James Houston. Born in Brackin County, Kentucky, January 21, 1820; son of George S., and grandson of Levi Houston, of Maryland, who served during the whole of the Revolutionary war. In early life, Mr. Houston's advantages for education were quite limited; but he resolved on rearing his family to a different fortune. He was married October 16, 1845, to Hannah Robb, of Clermont, Ohio, and has had ten children. Four of them are teachers, the aggregate time of their teaching being twenty-nine years; two sons in business in Cincinnati – one a machinist and the other a printer – and two others in the Southern Normal School, at Carbondale, Illinois. It can be truly said that Mr. Houston has lived for his family, having devoted the best part of his life to their education and moral training, and his children all do honor to their parents.
Contributed 2022 Apr 22 by Norma Hass, extracted from Atlas of the State of Illinois, published in 1876, page 241.