Ancestry of
Katharine Hepburn

Movie Actress

Amory Houghton

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• • Great-grandfather of Katharine Hepburn — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Rufus Houghton 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Barnard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Aug 1812/1813 
  • Birth Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Sep 1882 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sophronia Mann Oakes
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1836 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Alfred Augustus Houghton (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Corning Glass Works.

    On 19 JAN 1845, Amory Hougton was duly appointed the guardian of his father-in-law Josiah Oakes who had been declared insane and sent to the McLean Asylum.

• Sources for Amory Houghton

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A057385.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Middlesex County, 1860, Cambridge Ward 2, Image 70 of 171.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 373, Birth record for Amory Houghton.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 206, Marriage record for Amory Houghton and Sophronia M. Oakes.
  • ⁵ Matters of Josiah Oakes, Sen'r: Four Years Wrongfully Imprisoned in the McLean Asylum, Through an Illegal . . ., Boston: Published by special request (unknown), 5-6, 16.
  • ⁶ Corning Museum of Glass, "Portraits of Amory Houghton, Sr. and Sophronia Mann Oakes Houghton Added to Rakow Library Collection", (accessed 03/24/2017).
  • ⁷ Hakes, Harlo, editor, Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Syracuse, New York: D. Mason and Company, Publishers (1896), Part II, Biographical, pp. 62-64.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Houghton family", (accessed 22 NOV 2013).