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James M. Anderson¹

M, #108511, b. 15 January 1924, d. 29 June 2008

Family: Vera May Houghton

Marriage*: James M. Anderson married Vera May Houghton, daughter of Marvin Luther Houghton and Nora Ethel Sigman.¹

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Birth

Jan 15, 1924

Widen, Clay Co., WV, USA¹

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Death

Jun 29, 2008

Parkersburg, WV, USA¹

Obituary

James M. "Andy" Anderson, 84, of St. Marys, W.Va., died June 29, 2008, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg.

He was born Jan. 15, 1924, in Widen, Clay County, W.Va., a son of the late Ernest and Rose Frame Anderson. He was retired from Cytec as a pipefitter and was a member of the Pipefitters Union. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of St. Marys and was recently attending the Cornerstone Gospel Church. He was a U. S. Army veteran of World War II and was a member of the American Legion Post 79. For the past two years, he had resided at the Arlington Personal Care Home in Parkersburg. He liked history on World War II, collecting old money and fishing.

He is survived by one son, James D. Anderson and his wife, Anne, of Parkersburg; three grandchildren, Jessica Barker of Vienna, Staff Sgt. Chad Anderson, USMC of Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., and Christy Rhodes of St. Marys; two great-grandsons; two great-granddaughters; one sister, Virginia Fletcher of Charleston, W.Va; niece, Linda Houghton of Belmont, W.Va; and nephew, John Duffy of South Carolina.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Vera Mae Houghton Anderson; three sisters; and four brothers.

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the Ingram Funeral Home, St. Marys, with Pastor Rick Kapple officiating. Interment will be in the St. Marys IOOF Cemetery with military graveside rites. Friends may call from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday and from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Burial

IOOF Cemetery, St. Marys, WV, USA

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[S1485] Findagrave.com, online http://www.findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

Betty Lou Houghton¹

F, #108512, b. 17 November 1934, d. 8 April 1985

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Birth

Nov 17, 1934

Widen, Clay Co., WV, USA¹

Death

Apr 8, 1985

Parkersburg, WV, USA¹

Burial

IOOF Cemetery, St. Marys, WV, USA

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[S1485] Findagrave.com, online http://www.findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

Linda Beth Houghton

F, #108513

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Carlin Otis Propst

M, #108514, b. 22 July 1926, d. 21 April 1971

Family: Nina Houghton

Marriage*: Carlin Otis Propst married Nina Houghton, daughter of Earl Houghton and Ottie Demoss.

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Birth

Jul 22, 1926

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Death

Apr 21, 1971

Burial

Skidmore Cemetery, Sutton, WV, USA

(?) Given

M, #108515

Family: Maysel Houghton

Marriage*: (?) Given married Maysel Houghton, daughter of Charles William Houghton and Rosa May Henderson.

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Paul B. Farley¹

M, #108516, b. 11 March 1923, d. 4 June 1989

Family: Iva Mae Houghton

Marriage*: Paul B. Farley married Iva Mae Houghton, daughter of Charles William Houghton and Rosa May Henderson.

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Birth

Mar 11, 1923

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Death

Jun 4, 1989

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Burial

Walnut Grove Cemetery, Widen, Clay Co., WV, USA

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[S1485] Findagrave.com, online http://www.findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

(?) Brown

M, #108517

Family: Mozelle Houghton

Marriage*: (?) Brown married Mozelle Houghton, daughter of Charles William Houghton and Rosa May Henderson.

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(?) Mick

M, #108518

Family: Ada Maude Houghton

Marriage*: (?) Mick married Ada Maude Houghton, daughter of Rev. Thomas Richard Houghton and Sarah Jane Cochran, on Jul 13, 1902.

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Jul 13, 1902

Earnest Albert Hooton

M, #108519, b. 20 November 1887, d. 3 May 1954

Family: Mary Beidler Camp

Marriage*: Earnest Albert Hooton married Mary Beidler Camp on Jun 3, 1915.

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Birth

Nov 20, 1887

Clemansville, WI, USA

Marriage

Jun 3, 1915

Children+

4 children including:
Jay Camp Hooton
1918 – 1969

Newton William Hooten
1920 – 1982

Author

1931

Up from the Ape (1931), widely used as a textbook, was followed by Apes, Men, and Morons (1937), Why Men Behave Like Apes, and Vice-Versa (1940), and Man’s Poor Relations (1942).

Mil. Draft

1942

Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA

Death

May 3, 1954

Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA

Burial

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA

Notable

(1887-1954) First American professor of physical anthropologist at Harvard

Biography

First American professor of physical anthropologist, Harvard University
Influential teacher of a generation of physical anthropologists
1946: described differences between “classic Neanderthals” from Western Europe and those with more modern appearance from central Europe or the Near East.
Known for his work on racial classification; Mildly racist; but maintained no correlation between race & IQ

Wikepedia:
Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was a U.S. physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, a group that "focused on the anatomy of blacks and reflected the racism of the time."[1]

Biography

Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin. He was educated at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. After earning his BA there in 1907, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, which he deferred in order to continue his studies in the United States. He pursued graduate studies in Classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received an MA in 1908 and a Ph.D. in 1911 on "The Pre-Hellenistic Stage of the Evolution of the Literary Art at Rome" and then continued on to England. He found the classical scholarship at Oxford uninteresting, but quickly became interested in anthropology, which he studied with R.R. Marett, receiving a diploma in 1912. At the conclusion of his time in England, he was hired by Harvard University, where he taught until his death in 1954. During this time he was also Curator of Somatology at the nearby Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Hooton was known for combining a rigorous attention to scholarly detail combined with a candid and witty personal style. Henry Shapiro remembers that his lectures "were compounded of a strange, unpredictable mixture of strict attention to his duty to present the necessary facts... and of a delightful impatience with the restrictions of this role to which he seemed to react by launching into informal, speculative, and thoroughly entertaining and absorbing discussions of the subject at hand." As a result Hooton established Harvard as a center for physical anthropology in the United States and at the time of his death most physical anthropologists in the United States were former students or instructed by one.[2]

Many of Hooton's research projects were indebted to his training in physical anthropology at a time when this field consisted most of anatomy and focused on physiological variation between individuals. One project that came to be known as 'Harvard Fanny Study', for instance, involved measuring buttock spread and buttock-knee lengths in order to design more comfortable chairs for the Pennsylvania railroad.[3] A similar study of applied physical anthropology examined the restrictive shape of ball-turrets in military aircraft.[4]

Hooton was an advanced primatologist for his time. If the great Latin playwright Terence said "Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto" ("I am a man; nothing about men is alien to me"), Hooton, following and correcting him, used to say: "Primas sum: primatum nihil a me alienum puto" ("I am a primate; nothing about primates is alien to me").[5]

Hooton was also a public figure well known for popular volumes with titles like Up From the Ape, Young Man, You are Normal, and Apes, Men, and Morons. He was also a gifted cartoonist and wit, and like his contemporaries Ogden Nash and James Thurber he published occasional poems and drawings that were eventually collected and published.

Hooton died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Race

He used comparative anatomy to divide humanity up into races — in Hooton's case, this involved describing the morphological characteristics of different "primary races" and the various "subtypes". In 1926, the American Association of Physical Anthropology and the National Research Council organized a Committee on the Negro, which focused on the anatomy of blacks. Among those appointed to the Committee on the Negro were Aleš Hrdli?ka, Earnest Hooton and eugenist Charles Davenport. In 1927, the committee endorsed a comparison of African babies with young apes. Ten years later, the group published findings in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology to "prove that the negro race is phylogenetically a closer approach to primitive man than the white race." Hooton played a key part in establishing the racial stereotypes about black athleticism and black criminality of his day in terms of an anthropological framework.[1] Hooton was one of the first to attempt to develop mathematically rigorous criteria for race typology.[6]

At the same time Hooton maintained that no scientific basis existed correlating mentality with racial variation. "...Each racial type runs the gamut from idiots and criminals to geniuses and statesmen. No type produces a majority of individuals from either end of the scale. While there may be specific racial abilities and disabilities, these have not yet been demonstrated. There are no racial monopolies either of human virtues or of vices."[7] While advocating eugenic sterilizations of those deemed "insane, diseased and criminalistic", he emphasized there was no justification to correlate such "degeneracy", as he termed it, with race. Anthropologist Pat Shipman presents Hooton's work as representing a transition in anthropology away from its 19th-century stereotypes about race and its fixation over cranial measurements. In that context, she writes, Hooton maintained an "oversimplistic mode of thinking about human types and variability" while at the same time he moved to eliminate unfounded racial biases and pseudoscience. His remarks in a 1936 conference dealing with immigration, for example, included a ten point summary of the current scientific consensus about race which, in retrospect, parallel the points raised ten years later in UNESCO's landmark The Race Question.[6]
Criticism

E.B. Reuter, a sociologist and contemporary of Hooton, criticized Hooton for using circular logic when he ascribed the physical traits of criminals to cause criminality.[8]
References

American Anthropological Association. "Eugenics and Physical Anthropology." 2007. August 7, 2007.[1]
Shapiro, Harry L. (18 June 1954). "Earnest A. Hooton: 1887—1954". Science 119 (3103): 861–2. doi:10.1126/science.119.3103.861.
Krogman, Wilton M. (October 1976). "Fifty Years of Physical Anthropology: The Men, the Material, the Concepts, the Methods". Annual Review of Anthropology 5 (1–15): 10. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.05.100176.000245.
Reuter, Claus (2000). Development of Aircraft Turrets in the AAF: 1917–1944. Sr Research & Pub. pp. 132–4. ISBN 9781894643085.
Hooton, Earnest Albert: "The Importance of Primate Studies in Anthropology" in GAVAN, James A. (ed.): The Non-Human Primates and Human Evolution. In Memory of Earnest Albert Hooton (1887-1954),Wayne University Press, 1955, pp.1-10
Shipman, Pat (2002). The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science. Harvard University Press. pp. 176–7. ISBN 9780674008625.
Hooton, Earnest A (29 May 1936). "Plain Statements About Race". Science 83 (2161): 513. doi:10.1126/science.83.2161.511.

Wright, Richard A. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. "Encyclopedia of Criminality." 2004. August 4, 2007. [2]

Works by Hooton

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954. Papers of Earnest A. Hooton, 1926-1954 (inclusive) : A Finding Aid (995-1 ) Harvard University Library: Peabody Museum Archives 1995 and 2007. Call No: 995-1. 28 document boxes.
Africana. I-5 co-editor (1917) 'recording the habits of foul or barbarous savages' pub. Peabody Museum. From Internet Archive.

Works about Hooton

Birdsell, Joseph 1987. Some reflections on fifty years in biological anthropology in Annual Reviews of Anthropology 16(1):1-12.
Krogman, Wilton 1976. Fifty years of physical anthropology: the men, the materials, the concepts, and the methods in Annual Reviews of Anthropology 5:1-14.
Shapiro, H. 1954. Earnest Albert Hooton, 1887-1954 (obituary) in American Anthropologist 56(6): 1081-1084
Garn, Stanley and Giles, Eugene. 1995. Earnest Albert Hooton, November 20, 1887 - May 3, 1954. Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America v. 68 167-180.
Melear, K.B. The Criminological Theory of Earnest A. Hooton. 'Summer 1998'. Florida State University: Criminology

External links

American Association of Physical Anthropologists: The Earnest Albert Hooton Prize. The page includes a selected list of Hooton's publications.
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir

Mary Beidler Camp

F, #108520, b. 11 August 1889

Family: Earnest Albert Hooton

Marriage*: Mary Beidler Camp married Earnest Albert Hooton, son of William Hooton and Margaret Elizabeth Newton, on Jun 3, 1915.

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Aug 11, 1889

Chicago, Cook Co., IL, USA

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Jun 3, 1915

ParentsD

Arthur Bates Camp 1860 – 1906 & Emma G Beidler 1857 – 1900

William Hooton

M, #108521, b. August 1852

Family: Margaret Elizabeth Newton

Marriage*: William Hooton married Margaret Elizabeth Newton on 1882.

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Birth

Aug, 1852

Rampton, Nottinghamshire, England

Marriage

1882

Margaret Elizabeth Newton

F, #108522, b. May 1856

Family: William Hooton

Marriage*: Margaret Elizabeth Newton married William Hooton on 1882.

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May, 1856

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1882

(?) Whitt

M, #108523

Family: Mary Dell Houghton

Marriage*: (?) Whitt married Mary Dell Houghton, daughter of David Hugh Houghton and Patsy Lou Worthington.

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Jennifer Whitt

F, #108524

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(?) Stillwell

M, #108525

Family: Helen Arlene Houghton

Marriage*: (?) Stillwell married Helen Arlene Houghton, daughter of David Hugh Houghton and Patsy Lou Worthington.

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Kerry (?)

F, #108526

Family: Robert P. Houghton

Marriage*: Kerry (?) married Robert P. Houghton, son of Norman Russell Houghton Jr and Antoinette Mantia.

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Kenneth D. Houghton¹

M, #108527, b. circa 1955

Family: Deborah (?)

Marriage*: Kenneth D. Houghton married Deborah (?)

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Birth

circa 1955

Stoneham, MA, USA¹

Marriage

Research

Michelle Stephan
Kristina Houghton
Krissy Houghton
Julie Houghton

Living

2015

Wakefield, MA, USA

Citations

[S93] Newspaper Obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx

Deborah (?)

F, #108528

Family: Kenneth D. Houghton

Marriage*: Deborah (?) married Kenneth D. Houghton, son of Norman Russell Houghton Jr and Antoinette Mantia.

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Judith Houghton¹

F, #108529, b. circa 1958

Family: Edward Catino

Marriage*: Judith Houghton married Edward Catino.

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Birth

circa 1958

Stoneham, MA, USA¹

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Living

2015

Medford, MA, USA

Citations

[S93] Newspaper Obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx

Edward Catino

M, #108530

Family: Judith Houghton

Marriage*: Edward Catino married Judith Houghton, daughter of Norman Russell Houghton Jr and Antoinette Mantia.

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Norman Houghton III

M, #108531, b. circa 1960

Family: Rita Pieslak

Marriage*: Norman Houghton III married Rita Pieslak.

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Birth

circa 1960

Stoneham, MA, USA

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Living

2015

Ft. Myers, FL, USA

Rita Pieslak

F, #108532

Family: Norman Houghton III

Marriage*: Rita Pieslak married Norman Houghton III, son of Norman Russell Houghton Jr and Antoinette Mantia.

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John Houghton¹

M, #108533, b. circa 1964

Family: Patricia (?)

Marriage*: John Houghton married Patricia (?)¹

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Birth

circa 1964

Stoneham, MA, USA¹

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¹

Living

2015

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[S93] Newspaper Obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx

Patricia (?)¹

F, #108534

Family: John Houghton

Marriage*: Patricia (?) married John Houghton, son of Norman Russell Houghton Jr and Antoinette Mantia.¹

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[S93] Newspaper Obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx

Mabel Louise Wilson¹

F, #108535, b. 15 March 1913, d. 13 November 1988

Family: Wilbert Shelton Houghton

Marriage*: Mabel Louise Wilson married Wilbert Shelton Houghton, son of Charles William Houghton and Rosa May Henderson, on 1935 at Nicholas, WV, USA.¹

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Birth

Mar 15, 1913

Delphi, Nicolas Co., WV, USA, age 27 in 1940 census¹

Residence

1935

rural, Nicolas Co., WV, USA

Marriage

1935

Nicholas, WV, USA¹

1940 Census

1940

Buffalo, Clay Co., WV, USA, age 29, coal mine, coal loader²

1950 US Census

1950

Akron, OH, USA, age 37, separated, rubber tire co. general laborer, tube dept.

Marriage

2nd to Edgar H. "Slim" James.

Death

Nov 13, 1988

Akron, Summit Co., OH, USA¹

Burial

Hillside Memorial Park, Akron, Summit Co., OH, USA

ParentsD

Omer Wilson and Esma Otilla (Fitzwater) Wilson

Citations

[S1485] Findagrave.com, online http://www.findagrave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Buffalo, Clay, West Virginia; Roll: T627_4400; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 8-1A.

Joyce Farley

F, #108536, b. circa 1945

Family: (?) Sattler

Marriage*: Joyce Farley married (?) Sattler.

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circa 1945

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(?) Sattler

M, #108537

Family: Joyce Farley

Marriage*: (?) Sattler married Joyce Farley, daughter of Paul B. Farley and Iva Mae Houghton.

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Garnet P. Farley

F, #108538

Family: (?) Brown

Marriage*: Garnet P. Farley married (?) Brown.

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(?) Brown

M, #108539

Family: Garnet P. Farley

Marriage*: (?) Brown married Garnet P. Farley, daughter of Paul B. Farley and Iva Mae Houghton.

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Vickie P. Farley

F, #108540

Family: (?) Blair

Marriage*: Vickie P. Farley married (?) Blair.

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