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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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HEZEKIAH HOUGHTELIN (deceased) was born July 27, 1806, near Gettysburg, a son of Hezekiah and Charity Houghtelin, of Dutch and Huguenot descent, respectively. For about thirty years he taught school in this and Westmoreland counties, coming here when twenty years of age. Sept. 15, 1840, he married Mary Magdalen Hedgrass, who was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, May 16, 1821, and is a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Baker) Hedgrass. In 1843 Mr. Houghtelin bought the farm in Penn township now occupied by his widow, where he died Sept. 3, 1874. He served as school director and supervisor, and politically was a republican. He was a member of the U. P. Church; his widow is connected with the Baptist Church. Their children are William D., Mattie (Walters), Elizabeth (Donholm), Annie (Hodel), Louise (Richey), Henry Lott, Charles Sumner, John, Milton, Sadie Eleanor, Alfred; James Hammel (the third) died when eighteen years old at Nashville, Tenn., while a member of Co. B, 77th P. V. I.
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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.
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