Houston, David

CRAWFORD, engineer, born in New York City, Dec. 5, 1835; graduated at West Point (1856). During the Civil War he was engaged as engineer, and rose to the rank of colonel. Afterward took charge of the defences of Narragansett Bay, of Connecticut, and of the inner harbor of New York. Died May 18, 1893. Hous'ton, in Tenne ee, a N.W. central co.; area , 210 sq. m. Bounded on the N.W. by the Cumber land river, on the W. by Tenne ee river. Surface, undulating; soil , fertile. Products , corn, tobacco, wheat, oats, sweet and white potatoes, pork, live stock. Cap . Erin. Pop . (1890) 5,390. Houston, in Virginia , a post-town, cap. of Halifax co., 30 miles E.N.E. of Danville, on the N. & W. R. R.; has tobacco and other manufacturing interests. Pop . (1897) about 1,500. Houtz'dale, in Pennsylvania , a post-borough of Clear field co., 26 m. S. of Clear field, on A. & P. C. and Penna. R. Rs.; here are extensive collieries with a large shipping trade in coal. Pop . (1897) about 2,500. Ho'venden, THOMAS, artist, born at Dunmanway, Ireland, in 1840; studied at the Cork School of Art, National Academy, New York, and in Paris; he was a member of the Society of American Artists, of the American Water-Color Society, and the Philadelphia Society of Artists. His works include: John Brown on the Morning of his Execution ; Breaking Home Tres; Bring ing Home the Bride, . His pictures attract much attention from their naturalne and dramatic character. Resided near Philadelphia, and was killed Aug. 14, 1895, in a heroic effort to rescue a child from death by a railroad train.