Dr. John Houston and Susannah Wright

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Husband Dr. John Houston ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1742 or 1743 - Pequea Valley, Lancaster Co, PA 1
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           Died: 9 Jun 1809 3
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         Father: John Houston (      -      ) 2 4 5
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       Marriage: 6 May or 17 Jun 1773 1

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Wife Susannah Wright ^{1 2}

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           Died: Aug 1829 1
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         Father: John Wright, Jr. (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M James Houston ⁴

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         Spouse: Nancy Wright (      -      ) 4

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2 M John Houston ⁴

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3 F Martha Houston ^{4 6 7}

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           Born:  - Pequea Valley, Lancaster Co, PA
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           Died:  - Philadelphia, PA
         Buried:  - Philadelphia, PA

         Spouse: Joseph Mifflin (      -      ) 4 6 7

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4 F Eleanor Wright Houston ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Anna S. Houston ⁴

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M William Frederick Houston ¹

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         Spouse: Amy McCorkle (      -      ) 4

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7 M Robert Wright Houston ⁴

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         Spouse: Sarah Ann Jones (      -1834) 4

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8 M Samuel Nelson Houston ^{2 4 8}

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           Born: 1791 - Pequea Valley, Lancaster Co, PA 9
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           Died: Nov 1878 9
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         Spouse: Susan Strickler (      -      ) 8 9
           Marr: 1816 8 9

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Houston

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He studied in the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1766. He studied medicine with Dr. Shippen, of Philadelphia, and began practice in York County, Pennsylvania, then a frontier town. He entered the Revolutionary army as a surgeon. After the war, he spent the remainder of his life at his winter home in Columbia or on his farm, on the west side of the Susquehanna, in York County, later a part of Wrightsville.

He was born in Salisbury township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father sent him to Edinburgh, Scotland, to be educated for the ministry. Not liking that profession he chose that of medicine.
In 1775, when hostilities broke out between England and America, he was appointed a surgeon in the Continental army, and remained in it for seven years. After the war he removed with his family to York borough, where he practiced medicine. A few years thereafter he removed to Columbia. Governor Mifflin appointed him one of the justices of the peace for the district about the year 1793 or 1794, an office which he held until his death. He was an accomplished gentleman, and was considered in his time the best educated and read physician in the county.

After graduating at Edinburgh, Scotland, he returned home [to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,] in 1766. At the outbreak of the Revolution, he entered the army as surgeon, and, with four brothers, fought through the war.

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General Notes: Wife - Susannah Wright

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from Columbia, Lancaster Co, PA

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248, 590.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 164.

3 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248.

4 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 590.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 677.

6 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 96.

7 Editor, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 55.

8 —, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Biography of Pennsylvania, Vol. I (New York: Atlantic Publishing & Engraving Co., 1889), Pg 94.

9 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 591.