Ancestry of
Katharine Hepburn

Movie Actress

Sophronia Mann Oakes

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• • Great-grandmother of Katharine Hepburn — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Josiah Oakes 
  • Mother:
  • Charlotte Richardson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Feb 1814 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Mar 1880 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Amory Houghton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1836 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Alfred Augustus Houghton (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some online sources incorrectly claim that Sophronia Oakes was the daughter of Uriah Oakes and Charlotte Floyd. This can be proven false as her death record gives her father as Josiah and not Uriah. Also Sophronia's husband Amory Houghton, founder of Corning Glass Works, was appointed guardian of her father Josiah when he was declared insane and sent to the McLean Asylum. Both Amory and Sophronia appear in the court records regarding her father Josiah.

• Sources for Sophronia Mann Oakes

  • 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 Sophronia M. 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), 9-10.
  • ⁶ New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952, Death record for Sephonia M Houghton.
  • ⁷ Corning Museum of Glass, "Portraits of Amory Houghton, Sr. and Sophronia Mann Oakes Houghton Added to Rakow Library Collection", (accessed 03/24/2017).
  • ⁸ Hakes, Harlo, editor, Landmarks of Steuben County, New York, Syracuse, New York: D. Mason and Company, Publishers (1896), Part II, Biographical, p. 64.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Houghton family", (accessed 22 NOV 2013).