. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. ollowed mining for a time, after whichhe came to San Francisco and engaged as awholesale merchant in the willowware home of Mr. Houghton and his wife waslocated in Oakland, on the block bounded byThirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Washingtonand Clay, which was owned by Mrs. Houghtonsmother, and where she set out the first locusttrees planted in Oakland. A considerable por-tion of their time has been passed in Mariposacoun


. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. ollowed mining for a time, after whichhe came to San Francisco and engaged as awholesale merchant in the willowware home of Mr. Houghton and his wife waslocated in Oakland, on the block bounded byThirteenth and Fourteenth streets, Washingtonand Clay, which was owned by Mrs. Houghtonsmother, and where she set out the first locusttrees planted in Oakland. A considerable por-tion of their time has been passed in Mariposacounty, in Hornitos township, where Mr. Hough-ton owns two quartz mines. In Oakland, in 1859, Mr. Houghton marriedNancy Josephine Moore, who was born in , Mo., April 19, 1844, a daughter of JohnT. and Mary (Hickman) Moore, both nativesof Pennsylvania. The father, a descendant ofScotch ancestry, was a pioneer of California in1852, coming via the Isthmus of Panama in questof fortune. He engaged in mining for some timein Nevada, being one of the discoverers of theBodie mine, while he also became interested laterin the New Almaden mine in Santa Clara. His. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. home was in San Francisco for some years, andj he was there a member of the vigilance commit-! tee and in many other ways sought the estab-lishment and maintenance of law and in Esmeralda county, Nev., he served asjustice of the peace. His death occurred inPlacerville, near which he had established hishome, being then sixty-five years of age; his: wife survived to the age of seventy-eight daughters came to California: Mrs. Eliz-abeth C. Roff, formerly of Pomona, Cal., and who died at the age of seventy-five years ; Martha: E. Scott, deceased; Mary M. Hayes, residing inPomona; and Nancy Josephine Houghton. Thelast-named came to California at the age of tenyears to join her parents, and here received hereducation through an attendance of the publicschools of San Francis


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