Brief Life History of Frederick T.
When Frederick T. Houghton was born on 15 April 1825, in Sterling, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel Houghton, was 28 and his mother, Eliza Elizabeth Hinds, was 28. He married Nancy Josephine Moore on 20 May 1859, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Alameda, Alameda, California, United States in 1880 and San Francisco, California, United States in 1911. He died on 18 February 1911, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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- Frederick S Houghton in household of Mary E Clark, "United States Census, 1910"
- Fredrick T Houghton, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
- Frederick T Houghton, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1847
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Houghton or Hoghton. Most of the placenames derive from Old English hōh ‘heel, spur of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some have different etymologies; for example, Little Houghton in Eccles (Lancashire), which derives from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn, and Houghton in Bigbury (Devon), which may derive from an Old English personal name Huhha + Old English tūn.
variant of Haughton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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