Joseph Houston was an early homesteader in Dearfield with a street named after him. He moved to Colorado from Tennessee in the 1910s, and was a stockholder in the Elite Drug Co., and vice-president of the Colorado Commercial Alliance. In Dearfield, he worked a general store and the post office, farming with his wife Zadia and daughter Josephine. Later he moved to Casper, Wyoming and by 1935, he moved to San Bernadino, working as a poultry farmer.
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"Houston, J.J" Folder 15, O.T Jackson Collection, University of Northern Colorado Archives and Special Collections. https://digarch.unco.edu/folder-15-houston-j-j.
U.S. Census Bureau, "United States, Census, 1940." Family Search, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K94B-84B.
"What Dearfield's Going to Be." The Denver Star, January 12, 1918 p. 4. https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=DSR19180112-01.2.3&e=--1859---1955--en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-Dearfield-------0------.