Stella Houghton1,2

F, #8401, b. 29 December 1802, d. 25 April 1844

Family: David Scott

Biography

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BirthDec 29, 1802Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, MLM: Dec. 2, 1802; DAR: 1812; JWH: 7,1,18433,4,5,6
ResidenceSutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: v. pt. 3, 51, 527
Immigrationbefore 1830Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, and worked as a teacher
MarriageApr 10, 1830Tuscaloosa, AL, USA8,6
DeathApr 25, 1844AL, USA, of a cerebral hemorrhage; JWH: 18443,9,4
BurialOld Cemetery (Greenwood), Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
BiographyEducated at Wesleyan Seminary or Academy at Wilbraham, MA; Love: "Evidently the Otis sisters became her close friends while there, and later Elizabeth became the third wife of David Scott, and Maria and Harriet, the first and second wives of Stella's brother Albert. Stella went to Alabama during the latter part of the 1820's to teach. There she met and on August 10, 1830 married David Scott. While she only lived forty-two, years, just fourteen years after her marriage, she packed into those years more than most women can accomplish in a life twice that long. She never forgot her responsibilities as the elder sister and she and her husband helped practically all of the brothers and sisters financially or otherwise. For instance, when Henry Oscar wanted to start the Riverside Press project in Cambridge, Mass. in 1852, it was a loan from the Scotts that helped him over the financial hump. They helped establish Albert Gallatin Houghton in his business at Wetumpka, Ala. His son Albert remembered this help given his father and in later years contributed generously to the support of one of David Scott's daughters by his second wife. Her granddaughter, Stella Scott Vaughn, writes, 'Stella Houghton made a great impression on the town of Tuscaloosa, and many families there have children named for her. She influenced for godd the town, the church, and above all her own family. Inscribed on her tomb are these words - 'Virtues, like things, can never die, tho Death hath wreathed thy brow, they live immortalized on high, with fadeless beauty new.' Grandfather Scott was a fit companion for this sainlty person. They have left a glorious heritage to their children and grandchildren."
p. 57, At the time of her death in 1844, the two youngest daughters were Abbie, three years of age, and Stella, two weeks.10
ResearchTwo sons became clergyman.6
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #758.
  2. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2700.
  3. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  4. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, 102: 172.
  5. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  7. [S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 468.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11a.
  9. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 56.
  10. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 12, 57.

Diantha Houghton1,2,3

F, #8402, b. 15 April 1806, d. 6 February 1842

Biography

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BirthApr 15, 1806Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA4,5,6
Residenceafter 1830Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, "She with several of the other brothers and sisters went South sometime in the early 1830's, soon after Stella Houghton married David Scott. She lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala., probably teaching school there."2
DeathFeb 6, 1842Tuscaloosa, AL, USA7,4
BurialGreenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #759.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 26.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2702.
  4. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  5. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 26-27.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  7. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 26-27.

William Houghton Jr1,2,3,4

M, #8403, b. 8 June 1808, d. 17 December 1874

Family: Amarilla Martin

  • Marriage*: William Houghton Jr married Amarilla Martin on Jan 28, 1833 JWH: Julia Morton (error.)8,9,7

Biography

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BirthJun 8, 1808Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, age 41 in 1850 census; age 47 in 1855 census; age 51 in 1860 census; age 60 in 1870 census5,6,7,4
Occupationa merchant
MarriageJan 28, 1833JWH: Julia Morton (error)8,9,7
Immigrationbefore 1835Nunda, Livingston, NY, USA8,10
1850 Census1850Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 41, merchant, property $34011
1855 Census1855Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 47, clothier12
Residencebetween 1858 and 1863Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, Capt. William Houghton lived with son5
1860 Census1860Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 51, merchant; property $1000-120013
1870 Census1870Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 60, a shoe merchant, property $6000-440014
DeathDec 17, 1874Nunda, Livingston, NY, USA5,15,16
BurialOakwood Cemetery, Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA
BiographyLove: "Their first home probably was in Messingers Hollow, N.Y., later called Oakland. There he owned and operated a "carding" mill. His grandson William says that he was a "Justice of the Peace" for forty years, which would cover all but one year of his life after he married.
Just when he moved to Nunda, N.Y. is not known, but it must have been prior to 1846 for his first daughter, Adelaide, died there in that year. At Nunda he opened a "Boot and Shoe" store. His father Captain William Houghton, made his home with him in Nunda for the remaining five years of his life after the death of his wife, Marilla Clay Houghton in Cambridge, Mass. in 1858.
The family story is that in those days it was customary to have a journeyman weaver come to the homes and weave blankets, bed spreads, cloth for clothing, etc. William, Jr. had three large cedar chesta built, one for each daughter, and employed a weaver to come and fill them with such articles as above mentioned, "in the event of their marriage." These large chests fell short of their misssion as none of the daughters ever married. Some of the contents of those "hope" chests, however, are still being used after over a hundred years.
While only one child of William Houghton, Jr.'s six, married, he, Albert Scott Houghton, did rather well for the family with five children of his own and some seventeen grand, great-grand and great-great-grandchildren, to date."8
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #760.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 27a picture, 28.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2703, 127.
  4. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston, New York; Roll: M432_524; Page: 57;
    line 24, dwl 480-488.
  5. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  6. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 28-29.
  7. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 127.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 28.
  9. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, Box 524, p. 57, line 24, dwl 480.
  10. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, Box 524, p. 57, dwl 480.
  11. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston, New York; Roll: M432_524; Page: 57;
    line 24, dwl 480-488.
  12. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , New York Ward 12 District 1, New York, New York; Roll: M653_802; Page: 609; Image: 198; Family History Library Film: 803802.
  13. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston, New York; Roll: M653_779; Page: 936; sheet 21, line 22, dwl 5-5.
  14. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, Box 966, p. 337, line 14, dwl 30-30.
  15. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 29.
  16. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.

Rev. James Clay Houghton1,2,3,4,5,6

M, #8404, b. 13 May 1810, d. 29 April 1880

Family: Julia Norton

Biography

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BirthMay 13, 1810Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, Chapman's Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth; VT Gen. & Family Hx, MLM: Sutton, VT; age 40 in 1850 census; age 50 in 1860 census; age 60 in 1870 census; 1880 census of son Joseph gives CT1,3,7,8,9,10,11
Educationbetween 1833 and 1836Amherst College, Amherst, Hampshire Co., MA, USA, and in 1840; ex. 1837; an M. A. honorary
Graduation1836Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, He studied at both Amherst College and Dartmouth College; BT gives 1837 graduation3,12,13
Origin1840Halifax, Windham Co., VT, USA14
MarriageNov 4, 1840East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, USA, MLM: Wilbraham, MA1,2,15,8,16,14
Occupationa Congregational minister2,10
1850 Census1850Chatham, Middlesex Co., CT, USA, age 40, Congregational minister17
ResidenceMontpelier, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: iv. 353 (2), 53118
Emigration1857Chelsea, Orange Co., VT, USA
NoteChelsea, Orange Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: ii. 87218
1860 Census1860Chelsea, Orange Co., VT, USA, age 50, a Congregational Clergyman, personal property $500019
Church1865Royalton, Windsor Co., VT, USA, also at Chelsea and Middleton VT9,10
1870 Census1870Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, age 60, a clergyman, property $200020
DeathApr 29, 1880Montpelier, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, at home of son James Clay; age 69-11-14, of apoplexy1,21,22,10,11,6
BurialWoodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, USA, Inscription:
"Rev. Daniel Clay
Houghton, D.D.
born March 12, 1815
died July 8, 1860"

Plot: C 597

FAG: Burial Green Mount Cemetery Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont, USA
BiographyPastor, Petersham; s.s. E. Hartland, Vt, 2 yrs; Granby, Conn., 2 yrs; pastor Cong. Ch. Middle Haddam, Conn., 1847-51; New Hartford, Conn., 1851-54; Chelsea, Vt., 1856-65.

Love: "He studied theology at Hartford Theological Seminary (at that time located at East Windsor, Conn.) and was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1839 or 1840. He married Julia Morton of East Windsor, whose father was a theological professor, on November 4, 1840...He held pastorates in Massachusetts at Wilbraham, Petersham, and Dana and in Vermont at Chelsea. He died in Montpelier, Vt., April 29, 1880. He was a good scholar in the Greek and Hebrew languages, a very thoughtful preacher; a beloved pastor, and a man of marked integrity."

MLM: A Congreg. minister, acting pastor at Chelsea, VT, 1857-65, also in Sutton, VT, Wilbraham and Chelsea, MA, Middletown and Royalton, VT., and as minister, starting at Corinth, Nov. 1866, one year after retirement.12,11
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  2. [S46] Boston Transcript, Mar. 12, 1937 - 3717.
  3. [S46] Boston Transcript, Apr. 1, 1937 - 3717.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 30a picture, 31, 32.
  5. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2704, 127.
  6. [S1074] Town Records: Montpelier, VT, p. 1157: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  7. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 32.
  8. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Chatham, CT, p. 326.
  9. [S560] Mary Evelyn Wood Lovejoy, Lovejoy's History of Royalton, Vermont 1769-1911, Vol. I, p. 209.
  10. [S570] Hon. Hiram Carleton, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, p. 97.
  11. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  12. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 31.
  13. [S1003] Unknown compiler, Amherst College Biog. Record, Internet, Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition (1812--1921), http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/…
  14. [S971] East Windsor CT VRs, p. 55.
  15. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 31-32.
  16. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 127.
  17. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut; Roll: M432_44; Page: 326;
    line 37, dwl 295-314.
  18. [S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
  19. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Bradford, Orange Co., VT, Roll 1323, p. 118, line 8, dwl 624-661.
  20. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, Reel 1617, p. 346b, Ln 16, dwl 865-1055.
  21. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 31-32.
  22. [S560] Mary Evelyn Wood Lovejoy, Lovejoy's History of Royalton, Vermont 1769-1911, I: 209.

Albert Gallatin Houghton1,2,3

M, #8405, b. 29 April 1812, d. 14 October 1880

Family 1: Maria P. Otis

Family 2: Harriet Cooper Otis

  • Marriage*: Albert Gallatin Houghton married Harriet Cooper Otis on Sep 30, 1845 Love: 1844 [ but first wife died in Nov. 1844]; first wife's sister.4,5,6

Biography

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BirthApr 29, 1812Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, age 38 in 1850 census; age 48 in 1860 census; age 58 in 1870 census; age 68 in 1880 census4,5,6
Immigration1833Tuscaloosa, AL, USA7
MarriageApr 8, 1838Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, p. 36: 18394,5,8
MarriageSep 30, 1845Love: 1844 [ but first wife died in Nov. 1844]; first wife's sister4,5,6
1850 Slave Census1850Wetumpka, Coosa Co., AL, USA, He owned 3 slaves: 21 yo female, 2 yo female, 4/12 month old male9
1850 CensusSep, 1850Wetumpka, Coosa Co., AL, USA, Harriet, 42, Vt; Albert G, 38, VT, merchant; William, 10, AL; Harriett, 24, MA; Oscar, 4, AL; and Harriet Flyer, 4210,11
1860 Census1860Wetumpka PO, Southern Division, Coosa Co., AL, USA, age 48, a merchant, property $6000-85,00012,13
Occupation1866p. 34, "In 1866 he joined his brother Henry Oscar Houghton in the publishing house of Hurd & Houghton. He became a partner in 1870, heading the New York Branch of the business until his retirement in 1878, just two years prior to his death.", p. 51 "In 1870, Albert Gallain Houghton, a brother of Henry Oscar, was admitted to the firm, having been connected with the New York office since the close of the Civil War, when he came North from Alabama in 1866."; p. 53, "Head of New York Office 1866-1878, Partner 1870 to 1878."14
1870 Census1870Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 58, publisher, personal property $20,000-2000; and Elizabeth Otis, 7815
Research1870Wetumpka, AL, USA
1880 Census1880Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 68, retired; and nephew Roswell Stebbins, 25, a dentist16
DeathOct 14, 1880Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA4,17,6
BurialOct 17, 1880Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, 23300 15618
BiographyLove: He owned slaves. A daguerreotype shows daughter Mary with "Aunt Eliza", the family nurse, and "Uncle Jeff", her husband, who helped in his mercantile business. Eliza was a slave until the start of the Civil War, when Mr. Houghton gave her and their cook, "Aunt Sue", their freedom. "Uncle Jeff" was a free man, at least when he started working for them. Albert Houghton farmed cotton in Wetumpka, AL. The family barracaded the town against the "Yanks", buried the family silver, and hid the horses in the woods. Brother William sent food from the north; in 1866 Henry Oscar Houghton invited Albert to join him in his publishing venture, Hurd and Houghton, and Albert moved to Brooklyn NY; MLM: He was a business partner with his brother Henry Oscar Houghton. In 1856 he went south, becoming a wealthy merchant, dealing largely with cotton. During Sherman's March through Georgia, the rebels burnt the store and merchandise lest it fall into Union hands. he went to New York City into the firm of Hurd & Houghton, Publishing.19,6
ResearchCleveland Fam: 1812-1320
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #762.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 33a picture, 34, 36.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2705, 127.
  4. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  5. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34, 36.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  7. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34.
  8. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 127.
  9. [S1320] 1850 U.S. Federal Slave Census.
  10. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Federal Census, Wetumpka, Coosa Co., AL, p. 3, line 16, dwl 40-40.
  11. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Corinth, Saratoga, New York; Roll: M432_593; Page: 290B; line 16, dwl 40-40.
  12. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Southern Division, Coosa Co., AL, Reel 7, p. 54, line 3, dwl 388-390.
  13. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, AL 1860 Federal Census Index, p. 54.
  14. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34, 51, 53.
  15. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Brooklyn Ward 9, Kings, New York; Roll: M593_950; Page: 191; line 1, dwl 172- 231.
  16. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Kings (Brooklyn), New York City-Greater, New York; Roll: T9_844; Family History Film: 1254844; Page: 577B; Enumeration District: 71; sheet 50, line 10, dwl 143-288-478.
  17. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 36.
  18. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.green-wood.com
  19. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 34.
  20. [S34] American Genealogical Biographical Index.

Henry Oscar Houghton1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

M, #8406, b. 30 April 1823, d. 25 August 1895

Family: Nanna Wier Manning

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
NotableY
BirthApr 30, 1823Sutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, Cambridge VR: 30 Apr 1828; MLM: Apr. 30, 1815; age "35" in 1850 census; age 37 in 1860 census; age 47 in 1870 census; age 57 in 1860 census9,10,11,12,13,14,15,7,16,17,18
Graduationbetween 1842 and 1846University of Vermont, Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, He earned his living while in college as a printer. He graduated $300 in debt. Failing to obtain a teacher's postion, he went to Boston and was a proof-reader and reporter on the BostonEvening Traveler, 1846-48.19,11,15
Letter1846from the Houghton Association20
LetterAug 1, 1846Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, This folded lettersheet / stampless letter has a circular date stamp for LE ROY N.Y., a 10 cent rate, and is addressed to Mr. H.O. Houghton, U. V. M. Burlington, Vt, and is a one and a half page 'Dear brother Oscar' letter written by D.C. Houghton. I'm not sure about the middle initial. The headline is Le Roy, Aug 1st, 1846.:
Some abstracts:

"I have been waiting, hoping to get hold of a little money to send to you but have been very unsuccessful. I will try to borrow ten dollars this morning and send it hoping that it will arrive on commencement day I cannot send any more till September."

"I have a little prospect of obtaining a place in the academy at Corryville [?] for you, near Batavia, a very flourishing school. They are making some considerable effort to secure me for the principal, but I hardly think I shall consent, but perhaps."

"They want a Methodist principal a preacher would be preferred, the salary from 5 to 600 dollars and a house, employ about 4 teachers."

"If you have no engagement you had better come out with Marilla and I will do the best I can, the first of September is the time to commence school here."

"I have received Goodrich's books, by express to Rochester [?] and had to pay $1.00 freight ..."
1850 Census1850Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 35, a printer, at a hotel21
MarriageSep 12, 1854Sutton, VT, USA, Find a grave: Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915
Henry O. Houghton married Nancy W. Manning - 14 September 1854.9,22,11,12,23,16,17,24,25
1860 Census1860Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 37, printer, personal property $15000-$2000026
Mil. DraftMar, 1863MA, USA, age 40, printer
Occupation1864a partnership with Mr. Hurd of New York, under the name of Hurd & Houghton, desiring to become a publisher. They published fine editons of Dickens, Bacon, Carlyle, and Macaulay. In 1878 he united with the firm of J.R. Osgood & Company, under the firm name of Houghton, Osgood and Company. In 1880, when Osgood retired, he formed the firm of Houghton, Mifflin & Company. By the change of 1878, his company acquired the old Ticknor and Fields publishing house, which included a series of New England authors, including Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Emerson, Lowell, Thoreau, and Hawthorne. He also published Noah Webster's dictionary. His office on Park St. became a literary gathering place for authors. He had a custom of celebrating the seventieth birthday of the leading contributors to the Atlantic Monthly by a breakfast, dinner, or garden party. On his fiftieth birthday, he was presented with the erection of a fountain in front of the Riverside Press by his co-partners and employees. On his seventieth birthday, his employees gave him a silver loving cup.15,27
Occupation1866p. 34, "In 1866 he joined his brother Henry Oscar Houghton in the publishing house of Hurd & Houghton. He became a partner in 1870, heading the New York Branch of the business until his retirement in 1878, just two years prior to his death.", p. 51 "In 1870, Albert Gallain Houghton, a brother of Henry Oscar, was admitted to the firm, having been connected with the New York office since the close of the Civil War, when he came North from Alabama in 1866."; p. 53, "Head of New York Office 1866-1878, Partner 1870 to 1878."28
Education1866Wesleyan University, Wellesley, MA, USA, received the honarary degee of A. M.27
Office1868Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, to the Common Council, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1869.11
1870 Census1870Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 47, a publisher, property $50,000, 5 servants29
ChurchCambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, Harvard Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and was superintendent of the Sunday School for almost 30 years.11
NewspaperDec 29, 1879New York, New York Co., NY, USA, NY Times: The present firm of Houghton, Osgood & Co. was organized by the consolidation of the well-known publishing houses of Hurd & Houghton and J. R. Osgood & Co., in the month of February, 1878. Mr. Houghton was the organizer of the Riverside Press, and had the merit of havid led the way to the marked improvement in printing which has characterised American books in the last 20 years. Mr. Osgood, many years ago, entered the ancient firm of Ticknor, Reed & Co., at the "Old Corner," in Boston, as a clerk, and worked his way to the head of the company. After Mr. Ticknor's death, his son, B. H. Ticknor, entered the firm, and Mr. James T. Fields withdrawing, the firm became J. R. Osgood & Co., and was known as one of the best organized publishing houses in the United States. Mr. Houghton and Mr. Osgood uniting, a third member of the new firm was taken in - Mr. George H. Mifflin-who is well known in the book trade. The combination in one firm of these three men made a strong house. The heliotype process, the Atlantic Monthly, the Law Reporter, the Medical and Surgical Journal, the Official postal Guide, and the American Architect were connected with the Riverside Press, and the new house had an array of authors which represented many of the distinguished names in English and American literature. Among them were Hawthorne, Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier, Bryant, Tennyson, Dickens, Scott, Lowell, Holmes, Browning, Mr.s Stowe, Carlyle, Macaulay, Bavard Taylor, Thomas Hughes, and the long line of British poets from Spenser to Wordsworth.30
1880 Census1880Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 57, book publisher; and 3 servants31
Gen. Soc.circa 1885NEHGS and was a life member, as well as being a corresponding member of the Vermont Historical Society, and a member and officer of the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Wars [through Abraham Houghton, 1725]11
NoteHe made an extensive trip to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land.
AuthorOct 25, 1894Address on early printing in America : delivered before the Vermont Historical Society, at Montpelier, October 25, 1894, by Henry O. Houghton ; with the address of Justin S. Morrill, on presentation of the senator's portrait to the society, by Thomas W. Wood, with the proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, October 16 and 25, 1894.
Imprint:      Montpelier : Press of the Watchman Pub. Co., 1894.
Description:      x, 28 p; 23 cm.
[Houghton Project has copy]32,18
ResidenceCambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: iv. 1137; v., pt. 3, 5233,3
DeathAug 25, 1895North Andover, Essex Co., MA, USA9,34,11,27,17,18,35
ObituaryAug 27, 1895New York, New York Co., NY, USA, NY Times: Henry O. Houghton, head of the publishing house of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., died suddenly at his Summer residence in North Andover, Sunday, of heart disease. He was seventy-eight years old. A son, associated with him in business, and three daughters survive him.
Henry O Houghton was born at Sutton, Vt., April 30, 1823. He learned the printer's trade in the office of The Burlington Free Press. Later he fitted himself for college, and was graduated at the University of Vermont, paying his own way by hard work. He went to Boston at the age of twenty-three and entered the employ of The Boston Evening Traveller, in the triple capacity of typesetter, proofreader, and reporter.
In 1849 he purchased the interest of Mr. Freeman of the firm of Freeman & Bolles, then among the leading printers of Boston, and soon afterward the new firm of Bolles & Houghton began the printing business at Cambridge. In 1852 Mr. Bolles withdrew from the firm, and the title became H. O. Houghton & Co. The business was removed to its present site on the banks of the Charles River, where the Riverside Press assumed its name. The great book press has become famous the world over for the excellence of its typography and presswork.
In 1878 occurred the consolidation of the firms of H.O. Houghton & Co., the proprietors of the Riverside Press; Hurd & Houghton, and James B. Osgood & Co. Through this alliance came privileges covering the works of Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Whipple, to say nothing of others equally valuable. In 1889 the valuable copyrights, plates, and stock of all the numerous miscellaneous publications of Ticknor & Co. were purchased.
The relations of Mr. Houghton with authors have been delightfully intimate and pleasant. He was one of the leading advocates of the international copyright law.35
BurialAug 29, 1895Cambridge Municipal Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, His memorial service was at the Harvard St. Memorial M. E. Church by Rev. George Skene.36,17,37
ResearchAmerican Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (AmAu&B)
American Biographies. By Wheeler Preston. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. (AmBi)
American National Biography. 24 volumes. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. (AmNatBi)
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB)
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. Edited by John S. Bowman. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (CamDcAB)
Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB)
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 1. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 1)
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA)
Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. (WhAm HS)
BiographyJWH: "We take the following from a sketch written by his friend, Mr. Derby. 'He began, at age 13, as printer's devil in the office of the Burlington Free Press, used his evenings and spare moments preparing for college, which he entered in Burlington, VT., and from which he graduated with honor of Bachelor of Arts. He was successful as printer and reporter and when one of the partners in a firm for which he had formerly worked desired to sell his interest, he was urged by the other partner to buy. He was without capital but succeeded in borrowing $1,000, the price asked, for one-half interest, and this made the beginning of a successful business career in which with some changes he continued to the end of life. He was interested in the following business firms: Bolles & Houghton, H.O. Houghton & Co., Hurd & Houghton, Houghton & Mifflin & Co., and was founder of the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., one of the most enterprising and successful publishing houses in the United States. The firm employs about 600 hands. Through the consolidation of business houses the Atlantic Monthly came into the firm which he represented. ' He was a very scholarly man, of fine address, a talent for large business enterprises and one of the most widely known and popular publishers in this country."

Who Was Who, p. 261: "grad. U. Vt., 1846; m. Nanna W. Manning, Sept. 12, 1854; 1 son, Henry, 3 daus. Printers apprentice Burlington Free Press, 1836; established printing firm which became known as Riverside Press, circa 1850; founder (with M.M. Hurd) firm Hurd & Houghton, 1864, later merged to form Houghton, Osgood & Co., changed name to Houghton Mifflin Co., 1880; mayor Cambridge (Mass), 1872. Died North Andover, Mass., Aug. 25, 1895."

Biog. Dict. of Notable Amer. 5:

Houghton, Henry Oscar, publisher, was born in Sutton, Vt., April 30, 1823; son of William and Marilla (Clay) Houghton. His parents removed to Bradford about 1835. He was a pupil at the Bradford academy, and when thirteen years old was apprenticed in the office of the Burlington Free Press . His brother Daniel was a student at the University of vermont, and persuaded Henry to gain a college education. After a short term at his trade at Nunda, N.Y., he prepared himself ofr college, matriculated at the University of Vermont in 1842, paid his own tuition by working at the case, and was graduated in 1846. He was a proof-reader and reporter on the Boston Evening Traveler, 1846-48. In 1849 he borrowed $1500, and with it purchased the interest of Mr. Freeman in the business of Freeman & Bolles, printers, in Boston, and formed the firm of Bolles & Houghton. The office was removed to Cambridge, Mass. Subsequently Mr. Bolles retired, and in 1852 the Riverside Press was established under the firm name of H.O. Houghton & Co., and Mr. Houghton remained at the head of the business during his lifetime. In 1864 he helped to found the publishing house of Hurd & Houghton, and in 1878 the firm of James R. Osgood & Co., successors to Fields, Osgood & Co. and Ticknor & Fields, was consolidated with Hurd & Houghton and H.O. Houghton & Co., owners of the Riverside Press, as Houghton, Osgood & Co. By this change the house obtained the large list of books of Ticknor & Fields, including the works of Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier and Holmes. In 1880 the firm became Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Besides the list of books, including those by the more noted American authors, the firm continued the publication of The Atlantic Monthly as well as other periodicals, and became recognized leaders in the production of the best examples of American book-making of the best examples of American book-making. Mr. Houghton was mayor of Cambridge in 1872. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Wesleyan in 1866. He died in North Andover, Mass., Aug. 25, 1895.

Dict. of Amer. Biog.: Houghton, Henry Oscar (Apr. 30, 1823-Aug. 25, 1895), publisher, was born in the village of Sutton, in northeastern Vermont, the youngest but one of the twelve children of Capt. Willaim and Marilla (Clay) Houghton. He was descended from John Houghton who settled at Lancaster, Mass., in 1650. His father, a tanner by trade, was instinctively a rover and rarely remained long in any community. At Bradford, on the upper Connecticut River, Henry attended the local academy, but at thirteen he became a printer's apprentice in the office of the Burlington Free Press, in Burlington, Vt. Here he once met Noah Webster, whose dictionaries he was later to publish. He studied evenings and in 1839, through the initiative of his older brother Daniel, he was allowed to prepare himself for the University of VErmont, which he entered at the age of nineteen. He worked his way in part, being assisted also by his brother-in-law, David Scott. Graduating in 1846, with a debt of three hundred dollars to pay off, he secured employment in Boston as a newspaper reporte and proof-reader and eventually joined with his friend Bolles in establishing a printing office on Remington Street, in Cambridge. In 1852 the firm became H. O. Houghton & Company, with headquarters on the Charles River, at what was soon known as the Riverside Press. For the remainder of his life, Houghton was a printer and publisher and made a special study of artistic typography. Because of his good taste and and high standards of craftsmanship, he built up a large and lucrative business. He actively opposed the movement for the free admission of foreign books into the United States.
Houghton's fondness for everything relating to books led him to form in 1864, a partnership with Melancthon M. Hurd, of New York, under the firm name of Hurd & Houghton. Various changes in personnel were effected until 1878, when, with Hurd's retirement, the business was merged with James R. Osgood & Company, as Houghton, Osgood & Company. This, in turn, after Osgood's withdawal in 1880, became Houghton, Mifflin, & Company, and eventually, Houghton Mifflin Company. The firm acquired many literary franchises formerly controlled by Ticknor & Fields, including rights to the works of Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, and also published the Riverside Classics and other series.
Houghton was married, on Sept. 12, 1854, to Nanna W. Manning, by whom he had one son, Henry Oscar Houghton, Jr., who became a partner in the firm, and three daughters. He was greatly interested in local affairs in Cambridge, serving on the school committee, as a memberof the common council, and as alderman and mayor (1872). In his later life he traveled extensively, both in the United States and abroad. Infirmities came upon him gradually, but he courageously resisted them and was still active in busines at the time of his death. He possessed a vigorous and positive personality and in business relations was somewhat autocratic and watchfull of small details. He died in North Andover, Mass., at the country home of his partner, George H. Mifflin. He established by his will a fund for the relief of the worthy poor of Cambridge. [Horace E. Scudder, Henry Oscar Houghton, A Biog. Outline (1897); J. W. Houghton, The Houghton Geneal. (1912); the New England Mag., Oct. 1895; the Outlook, Nov. 2, 1895; information as to certain facts from Miss Alberta Houghton and Mr. Edward B. Houghton.] C. M. F.

W. Love, p. 9: 'Further along the Gazetteer tells this about Henry O. Houghton. 'Henry O. Houghton of the firm of Houghton, Miffflin & Co., Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., has lately made the Library Association of Sutton the offer, that for every book they buy of him at catalogue price, he will give them one of the same value.'; W. Love, p. 12: "For instance, when Henry Oscar wanted to start the Riverside Press project in Cambridge, Mass. in 1852, it was a loan from the Scotts [his sister] that helped him over the financial hump."

W. Love, p. 50: "Born in Sutton, Vt. in 1823, Henry Oscar Houghton received the normal New England schooling of his day, till he was ten years old, and then for three years had what advantages there were in a country academy at Bradford. While he was working in the office of the "Free Press" in Burlington, Vt., an older brother influenced him to decide that he would somehow get a college education. By studying evenings and using all other opportunities, he accomplished the work necessary to enable him to enter the University of Vermont in the fall of 1842.
While in college, he worked at his trade as much as he could. After graduating in 1846, he went to Boston and became a reporter on the "Traveler" and also a proofreader at the Boston Type Foundry...
This loan of $100 was evidently followed by several others that David Scott made to his brother-in-law. Late in 1848 when "H.O." was employed by Freeman and Bulles, Boston Printers, Mr. Freeman offered offered to sell him his one-half interest in the business for $1,000, and he secured the loan of the money to make the purchase from David Scott. It is interesting to note here, that from an old payroll for the month of January, 1849, there were 16 employees. This printing business was soon moved to Cambridge and it was about three years later early in 1852 when the number of employees had increased to 50, that with the aid of a further loan from David Scott he founded H.O. Houghton & Co. He took possession of an old brick building 60 x 40 feet on the East bank of the Charles River, which had formerly been used as the "Poor House". This shortly became known as "The Riverside Press", and still is, one hundred years later. In 1864, the publishing house of Hurd & Houghton was formed. This continued until 1878, when it was merged with James R. Osgood & Company, taking the name of Houghton, Osgood & Company. This was changed to Houghton Mifflin & Company in 1880 at the retirement of Mr. Osgood. Mr. George H. Mifflin joined the staff in 1868. He was head of the company from Mr. Houghton's death in 1895, until its incorporation in 1908, when he became president, which office he held until his death in 1921. Mr. Albert F. Houghton was vice-president from 1908 until he retired. Edward R. Houghton succeeded Mr. Mifflin as president in 1921, becoming chairman of the Board in 1939...
In 1908 the firm of Houghton Mifflin & Company was dissolved, and the corportation Houghton Mifflin Company formed. This has carried on to the present time as one of the most honored names in the publishing business of the entire world."

Thirteen descendants of Capt. William Houghton, have been employees of Houghton Mifflin.

Gozzldi: Riverside Press on site of old almshouse property; mayor of Cambridge, 1869; common councilman, 1868

NEGHR: He gave an address on early printing in America delivered to the Vermont Historical Society at Montpelier VT, Oct. 25, 1894.

Houghton-Mifflin: A Brief History of the Company
Houghton Mifflin had its origins on the corner of Washington and School streets in Boston. In 1832, John Allen and William D. Ticknor bought the Old Corner Bookstore from Carter & Hendee booksellers. The partnership was short-lived and its now totally forgotten first book -- Caspar Hauser, a novel translated from German -- gave little indication of the great influence that the ideas contained in our publications would have on American society during the next 150 years.
The original Old Corner Bookstore in Boston
William Ticknor eventually chose a partner who complemented his strengths, James T. Fields. Together they assembled probably the most distinguished collection of writers ever associated with one American publishing house and were primarily responsible for making Boston the capital of both literature and publishing in the United States for many years. Among others, they published Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain. They were also the authorized American publishers of many English authors, including Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens. William Ticknor brought fiscal and management strengths to the partnership, while James Fields brought a wide acquaintance with literary figures and a flair for taking risks. His enthusiasm and sincerity made him popular with authors. Emerson called him "the guardian and maintainer of us all." Whittier wrote two poems in Fields's honor. Holmes is reported to have told Fields, "Why I was nothing but a roaring kangaroo when you took me in hand. You combed me down and put me in proper shape."
Fields inadvertently saved Longfellow's life in 1840. Longfellow had booked passage on Cornelius Vanderbilt's luxury ship, the Lexington, which burned and sank off Long Island. Longfellow missed the boat when he was delayed by an argument with Fields. The dispute, ironically, concerned Longfellow's epic poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus," which describes a shipwreck off New England. The partnership of Ticknor & Fields brought tact, discrimination, and generous royalties to their relationships with English as well as American authors, and the publishing house flourished. While their literary vision was extraordinary, it was not infallible. They rejected the works of Walt Whitman because they doubted his appeal. Ticknor & Fields used a number of printers in the Boston area to produce their growing list of books. In 1852, they began to work with a young man from Vermont, Henry Houghton, who had opened a printing plant in the old Cambridge poorhouse on the banks of the Charles River and called it The Riverside Press. By 1880 the two firms had merged into a partnership called Houghton, Mifflin & Company.

Henry O. Houghton
The new firm continued to publish the great names of the Ticknor & Fields list and added such publications as Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians.

Early on, the new partnership established an Educational Department to publish books for the rapidly growing number of students. The Riverside Literature Series quickly expanded Houghton Mifflin's educational list. You may think that inexpensive paperbacks were an innovation of the 1930s, but one version of these unabridged American literary masterpieces was printed on cheap, opaque paper with paper covers and was priced at only 15 cents. The series eventually numbered more than 200 titles, some of which are still in print today and have sold millions of copies. Evangeline by Longfellow was the first published title and always the best seller in the series. Whittier's Snowbound and Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal ranked second and third in popularity.
The Riverside Press gained wide-spread notice for the beautifully printed and bound special editions it produced. In 1907, George Mifflin sent a copy of the Riverside Press edition of the Song of Roland to president Theodore Roosevelt. An exchange of letters between the president and Mifflin led to Roosevelt's request to see the entire collection of special editions at the Company's headquarters on Park Street. Great crowds, hoping to see the president, filled the Boston Common and Park Street, and when Roosevelt got ready to leave, Mifflin expressed concern for his safety. He suggested the president leave by the French windows at the back of the building which opened onto the Old Granary Burying Ground. Roosevelt is said to have replied that he was no
t yet ready for the graveyard and left by the front door. (A more recent presidential anecdote concerns Ronald Reagan, who called prior to his first inauguration to report that our book, Lion of Ireland, was so fascinating that it was distracting him from his transition duties.) In 1908 the partnership became a corporation and in the years that followed, the Company continued to build a list of distinguished as well as best-selling authors. Among them were Esther Forbes, the award-winning author of Johnny Tremain; Henry Adams; Samuel Eliot Morison, whose Maritime History of Massachusetts remains a classic; Willa Cather; and Amy Lowell. At that time, authors stayed with the company throughout their careers, but occasionally some became disgruntled and transferred to another house, where they hoped that grass, or perhaps the money, would be greener. Cigar-smoking Amy Lowell was one author who left and then returned a number of years later, but Willa Cather, insulted because her editor addressed her by her first name in a letter, took her books to a young man named Alfred Knopf who would treat her more respectfully.
Following World War II, Houghton Mifflin President Henry Laughlin met with Winston Churchill to discuss the publication of his memoirs. When Churchill agreed, Laughlin then had to convince the Houghton Mifflin directors to authorize the largest advance guarantee ever given by the Company, for the six volumes of Churchill's The Second World War. Laughlin prevailed. In 1949 Churchill came to Boston, assuring Laughlin that he would not leave "without paying his respects to his publisher." He visited the Company's offices on Park Street and during a luncheon speech, he thanked the Company for its work on his first volume. Speaking especially for our production people, he said "it opens like the wings of an angel."
Churchill escorted by Company President Henry Laughlin in 1949. We had published Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in the 1930s, and, with the addition of Churchill, we had the principal adversaries of the war on our list. (In case you're wondering, all royalties for Hitler's work went to the United States Government's Office of Foreign Litigation.) We soon added two other well-known adversaries, who fought on our side -- General George Patton and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
The end of the war brought the GI Bill, rapid growth in Houghton Mifflin's college publishing activities, and a period of expansion throughout the Company. In 1949, Houghton Mifflin published the McKee readers, which introduced a unique approach to teaching the children of the post-war baby boom how to read. The creative planning that went into the Company's textbook development during this crucial period helped establish our present leadership in the school markets.
Beginning with Lewis Terman's Measurement of Intelligence, Houghton Mifflin became increasingly involved in publishing standardized tests. Since the late 1920s, much of the development for these tests has been centered at the University of Iowa. Houghton Mifflin has worked closely with many pioneer authors in the field, including E.F. Lindquist, who developed the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and Robert Thorndike, author of several abilities tests. Lindquist initiated the use of the computer to score and analyze test results and our work with him was the beginning of the Company's early involvement in developing educational computer software for schools.
In the 1950s, a marine biologist working for the U.S. government became alarmed by the wide-spread use of DDT and other long-lasting poisons. Her name was Rachel Carson. She tried to interest a number of magazines in the subject, but the magazine publishers, fearing the loss of advertisers, are reported to have turned her down. She then decided her only alternative was to write a book, since book publishers are not subject to advertising pressure. She came to Houghton Mifflin and with our support began to develop the book.
Carson spent nearly five years researching and writing, knowing full well that her work would be scrutinized and probably attacked. When the Company published Silent Spring in 1962, the attack came. Thousands of dollars were spent trying to discredit the book and its author, but not one factual error has ever been found in the book. In response to Silent Spring, President Kennedy established a special panel to study pesticides, and its report confirmed Carson's work. Silent Spring altered our thinking about the world we live in and has never been out of print. As these anecdotes demonstrate, Houghton Mifflin has a heritage of publishing fine literary and educational works. For more than 160 years the Company's objective has been to shape information, instruction and entertainment into forms that provide unique features of value to our customers. We develop and manage ideas and intellectual properties with the help of an extensive collection of author relationships, a staff of experienced editorial talent, and a valuable storehouse of creative works.
The changes all around us offer exciting new opportunities for both print and electronic publishing at Houghton Mifflin. Our corporate culture is a dynamic one. It combines the historical perspective of generations of experience with a publishing vision that looks ahead to the twenty-first century. Together these strengths position us well to continue providing the nation with intellectual leadership in the years to come. [Excerpts from remarks of Harold T. Miller, former Chairman and CEO, to a 1983 meeting of the Newcomen Society of the United States.]
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" Houghton Mifflin had its origins on the corner of Washington and School streets in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1832, John Allen and William D. Ticknor bought the Old Corner Bookstore from Carter & Hendee booksellers. The partnership was short-lived and its now totally forgotten first book -- Caspar Hauser, a novel translated from German -- gave little indication of the great influence that the ideas contained in our publications would have on American society during the next 150 years. William Ticknor eventually chose a partner who complemented his strengths, James T. Fields. Together they assembled probably the most distinguished collection of writers ever associated with one American publishing house and were primarily responsible for making Boston the capital of both literature and publishing in the United States for many years. Among others, they published Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Mark Twain. They were also the authorized American publishers of many English authors, including Alfred Lord Tennyson and Charles Dickens.

William Ticknor brought fiscal and management strengths to the partnership, while James Fields brought a wide acquaintance with literary figures and a flair for taking risks. His enthusiasm and sincerity made him popular with authors Emerson called him "the guardian and maintainer of us all." Whittier wrote two poems in Fields's honor. Holmes is reported to have told Fields, "Why I was nothing but a roaring kangaroo when you took me in hand. You combed me down and put me in proper shape."

Fields inadvertently saved Longfellow's life in 1840. Longfellow had booked passage on Cornelius Vanderbilt's luxury ship, the Lexington, which burned and sank off Long Island. Longfellow missed the boat when he was delayed by an argument with Fields. The dispute, ironically, concerned Longfellow's epic poem "The Wreck of the Hesperus," which describes a shipwreck off New England. The partnership of Ticknor & Fields brought tact, discrimination, and generous royalties to their relationships with English as well as American authors, and the publishing house flourished. While their literary vision was extraordinary, it was not infallible. They rejected the works of Walt Whitman because they doubted his appeal.

Ticknor & Fields used a number of printers in the Boston area to produce their growing list of books. In 1852, they began to work with a young man from Vermont, Henry Houghton, who had opened a printing plant in the old Cambridge poorhouse on the banks of the Charles River and called it The Riverside Press. By 1880 the two firms had merged into a partnership called Houghton, Mifflin & Company.

The new firm continued to publish the great names of the Ticknor & Fields list and added such publications as Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians.

Early on, the new partnership established an Educational Department to publish books for the rapidly growing number of students. The Riverside Literature Series quickly expanded Houghton Mifflin's educational list. You may think that inexpensive paperbacks were an innovation of the 1930s, but one version of these unabridged American literary masterpieces was printed on cheap, opaque paper with paper covers and was priced at only 15 cents. The series eventually numbered more than 200 titles, some of which are still in print today and have sold millions of copies. Evangeline by Longfellow was the first published title and always the best seller in the series. Whittier's Snowbound and Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal ranked second and third in popularity.

The Riverside Press gained wide-spread notice for the beautifully printed and bound special editions it produced. In 1907, George Mifflin sent a copy of the Riverside Press edition of the Song of Roland to president Theodore Roosevelt. An exchange of letters between the president and Mifflin led to Roosevelt's request to see the entire collection of special editions at the Company's headquarters on Park Street. Great crowds, hoping to see the president, filled the Boston Common and Park Street, and when Roosevelt got ready to leave, Mifflin expressed concern for his safety. He suggested the president leave by the French windows at the back of the building which opened onto the Old Granary Burying Ground. Roosevelt is said to have replied that he was not yet ready for the graveyard and left by the front door. (A more recent presidential anecdote concerns Ronald Reagan, who called prior to his first inauguration to report that our book, Lion of Ireland, was so fascinating that it was distracting him from his transition duties.)

In 1908 the partnership became a corporation and in the years that followed, the Company continued to build a list of distinguished as well as best-selling authors. Among them were Esther Forbes, the award-winning author of Johnny Tremain; Henry Adams; Samuel Eliot Morison, whose Maritime History of Massachusetts remains a classic; Willa Cather; and Amy Lowell.

At that time, authors stayed with the company throughout their careers, but occasionally some became disgruntled and transferred to another house, where they hoped that grass, or perhaps the money, would be greener. Cigar-smoking Amy Lowell was one author who left and then returned a number of years later, but Willa Cather, insulted because her editor addressed her by her first name in a letter, took her books to a young man named Alfred Knopf who would treat her more respectfully.

Following World War II, Houghton Mifflin President Henry Laughlin met with Winston Churchill to discuss the publication of his memoirs. When Churchill agreed, Laughlin then had to convince the Houghton Mifflin directors to authorize the largest advance guarantee ever given by the Company, for the six volumes of Churchill's The Second World War. Laughlin prevailed. In 1949 Churchill came to Boston, assuring Laughlin that he would not leave "without paying his respects to his publisher." He visited the Company's offices on Park Street and during a luncheon speech, he thanked the Company for its work on his first volume. Speaking especially for our production people, he said "it opens like the wings of an angel."

We had published Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in the 1930s, and, with the addition of Churchill, we had the principal adversaries of the war on our list. (In case you're wondering, all royalties for Hitler's work went to the United States Government's Office of Foreign Litigation.) We soon added two other well-known adversaries, who fought on our side -- General George Patton and Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

The end of the war brought the GI Bill, rapid growth in Houghton Mifflin's college publishing activities, and a period of expansion throughout the Company.
In 1949, Houghton Mifflin published the McKee readers, which introduced a unique approach to teaching the children of the post-war baby boom how to read. The creative planning that went into the Company's textbook development during this crucial period helped establish our present leadership in the school markets.

Beginning with Lewis Terman's Measurement of Intelligence, Houghton Mifflin became increasingly involved in publishing standardized tests. Since the late 1920s, much of the development for these tests has been centered at the University of Iowa. Houghton Mifflin has worked closely with many pioneer authors in the field, including E.F. Lindquist, who developed the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and Robert Thorndike, author of several abilities tests. Lindquist initiated the use of the computer to score and analyze test results and our work with him was the beginning of the Company's early involvement in developing educational computer software for schools.

In the 1950s, a marine biologist working for the U.S. government became alarmed by the wide-spread use of DDT and other long-lasting poisons. Her name was Rachel Carson. She tried to interest a number of magazines in the subject, but the magazine publishers, fearing the loss of advertisers, are reported to have turned her down. She then decided her only alternative was to write a book, since book publishers are not subject to advertising pressure. She came to Houghton Mifflin and with our support began to develop the book.

Carson spent nearly five years researching and writing, knowing full well that her work would be scrutinized and probably attacked. When the Company published Silent Spring in 1962, the attack came. Thousands of dollars were spent trying to discredit the book and its author, but not one factual error has ever been found in the book. In response to Silent Spring, President Kennedy established a special panel to study pesticides, and its report confirmed Carson's work. Silent Spring altered our thinking about the world we live in and has never been out of print.

As these anecdotes demonstrate, Houghton Mifflin has a heritage of publishing fine literary and educational works. For more than 160 years the Company's objective has been to shape information, instruction and entertainment into forms that provide unique features of value to our customers. We develop and manage ideas and intellectual properties with the help of an extensive collection of author relationships, a staff of experienced editorial talent, and
a valuable storehouse of creative works.

The changes all around us offer exciting new opportunities for both print and electronic publishing at Houghton Mifflin. Our corporate culture is a dynamic one. It combines the historical perspective of generations of experience with a publishing vision that looks ahead to the twenty-first century. Together these strengths position us well to continue providing the nation with intellectual leadership in the years to come. [excerpts from remarks of Harold T. Miller, former Chairman and CEO, to a 1983 meeting of the Newcomen Society of th United States.]

Marvin: senior partner of the firm of Houghton & Osgood

VT Bibliography: "At the age of 13 he became an apprentice in the office of the Burlington Free Press, where he learned the "Art and Mystery of Printing." He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1846; went to Boston, was a reporter on the "Evening Traveller," in 1849 with Mr. Bolles he established a printing office in Cambridge, Mass., which later became famous under the name of The Riverside Press. He was successively a member of the firms of Hurd & Houghton, Houghton, Osgood & Co., and Houghton Mifflin & Co., and known all over the world as one of the most eminent of American publishers."

Houghton Mifflin website:
"Henry Oscar Houghton was born in 1832 in Sutton, Vermont. The second youngest of twelve children, Houghton was raised under frugal circumstances. He became an apprentice at the Burlington Free Press at age thirteen and eventually learned the trade of compositor, or typesetter. Houghton worked his way through the University of Vermont. Upon graduation, he moved to Boston where he found employment first as a reporter, then as a proofreader for the well-known Dickinson Type Foundry, and later as a freelance proofreader.

Houghton eventually accepted a job offer from a small Cambridge firm, Freeman & Bolles, where a great number of books from Little, Brown and Company were set and printed. Houghton was offered a partner's share of the business when Freeman retired and, although he had no capital of his own, he seized the opportunity. In 1849, Houghton's share of the firm was equal to the annual wages of eight compositors. It amounted to 3,200 dollars—an immense sum in those days. Houghton, a compositor himself just a few years before, was not yet twenty-six years old.

When Bolles left the firm, Houghton became the sole decision maker. He moved the business to the banks of the Charles River in 1852, and from then on it was aptly named the Riverside Press. Henry Houghton built a reputation for himself as a student of his craft and a demanding perfectionist. His diligence earned the esteem of Ticknor & Fields whose impressive list of authors, such as Hawthorne and Longfellow, were printed primarily by Riverside. The culmination of Houghton's success came in 1863, when he was hired by G. & C. Merriam Company for the printing and binding of their new dictionary.

In 1864, Henry Houghton formed a partnership with Melancthon Hurd, a member of a New York publishing firm. Hurd & Houghton established itself quickly and new business began trickling into the Riverside Press from New York. Within three years, Hurd & Houghton increased its workforce from ninety to three hundred to accommodate the new orders.

George Harrison Mifflin was admitted to partnership at the Company in 1872. Mifflin's energetic, boisterous nature perfectly complemented Houghton's, and the Harvard graduate held unswerving devotion and respect for his senior partner. When Houghton became mayor of Cambridge, Mifflin took over as head of the Press. In 1880, the firm became Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

The Riverside Press enjoyed continued success and was recognized for typographic and artistic excellence with medals at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and the Paris Exposition of 1878. In 1881, Publishers Weekly hailed Houghton as the American printer par excellence. By 1886, Henry Houghton's Riverside Press had grown to a staff of six hundred with thirty-three presses and seven thread-sewing machines.

At the time of his death, Henry Oscar Houghton was widely eulogized as a master printer and an enterprising publisher. George Mifflin assumed the reins as president, and young Harry Houghton, who began work at the Press in 1877, became head of Riverside."


Henry Oscar Houghton
HOUGHTON, Henry Oscar (ho'-ton), publisher, born in Sutton, Vermont, 30 April, 1823. He attended the academy in Bradford, Vermont, learned the printer's trade in Burlington, and worked at it in Nunda, New York He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1846, and failing to obtain a place as teacher went to Boston and engaged as reporter for the "Traveller." In 1849 he became a member of the firm of Bolles & Houghton, printers, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1852 established in that city the Riverside Press, under the firm name of H. O. Houghton and Co., of which he is still (1887) the head. In 1864 he became a member of the publishing firm of Hurd and Houghton, which in 1878 was succeeded by that of Houghton, Osgood and Co., and in 1880 by that of Houghton, Mifflin and Co. By the change of 1878 it acquired the large list of the old Ticknor and Fields house, which included many famous American authors of the generation of Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes. When Mr. Houghton was an apprentice in Burlington, an unknown man one day walked into the office, handed him a printed slip, and said: "My lad, when you use these words, spell them as here, theater, center," etc. It was Noah Webster, whose great dictionary is now printed at the Riverside Press, where several presses are constantly at work upon it. Among the notable books that have been produced there are facsimile reprints of the "Bay Psahne Book," and Cromwell's "Souldier's Bible," "Notes on Columbus," edited by Harrisse, Winsor's "History of America," and the illustrated edition of Longfellow's works. In 1872 Mr. Houghton was elected mayor of Cambridge.
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Henry Oscar Houghton 1823 - 1895

HENRY OSCAR HOUGHTON was born on the 30th of April, 1823, in Sutton, a hill town of Caledonia County, in the northeastern corner of Vermont. His mother, who was forty-three years old at the time, was Marilla, daughter of Captain James Clay, of Putney, Vermont, an officer in the Revolutionary army.
His father, six years his wife’s senior, was Captain William Houghton, a native of Bolton, Massachusetts. Bolton had been set off from Lancaster, and Lancaster had been the home of the Houghton family since John Houghton, of Lancaster, England, came to America in the Abigail in 1635.
Captain William Houghton was somewhat of a rover, and took his growing family with him as he moved from one place to another up the Connecticut valley and into the Vermont hills, and even, when his children had begun to establish themselves, into the southwest part of New York State.
There were six sons and six daughters, and a period of nearly twenty-one years separated Henry Oscar, who was the youngest but one, from his sister Stella, who was the oldest in the family. Of the six sons, two became clergymen, one died in his early manhood, two were merchants, and the youngest was the printer and publisher. He had one sister younger than himself, Marilla Houghton, who became a teacher, married Dr. J. C. Gallup, and established the large girls’ school in Clinton, New York, now known as Houghton Seminary.
Mr. Houghton outlived all his brothers and sisters, but during their lifetime his relations with them were very close. He was, at one time, under the watch and ward of his brother Daniel, eight years his senior; his brother Albert Gallatin became his business partner in 1866; he owed much to his oldest sister and her husband, David Scott, and the long period when he and his younger sister were the only ones left made the connection between them one of special tenderness.
The family scattered widely, five of the members going to Alabama ; but when the youngest son was born no one was yet married, and probably all were gathered in the home at Sutton…
At Bradford there was a country academy, and here the boy had for three years his schooling, but at thirteen began to earn his living by binding himself as apprentice in the office of the Free Press, at Burlington, then owned by H. B. Stacy, where he served for six years…38,19,39,12,40,41,42,43,44
Notable(1823-1895) "Founder of the Riverside Press (1852), Hurd & Houghton (1864-1878), Houghton, Osgood and Company (1878-1880), Houghton, Mifflin & Company (1880). Senior Partner 1880 to 1895."45,14
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #763.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 49a picture, 50-53.
  3. [S96] NEHGR, 50 [1896]: 77-78.
  4. [S202] Horace E. Scutter, Henry Oscar Houghton.
  5. [S203] Unknown author, Fifty Years of Publishing.
  6. [S204] Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952.
  7. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., V.
  8. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2709, 127.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  10. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 50, 52.
  11. [S96] NEHGR, 50 [1896]: 77.
  12. [S111] Who Was Who, p. 261.
  13. [S289] Cambridge MA VRs I, p. 373.
  14. [S567] Dorman Kent, Vermonters, p. 137.
  15. [S768] Unknown author Cyclopaedia of Amer. Biog. III, p. 272.
  16. [S827] Unknown author, Men of Vermont, p. 88.
  17. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  18. [S1266] M. D. Gilman, VT Bibliography - Gilman.
  19. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 50.
  20. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hou00091
  21. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_325; Page: 142; line 5, dwl 1896-2301.
  22. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 51, 52.
  23. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  24. [S1157] Dumas Malone, American Biography Dict. Vol. 5, p. 256.
  25. [S1363] Unknown author, Manning Genealogy of William & Thomas.
  26. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Ward 4, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; Microfilm: M653; Page: 476, line 4, dwl 2949-3695.
  27. [S810] Earl Cranston Am. Biog. Libr.: Notable Amer., V, p. 359.
  28. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34, 51, 53.
  29. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, Reel 624, p. 694b, line 20, dwl 1502-1847.
  30. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Dec 29, 1879.
  31. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 544; Family History Film: 1254544; Page: 280D; Enumeration District: 444; Image: 0170; line 34, dwl 800-346-502.
  32. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , American Antiquarian Society Online Catalog: http://catalog.mwa.org/
  33. [S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
  34. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 52.
  35. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: Aug 27, 1895.
  36. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 8a.
  37. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: Aug 30, 1895.
  38. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362-363.
  39. [S96] NEHGR, 104 [1950]: 92.
  40. [S296] Mary Isabella Gozzaldi, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, p. 402.
  41. [S595] Rev. Abijah P. Marvin, Lancaster Hx - Marvin, p. 741.
  42. [S1157] Dumas Malone, American Biography Dict. Vol. 5, p. 255-256.
  43. [S768] Unknown author Cyclopaedia of Amer. Biog. III.
  44. [S1348] Rossiter Johnson Biog. Dict. of Notable Amer. 5.
  45. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 53.

Rev. Daniel Clay Houghton DD1,2,3

M, #8407, b. 12 March 1815, d. 8 July 1860

Family 1: Rosanna H. Corliss

Family 2: Juliana Alton

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMar 12, 1815Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, age 45 in 1860 census; 1880 census of sons William and Daniel gives NY; 1900 census of son Daniel gives NY4
Graduation1840University of Vermont, Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, Prepared for college at Bradford, VT; graduated Univ. of VT with B.A.5,6,7
MarriageDec 15, 18408,9
Marriage184210
LetterAug 1, 1846Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, This folded lettersheet / stampless letter has a circular date stamp for LE ROY N.Y., a 10 cent rate, and is addressed to Mr. H.O. Houghton, U. V. M. Burlington, Vt, and is a one and a half page 'Dear brother Oscar' letter written by D.C. Houghton. I'm not sure about the middle initial. The headline is Le Roy, Aug 1st, 1846.:
Some abstracts:

"I have been waiting, hoping to get hold of a little money to send to you but have been very unsuccessful. I will try to borrow ten dollars this morning and send it hoping that it will arrive on commencement day I cannot send any more till September."

"I have a little prospect of obtaining a place in the academy at Corryville [?] for you, near Batavia, a very flourishing school. They are making some considerable effort to secure me for the principal, but I hardly think I shall consent, but perhaps."

"They want a Methodist principal a preacher would be preferred, the salary from 5 to 600 dollars and a house, employ about 4 teachers."

"If you have no engagement you had better come out with Marilla and I will do the best I can, the first of September is the time to commence school here."

"I have received Goodrich's books, by express to Rochester [?] and had to pay $1.00 freight ..."
Occupationa Presbyterian clergyman5
1860 CensusJun 2, 186024th, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, USA, age 45, a clergyman, property $10,000-2000; and Polly Alton, 63, property $1000; Juliana not present11
DeathJul 8, 1860Philadelphia, PA, USA, age 4510,12
BurialWoodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA, USA5
BiographyRev. Dr. Daniel Clay Houghton was the son of Capt. William and Marilla (Clay) Houghton. Rosanna H. (Corliss) Houghton was his 1st wife. They were married December 15, 1840 and she died October 6, 1841. Juliana (Alton) Houghton was his 2nd wife. They were married in 1842 and she died in 1858. He was a minister in the Genesee (now Western New York) Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He served LeRoy, Genesee Co., Genesee District., New York 1845-1846 - Batavia, Genesee Co., Buffalo Dist., New York 1847 - Financial Agent of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, Livingston Co., New York 1848 - Professor of moral and intellectual philosophy at Genesee Wesleyan Seminary 1848-1851 - Supernumerary 1852 - Located 1853 - Shortly thereafter he entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church.

Presbyterian Church In The United States
The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, And Annual Remembrances Of--For 1861, Volume 3, Page 160
Rev. Dr. Daniel Clay Houghton was born in Lyndon, Vermont. during his ministry he learned the printer's trade, under Dr. Luther Jewett of St. Johnsbury, and was fitted for college at Bradford, Vermont. He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1840, and subsequently taught a few years in Western New York, and then entered the ministry in connection with the Methodist Episcopal church. If not the originator, he was one of the earliest and most active instruments in founding and endowing Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, New York, raising most of the funds by his own efforts. He was offered the Presidency in this college, but declined it and accepted the Professorship of moral and intellectual philosophy and at the same time acted as Financial Agent. He subsequently transferred his church relationship from the Methodist Episcopal Church to the Presbyterian Church, joining Ontario Presbytery in 1853. In 1854 he became pastor of East Penbroke Church in the Genesee Presbytery; he was appointed Editor of the Genesee Evangelist, published in Rochester, New York. Meanwhile the American Presbyterian had been established in Philadelphia, and the editors found the Genesee Evangelist took views almost identical with theirs as to questions before the church. The idea arose in the minds of Dr. Houghton and one of the editors of the American Presbyterian, that two papers might be advantageously united. This was accomplished late in the year of 1857, and Dr. Houghton became the responsible editor. He evinced much talent for business, and was an excellent financier. He understood well how business ought to be managed and his own affairs and those intrusted to him, were conducted with skill. He was unwearied, punctual, industrious, economical and faithful to the truest that were commited to his charge. He was acute in regard to his judgments of character, keen in his estimate of motives; perhaps too candid in his exposure of all charlatanism in religion. He had a very tenacious will. his views were very decided, and clearly expressed. This grew our of the honesty of his own nature, and his sincerity in advocating what he deemed right and expedient. His habits and tastes, apart from his public life, were rather retiring. He loved his study and his family, and the quest of his own domestic fireside. He was attacked by a severe pain in his right foot, which gradually developed itself as a gangrene. For the first weeks of his attack he was able to be in his office, and it was with great reluctance that his active and energetic nature submitted to the necessity of entire rest from labor. After suffering a few weeks, on Sabbath, July 8, 1860, he was suddenly taken ill. One of his physicians, Rev. Mr. Butler, and Judge Allison, an Elder, were sent for, and on arriving they found that he was able to recognize his children for only about five minutes after his seizure. In fifteen minutes he had passed that mysterious barrier which separates time and eternity.

Love: "...at the time of his death in 1860 was editor of the American Presbyterian; and for a time was professor of Latin and Greek and moral philosophy at Genesse College in New York State. This was about 1850 to 1851."

Alumni: "Clergyman, Meth. Epis. Member of the Genesee Conference, 1843-8, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics and Greek in Genesee College, 1850-2."5,7
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #764.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 42a picture, 44.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2706.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 42a, 43-44.
  5. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 43.
  6. [S96] NEHGR, 50 [1896]: 77.
  7. [S1339] Alumni Association, Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University, p. 130.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 43-44.
  9. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  10. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 44.
  11. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , 24th Ward, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA, p. 1103, line 38, dwl 40-40.
  12. [S95] Newspaper, Deaths from the New York Post , 1801-1890 - Gertrude A. Barber, 1933.

Martha Maria Houghton1,2,3

F, #8408, b. 30 September 1819, d. 20 March 1851

Family: Rev. Joseph Woods Hancock

Biography

NotableY
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthSep 30, 1819Sutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA4,5
ResidenceSutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: v. pt. 3, 51, 526
MarriageAug 8, 1846MLM: Aug. 187,5
ImmigrationMay, 1849Red Wing, MN, USA7
DeathMar 20, 1851Red Wing, MN, USA8
BurialOakwood Cemetery, Red Wing, MN, USA, "Berfore her death on March 20th, 1851, Maria asked that she be buried there among her "people", the Dakota Indians, who had given her the name of "Washtay-Ween" - The Good Woman."7
BiographyLove: "Her husband Joseph W. Hancock, was teaching school in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. They contuined to live there until May 1849, when having recieved the appointment to go as missionaries among the Dakota Indians west of the Mississippi River, they set out for their destination, Red Wing, in Northwest Territory...A few years later her father, Rev. Joseph . Hancock, married Sarah Rankin, of Red Wing, Minn." He was a missionary to the Sioux Indians.

BOOK - HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY, MN. PUBLISHED IN 1909. Joseph W. Hancock was born in Orford, N. H., April 4, 1816. He attended the public schools at that place and followed this by a course at the academy located in Bradford, Vt. As a young man he taught in various places in New England, and in 1841 started out for the West. He journeyed down the Ohio river to the Mississippi, and then caine north as far as Quincy, Ill. Here he taught school for a while and soon afterward had a class among the Winnebago Indians in Iowa. Later he taught a private school in Prairie du Chien, Wis. He found, however, that although he had come west for the sake of his health, the change of climate had not worked the desired change and consequently he returned to the East and spent some time at Saratoga, N. Y., where he found the water from the springs to be of great benefit. In 1846 he was united in marriage with Martha Maria Houghton. a sister of H. O. Houghton, the noted Boston publisher. In 1848 Mr. Hancock received a commission from the American Board of Foreign Missions to become a missionary to the Sioux Indians, west of the Mississippi, and was sent to the Indian, village of Red Wing, in the Northwest territory, where a band of Indians had long been located, and where missionary efforts had previously been conducted. The first white person known to have been buried within the limits of Goodhue county was the wife of Mr. Hancock. After two years of service among the Sioux her health gave away and she died March 21, 1851. To this union were born two children. William died in infancy, the other is Mrs. William Holliday. In 1852 he was married to Sarah Rankin, who died in March, 1859, leaving two children, Stella and James Otis. In October, 1860, he was united in marriage with Juliet Thompson, who died in 1897. Mr. Hancock began preaching to the early settlers in 1852, and in January, 1855, organized the First Presbyterian Church of Red Wing, of which he was pastor for seven years. During the remainder of his life he was connected with that church. He helped to organize the Winona presbytery in 1855, being one of the three clergymen who founded it. In addition to his religious work, Mr. Hancock was in various capacities connected with the civic life of the community. He was first postmaster in Red Wing, and was appointed by Governor Ramsey, territorial governor of Minnesota, as register of deeds in 1855. In the fall of that year he was elected to the office by the people. He was deeply interested in educational affairs and in the early history of the community had much to do in shaping the school interests. From 1862 to 1865 he was superintendent of schools in Goodhue county, and from 1870 to 1880 again served in the same capacity. His latter years were spent practically in retirement. He published a short history of the county in 1893, and to his writings the managers of the present publication are greatly indebted.9
Notablewere Sioux Indian Christian missionaries.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #765.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 46a picture, 47-48.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2708.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 47-48.
  5. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  6. [S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
  7. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 47.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 48.
  9. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 47.

Justin Houghton1,2,3

M, #8409, b. 26 June 1817, d. 30 December 1844

Family: Mary Pardee

  • Marriage*: Justin Houghton married Mary Pardee on Oct 3, 1842 at Southington, Hartford Co., CT, USA, JWH: 1841; "This date comes from the Pardee Genealogy although some of the Houghton records give the date of marriage as September 18, 1841."; ML M: Dana (Southington), MA.6,5

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthJun 26, 1817Lyndon, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, MLM: Sutton, VT4,5
Immigrationbetween 1830 and 1840AL, USA6
ResidenceSutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: v. pt. 3, 517
MarriageOct 3, 1842Southington, Hartford Co., CT, USA, JWH: 1841; "This date comes from the Pardee Genealogy although some of the Houghton records give the date of marriage as September 18, 1841."; ML M: Dana (Southington), MA6,5
DeathDec 30, 1844Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, p. 346 gives Scottsville, AL8
BurialGreenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, in the David Scott lot6
No Childrn
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #766.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 44a-46.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2707.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 43-46.
  5. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  6. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 45.
  7. [S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 44a, 45-46.

Marilla Houghton1,2,3

F, #8410, b. 7 May 1825, d. 1 November 1894

Family: Dr. John Chester Gallup M.D.

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
NotableY
BirthMay 7, 1825Sutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, age 25, MA, in 1850 census; age 54 in 1880 census4,5,6
ResidenceSutton, Caledonia Co., VT, USA, VT Gazetteer Index: v. pt. 3, 517
Graduation1846Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA8
1850 Census1850Lockport, Niagara Co., NY, USA, age 25, with Emiline Wilson9
Occupation1854Willoughby Female Seminary/Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH, USA, A memorial window dedicated to her is in the Chapel at Lake Erie College10
Residencebetween 1855 and 1860LeRoy, NY, USA, Abbie and Stella lived with her from 1855 to 1860.11
Marriage1858MLM: 1861; VT Gazetteer Index: v. pt. 3, 5212,7,6,13
Notable1861Clinton, Oneida Co., NY, USA, founded Houghton Seminary, a girl's school.14,6,13
1880 Census1880Kirkland, Oneida Co., NY, USA, age 68, principal of ladie's seminary15
Willcirca 1884Love: "After the death of her husband, in compliance with his wishes, Mrs. Gallup had her Will drawn, leaving her estate to Houghton Seminary, provided that within one year after her death, an endowment fund of $200,000 was raised. Failing this, the estate was to go to Mount Holyoke College and Seminary (the seminary having been charted as a college in 1888) to establish what was to be known as "The Gallup Perpetual Scholarship". Houghton Seminary was unable to raise the required endowment and so in 1896, the Mrilla Houghton Gallup estate was turned over to the Trustees of Mount Holyoke College with certain restrictions as outlined in her Will and which are set forth in the sketch on Mount Holyoke College and the Gallup Perpetual Scholarship."; p. 64, "The Will of Marilla Houghton Gallup provided that failure of Houghton Seminary to raise a $200,000 Endowment Fund by one year after her death, automatically transferred her residuary estate to Mount Holyoke College. So in 1896, $8,961.74 came to the College..."16
DeathNov 1, 1894Clinton, Oneida Co., NY, USA, of apoplexy17,6,18
ObituaryNov 2, 1894NY Times: Mrs. Marilla Houghton Gallup died of apoplexy in Clinton, N. Y., yesterday. She was recently elected for her eighth time President of the Syndical Committee of the Women's Board of Home Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church. She was the Principal of the Houghton Seminary for 19 years. She was the sister of O. H. Houghton of Boston, who was born in 1825.18
BurialSunset Hills Cemetery, Clinton, NY, USA
BiographyJWH: "We have not been successful in obtaining the record of the last four members of this family but think we have heard that one of the brothers was engaged in the book trade in New York." [Written note identifies latter as Albert Gallatin Houghton].

MLM: She assisted her husband to manage the school until retirement as principal in 1880. Rose Cleveland, wife of the President Grover Cleveland, was educated there.

Love: "She was one of the first students at Mount Holyoke Seminary when it was started by Mary Lyon. While there, she became very much interested in education for women. After graduation in 1846, she taught at Seward Female Seminary in Rochester, N.Y. until 1849. She then went to Lockport, N.Y., and taught at the Lockport Female Seminary, eithe becoming principal of the school at once, or soon after joining the staff there. In the Spring of 1852 there was a reorganization of the Lockport Union School. It is not clear whether it absorbed the Lockport Female Seminary, but at any rate Marilla Houghton became assistant to Mrs. E. C. Wilson, Principal of the Female Department. The catalogue of 1852 shows her in charge of te senior class of young ladies, and teacher of mathematics, geography history and French. Shortly after coming to the Lockport Union Scool, Marilla became Principal of the Female Department. Early in 1853 she "retired from the school" and joined the faculty of Willoughby Female Seminary (Later Lake Erie College) at Willoughby, Ohio. She became Principal of that school in 1854. The seminary building burned in 1856, but we find that Marilla Houghton had moved to LeRoy, N.Y. to become Principal of LeRoy Female Seminary in the Fall of 1855, teaching "Mental and Moral Philosophy". In 1857 she added "Criticism" and in the 1859 catalogue she is listed as "Mrs. Marilla Houghton Gallup, A.E. Principal-Criticism, Philosophy, Mental and Moral, Latin language."
LeRoy Fremale Seminary was established in 1835, though not incorporated by the Regents of the State of New York until 1841. It is said to have been the first shcool for higher education for women in the United States. The year 1835 would put it slightly earlier than Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. An act of the State Legislature changed LeRoy to Ingham Collegiate Institute on April 6, 1852, and another act April 3, 1857 made it Ingham University. It closed its doors in June 1892.
An interesting side light on educational practices may be noted here. Graduates of young ladies seminaries in the 1840's did not receive a diploma, but a "Testimonial" instead. The following is on exhibit at the Houghton Room in the Kirkland Town Library at Clinton, N.Y.
"Marilla Houghton has completed the prescribed course of study at the MOUNT HOLYOKE FEMALE SEMINARY, and by her attinments, and correct deportment, is entitled to this TESTIMONIAL, given at South Hadley, this sixty day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty six. Mary Lyon, Principal."
In 1858 Marilla Houghton married John Chester Gallup, M.D., who for several years had been connected with Ingham University and they immediately started to look for a likely place to start a young ladies seminary of their own. They left the faculty of Ingham University in the fall of 1860 and taught that school year at Ontario Seminary in Canandaigua, N.Y. This institution was incorporated by the State Legislature in 825 and it closed in 1876 when the property was sold for debt. Early in 1861, they purchased the institution, "heretofore favorably known as the Home Cottge Seminary under the management of Misses Louisa M. Barker and Anne Chipman," and on July 9, 1861, issued the announcement that Houghton Seminary, Clinton, N.Y. would commence its first school year on September 18, 1861.
From that date until 1880, when Dr. Gallup's health began to fail, they conducted Houghton Seminary Seminary as one of the outstanding educational institutions for women in the entire country. Selling the school in tht year to the A.G. Benedicts, they still retained their home on the school campus, and both continued to teach for the next few years. Dr. gallup died in 1884, but Marilla Houghton Gallup's outstanding influence on the girls attending the seminary, and particularly on the fifteen girls related to her, who attended it, did not cease until her death in 1894 - and indeed the memory of her great and loving personality carried on throughout the lives of all who had known her and come in contact with her. Though she had no children of her own, she had made her personality felt among the children of five of her brothers and sisters at the seminary...
From 1881 until her death, Mrs. Gallup was a Trustee of Houghton Seminary. The regard in which she was held by her fellow Trustees is indicated in their resolution of Dec. 18, 1894. "Resolved" Theat the absence of Mrs. Marilla Houghton Gallup from her place in this Board of Trustees, reminds us today of the severe loss which her death has brought to the interests of higher Christian education and renews our trust that the good influences which she inspired and directed in behalf of the Houghton Seminary and in the promotion of Christian missions, will continue to bring forth valuable fruit in the future as they have done in the past. Signed - James H. Taylor, A Gardiner Benedict, Edward North, Executive Committee.
Soon after her death the "Houghton Record", the quarterly publication of the Seminary, brought out a special edition (Jan. 1895) dedicated to Marilla Houghton Gallup. This includes articles on the main phases of her life by prominent men and women who had had close knowledge of her through the years. Althogether it gives a very complete picture of this remarkable woman. A copy of this publication may be found in the Hougton Room of the Kirkland Town Library in Clinton, N.Y.
At the funeral the bearers were President stryker, Professors North and Hopkins of Hamilton College, Professor Benedict of Houghton Seminary and Dr. F.M Barrows of Clinton. For the services came her brother Henry Oscar Houghton and her nephew Henry Jr. and niece Elizabeth Houghton from Boston, her nephews James Clay Houghton, Jr. from Montpelier, Vt., Oscar Ready Houghton and his step-daughter Eleanor Blair of New York, her sister-in-law Mrs. Albert G. Houghton from Brooklyn and her niece Mrs. Rosa Houghton Goss from Avendale, Ohio."; p. 60, "A Memorial Window in the Chapel of Lake Erie College, pays tribute to Marilla Houghton as Principal of Willoughby Female Seminary in 1854. She moved on to LeRoy Female Seminary, LeRoy, N.Y. before the fire of 1856, for she appears in the LeRoy catalogue of 1855-1856 as Principal. She stayed at LeRoy - Ingham till June 1860 - then she and Dr. Gallup put in the year 1860 to 1861 at Ontario Female Seminary and from 1861 to her death in 1894 she was at Houghton Seminary in Clinton, N.Y."; p. 62, "Houghton Seminary, 1861-1904
The institution known as the "Home Cottage Seminary under the management of Louisa M. Barker and Anne Chipman was purchased in 1861 by Jon C. Gallup, M.D. and Mrs. Marilla Houghton Gallup. They listed their first announcement in a circular, dated July 9, 1861...Dr. and Mrs. Gallup conducted Houghton Seminary until 1880, when they sold it to Professor and Mrs. A. G. Benedict, who carried on until 1904 when the school was closed...The Catalogues issued by Houghton Seminary always brought in the fact that Hamilton College was close by..."

Love, p. 63: Houghton Seminary Association: "Since the closing of the Seminary in 1904, an organization known as the Houghton Association, has carried on in the interests of the Seminary, and its graduates. They meet once a year for luncheon at Commencement time, and they maintain a Houghton Room at the Kirkland Town Library in Clinton, N.Y. which contains, among other treasures, all of the Class pictures of Houghton graduates from the Class of 1862 to the Class of 1903. Mrs. Grace Hayes Watrous of Clinton is the permanent secretary of the Association."; last meeting in June, 1953

Marilla founded Houghten Seminary in Clinton, New York in 1861. She w as an abolitionist and temperance reformer.

2. From Obituary Notes, The Obituary Record, The New York Times, 2 Nov 18 94, page 5:

Mrs. Marilla Houghton Gallup died of apoplexy in Clinton, N. Y., yest erday. She was recently elected for the eighth time President of The Syno dical Committee of the Women's Board of Home Missionaries of the Presbyter ian Church. She was Principal of the Houghton Seminary for nineteen year s. She was a sister of O. H. Houghton of Boston, who was born in 1825.4,19,6
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #767.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 54a picture-59.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2710.
  4. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363.
  5. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 55, 59.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  7. [S579] Abbie M. Hemenway, VT Historical Gazetter Index, p. 467.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 55.
  9. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Lockport, Niagara, New York; Roll: M432_560; Page: 20; line 3, dwl 286-296.
  10. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 59a.
  11. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 57.
  12. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 47.
  13. [S1158] The Gallup Family Association, Gallup Genealogy, p. 43.
  14. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 55, 62.
  15. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Kirkland, Oneida, New York; Roll: 902; Family History Film: 1254902; Page: 249A; Enumeration District: 95; line 30, dwl 216-231.
  16. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 57, 64.
  17. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 54a, 59.
  18. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: Nov 2, 1894.
  19. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 55-60.

Amarilla Martin1,2

F, #8411, b. 9 August 1810, d. 12 September 1870

Family: William Houghton Jr

Biography

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BirthAug 9, 1810VT, USA, age "45", VT, in 1850 census; age 50 in 1855 census; age 55, VT, in 1860 census; age 64, VT, in 1870 census; 1930 census gives VT; MLM: Stanstead, Canada3,4,2
MarriageJan 28, 1833JWH: Julia Morton (error)4,5,6
1850 Census1850Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 41, merchant, property $3407
1855 Census1855Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 47, clothier8
1860 Census1860Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 51, merchant; property $1000-12009
1870 Census1870Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA, age 60, a shoe merchant, property $6000-440010
DeathSep 12, 1870Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA3
BiographyHandwritten note in 1912 Houghton Genealogy identifies Amarilla Martin, not Julia Morton, as wife of William Houghton. Julia Morton was wife of brother, James Clay Houghton. Amarilla is given in the US censuses.3,1
BurialOakwood Cemetery, Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 27a picture.
  2. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston, New York; Roll: M432_524; Page: 57;
    line 24, dwl 480-488.
  3. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 28.
  5. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, Box 524, p. 57, line 24, dwl 480.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 127.
  7. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston, New York; Roll: M432_524; Page: 57;
    line 24, dwl 480-488.
  8. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , New York Ward 12 District 1, New York, New York; Roll: M653_802; Page: 609; Image: 198; Family History Library Film: 803802.
  9. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston, New York; Roll: M653_779; Page: 936; sheet 21, line 22, dwl 5-5.
  10. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Nunda, Livingston Co., NY, Box 966, p. 337, line 14, dwl 30-30.

Julia Norton1

F, #8412, b. 12 December 1809, d. 16 October 1886

Family: Rev. James Clay Houghton

Biography

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BirthDec 12, 1809East Windsor, VT, USA, age 35, CT, in 1850 census; age 49 in 1860 census; age 60 in 1870 census; age 70, CT, in 1880 census;1900 and 1910 census of son Joseph gives CT; 1910 census of daughter Julia gives CT; MLM: Petersham, MA2,3,4,1
MarriageNov 4, 1840East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, USA, MLM: Wilbraham, MA2,5,6,4,7,8
1860 Census1860Chelsea, Orange Co., VT, USA, age 50, a Congregational Clergyman, personal property $50009
1870 Census1870Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, USA, age 60, a clergyman, property $200010
DeathOct 16, 1886Montpelier, VT, USA, age 76-10-4, of heart disease1
BurialBurial Green Mount Cemetery Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont, USA
ParentsDElisha Norton and Sarah Gillette, born in CT1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1074] Town Records: Montpelier, VT, p. 1134: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  2. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  4. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Chatham, CT, p. 326.
  5. [S46] Boston Transcript, Mar. 12, 1937 - 3717.
  6. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 31-32.
  7. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 127.
  8. [S971] East Windsor CT VRs, p. 55.
  9. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Bradford, Orange Co., VT, Roll 1323, p. 118, line 8, dwl 624-661.
  10. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT, Reel 1617, p. 346b, Ln 16, dwl 865-1055.

Maria P. Otis1,2

F, #8413, b. 5 May 1816, d. 3 November 1844

Family: Albert Gallatin Houghton

Biography

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BirthMay 5, 1816Windsor, Windsor Co., VT, USA3,4
MarriageApr 8, 1838Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, p. 36: 18393,2,5
DeathNov 3, 1844Wilbraham, Hampden Co., MA, USA3,4
BiographyShe went to Wesleyan Seminary at Wilbraham, MA; friend of his sister, Stella.6
BurialAdams Cemetery, Wilbraham, MA, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #762s.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34, 36.
  3. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  4. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  5. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 127.
  6. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 12.

Harriet Cooper Otis1,2,3

F, #8414, b. 17 September 1825, d. 13 July 1903

Family: Albert Gallatin Houghton

Biography

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BirthSep 17, 1825Falmouth, Barnstable Co., MA, USA, age 24 in 1850 census; age 35 in 1860 census; age 54 in 1880 census; Sep 1825, age 74 in 1900 census; also Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts.4,5,6
Educationwent to Wesleyan Seminary at Wilbrahm, MA; friend of his sister, Stella7
MarriageSep 30, 1845Love: 1844 [ but first wife died in Nov. 1844]; first wife's sister4,8,6
1850 CensusSep, 1850Wetumpka, Coosa Co., AL, USA, Harriet, 42, Vt; Albert G, 38, VT, merchant; William, 10, AL; Harriett, 24, MA; Oscar, 4, AL; and Harriet Flyer, 429,10
1860 Census1860Wetumpka PO, Southern Division, Coosa Co., AL, USA, age 48, a merchant, property $6000-85,00011,12
1870 Census1870Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 58, publisher, personal property $20,000-2000; and Elizabeth Otis, 7813
1880 Census1880Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 68, retired; and nephew Roswell Stebbins, 25, a dentist14
Residencebetween 1888 and 1890Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, he, a dentist; living with mother at 179 Park Place15
Residence1894Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA16
Note1894Wetumpka, Autauga Co., AL, USA, Visited Wetumpka and took photographs of old home. Population at end of Civil War was circa 100.17
1900 Census1900Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 73, a dentist?; 7 children born, 5 living for Harriet; and niece Grace Houghton, Sep 1875, age 24, NY18
DeathJul 13, 1903Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA4,6
BurialGreen-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
ParentsDfather born in NH, mother born in VT
ResearchAn older brother, Dr. William K. Otis was born in Wilbraham in 1819 and their father, Erastus, and familyare located in Wilbraham on the 1830 census.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #762s.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 11, 33a picture, 34, 36.
  3. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, http://search.ancestry.com/iexec
  4. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  5. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 36.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  7. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 124.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34, 36.
  9. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Federal Census, Wetumpka, Coosa Co., AL, p. 3, line 16, dwl 40-40.
  10. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Corinth, Saratoga, New York; Roll: M432_593; Page: 290B; line 16, dwl 40-40.
  11. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Southern Division, Coosa Co., AL, Reel 7, p. 54, line 3, dwl 388-390.
  12. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, AL 1860 Federal Census Index, p. 54.
  13. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Brooklyn Ward 9, Kings, New York; Roll: M593_950; Page: 191; line 1, dwl 172- 231.
  14. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Kings (Brooklyn), New York City-Greater, New York; Roll: T9_844; Family History Film: 1254844; Page: 577B; Enumeration District: 71; sheet 50, line 10, dwl 143-288-478.
  15. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Brooklyn, New York Directories, 1888-1890, Sep. 26, 2001.
  16. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 57.
  17. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 34.
  18. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Brooklyn, Ward 9, Kings Co., New York; Roll: T623; Enumeration District: 123; Sheet: 9A, line 39, dwl 179-103.

Nanna Wier Manning1,2,3

F, #8415, b. 25 August 1820, d. 13 April 1891

Family: Henry Oscar Houghton

Biography

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BirthAug 25, 1820Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 39 in 1860 census; age 50 in 1870 census; age 59 in 1860 census4,5,6
Occupationa teacher at Cambridge High School.6
MarriageSep 12, 1854Sutton, VT, USA, Find a grave: Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915
Henry O. Houghton married Nancy W. Manning - 14 September 1854.7,8,9,10,11,12,6,13,14
1860 Census1860Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 37, printer, personal property $15000-$2000015
1870 Census1870Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 47, a publisher, property $50,000, 5 servants16
1880 Census1880Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 57, book publisher; and 3 servants17
DeathApr 13, 1891Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA18,9
BurialCambridge Municipal Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA4
ParentsDWilliam Manning7, Joseph6, William5, John 4, Samuel3, William2, William16,14
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362 #763s.
  2. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 49a picture.
  3. [S96] NEHGR, Vol. 90, 1936, p. 360.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 8a.
  5. [S289] Cambridge MA VRs I, p. 373.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 127.
  7. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 362.
  8. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 51, 52.
  9. [S96] NEHGR, 50 [1896]: 77.
  10. [S111] Who Was Who, p. 261.
  11. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84.
  12. [S827] Unknown author, Men of Vermont, p. 88.
  13. [S1157] Dumas Malone, American Biography Dict. Vol. 5, p. 256.
  14. [S1363] Unknown author, Manning Genealogy of William & Thomas.
  15. [S1227] 1860 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Ward 4, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; Microfilm: M653; Page: 476, line 4, dwl 2949-3695.
  16. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, Reel 624, p. 694b, line 20, dwl 1502-1847.
  17. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 544; Family History Film: 1254544; Page: 280D; Enumeration District: 444; Image: 0170; line 34, dwl 800-346-502.
  18. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 8a, 49a.

Rachel Houghton1

F, #8416

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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #768.

Judah Houghton1

M, #8417

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ProblemOnly in JWH, not VRs
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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #769.

Caroline Houghton1

F, #8418

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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #770.

Sarah Adeline Houghton1,2

F, #8419, b. 20 June 1819, d. 8 April 1854

Family: Sewall Morse

Biography

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BirthJun 20, 1819Putney, Windham Co., VT, USA, Putney VR: Sally A. 20 Jun 1819; GS, MLM, Love & DAR: 24 Feb 1811; MLM: Dummerston, VT3,4,5,6,7,8
ResidenceEast Dumerston, Windham Co., VT, USA9
DeathApr 8, 1854Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT, USA9,4,6,10
BurialProspect Hill Cemetery, Brattleboro, Windham Co., VT, USA, 25 Feb 1811-8 Apr 185410
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 521 #3094.
  2. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84 #2721, 128.
  3. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, 42: 138.
  4. [S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 8.
  5. [S71] Putney VT VRs, p. 53.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 84, 128.
  7. [S1074] Town Records: Dummerston, VT: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT, , F-30270.
  8. [S1074] Town Records: Putney, VT, Vol. 2, p. 385; VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30270, VT VRs 1770-1870.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 521.
  10. [S1269] Marjorie Valliere Howe, GS Listings of Prospect Hill Cem., Brattleboro VT, p. 45.
  11. [S71] Putney VT VRs, p. 182.
  12. [S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 42, p. 138.

Polly Houghton1

F, #8420

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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #772.

Eunice Houghton1

F, #8421

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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #773.

Betsey Houghton1

F, #8422

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Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #774.

Abigail Houghton1

F, #8423

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  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #775.

Mary Millett1,2,3

F, #8424, b. 27 December 1775, d. 1844

Family 1: James Vaughan

  • Marriage*: Mary Millett married James Vaughan Keizer, JWH: 20 Jun 1804 (error; his dd.)4,6,9

Family 2: George Bezanson

  • Marriage: Mary Millett married George Bezanson on Jun 10, 1805 h/2; JWH: 4 Apr 1805; MLM: June 20, 1804; MLM: md for 1st mar.11,12,13,10,14

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BirthDec 27, 1775Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, JWH: 12,29, 1776; Keizer, MLM: Dec. 20, 1776; MLM: also Dec. 294,5,6,7,8
MarriageKeizer, JWH: 20 Jun 1804 (error; his dd)4,6,9
Death184410
ResidenceChester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #776.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17120.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85 #2800, 129.
  4. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363.
  5. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 647.
  6. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  7. [S415] E-mail from John Cardinal, 2/1999 from Chester Township Book - Births.
  8. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85, 129.
  9. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85.
  10. [S415] E-mail from John Cardinal, 2/1999 from Dorothy Evans, Bezansons from Nova Scotia, Priv. Publ., p. 2, 5.
  11. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364.
  12. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646.
  13. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 9.
  14. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 129.

Capt. Jacob Millett1,2,3

M, #8425, b. 6 April 1779

Family: Sarah Magdelene Keizer

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthApr 6, 1779Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada4,5,6
Marriagecirca 18047,8,4,9,6
ResidenceChester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364 #777.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17121, 648.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85 #2801, 129.
  4. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  5. [S415] E-mail from John Cardinal, 2/1999 from Chester Township Book - Births.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 129.
  7. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364.
  8. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646.
  9. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85.

Francis Millett1,2,3,4

M, #8426, b. 3 July 1777

Family: Elizabeth Ulchy

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJul 3, 1777Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada5,6,7
Marriage8,5,6,9,10
Children+13 children11
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364 #778.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17122, 648.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85 #2802, 129.
  4. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 35.
  5. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646.
  6. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  7. [S415] E-mail from John Cardinal, 2/1999 from Chester Township Book - Births.
  8. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364.
  9. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85.
  10. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 129.
  11. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 49.

Hannah Millett1,2,3

F, #8427, b. 16 April 1783, d. 22 January 1865

Family: Charles Lot Church

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthApr 16, 1783Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada4,5
MarriageDec 31, 18016,7,8
DeathJan 22, 18656,7,8
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364 #779.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17123, 648.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85 #2803, 129.
  4. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  5. [S415] E-mail from John Cardinal, 2/1999 from Chester Township Book - Births.
  6. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364.
  7. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8, 50.
  8. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85, 129.

Eunice Millett1,2,3

F, #8428, b. 29 September 1788, d. 21 January 1863

Family: John Verge

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthSep 29, 1788Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada, JWH, Keizer: 20 Sep. 1787; MLM: Sept. 29, 17874,5,6
MarriageNov 27, 1806Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, MLM: Nov. 29, 18064,7,5,6
DeathJan 21, 1863Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada4,5,6
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364 #780.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17124, 649.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85 #2804, 130.
  4. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364.
  5. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  6. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85, 130.
  7. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646.

George Millett Jr.1,2,3,4

M, #8429, b. 14 April 1781

Family: Annabella Etter

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthApr 14, 1781Chester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada5,6,7,8
MarriageJun 10, 18039,5,6,10
ResidenceChester, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, Canada5
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364 #781.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17125, 649.
  3. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85 #2805, 130.
  4. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 22.
  5. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646.
  6. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  7. [S415] E-mail from John Cardinal, 2/1999 from Chester Township Book - Births.
  8. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 130.
  9. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 364.
  10. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85, 130.

James Vaughan1,2

M, #8430, d. 20 June 1804

Family: Mary Millett

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
MarriageKeizer, JWH: 20 Jun 1804 (error; his dd)3,4,5
DeathJun 20, 18046,4,5
ParentsSKeizer: Anthony Vaughan; MLM: Anthony Vaughn7,4
ErrorMLM gives name as Jacob5
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363 #776s.
  2. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 646 #17120s.
  3. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 363.
  4. [S199] D. A. Keizer, Houghton Hx & Gen - Keizer, p. 8.
  5. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 85.
  6. [S78] White, Genealogy of John White, II, p. 648.
  7. [S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 129.