Peter Haughton

M, #97741, b. circa 1955, d. January 1980

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1955
DeathJan, 1980NJ, USA, killed at age of 25 near Meadowlands track in NJ when his car went out of control

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Citations

  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1980.

Dorothy (?)1

F, #97742

Family: William R. Haughton

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1980.

Eleanor Hindman1

F, #97743, d. 1929

Family: Lessing Lanham Engelking

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
Death19291
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Citations

  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1980.

(?) Teitler1

M, #97744

Family: Elizabeth Engelking

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
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Citations

  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1980.

Nan Robertson1

F, #97745, b. 11 July 1926, d. 13 October 2009

Biography

NotableY
Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthJul 11, 1926Chicago, Cook Co., IL, USA1
DeathOct 13, 2009Rockville, MD, USA, age 83
ObituaryOct 14, 2009New York, New York Co., NY, USA, Nan Robertson, Pulitzer-Winning Times Reporter, Dies at 83
By MARGALIT FOX
Published: October 14, 2009

Nan Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times who was widely known for her book “The Girls in the Balcony,” which chronicled the fight for workplace parity by female employees of The Times, and for writing candidly about her alcoholism and battle with toxic shock syndrome, died on Tuesday in Rockville, Md. She was 83 and lived in Bethesda, Md.

The apparent cause was heart disease, said Jane Freundel Levey, Ms. Robertson’s stepdaughter-in-law. After retiring from The Times in 1988, Ms. Robertson taught journalism at the University of Maryland and elsewhere.

A reporter at The Times for more than three decades, Ms. Robertson received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “Toxic Shock,” published in The New York Times Magazine the year before. The article unsparingly described the author’s swift, brutal encounter with the illness, which resulted in her losing the ends of eight fingers:

“I went dancing the night before in a black velvet Paris gown, on one of those evenings that was the glamour of New York epitomized. I was blissfully asleep at 3 a.m.

“Twenty-four hours later, I lay dying, my fingers and legs darkening with gangrene.”

Ms. Robertson, who after a grueling rehabilitation was able to resume her career, wrote two books. The first, “Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous” (Morrow, 1988), was both a history of the organization and a narrative of the author’s recovery from alcoholism. The second, “The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men and The New York Times” (Random House, 1992), was in part about the suit brought by female employees against the newspaper in 1974.

Reviewing “The Girls in the Balcony” in The New York Times Book Review, the sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild called it a “warm, salty, wisecracking book.”

Nancy Robertson was born in Chicago on July 11, 1926, the daughter of Frank and Eva Morrish Robertson. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1948 and afterward worked in Europe as a reporter for several newspapers, among them The Milwaukee Journal and the Paris edition of The New York Herald Tribune.

In 1955, Ms. Robertson joined The Times, where she was assigned, as women often were then, to the women’s news department. Her early articles for the paper — hundreds of them — were about fashion, shopping and interior decorating. She became a reporter on the newspaper’s metropolitan staff in 1959.

In 1963, Ms. Robertson began a decade as a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Times, where, as she said in an interview many years later, her de facto job description was to cover the “first lady, her children and their dogs.” Her years in Washington would furnish her with the title for “The Girls in the Balcony,” a reference to the cramped second-story space in the National Press Club to which female journalists were then relegated.

“The Girls in the Balcony” was an account of the events surrounding Elizabeth Boylan et al. v. The New York Times, a federal class-action suit filed on behalf of 550 women at The Times over inequities including pay, assignments and advancement. (Ms. Robertson was not among the seven named plaintiffs in the suit.) In 1978, the suit was settled out of court for $350,000, with The Times agreeing to an affirmative-action plan.

Leaving Washington in 1973, Ms. Robertson spent two and a half years as a correspondent in the Paris bureau of The Times before debilitating alcoholism forced her to return to New York for treatment. As she recounted candidly in “Getting Better”:

“I began drinking seriously when I was 22, just out of college and beginning my career as a newspaperwoman. My generation of newspaper people consisted of two-fisted drinkers. In the circles I moved in, drinking was not just socially acceptable, it was an emblem of maturity.”

As Ms. Robertson described it, her drinking worsened precipitously after the death of her second husband, Stanley Levey, in 1971. Her first marriage, to Allyn Baum, ended in divorce. Her third, to William Warfield Ross, ended with his death in 2006. Ms. Robertson is survived by a sister, Jane Robertson Paetz; five stepchildren, Bob Levey, John Frank Levey, Mary Houghton, James Houghton and William P. Ross; and nine step-grandchildren.

After undergoing residential treatment for alcoholism and severe depression, Ms. Robertson was able to stop drinking. She continued her work at The Times, first as a reporter for the Living and Style pages, writing often about the lives of women, from the primatologists Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall to students at Spelman College, a historically black college for women in Atlanta. She was later a reporter in the newspaper’s culture department, where her work included articles about the writers Mary McCarthy and Bernard Malamud, the poet Adrienne Rich and the actress Claudette Colbert.

In 1981, while visiting her family in Illinois, Ms. Robertson fell ill with toxic shock syndrome. Caused by a bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, the syndrome is most closely associated with tampon use. But Ms. Robertson, then 55, was among the small number of postmenopausal women (along with some men and children) who come down with it.

She spent two days in a coma. Most of her internal organs were severely poisoned by toxins released by the bacteria, and she suffered serious muscle damage. Gangrene set in, and as a result the end joints of all eight of her fingers — the thumbs were spared — had to be amputated.

After two months in the hospital, she returned to New York. “I could not turn a single knob on any door, or any faucet, or the stereo or the television set,” Ms. Robertson wrote. “I could not wash myself, dress or undress myself, pull a zipper, button a button, tie shoelaces.” She despaired that her career was over.

She underwent months of painful physical therapy and more operations. Little by little, she relearned to use her hands.

“My deepest fear did not materialize,” Ms. Robertson wrote in her Pulitzer Prize-winning article, published less than a year after she became ill. “I have typed the thousands of words of this article, slowly and with difficulty, once again able to practice my craft as a reporter. I have written it — at last — with my own hands.”1
NotablePulitzer-Winning Times Reporter
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Citations

  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 2009.

Mary Houghton1

F, #97746

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birth
Living2009Bethesda, Montgomery Co., MD, USA
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Citations

  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 2009.

James Houghton1

M, #97747

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birth1
Living2009Centerville, MD, USA
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  1. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 2009.

Kitty (?)

F, #97748

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Ggrandmother
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Ivan Humphrey1

M, #97749, b. circa 1913

Family: Mary Louise Houghton

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1913OH, USA, age 27 in 1940 census2
Marriage1
1940 Census1940New London, Huron Co., OH, USA, age 27, butcher shop butcher2
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.houghton/675/mb.ashx
  2. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , New London, Huron, Ohio; Roll: T627_3088; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 39-19.

Roy Franklin Johnson1

M, #97750

Family: Mary Louise Houghton

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Marriage1
1950 US Census1950New London, OH, USA, age 47, RR conductor
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.houghton/675/mb.ashx

Stanley Burton1

M, #97751

Family: Mary Louise Houghton

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
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  1. [S415] E-mail http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.houghton/675/mb.ashx

Catherine Cummings Houghton1

F, #97752, b. 27 July 1910, d. 29 September 1999

Family: Basil Leard Crowell

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthJul 27, 1910Peabody, MA, USA, age 9 in 1920 census1
Marriage
1950 US Census1950Lynn, MA, USA, age 45, retail bakery, pastery distributor
DeathSep 29, 1999Lynn, MA, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Peabody Ward 6, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll T625_696; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 249; line 52, dwl 39-39.

(?) Sullivan

M, #97753

Family: Marie Houghton

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John R. Sullivan1

M, #97754, b. circa 1918

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1918MA, USA, age 1 8/12 in 1920 census1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Peabody Ward 6, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll T625_696; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 249; line 52, dwl 39-39.

Joseph Henderson1

M, #97755, b. circa 1862

Family: Gertrude Houghton

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1862MA, USA, age 58 in 1920 census1
Marriage1
1920 Census1920Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 57, cotton merchant; Gertrude and Alison, sisters2,1
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Citations

  1. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Boston Ward 8, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll T625_742; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 238; line 93, dwl 43-78.
  2. [S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex Massachusetts, Box 129, Vol. 128, E.D. 238, Sh. 3, Ln. 95.

Marlene Sue Humphrey1

F, #97756, b. circa 1937

Family: (?) Atkinson

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1937OH, USA, age 3 in 1940 census1,2
Marriage1
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Sarah Irene Atkinson, Feb. 22, 2010.
  2. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , New London, Huron, Ohio; Roll: T627_3088; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 39-19.

(?) Atkinson1

M, #97757

Family: Marlene Sue Humphrey

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Sarah Irene Atkinson, Feb. 22, 2010.

John A. Atkinson1

M, #97758

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birth1
Pedigree

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  1. [S415] E-mail from Sarah Irene Atkinson, Feb. 22, 2010.

Sarah Irene Atkinson1

F, #97759

Biography

Corresponded with authorY
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectY
Birth
Contributn
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Citations

  1. [S415] E-mail from Sarah Irene Atkinson, Feb. 22, 2010.

All English Houghtons

?, #97760

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
ResearchR-M189
Research
Research
Research1938-2007
Research
Research
ResearchNobel Prize
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Kermit R. Houghton1

M, #97761, b. 28 January 1932, d. 9 March 2013

Family 1: Thelma Ella Luce

Family 2: Emily J Merrill

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthJan 28, 1932Carthage, ME, USA, age 8 in 1940 census1
Origin1950Carthage, ME, USA2
MarriageFeb 27, 1950Carthage, ME, USA2
1950 US Census1950Cathage, ME, USA, age 19, match factory backroom
Marriage
DeathMar 9, 2013Dixfield, ME, USA
ObituaryMar 11, 2013Kenneth R. Houghton Sr. ¡932 -2013
DIXFIELD — Kermit R. Houghton Sr., 81, of Dixfield Common Road. Dixñeld. died peacefully at his home. March 9. He was born on a farm In Carthage, Jan. 28, 1932, a son of Leo and Thelma Houghton and attended Carthage schools. Ho then entered the military and was a member of the National Guard for 12 years and served the town of Carthage as a selectman for 10 years. He was a member of the Fire Department and was instrumental in the development of the first snowmobile club in Carthage. He was employed as a welder at Oxford Paper and Bridge Construction Co. and later worked for Tom Dickson and Billy Skidgell as a truck driver and also was self-employed as a logger. He owned and operated T&ll Motor Sports, where he serviced chain saws and snowmobiles. This shop went hand in hand with some of Kermit’s favorite hobbies, which included racing stock cars at Oxford Plains Speedway, sponsoring his grandchildren. Tommy, Gunner, Tanya and Candy racing snowmobiles, and later his son and grandsons followed in his footsteps, racing at OPS in cars built and sponsored by E & K Motar Sports. Kermit enjoyed hunting and fishing, gardening, taking care of his horse 'Bucky*' and tending his chickens. He is survived by his wife. Emily Merril Houghton Of Dixfield: son. Kermit Jr. of Carthage; daughters, Rhonda Storcr and her husband. Kate. of Weld and Marlene Bradbury of Carthage: stepsons. Sonny “Kippy" Fletcher and his wife, Cathy, of Dixfield, Gilbert Fletcher end hie componion, Diane, of Rumford. and Eddie Merril and his wife, Joyce, of Dixfield: a stepdaughter, Judith Robinson and her husband. Paul, of Las Vegas. Nev; son in law, Gerald Walker of Carthage; four brothers, Emeral and his wife. Betty. Donald, Lawrence, and Charle and his wife, Frances, all of Carthage; sisters.
June Turner of Carthage and Leola Poirier and her husband, Bob. of Norwich, Conn; 14 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his first wife. Thelma Luce Houghton; a daughter, JoAnn Walker uf Carthage; sisters. Arleta Clark and Corless Kemeraitis; and brothers. Leroy and Conrad. The family would like to thank Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice for the excellent care during Kermit's final days.
BurialRobertson Cemetery, Woodward, Franklin Co., ME, USA
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Citations

  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Carthage, Franklin, Maine; Roll: T627_1478; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 4-2; line 77, dwl 440.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://vitals.rootsweb.com/me/marriage: Houghton Surname.

Kermit R. Houghton Jr

M, #97762, b. June 1951, d. April 2015

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJun, 1951ME, USA
ResidenceDixfield, ME, USA
DeathApr, 2015Oxford, ME, USA
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Kermit R. Houghton III

M, #97763, b. circa 1980

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 1980
ResidenceDixfield, ME, USA
ResearchLori L Houghton
Clifton W Houghton
Judith J Houghton
Lawrence M Houghton
John L Houghton
Darlene M Houghton
Melinda M Houghton
Vicki L Houghton
Tammy J Houghton
Doreen Houghton
Leo A Houghton
Lawrence M Houghton
Lori Lynn Houghton
Tracy L Houghton
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