. Contemporary American biography . one, Done-gal, and Londonderry. From thence came that branch of the family that settled in LancasterCounty, Pa., between the years 1730 and 1735, and from the Lancaster County Houstonsbranched out the Houstons of Virginia and Tennessee, and the famous Sam Houston of Texas,who was the first President of the Republic. Henry Howard Houston, who comes of such sturdystock, was born near Wrightsville, York County, Pa., October 3d, 1820. He was the youngestson of Samuel Nelson Houston, and is now the only living grandson of Dr. John Houston ofColumbia, who, after g
. Contemporary American biography . one, Done-gal, and Londonderry. From thence came that branch of the family that settled in LancasterCounty, Pa., between the years 1730 and 1735, and from the Lancaster County Houstonsbranched out the Houstons of Virginia and Tennessee, and the famous Sam Houston of Texas,who was the first President of the Republic. Henry Howard Houston, who comes of such sturdystock, was born near Wrightsville, York County, Pa., October 3d, 1820. He was the youngestson of Samuel Nelson Houston, and is now the only living grandson of Dr. John Houston ofColumbia, who, after graduating at Edinburgh, Scotland, returned home in 1766, and in 1773married Susanna, daughter of John Wright, Esq., of York County, Pa. At the outbreak of theRevolution, he entered the army as surgeon, and, with four brothers, fought through the Nelson Houston was distinguished for his splendid physical manhood. After graduatingat Burlington College, he gave his attention in his early years to the study of materia medica. ^fcu^y ^fe& . CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 217 and pharmacy, but this did not repress the martial nature that was strong within him. Hebecame an active member of Captain Shippens troop of horse in Lancaster County, and tookpart in the war of 1812. In 1816 he married Susan Strickler, a daughter of Colonel JacobStrickler, and the issue of that marriage was five children: John James, Henry Howard, EmilyStrickler, Eleanor Wright, and Martha Mifflin. Henry Howard left school at an early age, anddevoted several years to mercantile life in his native town. When he reached the age oftwenty, he went with Mr. Samuel M. Eeynolds, of Lancaster, to Lucinda Furnace, ClarionCounty. He remained there three years, and then joined Mr. Edmund Evans, going with himto the abandoned Horse Creek furnace, on the Alleghany River, Venango County, which theyrebuilt and put in successful operation. Mr. Houston, in February, 1847, entered the Phila-delphia office of D. Leec
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