William J. Curtis1

M, #95761, b. 24 February 1869, d. 21 April 1943

Family: Mary Lucie Haven b. 19 Oct 1876, d. 10 Mar 1950

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BirthFeb 24, 1869CA, USA
Marriagecirca 1898Nevada Co., CA, USA1
DeathApr 21, 1943Nevada City, Nevada Co., CA, USA
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Barbara Hays Cook, Nov. 28, 2009.

Clemente Muscardini1

M, #95762, d. 27 December 1884

Family: Mary Lucie Haven b. 19 Oct 1876, d. 10 Mar 1950

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DeathDec 27, 1884Italy
Marriagecirca 1915Nevada Co., CA, USA1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Barbara Hays Cook, Nov. 28, 2009.

Cecil Haven Curtis1

M, #95771, b. 17 October 1898, d. 21 September 1974

Family: Grace G. Casmore b. 2 Jul 1898, d. 6 Aug 1978

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BirthOct 17, 1898Nevada City, Nevada Co., CA, USA1
Marriage
DeathSep 21, 1974Auburn, Placer Co., CA, USA1
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  1. [S415] E-mail from Barbara Hays Cook, Nov. 28, 2009.

Felix Lee Houghton1

M, #95777

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NoteOct 26, 1949Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL, USA, In the trial of Klansman, accused of a mob flogging of a grandmother, Felix Lee (Pete) Houghton testified that he was a Klansman and had been at the raid.
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

Virginia Marie Mitchell

F, #95778, b. circa 1914

Family: Russell Marsh Houghton b. 14 Jul 1912, d. 29 Dec 1986

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Birthcirca 1914PA, USA, age 26 in 1940 census1
Residence1935PA, USA
MarriageAug 7, 1937Gettsburg, PA, USA
1940 Census1940Olean, Cattaraugus Co., NY, USA, age 27, metal co. chemist1
1950 US Census1950Olean, NY, USA, age 37, president of Houghton Plastic lab
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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Olean, Cattaraugus, New York; Roll: T627_2506; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 5-61; line 4, dwl 611.

Virginia Trott

F, #95779

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NoteJun 24, 1951Small Point, ME, USA,
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

June 24, 1951, Sunday

SMALL POINT, Me., June 23-- The marriage of Miss Virginia Trott, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. Raymond H. Trott of Small Point and of Providence, R.I., to Walter N. Rothschild Jr., son of Mr. and ..
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Elizabeth Anne Doele1

F, #95780

Family: Olin Barker Houghton b. 4 Jan 1925, d. 25 Oct 2005

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EngagementAug 5, 19511
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

Joseph H. Plumb

M, #95781, d. 5 September 1951

Family: Mabelle Houghton b. 22 Nov 1882, d. 1953

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DeathSep 5, 1951Philadelphia, PA, USA1
ObituarySep 7, 1951New York, New York Co., NY, USA, Joseph H. Plumb
Philadelphia, Sept. 6 --Joseph H. Plumb Sr., sportsman, clubman and retired official of Fayette R. Plumb, Inc., manufacturers of hand tools, died yesterday at his home in near-by St. Davids. He was 69 years old.
Mr. Plumb's hobby was yachting, and he did extensive cruising under sail between Florida and the Bay of Fundy aboard his ketch, Nam Sang. He took part in the Bermuda and other ocean races.
A former trustee of the Brooks School, North Andover, Mass., he had attended the Delancey School here, the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Conn., and Harvard College. During the first World War he served as a first lieutenant in the Army. He was a member of the Harvard Clubs of New York, Boston and Philadelphia; the Beverly Yacht Club of Marion, Mass; the Merion Cricket Club and the Cruising Club of America.
Surviving are his widow the former Mabelle Houghton of Genevea, N.Y; a son, Joseph H., Jr; a grandson, Joseph H., 3d, and a brother, Fayette R. Plub of Haverford.

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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

Joseph H. Plumb Jr

M, #95782

Family: Dorothy B Gibbs

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Joseph H. Plumb III

M, #95783

Family: Celia (?)

  • Marriage*: Joseph H. Plumb III married Celia (?)

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Children+Heather Plumb
Hud Plumb
Jody Plumb m. Mimi Reese
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Dr. Douglas Houghton Campbell PhD1

M, #95784, b. 16 December 1859, d. 24 February 1952

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BirthDec 16, 1859Detroit, MI, USA1
Graduation1882University of Michigan, MI, USA
Occupationbetween Oct, 1891 and 1925Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Professor of Botany; was at Univ. of Indiana prior; a specialist in mosses and ferns
AuthorA university text-book of botany

Elements of structural and systematic botany, for high schools and elementary college courses

Lectures on the evolution of plants

Plant life and evolution

The Eusporangiatae; the comparative morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and Marattiaceae

The structure and development of mosses and ferns (Archegoniatae)
NoteJan, 1952Memorial Resolution Douglas H. Campbell (1859 - 1952)
On January 23rd of this year died Dr. Douglas Houghton Campbell, the last surviving link between the present and the founding days of the University, and a member of the "Old Guard," the first faculty of Stanford. Dr. Campbell was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 16, 1859, thus being at the time of his death slightly more than 93 years old. He had been retired from the service of the University for more than 28 years, during which time he maintained his residence on the campus. He came to Stanford for the opening of the University in 1891, so that his connection with this institution spanned more than 62 years. He graduated from the University of Michigan with the degree of Ph.M. in 1882. He received the degree of Ph.D. from the same university in 1886. In 1932 his achievements in his chosen field of Botany were recognized by the same university with the award of the honorary degree of LL.D. He taught Biology in the Detroit High School during the period from 1882 to 1886. From 1886 to 1888 he spent two years at the Universities of Bonn, Tübingen and Berlin. From 1888 until 1891 he was Professor of Botany at the University of Indiana from whence Dr. Jordan came to the presidency of Stanford University, bringing with him Dr. Campbell as one of the group of men composing the first faculty, every one of whom achieved distinction in his
chosen field. He was head of the Department of Botany here until his retirement in 1925. He never married. Dr. Campbell was a botanist whose interests were directed especially to the study of mosses and ferns and their relatives. An estimate of his work, prepared by Dr. William C. Steere of Stanford, is as follows: "Douglas Houghton Campbell, inspired by Hofmeister’s great studies on the higher cryptograms, and himself gifted with an inexhaustible research drive, became the leading American plant morphologist while still very young and maintained this position for a half century. His pioneer work, Mosses and Ferns, published in 1895, was based primarily on the
material he found in the Stanford University region when he assumed the chair of Botany here. This book, still used as a text, although it was really a report upon his original research, established his lasting reputation as a plant morphologist, a reputation that was enhanced by his later work. In his application of modern methods to the investigation of problems involving the structure, development, reproduction, and evolution of mosses and ferns, Campbell showed great imagination and was widely followed both in this country and abroad. His researches on the broader aspects of morphology, including plant distribution and evolution, are still of importance in their influence upon current botanical thought. Inspection of any modern textbook of botany will reveal a very considerable dependence on and reference to the investigations of the greatest
of American plant morphologists, D. H. Campbell." In addition to the book just mentioned he was the author of other texts, including Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany, published in 1890, and A University Textbook of Botany in 1902, and of many technical papers. His last book, Evolution in the Land Plants, was published in 1940.
Dr. Campbell was elected to the National Academy of Science and the American Philosophical Society, honors which are very sparingly distributed. He was a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was a member of various other scientific societies in this country and abroad.
One who knew him personally cannot forbear to mention his abilities as a watercolorist. In his various travels about the world he kept a record composed of quick, but charming, watercolor sketches of objects and places that especially interested him, although he seems never especially to have cultivated the abilities displayed by these sketches. Douglas Campbell has been a familiar and beloved figure on the Stanford campus for many years. He will be remembered for his thoughtfulness and sympathetic understanding, for his Old World courtliness, for his charming stories of his many travels, his good humor and sense of proportion, and above all for his great dignity of person coupled with a sincerity that won respect from students and colleagues alike. With his passing we say our last goodbyes to the pioneer faculty of Stanford University, the Old Guard.
G. F. Ferris
J. G. Emerson
Richard W. Holm1
DeathFeb 24, 1952Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA1
ObituaryFeb 25, 1952NY Times1
ParentsSthe youngest of the six children of James Valentine Campbell and Cornelia Hotchkiss.
His father, a judge of the Supreme Court of Michigan, named the son after his long-time friend, the eminent geologist Douglas Houghton.
BiographyA noted botany professor and one of the original 15 professors at Stanford University

Campbell's nearly two hundred publications derive ultimately from his consuming interest in the manner of evolution of the lower plants. Inspired as a youth by Wallace's The Malay Archipelago, Campbell set a course through the University of Michigan that eventually landed him a teaching position at Indiana University, where he came to the notice of David Starr Jordan. When Jordan left to take the first presidency at Stanford University Campbell followed and quickly established himself there, pursuing laboratory and field researches (especially in Indonesia) designed to investigate the phyletic origins of the land flora. He was aided in such investigations by his superior microscopal technique, gained partly through special studies in Germany in the late 1880s. Campbell's morphological analyses resulted in some lasting conclusions (for example, his linking of the ferns and liverworts through the genus Anthoceros); he became most widely known, however, through writing several successful textbooks that admirably related his more special interests to ecological and phytogeographical contexts.

Life Chronology
--born in Detroit, Michigan, on 16 December 1859.
--1882: M.A., University of Michigan
--1882-1886: botany teacher, Detroit High School
--1886: Ph.D. in botany, University of Michigan
--1886-1888: studies microscopic techniques in Germany
--1891: professor of botany, Indiana University
--1891-1925: head of the botany department, Stanford University
--1895: publishes his The Structure & Development of Mosses & Ferns (Archegoniatae)
--1899: publishes his Lectures on the Evolution of Plants
--1902: publishes his A University Text-book of Botany
--1906, 1912-1913, 1914: botanical collecting in the Dutch East Indies
--1910: made a member of the American Academy of Sciences
--1911: publishes his Plant Life and Evolution
--1913: president, Botanical Society of America
--1925: retires, but continues at Stanford as emeritus professor
--1926: publishes his An Outline of Plant Geography
--1930: president, Pacific section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
--1932: LL.D., University of Michigan
--1940: publishes his The Evolution of Land Plants (Embryophyta)
--dies at Palo Alto, California, on 24 February 1953.
For Additional Information, See:
--Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 3 (1973).
--Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Five 1951-1955 (1977).
--American National Biography, Vol. 4 (1999).
--Taxonomic Literature Suppl. III (1995).
--Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 29 (1956): 45-63.
--Asa Gray Bulletin 2 (1953): 121-128.

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Copyright 2007 by Charles H. Smith. All rights reserved.
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/CAMP1859.htm
NotableRenowned botany professor of Stanford University. Middle name because Michigan state geologist Douglass Houghton was a friend of the family.
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

Elizabeth L. Albert

F, #95785

Family: William Henry Houghton

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Marriage1948PA, USA
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Polly Miner1

F, #95786, b. circa 1893, d. 5 August 1955

Family: William Morris Houghton b. 4 Oct 1882, d. 1960

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Birthcirca 18931
MarriageCharles M. Steele
Marriage19471
DeathAug 5, 1955Plainfield, NJ, USA, age 621
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

Louise Matlock1

F, #95787

Family: William Morris Houghton b. 4 Oct 1882, d. 1960

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Marriagewidow of Joshua Lewis Miner
MarriageMay 6, 1958Pennington, NJ, USA1
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

(?) Wallace1

M, #95788

Family: Delphine Mabel Houghton b. 14 Mar 1928, d. 19 Oct 2009

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Marriage1
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

(?) Jones1

M, #95789

Family: Sharon Houghton

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  1. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries; Houghton Surname.

Gail Houghton1

F, #95790

Family 1: Charlie Sepulveda

Family 2: (?) Sepulveda

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BirthCA, USA1
Marriage1
Marriage1
Living1994San Jacinto, CA, USA1
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  1. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries; Houghton Surname.