page_title: Henry H. Houston
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Henry H. Houston / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: "Posthumous portrait of Henry Howard Houston Jr.," oil on canvas, by the American painter Cecilia Beaux. 33.25 in. x 25 in. Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
context_page_description: Henry Howard Houston was a leading Philadelphia businessman and philanthropist.
context_section_description: Houston married Sallie Sherrerd (nee Bonnell), and they had four children, Sallie Bonnell Houston, Henry Jr., Samuel Frederic Houston, and Gertrude Houston Woodward. Houston and his wife donated $100,000 to build Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, named as a memorial to their son, Henry Howard Houston, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania class of 1878), who had died in Rome within a year of his graduation.
  Houston attended St. Peter's Church in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia and was a property developer in that section of the city.
caption: Henry Howard Houston Jr, 1895, by Cecilia Beaux
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