allegany county, Pennsylvania. They have two children, LAURA E. and LILLIAN, and live four and a half miles northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

AUSTIN E., born May 29, 1844, in Illinois. Lives with his parents.

CLIMENA B., died in her second year.

AVILLIA B., born Jan. 1, 1853, lives with her parents, near Butler, Washington county, Kansas.



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