Biography of William L. Houlton, pages 620 / 621.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

William L. Houlton, section 1, Franklin Township, is a son of John Houlton, 
the first settler of Franklin, and was born on the old homestead Nov. 13, 
1842.  He remained at home till after the braking out of the Rebellion, and 
enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-second Ohio Infantry.  He was 
assigned to the engineer corps and never saw any active service.  In 1866 
Mr. Houlton bought a saw-mill, which he ran two years, and then sold it.   
In 1877 he bought a light portable mill and threshing machine, which he sold 
two years later, and in 1881 bought the saw-mill he now owns.  He has run a 
threshing machine eight seasons, and in 1883 bought a new Massillon thresher.  
Mr. Houlton was married Sept. 19, 1863, to Mercy N., Haddix, daughter of 
Stephen K. Haddix, of Defiance, Ohio.  She died in October, 1865, leaving 
one child---Alice, now Mrs. Lewis Shultz.  Dec 19, 1867, Mr. Houlton married 
Mrs. Ruhama McCurdy, widow of T. J. McCurdy and daughter of William Knisely.  
They have had three children but two of whom are living---John M. and Nancy 
Maude.  Mr. Houlton is a member of the Odd Fellows’ order, lodge and encampment, 
and also the daughter of Rebecca, same order.

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