William Frederick Houston and Amy McCorkle

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Husband William Frederick Houston ¹

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         Father: Dr. John Houston (1742/1743-1809) 1 2
         Mother: Susannah Wright (      -1829) 1 2

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Wife Amy McCorkle ³

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Children

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1 F Christiana M. Houston ³

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         Spouse: Rev. James L. Scott (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1837 3

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2 M John Frederick Houston ³

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           Born:  - Columbia, Lancaster Co, PA
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         Spouse: Catharine J. Fisher (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Frederick Houston

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He studied medicine, but abandoned the practice of medicine for the pulpit, and lived for many years a devoted minister of the Presbyterian Church.

He practiced medicine in Columbia, kept a drug-store, and published a newspaper. In 1826 he abandoned a large practice and entered the ministry. "It was, however, the spoiling of a good doctor to make a poor preacher." [HLC 1883, 248]

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General Notes: Wife - Amy McCorkle

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from Philadelphia, 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 590.