Houghton Surname Project

Firman Andrews Houghton¹

M, #15151, b. 8 December 1919, d. 17 June 1985

Father*: Rev. Dr. William Henry Houghton¹ b. 28 Jun 1887, d. 14 Jun 1947
Mother*: Elizabeth Andrews¹ b. 20 Mar 1885

Family 1: Nancy Bogardus b. c 1919, d. 1959

Marriage*: Firman Andrews Houghton married Nancy Bogardus on Mar 5, 1943 at Norfolk, VA, USA.

Family 2: Ruth Whitman

Marriage*: Firman Andrews Houghton married Ruth Whitman.⁴

Family 3: Mimi Nixon b. 1927

Marriage*: Firman Andrews Houghton married Mimi Nixon on Jul 23, 1959.
Divorce*: Firman Andrews Houghton and Mimi Nixon were divorced in 1964.

David William Houghton⁴ b. c 1960

Biography

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Birth

Dec 8, 1919

New Bethlehem, PA, USA, age 1/12 in 1920 census; age 10 in 1930 census; age 19 in 1940 census²

Mil. Draft

1940

New Bethlehem, PA, USA, age 22, unemployed

Graduation

1941

Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, Wi SB 41 cl, G 41-42 CA³

SSN

MA, USA, 012-30-5607

Mil. Serv.

a Navy dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific during World War II.

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Marriage

Mar 5, 1943

Norfolk, VA, USA

Marriage

⁴

Marriage

Jul 23, 1959

Divorce

1964

Address

between 1975 and 1985

106 Chestnust St., Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA^3,2

Death

Jun 17, 1985

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 65, of cancer^5,2,4,6

Obituary

Jun 18, 1985

Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, Boston Globe, The (MA) - June 18, 1985
Deceased Name: FIRMAN HOUGHTON, BOSTON POET AND PLAYWRIGHT, OF CANCER AT 65
Firman Andrews Houghton of Boston's Beacon Hill, one of New England's best- known poets and playwrights, died of cancer early yesterday in Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 65. According to his wife, the former Mimi Nixon, Mr. Houghton had been ill for several months. David McCord of Cambridge, a noted Harvard poet, will read selections from Mr. Houghton's work at a memorial service on Tuesday, June 25, at Boston's King's Chapel at 1:30 p.m.

Mr. Houghton was known to friends, critics and colleagues not only as a brilliant and prolific poet and playwright, but also as a parodist and editor. For 10 years, Mr. Houghton and his former wife, poet Ruth Whitman, published the former literary magazine "Audience" - forerunner of the magazine "Ploughshares." "Audience was brilliant. It had all sorts of firsts," New England author and poet Frances Minturn Howard of Beacon Hill said yesterday. Like all literary publications, hard to sell, the magazine expired in the mid-1970s.
Mr. Houghton had been the first to recognize and publish Ann Sexton's poetry after she had received a dozen or more rejections from other publishers.
"He saw the brilliance in it. Other poets said that he could tell within three or four seconds whether a poem has any merit," his wife said.
Peter Davison, poetry editor of Atlantic Monthly, called him "a man of considerable learning, of a remarkably original turn of mind." From 1965 until 1975, Mr. Houghton was president of the New England Poetry Club and arranged for many noted speakers. Mr. Houghton also had been invited to recite his work at the White House during the Lyndon Johnson administration. "He was a genius, whose parodies were an absolute delight," said author Herbert Kenny of Manchester, former Book Editor of the Globe. One of his best known parodies was "Mr. Frost Goes to Boston," a spoof on the late poet Robert Frost. Mr. Houghton had been a Navy dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific during World War II. He apparently fulfilled his duty to bomb and kill, but came home to write of the pain and killing in one of literature's best known antiwar poems, "On Bombing a Stranger."

"Friends," Mrs. Howard said, "were always after him to publish his work. He had a feeling about it. His standards were so exacting, he would not send out his poetry, even though several editors asked if they could publish it. If he had sent his work, he would have been very well known. His poems were very good, very honest."
Mr. Houghton's plays, among them one called "Hammer on the Mountain,", were seen at the Loeb Theater in Cambridge; they were both sardonic and funny, critics said. He was once director of the Poets Theater in Cambridge.
A native of New Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. Houghton was the son of Dr. Will and Elizabeth (Andrews) Houghton. He was a graduate of the Riverdale School in New York City.He attended Exeter Academy through the 12th grade and graduated from Harvard University in the Class of 1941. Besides his wife Mimi, he leaves his son, David Will Houghton of Santa Monica, Calif; a stepson, David Gray Hanson of Boston; and a stepsister Adelaide Brown of Seattle, Wash., Burial will be private.

Copyright (c) 1985 Globe Newspaper Company⁴

Research

The Firman Houghton Award annually awards $250 for a lyric poem in honor of the former president of the New England Poetry Club.

Notable

one of New England's best- known poets and playwrights

Pedigree

Citations

[S113] Who Was Who, 2, p. 264.
[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Rootsweb.Com, Houghton Surname, Social Security Death Index for Dec. 2001.
[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, p. 596.
[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries; Houghton Surname.
[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, 1986, p. 569.
[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Kathleen Bagwell^1,2

F, #15152, b. 22 February 1886, d. August 1968

Family: Herbert Pierrepont Houghton Ph.D. b. 22 Jan 1880, d. May 1964

Marriage*: Kathleen Bagwell married Herbert Pierrepont Houghton Ph.D., son of Joseph Goodhue Houghton and Sarah Pierrepont Edwards, on Apr 20, 1908 age 28 and 23.^2,1,6,4

Virginia Houghton¹⁰ b. 31 Jan 1909
Carolyn Bagwell Houghton+¹⁰ b. 25 Apr 1913

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Birth

Feb 22, 1886

Onancock, VA, USA, age 24, VA, in 1910 census; age 33, VA, in 1920 census; age 43 in 1930 census; age 54 in 1940 census^1,3,4,5

Marriage

Apr 20, 1908

age 28 and 23^2,1,6,4

1910 Census

1910

Amherst, Hampshire Co., MA, USA, age 30, professor, Amherst College⁷

1920 Census

1920

Waukesha, Waukesha Co., WI, USA³

1930 Census

1930

Northfield, Rice Co., MN, USA, age 49, professor Carlton College⁸

Note

Jun 16, 1930

Southhampton, England, returned on the Westernland to New York, NY

Note

Aug 30, 1935

Liverpol, England, returned on the America Shipper to New York, NY

1940 Census

1940

College Dormitory for Faculty, Carlton College, Northfield, Rice Co., MN, USA, age 60, private college professor⁹

Residence

1953

Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., VA, USA, 1919 Lewis Mountain Rd.²

Death

Aug, 1968

⁵

ParentsD

father born in NY, mother born in VA; also parents born in VA

Pedigree

Citations

[S114] Who Was Who, 3, p. 1351.
[S59] Love, Descendants of Capt. William Houghton, p. 33.
[S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Waukesha, Waukesha Co., WI, Film 882, Box 64, Vol. 92, E.D. 202, Sh. 5, Ln. 23.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 163.
[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Rootsweb.Com, Houghton Surname, Social Security Death Index for Dec. 2001.
[S937] Who's Who 26, p. 1282.
[S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_593; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 676; line 92, dwl 21-179-290.
[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Northfield, Rice Co., Minnesota; Roll: 1124; Enumeration District: 20; Page 213, Sheet 8A; line 12, dwl 227.
[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Northfield, Rice, Minnesota; Roll: T627_1953; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 66-21; line 22.
[S104] Who's Who 22, p. 1114.

Mary Louise Phillips¹

F, #15153, b. 11 June 1870, d. 24 September 1954

Family: Dr. Elihu Russell Houghton M.D. b. 26 Mar 1864, d. 19 Feb 1905

Marriage*: Mary Louise Phillips married Dr. Elihu Russell Houghton M.D., son of Elihu Reed Houghton and Louise Seymour, on Oct 6, 1891 at New York, New York Co., NY, USA, at residence of bride's mother.^2,4,6

Seymour Phillips Houghton b. 7 May 1893, d. Dec 1969
Dr. Augustus Sherrill Houghton Ph.D.+³ b. 15 Jan 1898, d. Oct 1984
Russell Le Roux Houghton³ b. 22 Feb 1902, d. 1 Nov 1984

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Birth

Jun 11, 1870

Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 29, NY, in 1900 census; age 39, NY, in 1910 census; 1930 census of son Russell gives NJ^2,3,4

Graduation

1891

Smith College, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA, USA⁵

Marriage

Oct 6, 1891

New York, New York Co., NY, USA, at residence of bride's mother^2,4,6

1900 Census

1900

Manhattan, New York Co., NY, USA, age 36, a physician; 2nd enumeration⁷

Occupation

1905

began her career as an educator⁵

1910 Census

1910

Manhattan, New York Co., NY, USA, age 39, school teacher⁸

Living

between 1911 and 1920

Tarrytown-on-Hudson, NY, USA^2,9

Newspaper

Feb 12, 1912

School for girls burned. Mrs. Houghton's Teachers and Pupils at Briarcliff Manor Escape.

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BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y., Feb. 11. -- Mrs. E. Russell Houghton's school for girls here was destroyed by fire to-night. There were only ten girls in the school when the fire started, the other pupils being away over Lincoln's Birthday. They and the teachers escaped at the first alarm of fire and went to Mrs. Dow's school, half a mile away.¹⁰

1920 Census

1920

Knox School, Tarrytown, Westchester Co., NY, USA, age 44, principal of private school¹¹

1930 Census

1930

Knox School for Girls, Cooperstown, Otsego Co., NY, USA, age 59, principal of private school¹²

1940 Census

1940

Knox School, Cooperstown, Otsego Co., NY, USA, age 69, widow, president head¹³

Residence

Apr 27, 1942

Knox School

Retirement

1948

after 37 years as principal of the Knox School for Girls, originally in Cooperstown, NY and then St. James, Long Island⁵

Death

Sep 24, 1954

St. Barnabas Hospital, New York, New York Co., NY, USA, age 84^14,5

Burial

Green-Wood Cmetery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Biography

Who Was Who, Vol. 3, p. 1351: "Houghton, Louse Phillips, educator; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 11, 1870; d. John Francis and Mary Virtue (Cranford) Phillips; grad. Brooklyn Heights Sem., 1887; A.B., Smith Coll., 1891; studied Columbia, 1897, Havre, France, 1892-3; m. E. Russell Houghton (M.D.), of N.Y. City, Oct. 6, 1891 (died 1905). Contbr. articles and book revs. to New York Evangelist, and other periodicals, 1892-1905; asso. prin. Comstock Sch. for Girls, N.Y. City, 1906-11; prin. Knox Sch. for Girls, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, since 1911. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Assn. Episcopalian. Clubs: Women's Univ., Thursday Musical, Meridian, Smith Coll, Club (New York). Address: Knox School, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y."

Woman's who's who of America: "HOUGHTON, Louise Phillips (Mrs. E. Russell Houghton), The Knox School, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Principal of private school; b. June 11, 1870; dau. John Francis and Mary Virtue (Cranford) Phillips; ed. Brooklyn Heights Sem., Smith Coll.,
A.B; Columbia Univ; mem. Alpha (Smith Coll.); m. Brooklyn, N.Y., Dr. E. Russell Houghton; children: S. Phillips, A. Sherrill, Russell Le
Roux. Assistant principal and associate with Miss Lydia Day, Comstock School, N.Y. City, 1906-11; principal of the Knox School, Briarcliff
Manor, 1911. Interested in the History Club of N.Y., Woman's Auxiliary of the University Club. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of
book reviews, art and music criticism for a New York weekly paper. Lecturer on literature. Episcopalian. Mem. The Thursday Musical Club
of N.Y., Smith College Club of N.Y., Philipse Manor Country Club. Has lectured on psychology and has given drawing-room talks on Continental
Writers in N.Y. City and elsewhere."^2,3,9

Research

Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 3: September, 1952-August, 1955. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1956. (BioIn 3)
Who Was Who in America. Volume 5, 1969-1973. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1973. (WhAm 5)
Woman's Who's Who of America. A biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. Edited by John William Leonard. New York: American Commonwealth Co., 1914. 'Addenda and Corrections' and 'Deaths during Printing' sections begin on page 29. (WomWWA A)¹⁴

ParentsD

J. Frank Phillips; father born in NJ/NY, mother born in Newfoundland, Canada⁶

Pedigree

Citations

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, Summer 1943, p. 114.
[S114] Who Was Who, 3, p. 1351.
[S938] Who's Who, Vol. 21, p. 1204.
[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 159.
[S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Sep 26, 1954.
[S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: Oct 7, 1891.
[S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Manhattan, New York Co., New York; Roll: T623 1105; Enumeration District: 521; Sheet 2A; line 28, dwl 103-115-27.
[S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1024; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 624;
line 34, dwl 404-19-225.
[S943] Who's Who, Vol. 21, p. 1401.
[S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: Feb 12, 1912.
[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Tarrytown, Westchester, New York; Roll: T625_1276; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 33; line 1, dwl 17-22.
[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Cooperstown, Otsego Co., New York; Roll: 1636; Enumeration District: 42; page 52, sheet 19A; line 1, dwl 107-116.
[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Cooperstown, Otsego, New York; Roll: T627_2717; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 39-53; line 1.
[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Houghton Surname.

Lucile W. Caplinger¹

F, #15154, b. April 1879

Family: Matthew Henry Houghton b. 6 Oct 1867, d. 23 Jan 1931

Marriage*: Lucile W. Caplinger married Matthew Henry Houghton, son of Elihu Reed Houghton and Louise Seymour, on Jun 1, 1898 age 30 and 19.¹

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Birth

Apr, 1879

New Castle, KY, USA, age 21 in 1900 census; age 31 in 1910 census; age 40 in 1920 census; age 51 in 1930 census; age "51" in 1940 census^2,3

Education

Anchorage, Jefferson Co., KY, USA, Bellewood Seminary²

Marriage

Jun 1, 1898

age 30 and 19¹

1900 Census

1900

Manhattan, New York Co., NY, USA, age 32, religious newspaper manager⁴

1910 Census

1910

New Rochelle, Westchester Co., NY, USA, age 42, general contractor; and a servant⁵

1920 Census

1920

New Rochelle, Westchester Co., NY, USA, age 52, building contractor⁶

1930 Census

1930

Miami, Dade Co., FL, USA, age 62, house builder⁷

Residence

1935

Miami, FL, USA

1950 US Census

1950

Miami, FL, USA, age 70, widow, no occup; living with her is partner Mary C. Moore, 54, WV

Author

A Venture in Identity; Hour of Noon

Biography

Who's Who and What to See in Florida, 1935 : She was active in the Florida Association of Workers for the Blind. Clubs: Authors League, New York. She authored "A Venture in Identity" and " Hour of Noon." She was a member of the Episcopalian Church.

ParentsD

James N. and Amanthis W. Caplinger, New Castle, KY

Research

Who Was Who in America. Volume 6, 1974-1976. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1976. (WhAm 6)³

Pedigree

Citations

[S1003] Unknown compiler, Amherst College Biog. Record, Internet, Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition (1812--1921), http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/…
[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://fulltext.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx
[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Houghton Surname.
[S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Manhattan, New York Co., New York; Roll: T623; Enumeration District: 545; Sheet: 2A; line 23, dwl 33.

[S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Rochelle Ward 2, Westchester, New York; Roll: T624_1091; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 87;
line 90, dwl 41-178-202.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , New Rochelle Ward 2, Westchester, New York; Roll: T625_1277; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 121; line 45, dwl 170-106-130.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Miami, Dade Co., Florida; Roll: 309; Enumeration District: 17; Sheet 14B; line 78, dwl 45-295-429.

Grace Sherburne^1,2

F, #15155

Family: William Hoghton d. 1642

Marriage*: Grace Sherburne married William Hoghton, son of Thomas Hoghton and Anne Keighley.^1,2

William Hoghton+²

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Marriage ^1,2
Biography de Hoghton Pedigree I: "Grace dau. Sir Richard Sherburne.";
JWH, p. 33: "dau. of Sir William Sherburne, of Stonyhurst."^1,2

Pedigree

Citations

[S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 33.

[S1265] De Hoghton Pedigree I Chart;,, from Sir Bernard de Hoghton, BT, Apr 2004 (in possession of Charles J. Vella):.

Polly Smith¹

F, #15156

Family: Sylvester Woods b. 9 Aug 1792, d. 2 Aug 1822

Marriage*: Polly Smith married Sylvester Woods, son of Asa Woods and Betty Smith, on before 1822.¹

Biography

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Marriage before 1822 ¹
Biography NEGHR: "of Rindge, N.H."¹

Pedigree

Citations

[S118] Woods, "Woods Family of Groton,", p. 153.

Keziah (?)¹

F, #15157, b. 1745, d. 17 December 1791

Family: Sergt. Moses Woods b. 16 Feb 1749/50, d. 3 May 1837

Marriage*: Keziah (?) married Sergt. Moses Woods, son of Moses Woods and Esther Houghton, on before 1772.¹

Moses Woods¹ b. 21 Oct 1772

Aaron Woods¹ b. 21 Dec 1773, d. 3 Nov 1796

Joseph Woods¹ b. 17 Nov 1775

Henry Woods¹ b. 18 Feb 1777, d. 7 Nov 1854

David Woods¹ b. 6 Aug 1778

Anna Woods¹ b. 2 Mar 1780

Daniel Woods¹ b. 21 Nov 1781

Nancy Woods¹ b. 16 May 1788, d. 22 Jul 1849

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Birth 1745 ¹
Marriage before 1772 ¹
Death Dec 17, 1791 Acton, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, in her 47th year¹

Pedigree

Citations

[S118] Woods, "Woods Family of Groton,", p. 147.

Frank Wilbur Houghton¹

M, #15158, b. 21 December 1849, d. 4 February 1932

Father*: Reuben Benjamin Houghton^2,3 b. c 1820, d. 10 May 1846

Mother*: Ruth Ann Follansbee Ring^2,3 b. 26 Oct 1822, d. 8 May 1860

Family: Mary Julia Balch b. 21 Jan 1855, d. 3 Feb 1936

Marriage*: Frank Wilbur Houghton married Mary Julia Balch on Sep 29, 1877 at Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI, USA, at her father's house.^1,2,7

Laura Madge Houghton² b. 6 Oct 1878

Mary Ruth Houghton² b. 13 Nov 1879

Albert Balch Houghton+¹ b. 27 Aug 1882, d. May 1969

Frank Wilbur Houghton¹³ b. 30 Jul 1884, d. 13 Nov 1897

Harry Abner Houghton¹³ b. 16 Dec 1886

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Birth Dec 21, 1849 Adams Basin, Rochester, Monroe Co., NY, USA, age 6/12 in 1850 census; age 20 in 1870 census; Dec 1849, age 50 in 1900 census; age 60 in 1910 census; age 70 in 1920 census; age 80 in 1930 census^2,4,5
Immigration 1867 WI, USA, at age of 18⁵
1870 Census 1870 Howard, Brown Co., NY, USA, age 20, a farmer, with Enoch and Elvira Brown family⁶
Graduation 1876 Lawrence College, Appleton, Outagamie Co., WI, USA, BA⁵
Association 1877 Independent Order of Odd-Fellows; Knights of Pythias, 1883; Masons, 1905⁷
Marriage Sep 29, 1877 Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI, USA, at her father's house^1,2,7
Note Sep 4, 1879 Milwaukee, WI, USA, He became an active member of Wisconsin law bar. Beginning in Apr 1880, he practiced at Oskosh for 20 years. He then lived in Milwaukee. He was the senior member of the firm of Houghton, Neelen, & Houghton.⁵
Residence Oshkosh, WI, USA²
Occupation Oshkosh, WI, USA, a lawyer²
1900 Census 1900 Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., WI, USA, age 50, lawyer; 5 children born, 4 living⁸
Occupation Sep, 1909 Albert joined his father's law firm.⁷
1910 Census 1910 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 60, general practice lawyer⁹
1920 Census 1920 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 70, general practice lawyer¹⁰
1930 Census 1930 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 80, none, and a servant¹¹
Death Feb 4, 1932 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA¹²
Burial Wauwatosa Cemetery, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA
Research National Cyclopaedia of American Biograph. 1935
Biography Wisconsin by Ellis Baker Usher, p. 1035:
Frank Wilbur Houghton
FRANK W. HOUGHTON. An active member of the Wisconsin bar since 1879, Mr. Houghton was engaged in the practice of his profession at
Oshkosh for twenty years, and since that time has maintained his residence and professional headquarters in the city of Milwaukee, where
he is senior member of the firm of Houghton, Neelen & Houghton. Mr. Houghton has been dependent upon his own resources from the time he
was a lad of eight years, and his life has been one of earnest and constant endeavor. Frank Wilbur Houghton was born at Adams Basin, Monroe county,
New York, on the 21st of December, 1849, and is a son of Reuben B. and Ruth Ann (Ring) Houghton. The father was born in Massachusetts
and the mother was a native of New Hampshire. Both passed the closing years of their lives at Adams Basin, Monroe county, New York, the
father having been a farmer by vocation and also a manufacturer of grain-cradles in the early days when these primitive implements were
in common use. Lieutenant William Ring, an uncle of the mother of Frank W. Houghton, was a valiant soldier in the war of the Revolution,
and served under General Ethan Allen in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. Mr. Houghton's rudimentary education was obtained in a district
school in his native place, and he himself earned the means by which he was enabled to carry forward his intellectual training. He was
eighteen years of age when he came to Wisconsin, and by hard work he earned sufficient money to justify his matriculation in Lawrence
College, at Appleton, this state. In this institution he completed the classical course and was graduated as a member of the class of the
Centennial year, 1876, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For several years he devoted more or less time to teaching in the public schools, and
thus defrayed a considerable part of his college expenses and also those of the maintenance of himself and his young wife while he was preparing
himself for his chosen profession. Mrs. Houghton had in every possible way aided and encouraged him in his plans. He began reading law in
a private way and while thus engaged was principal of the high school at Wausau. Later he continued his technical studies at Milwaukee, in
the office of Carpenter & Smiths, leading members of the bar of the state. From the office of this firm Mr. Houghton was admitted to the
bar on the 4th of September, 1879. In the following April he opened an office at Oshkosh, where he eventually became one of the leaders at
the bar of that county. On the 1st of July, 1900, Mr. Houghton removed from Oshkosh to Milwaukee, where he formed a partnership with Neele B. Neelen, under the firm name of Houghton & Neelen. In September, 1909, his eldest son, Albert B., was admitted to the firm, the title of which has since
been Houghton, Neelen & Houghton. During his many years of active practice Mr. Houghton has appeared in connection with many important litigations, and has practiced in all of the courts, from that of justice of the peace to the supreme Court of the United States. He is a Republican in politics and has been since casting his first presidential ballot, which was for Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. He has been affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
since 1877; the Knights of Pythias since 1883; and the Masonic Fraternity since 1905. In the last mentioned order he holds membership in Damascus Lodge No. 290, F. & A. M; Kilbourn Chapter No. 9, R. and S. M; Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar; and Wisconsin Consistory, S. P. R. S.
At the home of the bride's parents, at AVeyauwega, Waupaca county, Wisconsin, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Houghton to Miss Mary
Julia Balch, who had been his classmate in Lawrence College. She was born at Weyauwega, Wisconsin, January 21, 1855, and is a daughter of
Albert V. and Sarah (Parmalee) Balch, honored pioneers of Wisconsin. Representatives of both the Balch and Parmalee families were patriot
soldiers in the Continental army in the War of the Revolution. To Mr. and Airs. Houghton were born five children, all of whom are living except
Frank Wilbur, Jr., who passed away on the 13th of November, 1897, at the age of thirteen years; Laura Madg'e remains at the parental home;
Alary Ruth is the wife of George A. Cierry and they reside in Ironwood, Mlichigan; Albert B. is associated with his father in the practice of law,
as previously noted; and Harry Abner is a traveling salesman whose residence is at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S664] Galusha B. Balch M.D., Balch Families, p. 332.

[S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Ogden, Monroe, New York; Roll: M432_529; Page: 109; line 11, dwl 419-438.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Ogden, Monroe Co., NY, p. 109.

[S1383] Ellis Baker Usher, Wisconsin, p. 1035-1036.

[S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Howard, Brown Co., WI, Reel 1703, p. 275, line 34, dwl 50-51.

[S1383] Ellis Baker Usher, Wisconsin, p. 1036.

[S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin; Roll:T623; Enumeration District: 148; Sheet: 6B; line 88, dwl 365-121-120.

[S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Milwaukee Ward 15, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T624_1721; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 160;
line 50, dwl 3428-122-141.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_2006; Page: 30B; Enumeration District: 318; line 89, dwl 76-164-190.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin; Roll: 2599; Enumeration District: 373; Page 120; Sheet: 12A; line 12, dwl 76-259-272.

[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Houghton Surname.

[S664] Galusha B. Balch M.D., Balch Families, p. 333.

Mary Julia Balch^1,2

F, #15159, b. 21 January 1855, d. 3 February 1936

Family: Frank Wilbur Houghton b. 21 Dec 1849, d. 4 Feb 1932

Marriage*: Mary Julia Balch married Frank Wilbur Houghton, son of Reuben Benjamin Houghton and Ruth Ann Follansbee Ring, on Sep 29, 1877 at Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI, USA, at her father's house.^1,2,3

Laura Madge Houghton² b. 6 Oct 1878

Mary Ruth Houghton² b. 13 Nov 1879

Albert Balch Houghton+¹ b. 27 Aug 1882, d. May 1969

Frank Wilbur Houghton⁸ b. 30 Jul 1884, d. 13 Nov 1897

Harry Abner Houghton⁸ b. 16 Dec 1886

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Birth Jan 21, 1855 Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI, USA, Jan 1855, age 45 in 1900 census; age 55 in 1910 census; age 65 in 1920 census; age 75 in 1930 census^2,3
Education circa 1876 Lawrence College, Appleton, Outagamie Co., WI, USA³
Marriage Sep 29, 1877 Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI, USA, at her father's house^1,2,3
Residence Oshkosh, WI, USA²
1900 Census 1900 Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., WI, USA, age 50, lawyer; 5 children born, 4 living⁴
1910 Census 1910 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 60, general practice lawyer⁵
1920 Census 1920 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 70, general practice lawyer⁶
1930 Census 1930 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 80, none, and a servant⁷
Death Feb 3, 1936 Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Burial Wauwatosa Cemetery, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA
ParentsD Albert Vestus Balch and Sarah T. Parmelee, both b. NY²

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S664] Galusha B. Balch M.D., Balch Families, p. 332.

[S1383] Ellis Baker Usher, Wisconsin, p. 1036.

[S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin; Roll:T623; Enumeration District: 148; Sheet: 6B; line 88, dwl 365-121-120.

[S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Milwaukee Ward 15, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T624_1721; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 160;
line 50, dwl 3428-122-141.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_2006; Page: 30B; Enumeration District: 318; line 89, dwl 76-164-190.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin; Roll: 2599; Enumeration District: 373; Page 120; Sheet: 12A; line 12, dwl 76-259-272.

[S664] Galusha B. Balch M.D., Balch Families, p. 333.

Albert Balch Houghton¹

M, #15160, b. 27 August 1882, d. May 1969

Father*: Frank Wilbur Houghton¹ b. 21 Dec 1849, d. 4 Feb 1932

Mother*: Mary Julia Balch¹ b. 21 Jan 1855, d. 3 Feb 1936

Family: Janet Fox b. c 1884

Marriage*: Albert Balch Houghton married Janet Fox on May 18, 1916.¹

Albert Fox Houghton b. 1920, d. 23 Feb 1960

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Birth Aug 27, 1882 Oshkosh, WI, USA, Aug 1882, age 17 in 1900 census; age 27 in 1910 census; age 37 in 1920 census; age 47 in 1930 census; age 58 in 1940 census^1,2,3
Occupation Sep, 1909 Albert joined his father's law firm.⁴
Occupation 1910 lawyer
Marriage May 18, 1916 ¹
1920 Census 1920 Wawatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 37, lawyer^5,6
1930 Census 1930 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 47, law firm lawyer⁷
1940 Census 1940 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 58, 5 years of college, private practice attorney⁸
SSN SSN 398-34-8375 Albert Houghton 8-27-1882 Wi 5-1969 zip 53211 WI²
Death May, 1969 Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA²
Biography Who's Who, p. 1338: "Houghton, Albert Balch, lawyer; b. Oshkosh Wis., Aug. 27, 1882; s. Frank Wilbur and Mary Julia (Balch) H; Ph.B., U. of Chicago, 1907, J.D., 1909; m. Janet Fox, May 18, 1916; 1 son, Albert F. Admitted to Wis. bar, Sept. 1909; engaged in corp. and probate practice, Milwaukee since 1909. Served as spl. asst. to U.S. atty. gen., World War II. Member American (member ethics committee 1936-47, member board governors 1947-49), Wisconsin, Milwaukee bar assns., Beta Theta, Phi Delta Phi. Republican. Dir. Legal Aid Soc. Methodist (pres. bd. trustees Meth. Ch. Wis. Conf., 1930-56). Mason. Clubs: University, Athletic. Home: 3411 N. Shepard Av., Milwaukee 11, Office: 152 W. Wisconsin Av., Milwaukee 3, Wis."¹

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S98] Social Security Administration.

[S664] Galusha B. Balch M.D., Balch Families, p. 333.

[S1383] Ellis Baker Usher, Wisconsin, p. 1036.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Wanwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, Film 882, Box 64, Vol. 63, E.D. 315, Sh. 5, Ln. 63.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_2006; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 318; line 63, dwl 36-103-105.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin; Roll: 2599; Enumeration District: 371; Page 86, Sheet: 1A; line 28, dwl 36-5-5.

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T627_4558; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 72-400.

Albert Fox Houghton¹

M, #15161, b. 1920, d. 23 February 1960

Father*: Albert Balch Houghton b. 27 Aug 1882, d. May 1969

Mother*: Janet Fox b. c 1884

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Birth 1920 WI, USA, age 9 in 1930 census; age 19 in 1940 census^2,3
Research 1942
Mil. Enls Nov 7, 1942 WI, USA, WWII: Branch:      Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA; Grade:      Private; Name: Albert F Houghton Birth Year: 1920 Race: White, citizen Nativity State or Country: Wisconsin State: Wisconsin County or City: Milwaukee Enlistment Date: 7 Nov 1942 Enlistment State: Wisconsin Enlistment City: Milwaukee Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Grade: Private Grade Code: Private Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men) Source: Civil Life Education: 4 years of college Civil Occupation: Student Codes 0x, 2x, 4x and 6x as pertain to students will be converted, for machine records purposes, to the code number 992. Marital Status: Single, without dependents Height: 67 Weight: 162³
Death Feb 23, 1960 Milwaukee, WI, USA

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin; Roll: 2599; Enumeration District: 371; Page 86, Sheet: 1A; line 28, dwl 36-5-5.

[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 Record.

Janet Fox¹

F, #15162, b. circa 1884

Family: Albert Balch Houghton b. 27 Aug 1882, d. May 1969

Marriage*: Janet Fox married Albert Balch Houghton, son of Frank Wilbur Houghton and Mary Julia Balch, on May 18, 1916.¹

Albert Fox Houghton b. 1920, d. 23 Feb 1960

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Birth circa 1884 WI, USA, age 36 in 1920 census; age 46 in 1930 census; age 56 in 1940 census²
Marriage May 18, 1916 ¹
1920 Census 1920 Wawatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 37, lawyer^2,3
1930 Census 1930 Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 47, law firm lawyer⁴
1940 Census 1940 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI, USA, age 58, 5 years of college, private practice attorney⁵
ParentsD father born in WI, mother born in PA

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Wanwatosa, Milwaukee Co., WI, Film 882, Box 64, Vol. 63, E.D. 315, Sh. 5, Ln. 63.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_2006; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 318; line 63, dwl 36-103-105.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin; Roll: 2599; Enumeration District: 371; Page 86, Sheet: 1A; line 28, dwl 36-5-5.

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Roll: T627_4558; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 72-400.

Laura DeKay Richardson¹

F, #15163, b. 2 October 1900, d. 9 April 2003

Family: Amory Houghton Sr b. 27 Jul 1899, d. 21 Feb 1981

Marriage*: Laura DeKay Richardson married Amory Houghton Sr, son of Alanson Bigelow Houghton and Adelaide Louise Wellington, on Oct 19, 1921 at Providence, Providence Co., RI, USA, age 22 and 21; Preziosi: 21 Oct 1921.^1,5,6,7,8

Elizabeth Houghton+¹ b. 13 Oct 1922

Hon. Amory Houghton Jr.+¹ b. 7 Aug 1926, d. Mar 2020

Rev. Alanson Bigelow Houghton II+ b. 30 Aug 1930, d. 24 Jan 2016

James Richardson Houghton MBA+¹ b. 6 Apr 1936, d. 20 Dec 2022

Laura DeKay Houghton¹ b. c 1938, d. 22 Sep 2000

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Birth Oct 2, 1900 Providence, Providence Co., RI, USA, age 29 in 1930 census; age 39 in 1940 census; age 99 in 1999^2,3,4
Marriage Oct 19, 1921 Providence, Providence Co., RI, USA, age 22 and 21; Preziosi: 21 Oct 1921^1,5,6,7,8
1930 Census 1930 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 30, rental $150; president, glass factory; and 3 servants³
1940 Census 1940 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 40, glass industry manufacturer; and a cook and child's nurse⁹
1950 US Census 1950 Corning, NY, USA, age 50, glass mfg, chairman of glass mfg co.
Education 1961 Geneva, NY, USA, honorary doctorate, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Address between 1984 and 1992 12 South Rd., Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA^10,11
Note 1992 social register
Death Apr 9, 2003 Corning, Stueben Co., NY, USA, at home, age 102^12,4
Burial Apr 16, 2003 Hope Annex Cemetery, Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA⁴
Obituary 2003 Laura Richardson Houghton, 102, died quietly April 9 at her home in Corning, New York. Wife of Amory Houghton, former Chairman of Corning Glass Works and American Ambassador to France under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Houghton was born in Providence, R.I. A graduate of Milton Academy in Milton, MA, she moved to Corning with her husband in 1921. Their marriage lasted six months shy of sixty years.

In the late 1950’s, The Herald Tribune bestowed the name “L’Ambassadrice Souriante” (the Smiling Ambassadress) to Mrs. Houghton. The paper also referred to her as “the undisputed First Lady of the Diplomatic Corps and of the American Colony in Paris.”

“I would say she was the most gracious woman I ever knew,” said Thomas Buechner, former Director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Corning Museum of Glass.

She served on the Boards of national institutions such as the Girl Scouts of America, Project Hope, and Hobart and William Smith College; and numerous local charities. She received two Honorary Degrees. Once asked to become President of the Girl Scouts of America, she declined citing the need to be near her family. Several years later, she accepted the Vice-Chairmanship.

“She possessed deep personal beliefs which brooked no shoddy behavior,” said her son, Congressman Amory Houghton, Jr. (R-NY). “She had the endearing capacity for laughter -- in happy times, contagious; in times of stress, lightening the load.”

“When someone of her stature passes away, we have to say a generation is going,” said Thomas P. Dimitroff, a noted Corning historian. “She was a lady in the best sense of the word.”

Mrs. Houghton is survived by four children: Elizabeth H. Weinberg, Congressman Amory Houghton, Jr., James R. Houghton, Chairman and CEO of Corning Inc., and the Reverend Alanson R. Houghton II, 18 grandchildren, and 32 great grandchildren. She was predeceased by daughter, Laura H. Beer, on September 22, 2000.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, April 16 at 10 AM at Christ Episcopal Church in Corning, NY.

In Lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in memory of Mrs. Houghton to: Girl Scouts—Seven Lakes Council, Inc., 300 Route 318, Phelps, NY 14532-9315.⁴
ParentsD James Richardson of Providence RI and Elizabeth DeKay parents born in WI
Research Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 28: September, 2002-August, 2003. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 2003. (BioIn 28)¹²

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, Apr. 1999.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Corning, Steuben Co., New York; Roll: 1648; Enumeration District: 26; sheet 3B; line 57; dwl 64-69.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.phillipsfuneralhome.com/ecom/sp/;cat=obituaries;obit=03-142-C.

[S146] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 602.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 116.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: Jane Preziosi; JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Corning, Steuben, New York; Roll: T627_2781; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 51-31; line 50, dwl 220.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, XCIX [1985]: 443.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, CVII [1993]: 376.

[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Houghton Surname.

Elizabeth Houghton^1,2

F, #15164, b. 13 October 1922

Father*: Amory Houghton Sr¹ b. 27 Jul 1899, d. 21 Feb 1981

Mother*: Laura DeKay Richardson¹ b. 2 Oct 1900, d. 9 Apr 2003

Family 1: James Benny McCord Jr

Engagement: Elizabeth Houghton and James Benny McCord Jr were engaged on Nov 28, 1942 at Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA.¹⁰

Marriage*: Elizabeth Houghton married James Benny McCord Jr on Nov 13, 1943.^6,7

Alan Houghton McCord

James B McCord III

Laura Richardson McCord+⁹

Family 2: Sidney James Weinberg Jr b. 27 Mar 1923, d. 4 Oct 2010

Engagement*: Elizabeth Houghton and Sidney James Weinberg Jr were engaged on May 17, 1951; MRS. M'CORD AFFIANCED; Former Elizabeth Houghton to Be Bride of S.J. Weinberg Jr.
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. May 17, 1951, Thursday.

Marriage*: Elizabeth Houghton married Sidney James Weinberg Jr on Jun 30, 1951.²

Elizabeth Weinberg b. c 1953

Sydney Houghton Weinberg

Peter Weinberg

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Birth Oct 13, 1922 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 7 in 1930 census; age 17 in 1940 census^3,4,5
Education Miss Niepp's School in Lusanne, Switzerland and Foxcroft School in Middleburg VA
Marriage Nov 13, 1943 ^6,7
Engagement May 17, 1951 MRS. M'CORD AFFIANCED; Former Elizabeth Houghton to Be Bride of S.J. Weinberg Jr.
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. May 17, 1951, Thursday
Marriage Jun 30, 1951 ²
Residence 1981 Greenwich, CT, USA
Living 2016 Marion, MA, USA⁸

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S146] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 602.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, April 20, 1999.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Corning, Steuben Co., New York; Roll: 1648; Enumeration District: 26; sheet 3B; line 57; dwl 64-69.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: Jane Preziosi; JPrez123):http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times, 1951.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: Jane Preziosi;http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.phillipsfuneralhome.com/ecom/sp/;cat=obituaries;obit=03-142-C.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1971.

[S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

Hon. Amory Houghton Jr.^1,2,3,4

M, #15165, b. 7 August 1926, d. March 2020

Father*: Amory Houghton Sr¹ b. 27 Jul 1899, d. 21 Feb 1981

Mother*: Laura DeKay Richardson¹ b. 2 Oct 1900, d. 9 Apr 2003

Family 1: Ruth Frances West b. 1 Dec 1928

Marriage*: Hon. Amory Houghton Jr. married Ruth Frances West on Jun 27, 1950 at St. James, NY, USA.^2,8,6

Divorce*: Hon. Amory Houghton Jr. and Ruth Frances West were divorced in 1988.¹¹

Amory Houghton III+² b. 12 Aug 1951

Robert West Houghton+² b. 13 Jul 1954

Sarah Richardson Houghton+² b. 7 Sep 1957

Katherine Quincy Houghton+⁸ b. 19 Feb 1962

Family 2: Priscilla Badger Blackett b. c 1925, d. 6 Jul 2012

Marriage*: Hon. Amory Houghton Jr. married Priscilla Badger Blackett on circa 1988.^7,11

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Notable Y
Birth Aug 7, 1926 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 4 in 1930 census; age 13 in 1940 census^2,5,6
Education between 1941 and 1945 St. Paul's School, Concord, Merrimack Co., NH, USA⁶
Milit-Beg between 1944 and 1946 U.S. Marines. He served in the security detachment in the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Macon.

War or Conflict:
World War II, 1939-1946
Status:
Veteran
Dates of Service:
1944-1946
Entrance into Service:
Enlisted
Branch of Service:
Marine Corps
Unit of Service:
USS Macon
Location of Service:
Caribbean; Guantanamo Bay
Highest Rank:
Private First Class²
Graduation 1950 Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, B.A.^2,3,7,6
Marriage Jun 27, 1950 St. James, NY, USA^2,8,6
Association University Club in New York; Manufacturers Club
Occupation between 1964 and 1983 Corning, chairman of the board
Address 1970 33 E 3 St., New York, New York Co., NY, USA⁹
Note 1977 Forbes.com
The Trials Of Amory Houghton Jr.
09.01.77

Corning Glass Works Chairman Amory Houghton Jr. deserved to be fired. Houghton says so himself: "I really should have been." In the 1974-75 recession, he concedes, Corning's earnings dropped so fast that--again in his words--"the integrity of the company was in danger." From $4 a share in 1973, the parent company's earnings collapsed to $1.76 in 1975; even cyclical growth companies simply were not supposed to behave this way. "It was a bad scene," he says.

Of course, "Amo" Houghton was not fired. The fifth generation of his family to head this Corning, N.Y.-based billion-dollar (sales) maker of sophisticated glass products, he was treated more gently by his board than any hired hand would have been. He and his family and their trusts, after all, still own 16% of the stock. Houghton got the chance to remain on and to clean up the mess he had allowed to develop.

During three frantic months late in 1975, Houghton changed Corning's management style from paternalistic to survival-of-the-fittest. When he was finished, Corning was down to 29,000 employees from its peak of 46,000 worldwide. Among those departing were 1,200 managers; three vice presidents were demoted. A major business, Signetics, was gone. A total of five plants were closed or sold and thousands of products--such main lines as domestic black-and-white TV bulbs, finished Christmas ornaments, and acid waste drain lines--were eliminated. International operations was folded as a separate division. Even Steuben Glass, a commendable family hobby, was squeezed marginally into the black.

Why weren't the cuts made earlier? Why had Corning been allowed to get so overweight? In his own defense, Houghton says: "It was tough making these cuts, particularly when you lived in a small town where you knew a lot of these people." He admits that a generation of prosperity had made the company complacent, and reminds listeners that it's easier to make hard decisions when the pressure is on than when it isn't. Houghton didn't act soon enough, but it's not difficult to understand why he held off, hoping that the economy would pull him through. Where is the businessman who hasn't from time to time put off making these tough choices when things were going relatively well?

Slimmed down, Corning snapped back with a vengeance in the 1976 economic recovery, and parent company profits per share climbed to a record $4.74; this year they could top $5.40 a share, not counting one dollar or so from its investment in Owens-Corning Fiberglas. But as far as the stock market was concerned, the damage was done: Corning recently sold for $65 a share, about ten times estimated total 1977 earnings, vs. as high as 48 times total earnings in the early Seventies.

"Corning used to be a religion for investors," says Otis Bradley, director of research at Hornblower, Weeks, Noyes & Trask, "but judged by their record, when earnings briefly looked out of control, something has changed; Corning is no Procter & Gamble." Another analyst adds: "Corning's relative growth, peak to peak, is not impressive."

And yet, in many ways Corning is a much better company than it was in the mid-Sixties when it was held in such awe by Wall Street. It could well be on the threshold of its greatest growth yet. The key is something called low-loss optical fiber. Pound for pound stronger than steel, lighter than cotton, thin as a human hair, flexible as silk, transparent as air, these fibers, drawn from glass, may revolutionize communications. As a conductor of light beams, a given volume of the fibers can carry many times as many impulses as a similar volume of copper wire, and may eventually obsolete the latter in telephone communications--as well as in computers, aircraft and for many military purposes.

The market could eventually be over a billion dollars annually. What is perhaps even more important, Corning, slimmed and toughened, is now in position to exploit its technical advantages. Pre-1974-75, Corning was a decidedly unbalanced company, looking profitable indeed but highly vulnerable. Corning made huge profits because it dominated the business of making the glass envelopes that house TV picture tubes, first for black and white, later for color. Explains Houghton: "In 1966 we had 125% of the domestic market. The extra 25% was due to the high breakage of our glass bulbs by the set manufacturers. We got half our sales and three-fourths of our profits from this single product line."

Houghton's biggest mistake was his failure to realize how very vulnerable this near-monopoly had made the company. "You look at a big profit base like that and you expect maybe it will level off and mature, but you don't expect to lose it altogether." Yet at one point in 1975, new orders on TV picture tubes were down to zero as the recession was compounded by the Japanese blitz of the U.S. TV market. (Japanese producers buy their tubes from Japanese companies.)

This was not the only blow this proud old company suffered. In his haste to make Corning powerful overseas, and not merely an investor, Houghton had picked up control of Sovirel in France and what became Corning Ltd. in the United Kingdom. In the economic crisis that followed the quadrupling of the price of oil, the British unit sank deeply into the red while the French operation was only marginally profitable.

The worst mess was in Signetics. As a maker of integrated circuits--a business Corning did not understand--its products were sometimes obsolete before they were ever manufactured. In 5 1/2 years, Corning lost $9.5 million pretax. Not only was money lost, but so was valuable executive time. Houghton takes full responsibility for Signetics. Speaking of his vice chairman, William Armistead, Houghton says: "One of the nicest things about Bill is he never mentions Signetics to me these days." Armistead, then dirrector of research, had advised against the Signetics venture. This glass specialist had no research, manufacturing, or marketing expertise in integrated circuits, and so, no base for competing with those who did. But Houghton overruled him.

By the early part of 1975, says Houghton: "I was damned worried because I could see no sign of a bottom." To his credit, Houghton didn't just sit there and pray for recovery. He took decisive and effective action.

In June 1975 Houghton turned around and sold Signetics to U.S. Philips Trust--an affiliate of N.V. Philips--for $28 million.

"In 1975--I mean I was living through a textbook case," says he. "We shrank. We consolidated. We did more than cut payroll; we changed attitudes. Our managers got a perspective on what goes to the bottom line in a way they never had before."

Houghton cites a specific case that shows what he means. Because Corning couldn't get the costs low enough, it couldn't persuade any range manufacturer to incorporate its smoothtop cooking surface into their products. So Corning went out and started making its own ranges. Unfortunately, its high-priced stoves achieved only marginally profitable volume.

In his massive cutbacks, Houghton sold the range operation to Raytheon's Amana division, which is doing fairly well with the line and is now a good customer for Corning. Says Houghton: "Now when you do something like that, you take a helluva lot of people out of the process--125 in this case. You don't have them fabricating and putting in the wiring and packaging and supporting the thing out in the field.

"The missing people are what you notice. What you don't see is the uplifting of the profitability of the things that remain. What remained wouldn't be getting the emphasis if the problems had been retained."

While consolidating international operations with domestic, Houghton changed the kind of executive Corning sent overseas. Before, he says, he and his brother James, who heads international, looked for people fluent in foreign languages, with social graces and who were sometimes less ambitious and hard driving than their domestic counterparts--diplomatic types.

Now he's sending the most hard-driving, bottom-line-oriented SOBs he can find. To turn around Britain, still in the red, trouble-shooter Oakes Ames, ex-Corning controller, among other things, is on the spot. To spruce up all of Europe, super-sales manager Richard Dulude has also gone over.

Drawing on a yellow pad with purple ink, Houghton compares in detail the Corning of 1967-68 with the Corning of 1977-78. The old Corning was TV, scientific glass, Corning Ware and glass for light bulbs. The present Corning is much broader, thanks in good part to its highly respected $50-million-a-year research effort. TV is now a problem area: It will contribute about 10% of 1977's record profits. But now that the Japanese have been arm-twisted into cutting back TV exports to the U.S., profits in that area should improve. Complains Houghton: "The Japanese were just going crazy."

Among Corning's new profit makers, photochromic glass has given it a firm position as a supplier of prescription eyeglasses and nonprescription sunglasses. Scientific glass--for beakers, test tubes and flasks--has led Corning into a small but important base in medical products. Its new blood-gas apparatus analyzes the content of various gases in the blood, and can't yet be produced fast enough to keep up with demand. Corning's close relationship with Detroit, growing from its business of making automobile headlamps, has led to sales of ceramics for auto-emission-control devices. Glassification of nuclear wastes also has great potential in a pollution-conscious world.

Meanwhile, Corning is broadening its base in the kitchen. Besides Corning Ware and Cook Top counters, Corelle dinnerware has been a big success. The glass equivalent of plywood, Corelle now has about 20% of the domestic market, gained after eight consecutive record years. New patterns should help assure a ninth. As microwave cooking continues to catch on, Corning expects the use of Corning glass kitchenware to continue growing; glass alone among the various materials available can be used for cooking, storing and serving.

Houghton also likes to stress that Corning has additional strengths in two old but highly successful joint ventures. Dow Corning, with sales of $354 million, is jointly owned with Dow Chemical and specializes in making silicone products--with properties of both plastic and glass--used for such things as sealants for airplanes and automobiles, and greases and oils for extreme temperature changes (and for making Silly Putty). Corning is a 26% owner of Owens-Corning Fiberglas, a $1-billion company it founded many years ago in partnership with Owens-Illinois. Less successful but still profitable is Pittsburgh Corning, a joint venture with PPG Industries, that makes foam glass insulation and architectural glass blocks.

Corning's OCF investment is carried on the books at $2 million; its market value is $265 million--about $15 for each share of Corning. Its 50% interest of Dow Corning, held on the balance sheets at only $100 million, earned $21 million last year--over one-fifth its value on the books.

Taking the OCF investment at market value, Corning stock would have a book value of around $48 a share vs. a published book value of $33. At present prices the market is putting very little on the company's patents, its knowhow, its powerful proprietary positions. Having become disillusioned with the company, the market has failed to notice how much it has changed.

"What we've got now--and didn't have a decade ago," says Houghton, "is a multiplicity of businesses and profit sources. If ophthalmic disappears because people go to contact lenses or if the government says it's no longer necessary to have emission-control devices on cars or if the Japanese take over completely the TV business or a new plastic supplants Corning Ware, the impact of any one of those things is not nearly as serious as the impact of TV bulbs was on the old Corning Glass."

What kept Corning on a kind of treadmill until this year was that as fast as it was gaining volume and profits from new products, it was losing them in TV tubes. Assuming that the bleeding in TV has been stopped, Corning may well have reached a new plateau of profitability; it certainly is unlikely to experience another 1974-75 collapse, even in a recession. Says Houghton: "We've got everything from flood-disaster plans to economic-disaster plans."

Although Amo Houghton is unwilling to promise any miracles, it is clear that his biggest plans involve fiber optics. Of communication by optical wave fibers, he says: "They may do for us in the future what television or lighting did for us in the past."

Will it? Can Corning make one of those great breakthroughs--like IBM in computers, Xerox in copiers, Corning itself in TV tubes? Fiber optics is the stuff of which businessmen's (and scientists') dreams are made.

To explain what Corning has--or may have in fiber optics--FORBES will have to step out of character for several hundred words and do a bit of science reporting. Even if you've forgotten your high school or college physics, please bear with us. Otherwise you won't be able to understand what is at stake.

Like most great breakthroughs, fiber optics rest on a simple enough idea. A city's sewage system depends on water flowing through iron pipes; its power system depends on electrons flowing through copper pipes (which we call wire). Such copper pipe now connects telephones, cable television, computers and all manner of other information processing gear. That works well enough but it is costly. And it is space-consuming. It limits the amount of communication.

The most common method is plain old copper wire packed in cables. Effective? Sure. But it takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of the stuff to hold together even a small city--most of it laboriously buried beneath the streets.

So why bother with wire if you don't have to? Most widely used today for long-distance communications is the air itself. Instead of jamming electrons through wire, generators convert them to microwave signals and fling these along the surface of the earth, between a system of relays spaced about 20 or 30 miles apart. The odd-shaped boxes on down-town buildings that remind you of air-raid sirens are the antennas. In the late 1960s microwave replaced copper wire as the mainstay of long-distance phone traffic: more volume at lower cost.

Still more volume may be available from microwaves in the third and newest trick: satellite transmission. Microwaves are broadcast from, say, New York, to a satellite orbiting over Omaha, then bounced to Los Angeles. None of those vulnerable relays high atop the Rockies, and suddenly no more need for laying cable on the ocean floor.

Now imagine the light pipe. Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire. Economies of scale? It's as though General Motors had suddenly found a way to fit 7 million automobiles in a single box-car. Or, to get back to our earlier metaphor, as if you could compress the entire city's sewage through a single ordinary water pipe.

Here, then, is the immediate promise of fiber optics. Its very long-distance applications are years, perhaps decades off. Microwave is the cheapest--for now. But in the bowels of a particular metropolitan area--where conduits are already becoming choked with thick copper wire--the human-hair-sized glass has almost immediate prospects. Not only is it less bulky and faster than copper; it generates virtually none of the electromagnetic interference that can make a copper wire behave like an antenna instead of a pipe (and create that annoying "cross-talk" often heard on phones).

Likewise, there are great prospects in computers, where light pipes can transmit much more information than copper and without the interference; in instrumentation of all sorts; and in army field cables and navy shore communications. More distant applications: picture telephones, home shopping and airplane avionics. In short, almost anywhere copper wire is used in close quarters or for fine quality--there is a promising opportunity for the light pipe.

The idea of a light pipe is a fairly old one. John Tyndall, an English experimenter, demonstrated one before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. He put a barrel of water in a dark room, a light at the top of it, and punched a hole in the barrel's side. Streaming out of the puncture, in a curved path with the water, came the light.

But Bell built his telephone to work with copper wire for two reasons: He didn't know how to build a pipe that would hold light; and even if he did, he knew of no efficient way to get the light into the pipe.

The second problem--getting the light in there--was solved by the invention and refinement of the lightemitting diode and the laser in the past 20 years. Getting an incandescent bulb to shine any distance in a glass pipe is like trying to pour water into the wrong end of a funnel--you lose so much, it isn't worth it. But the laser and the light-emitting diode produced wonderfully disciplined light--meaning, it would go where and how you wanted it to. The funnel was reversed.

There are many older optical fibers, but low-light-loss ones are vital for telephone cable. Here Corning has a clear lead. "We proved," Amo Houghton says proudly, "what a lot of people thought was impossible. That we could make the quality of glass fiber necessary to transmit long-distance signals. We have virtually all of the patents as far as the critical materials are concerned."

What about potential competition? Replies Houghton: "There are 12 basic patents in the field and we have all 12 versus none in integrated circuits [referring to the Signetics disaster]. It's our turf with our patents."

In the telephone markets, Houghton plans to sell the fiber to the existing cable makers--Western Electric (American Telephone & Telegraph's manufacturing subsidiary), and General Cable (General Telephone & Electronics' chief supplier).

In the nontelephone market--where cable will be used in such things as aircraft, computers and defense--Houghton is considering a joint venture--a la Dow Corning--with a cable company. "Joint ventures work well for us," he says. "We put in our technology and other people put in their downstream capabilities, marketing savvy. Things we don't have."

Abroad Corning has been busy doing joint development work with foreign cable makers. In Japan the government is using its fibers in experimentally wiring an entire Japanese town, Nara. In Britain, Corning has been supplying optical fiber to BICC--an archrival of an International Telephone & Telegraph subsidiary. In Germany it has a joint venture with Siemens. Corning would like to manufacture fiber to sell to ITT and has quoted ITT prices several times. Says Corning's Dr. David Duke, general manager of telecommunication products, "They listened, and, in effect, replied, 'See you in court.'"

ITT has gone right ahead and made its own fiber optics cable. In England, it has installed a test system in cooperation with the British Post, Telephone & Telegraph. At home its military unit has used fiber optics in some sales to the U.S. government. In Duke's opinion ITT simply ignored Corning's patents, and Corning is suing ITT for patent infringement and the U.S. government for damages stemming from that infringement.

In its turn ITT is doing some suing, arguing that Corning cross-licensed AT&T because it wants to sell to Western Electric. ITT argues the arrangement is monopolistic and should be destroyed. If ITT wins, Corning will be faced with instant competition from a knowledgeable well-financed tough competitor.

Two professors from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. pose a second threat to Corning's potential dominance of the business. The professors, Theodore A. Litovitz and Pedro B. Macedo, claim to have developed a new process for making the fiber, which does not infringe on any Corning patent, at one-tenth Corning's costs. Claims Litovitz, "If our process really comes up with the specifications we hope, then there will be a real chance for a price battle, and Corning's profits in fiber optics could suffer severely. Ours is the only alternative process at the moment."

While the professors have made quite a stir in the press, Corning points out that the fiber produced by the professors has not come up to the quality of the existing Corning fiber--inferior in the important broad band qualities needed for carrying the varied communications of the future. Meanwhile Corning is currently working to obsolete its own current process with an even better one.

While Houghton fully expects Corning to be the dominant company in optic fibers, his recent trials have taught him the key to Corning's future lies more in good management than in wonder products. "The opportunities in so-called mundane areas like this microwave oven business or the opportunity to bring our percentage of the consumer market in Europe up to what it is in this country could be bigger than optical wave guides. You don't think of them in terms of the exciting technological advances, but they're terrific."

Amo Houghton had a rare second chance--the chance to correct his own mistakes. He's a thoughtful man of 51 with a more than routine feeling of responsibility for the onetime family firm that was founded by his great-great grandfather in Somerville, Mass. 126 years ago. Of the rough period Corning has just been through he says: "One thing I've learned about planning is that you can talk about the long term all you want but you also have to produce good short-term results."

And he says it again, more bluntly: "If you don't make a buck today, you're not going to make it tomorrow." Meaning, of course, that fiber optics may very well pan out for Corning, but he's not going to count on it to keep Corning profitable and growing. That's well and good, but the future is going to judge Amo Houghton by how well he exploits Corning's present advantage in fiber optics. If he muffs the opportunity, Corning will remain a profitable company. But it will no longer be a great company.

Address 1986 33 E. Third St., Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA^3,10,8
Office between Nov 4, 1986 and 2005 U.S. House of Representatives, New York, 31st District, Republican; 100th to 109th Congress;
Committee Membership:
Committee on International Relations-14
Subcommittee on Africa-2
Committee on Ways and Means-5
Subcommittee on Oversight-Chair
Subcommittee on Trade-3
Divorce 1988 ¹¹
Marriage circa 1988 ^7,11
Residence Washington, DC, USA, for 18 years
Address 1993 3512 P. St. NW, Washington, DC, USA⁷
Notable Amory Houghton Jr (1926-) was president of Corning, Inc., and a member of the US House of Representatives, 1987-2005.
Obituary Mar, 2020 Obituary of Amory Houghton, Jr.

Amory Houghton, Jr. who led Corning Glass Works for nearly twenty years and later served nine terms as a member of Congress, died peacefully of natural causes on March 4, 2020 at his home in Corning, NY. He was 93.

He is the only former Chief Executive of a Fortune 500 Company ever elected to the US House of Representatives.

Mr. Houghton, better known as “Amo”, attended St Paul’s School in Concord, NH, Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. He was a PFC in the US Marine Corps during the final year of WWII.

He joined Corning in 1952 as a Junior Process Engineer, became President in 1961 and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1964. During his tenure, sales and income increased more than five fold and employment grew to over 29,000 worldwide. Passionately committed to research and development, he shepherded such innovations as Corning Ware, Corelle Dinnerware, automotive catalytic converters, specialized flat glass used now on smart phones and panels, and optical fiber – which revolutionized the telecommunications industry and ushered in the creation of the Internet.

He was a member of the Board of Directors of BF Goodrich, Citibank, Genentech, IBM, Owens Corning, New York Telephone and The Procter and Gamble Company. He was a member of The Business Council and co-founded the Labor/Industry Coalition for International Trade. He served as President of the Board of Trustees at St Paul’s School and The Episcopal Theological Seminary and was a two time Overseer of Harvard University. He served as a Trustee of the Brookings Institute and the Corning Museum of Glass. He stepped down as CEO of Corning in 1983 and was elected to Congress three years later.

During his eighteen-year career in Washington, he served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Budget and Ways and Means. A natural consensus builder, he never pretended to be someone he wasn’t and used his patient salesmanship to defuse partisan disagreements in order to tackle problems the only way that made sense to him - cooperatively. He was uniquely popular among members of both parties for his self-deprecating sense of humor and relentless work ethic. His concern about the erosion of civility in government led him to organize numerous retreats for members from both sides of the aisle – and their families – so that they could get to know each other on a human level, beyond the inflexibility of what politics has become.

He was a co-founder and Chairman of The Republican Main Street Partnership, an organization dedicated to supporting members of his party who spoke with a more moderate voice. Together with his great friend and congressional classmate, John L. Lewis, he served as Co-Chairman of the Faith and Politics Institute.

Amo was part of a small handful of Republicans who opposed the impeachment of President Clinton and were in opposition to the authorization of force in Iraq. Those votes elicited considerable anger in some circles and wide support in others.

He was a passionate supporter of the United Nations and the principal force behind Nelson Mandela, a personal hero, being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1998. When he retired from politics in 2004, his achievements were recognized by his many colleagues as well as the nation of France, who bestowed on him its highest civilian honor: La Legion D’Honneur in recognition of his efforts to improve relations between the two countries.

Mr. Houghton was born on August 7th, 1926 to a family of businessmen and public servants. His great, great grandfather founded the predecessor company of Corning Incorporated in Somerville, MA in 1851. In 1868, the company relocated to its present location in upstate New York. His grandfather, Alanson, ran his family’s business and then served two terms in the US House before being appointed in the mid 1920s to be the US Ambassador to Germany and then later to The Court of St. James in London. His father, Amory Sr., also a successful businessman, was the US Ambassador to France under President Eisenhower.

Amo was extraordinarily devoted to his family, and was most at ease in the place he called home his entire life: Corning, NY. He was an iconic, larger than life presence there - enormously proud of his association with the city and the company who adopted its name. He was a member and past President of the Corning Rotary Club and played the drums in a local swing band.

He will likely be best remembered there for his leadership during the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes. The resulting flood that swept through the city in the dead of night on June 23rd, 1972 caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, killing 22 people. Because of the destruction of so many manufacturing facilities there, speculation was rampant that the company would abandon the area. In a stirring speech over the emergency airwaves, Houghton pledged that the company would stay and rebuild even better than before. He delivered on that promise and Corning never forgot.

Amo Houghton was a man of fierce determination, driven to be courageous and compassionate so that he would live up to the standards his family had set for generations. He believed he had a personal obligation to serve. And while naturally an extrovert who could effortlessly connect with anyone – from an hourly worker to a Head of State – he was above all a man of grace, unfailingly polite and generous, always checking in on a friend or neighbor during their time of need.

A man of deep religious conviction, Amo’s favorite prayer summed up a remarkable life:

Grant, Oh Lord, that in all the joys of life, we may never forget to be kind. Help us to be unselfish in friendship, thoughtful of those less happy than ourselves and eager to bear the burden of others. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

He is survived by his brother Jamie of Boston MA; his children: Amory III of South Salem, NY; Robert of Acton, MA; Sarah of Fairfield, CT; Quincy of New York, NY; nine grandchildren and one great grandson. In 1950, he married the former Ruth West of New York, NY. In 1989, he was remarried to Priscilla Dewey of Cohasset, MA, who predeceased him in 2012.
Death Mar, 2020 New York, NY, USA
Biography Who's Who: "Glass Manufacturer...Corning Glass Works, accountnt's asst., Central Falls, R.I. plant; process engr., Corning, N.Y., plants; production frmn., Corning, N.Y. plant; sales engr; mgr., sales dept; mgr. components dept; v.p., stff divs; dir. Corning Glass Wks., 1955; v.p., 1957-61, pres. 1961-64, chmn., chief exec. officer, 1964-1983. v.p., dir., Corning Glass Wks. of Can., Ltd; v.p., dir., 719 Fifth Ave. Corp; dir., Dow Corning Corp., Pittsburgh Corning Corp., Sylvania-Corning Nuclear Corp., IBM Corp., First National Bank, Empire State C. of C., The B. F. Goodrich Co. Mem. bd. Nat. Indsl. Conf. Bd., Bus. Council; trustee Corning Glass Works Found., Corning Mus. Glass, St. Paul's School, Concord NH; bd. overseers Harvard. 1945-46, U.S. Marine Corps. Tr. Episc. Theol. Sch., Cambridge, Mass., dir., pres. Corning C. of C; dir., Corrning Country Club, Route 17 Assn., United Cerebral Palsy Assn., Steuben Co., N.Y; mem. indus., Natl. Council on Alcoholism. Clubs; Corning Rotary, Corning Jr. C. of C., Harvard, Harvard Bus. Sch. (Rochester, N.Y.), Harvard and Univ. (N.Y.C.), Kittansett (Marion, Mass.), Elmira, N.Y. Country. Res.: 33 E. Third St., Corning, N.Y. Address: Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y."
v.p. 1957-1961, pres., mem. exec. com., 1961--; dir. Dow Corning Corp., Corhart Refractories Co., Corning Fibre Box Co., N.Y. Telephone Co., mem. trust adv. bd. First Nat. City Bank. Member of Board National Industrial Conference Board., Trustee Corning Glass Works Found., Corning Mus. Glass, Nat. Secutiry Indsl. Assn. , Episcopal Theol. Sch.

He turned the family's Corning, Inc. over to his brother James Houghton in 1983 to become a New York Republican congressman. On July 12, 1993, he purchased between $250,000 and $500,000 dollars worth of stock in Corning Glass.

He is the fifth-ranking Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, chairs its Oversight Subcommittee and is a member of the Trade Subcommittee. He is also a member of the International Relations Committee and Vice-Chairman of its Subcommittee on Africa.
Politically, Houghton has built a reputation as a results-oriented Congressman who espouses moderate social programs and conservative fiscal policy. He has emerged as a leader of a core of moderate Republicans who have brokered key legislative successes. His bill to regulate secretive "stealth PACs" has been described as the most meaningful campaign finance reform since Watergate. In 1998, the citizens´ group Common Cause named Houghton to its prestigious Public Integrity Honor Roll, citing his leadership in campaign finance reform. He was the founding co-chair, with Democratic Rep. Tim Roemer of Indiana, of the House Centrist Coalition.
"Biography of Rep. Amo Houghton on his website

Hartwick College Announces Commencement Speaker
February 18, 2005 : - Amo Houghton, former chairman and CEO of Corning, Inc., served nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the State of New York

     Amory (Amo) Houghton, former chairman and CEO of Corning, Inc. who served nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from the State of New York before his retirement in 2004, will deliver the address at Hartwick's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 28, 2005. The event will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Elmore Field adjacent to the Binder Physical Education Center on the Hartwick campus.
A Republican, Houghton had served in the House since 1987, representing New York's 29th Congressional District, which covers parts of eight counties in the Southern Tier as well as the southern suburbs of the city of Rochester. He announced in April 2004 that he was retiring and would not seek a tenth term in the November 2004 election.

Houghton's great-great-grandfather founded what is now Corning, Inc. (formerly Corning Glass Works) in 1851. Amo Houghton joined Corning in 1952, after graduating from Harvard University and serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He became chairman and CEO in 1964 and stepped down to run for Congress in 1986. He was the only CEO of a Fortune 500 company to serve in the House. Corning, which supplied Thomas Edison with the housing for his first light bulb, is a world leader in glass and ceramics technology.

Houghton was the fifth-ranking Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, chaired its Oversight Committee, and was a member of the Trade Subcommittee. He also was a member of the International Relations Committee and vice chairman of its subcommittee on Africa. In addition, Houghton was appointed co-chairman of the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Group, chaired the U.S. delegation to the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum, and was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Congressional Delegate to the 58th General Assembly of the United Nations.

Congressman Houghton's legislative accomplishments include enactment of several laws. The Liberty Zone Act provided $5 billion in tax breaks and incentives to help New Yorkers in lower Manhattan rebuild following the 9/11 terrorist attack. The Clean Diamond Trade Act puts limits on the trade in diamonds imported from Africa. He also led measures to reform the campaign finance system, sponsored several proposals to simplify the tax code, and introduced the bill that awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to then South African President Nelson Mandela.

Houghton initiated the John Quincy Adams Society, an issues forum which brings together moderate officeholders with business leaders, and he is a founding member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, which seeks to strengthen the political center. In addition, Houghton is co-chairman of the Washington-based Faith and Politics Institute. The Almanac of American Politics said of Houghton, "He may well be more what the Founding Fathers had in mind . . . as the ideal Congressman."

Before entering Congress, Houghton served on the boards of such major corporations as Procter & Gamble, IBM, Citicorp, New York Telephone, B.F. Goodrich, and Genentech. He is a former trustee of the Brookings Institution, a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and a past director of the Episcopal Theological Seminary. He has been awarded 14 honorary degrees. He is the recipient of numerous awards and citations, including the Electronic Industries Alliance Medal of Honor, which cited Houghton as the “father of fiber optics” for his support of research at Corning which resulted in creating this revolutionary communications material.

Houghton's father served as Ambassador to France from 1957 to 1961 following his career at the Corning Glass Works. His grandfather, Alanson B. Houghton, was Ambassador to Germany and Ambassador to the Court of St. James (Great Britain) after serving two terms in the House of Representatives, 1918-22.
Date: Friday, May 31, 1996
Rep. Amo Houghton
New York, 31st District

Amo Houghton, 72, has served since 1987 as the Representative of New York's 31st Congressional District, which covers parts of 10 counties from Lake Erie, along the Pennsylvania border to the Finger Lakes. The district's major cities include James
town, Olean, Corning, Elmira, suburban Ithaca and Auburn.

He is the sixth-ranking Republican on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, chairs its Oversight Subcommittee and is a member of the Trade Subcommittee. He is also a member of the International Relations Committee and Vice-Chairman of its Subcommittee on Africa. The posts reflect his longstanding interest and legislative leadership in those fields.

Politically, Houghton has built a reputation as a results-oriented Congressman who espouses moderate social programs and conservative fiscal policy. He has emerged as a leader of a core of moderate Republicans who have brokered key legislative successes. He was a founder of the historic Bipartisan Congressional Retreat, which drew nearly 200 Members of Congress and their families to Hershey, Pa. in March 1997. The retreat, the largest gathering of Congress outside Washington, focused on the role of civility in political life.

Houghton "favors results over posturing," said a Washington Post profile. "For several years he has been trying to promote civility among his colleagues on the theory that members could do a better job if they cooperated instead of pulling
ties or otherwise going for the throat."

He is the founder of the John Quincy Adams Society, an issues forum which brings together moderate officeholders with top business leaders. He is also an active member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, which seeks to strengthen the politi
cal center. In 1998, the citizens' group Common Cause named Houghton to its prestigious Public Integrity Honor Roll, citing his leadership in campaign finance reform.

The only former CEO of a Fortune 500 firm to serve in the House, Houghton joined Corning Glass Works (now Corning, Incorporated) in 1951, after serving as a PFC in the Marine Corps in 1945 and 1946. A graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Bus iness School, he began as an accountant at Corning and retired in 1986 after serving as president, board chairman and chief executive officer.

Corning Inc., founded by the Houghton family in 1851, is a world leader in glass and ceramics technology including fiber optics and photonic components. The firm supplied Thomas Edison with the housing for his first light bulb, and built windshields for NASA's space shuttle fleet.

Almanac of American Politics says of Houghton: " ... he may well be more what the Founding Fathers had in mind ... " as the ideal Congressman. A columnist in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described him as "one of the most thoughtfu
l people on the Hill."

Before entering Congress, Houghton served on the boards of several major companies, including Procter & Gamble, IBM, Citibank, NY Telephone, B.F. Goodrich and Genentech. Appointed by President Reagan to the Grace Commission in 1982, he served as the panel's vice-chairman. He is a former trustee of St. Paul's School, the Brookings Institution, a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and a past director of the Episcopal Theological Seminary. He holds 13 honorary degrees.

Houghton's father Amory served as Ambassador to France from 1957 to 1961. His grandfather Alanson B. Houghton was Ambassador to Germany and Ambassador to Great Britain after serving two terms in the House of Representatives.

Houghton is married to the former Priscilla B. Dewey."

HOUGHTON, Amory, Jr., (grandson of Alanson Bigelow Houghton), a Representative from New York; born in Corning, Steuben County, N.Y., August 7, 1926; graduated from St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H; B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1950; M.B.A., Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass., 1952; United States Marine Corps, 1945-1946; elected as a Republican to the One Hundredth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1987-January 3, 2003).

Amo Houghton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amory "Amo" Houghton Jr. (b. August 7, 1926) is a politician from the state of New York and member of the Houghton family.
Houghton was born in Corning, New York and he graduated from Harvard University. Houghton was a business executive, an heir to the Corning Glass fortune.
In 1986, Houghton was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican. He was the richest member of the House, with a wealth of $475 million. Houghton has a moderate voting record and he unsuccessfully sought out a Republican to challenge Tom DeLay for the spot of majority leader. He was one of only four Republicans to vote against all the impeachment articles against President Clinton. In 2001, Houghton was one of only three Republicans to vote against permanently repealing the estate tax. He also voted with the Democratic Party on issues of environmental protection, civil rights, human cloning, and funding for the arts and education. In 2002, he was among the extreme minority of Republicans to vote against approving the use of military force in Iraq. On April 7, 2004, Houghton announced his intentions not to seek a tenth term in Congress. On January 3, 2005, Houghton's term as a congressman expired.
Houghton throughout his career was Upstate New York's most well known Republican member of Congress, but he clashed frequently with the increasingly Southern, socially conservative orientation of the party. For example, Houghton was one of the most vocal Pro-Choice Republicans in Congress.
Houghton achieved national notoriety a number of times in his career, most recently when he was listed as the only government official to be a member of the men-only, ultra-exclusive golf club, Augusta National. The most common response from the Houghton camp came from his spokesman, Bob Van Wicklin: "No comment."
He was succeeded by John R. "Randy" Kuhl, a former State Senator and Bath lawyer.
Preceded by
Stanley N. Lundine     Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 34th congressional district
1987–1993     Succeeded by
District 34 eliminated after the 1990 Census
Preceded by
Bill Paxon     Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 31st congressional district
1993–2003     Succeeded by
District 31 eliminated after the 2000 Census
Preceded by
John J. LaFalce     Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 29th congressional district
2003–2005     Succeeded by
Randy Kuhl
AKA Amory Houghton, Jr.
Born: 7-Aug-1926
Birthplace: Corning, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: Republican
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congressman from New York, 1987-2005
Military service: USMC (1945-46)
Father: Amory Houghton, Sr.
Wife: Priscilla B. Dewey
High School: St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
University: BA, Harvard University (1950)
University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1952)
Administrator: Trustee, St. Paul's School, Concord, NH
Administrator: Board of Overseers, Harvard University
U.S. Congressman, New York 29th (2003-05)
U.S. Congressman, New York 31st (1993-2003)
U.S. Congressman, New York 34th (1987-93)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2002
Augusta National Golf Club
Brookings Institution Trustee
Faith and Politics Institute Chairman Emeritus
It's My Party Too National Advisory Board
The Reform Institute Advisory Board Chairman
Republican Main Street Partnership
Ripon Society
Council on Foreign Relations
Member of the Board of Citicorp
Member of the Board of Goodrich
Member of the Board of Genentech
Member of the Board of IBM
Member of the Board of Procter & Gamble
Official Website:
http://houghton.house.gov/

In 1986, Houghton was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. Houghton reportedly was among the richest members of the House, with a wealth of $475 million, however, most of that amount was related to trusts in which he had no beneficial interest. Houghton had a moderate voting record and was founder of the Republican Main Street Coalition, which he formed to encourage a more moderate stance to public issues. He served on the International Relations and Ways and Means Committees. He was frequently called upon to serve as a broker between Democrat and Republican members on critical issues since he was a champion for improving civility between political parties. He unsuccessfully sought out a Republican to challenge Tom DeLay for the spot of majority leader. He was one of only four Republicans to vote against all the impeachment articles against President Clinton, and in 2001, Houghton was one of only three Republicans to vote against permanently repealing the estate tax. While he voted with Republicans on most issues relating to the budget, he also voted with the Democratic Party on issues of environmental protection, civil rights and funding for the arts and education. On October 10, 2002, he was among the six House Republicans who voted against authorizing the invasion of Iraq. On April 7, 2004, Houghton announced his intentions not to seek a tenth term in Congress. On January 3, 2005, Houghton's term as a congressman expired.

Houghton throughout his career was one of Upstate New York's most well known and respected Republican members of Congress; he was usually re-elected with more than 70% of the vote. He clashed occasionally with the increasingly Southern, socially conservative orientation of the party. For example, Houghton was one of the most vocal pro-choice Republicans in Congress.

He was succeeded by John R. "Randy" Kuhl, a former State Senator and Bath lawyer.^{2,6,4,12,13,14}
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[S146] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 602.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, p. 595.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, April 20, 1999.

[S934] Who's Who, 1958, p. 960.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, CVII [1993]: 376.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, XCIX [1985]: 443.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, New York, 1970, Vol. LXXXIV #1, Nov. 1969, p. 406.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, 1986, p. 569.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, Apr. 1999.

[S936] Who's Who, 1958, Houghtons.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amo_Houghton

[S1553] Thomas P Dimitroff, Houghtons of Corning, NY.

Rev. Alanson Bigelow Houghton II^1,2

M, #15166, b. 30 August 1930, d. 24 January 2016

Father*: Amory Houghton Sr b. 27 Jul 1899, d. 21 Feb 1981

Mother*: Laura DeKay Richardson b. 2 Oct 1900, d. 9 Apr 2003

Family 1: Lyle Bayless Stewart b. 24 Apr 1932, d. 1 Nov 1998

Engagement: Rev. Alanson Bigelow Houghton II and Lyle Bayless Stewart were engaged on Dec 31, 1952 at Louisville, KY, USA.¹²

Marriage*: Rev. Alanson Bigelow Houghton II married Lyle Bayless Stewart on Apr 18, 1953 at Louisville, KY, USA.⁵

Alexander Stewart Houghton+⁹ b. c 1957

Alanson Bigelow Houghton III+¹⁰ b. c 1964

Hope Hollingsworth Houghton+⁹ b. c 1966

John Carter Houghton+¹¹ b. Jan 1969

Family 2: Billie Fisher b. 20 Jan 1932, d. 7 Apr 2013

Marriage*: Rev. Alanson Bigelow Houghton II married Billie Fisher on Jun 16, 1979.⁷

Biography

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A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project ?
Birth Aug 30, 1930 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 9 in 1940 census³
Education 1941 Arizona Desert School, AZ, USA⁴
Mil. Enls US Marines (not WWII list)
Research
Occupation 1953 Louisville, KY, USA, Corhart Refractories Company
Marriage Apr 18, 1953 Louisville, KY, USA⁵
Graduation 1959 Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, MBA, Bus⁶
Address 1975 Church of the Heavenly Rest, Two E. 90th St., New York, New York Co., NY, USA, an Episcopalian minister and rector⁶
Marriage Jun 16, 1979 ⁷
Author 1988 Be Not Afraid : Words of Hope and Promise
Living 2003 Pawleys Island, SC, USA⁸
Note 2005 an Episcopalian priest for 40 years; retired as the rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York.
Death Jan 24, 2016 Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Obituary Pawleys Island, SC

The Reverend Alanson Bigelow Houghton died peacefully at his home in Pawleys Island, SC on Sunday, January 24th. He was 85 years old.

Alan was born August 3, 1930 in Corning, NY to the late Amory Houghton Sr. and Laura Richardson Houghton. Alan earned multiple degrees including a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Master of Divinity from General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church.

Alan spent the early part of his career in business where he worked for the Corning Glass Works. He then found his true calling and became an ordained Episcopal priest. He served at a number of different churches including Church of the Epiphany (New York City, NY), Christ Episcopal Church (Shaker Heights, OH), Church of The Heavenly Rest (New York City) and St. Stephens Episcopal Church (Charleston, SC).

Alan felt strongly about public service and giving back to his country. One of his proudest accomplishments was becoming a United States Marine. Alan also had a passion for philanthropy, and he particularly enjoyed starting and supporting charitable programs in the communities in which he lived. Lastly, Alan loved to write. He was a published author who enjoyed writing cards, prayer books and letters to the editor.

Alan was preceded in death by his beloved wife Billie Fisher Carr Houghton, his sister Laura Houghton Beer, and stepsons John Thomas Fisher Carr and Oscar C. Carr III.

He is survived by his siblings Elizabeth Weinberg, Amory Houghton Jr., and James Richardson Houghton; his children Alexander Stewart Houghton, Alanson Bigelow Houghton III, Hope Houghton Newell and John Carter Houghton; his stepchildren Blanche Carr Symons, Scott Carr Adams and E'Lane Carr Tipton; and 19 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held at Holy Cross Faith Memorial Episcopal Church in Pawleys Island, SC at 10am EST on Saturday, January 30th.
Burial Holy Cross Cemetery, Pawleys Island, SC, USA
Research Lyle B. Stewart's betrothal; Is Affianced to Alanson; Houghton 2d of Louisville

NY TIMES.

January 1, 1953, Thursday

Page 21, 119 words

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S146] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 602.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, April 20, 1999.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 178.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times, April 19, 1953.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, p. 595.

[S93] Newspaper Obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/commercialappeal/…

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.phillipsfuneralhome.com/ecom/sp/;cat=obituaries;obit=03-142-C.

[S415] E-mail from Jane Preziosi, May 3, 2009.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html

[S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: January 1, 1953.

James Richardson Houghton MBA^1,2,3

M, #15167, b. 6 April 1936, d. 20 December 2022

Father*: Amory Houghton Sr¹ b. 27 Jul 1899, d. 21 Feb 1981

Mother*: Laura DeKay Richardson¹ b. 2 Oct 1900, d. 9 Apr 2003

Family: May Tuckerman Kinnicutt b. 1940

Engagement: James Richardson Houghton MBA and May Tuckerman Kinnicutt were engaged on Mar 8, 1962.

Marriage*: James Richardson Houghton MBA married May Tuckerman Kinnicutt on Jun 30, 1962 at Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA.^3,6,7

James DeKay Houghton+³ b. c 1963

Nina Bayard Houghton³ b. c 1966

Biography

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Notable Y
Birth Apr 6, 1936 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 4 in 1940 census^4,3
Graduation 1958 Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, AB^5,3
Marriage Jun 30, 1962 Christ Episcopal Church, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA^3,6,7
Immigration 1962 Danville, KY, USA, to start as a production foreman for Corning.⁷
Immigration circa 1963 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, a financial analyst in the controller's office
Note between 1964 and 1968 Zurich, Switzerland, as vice president of European area of international division of Corning⁸
Occupation between 1983 and 1997 Corning, Steuben, NY, USA, With Goldman, Sachs & co., NYC, 1959-61; with Corning Glass Works (name changed to Corning Inc. 1989), 1962--, vp., gne. mgr. consumer products div., 1968-71, vice chmn., bd., dir., mem. exec. com., 1971-83; v.p. European area mgr. Corning Glass Internat., Zurich, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium, 1964-68; chmn., pres., dir. Corning Internat. Corp., Corning Glass Internat., S.A;Chairman and CEO of Corning Glass Works, 1983-1996; dir. Met. Life Ins. Co., Sperry & Hutchinson Co., Dow Corning Corp., CBS, Inc; mem. internat. council Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., NYC Trustee U.S. council Internat. C. of C. Mem. Bus. Com. for Arts, NYC., NY State Council on Arts, Council on Fgn. Relations. Trustee Corning Glass Works Found., Corning Museum Glass, Pierpont Morgan Library, NYC, Fay Sch., Southboro MA, Clarkson Coll. Tech., Potsdam, NY, Inst. Advanced Study, Princeton. Served with AUS, 1959-60. Episcopalian. Clubs: Corning Country; River, Harvard, University, Links (NYC); Brookline (MA) Country; Tarratine (Dark Harbor, ME); Royal Golf (Brussels, Belgium); August (Ga.) Nat. Golf; Rolling Rock (Ligonier, Pa.) Home: The Field Spencer Hill Rd RD 2 Corning NY 14830. Office: Corning Glass Works, Corning NY 14830.

In 1989 Corning Glass Works became Corning, Inc., a global network of 6 operating divisions, 21 subsidiary companies, and 20 joint ventures. It built the 327 inch mirror for Japan National Large Telescope project on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.^3,9
Address 1986 Rd 2 Spencer Hill Road, Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA⁵
Residence 1992 Corning Inc., Houghton Park, Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA⁹
Newspaper Feb 9, 1996 Corning Chief Plans to Retire In the Spring
By JOHN HOLUSHA
Published: Friday, February 9, 1996

As expected, James R. Houghton announced yesterday that he would retire in April after 13 years as chairman and chief executive of Corning Inc. His retirement means the end of, or possibly a long hiatus in, the control of the company by the Houghton family, which has spanned five generations.

Mr. Houghton, who will be 60 years old in April, named Roger G. Ackerman, president of the company since 1990, as his successor. Mr. Ackerman, 57, who earned engineering degrees from Rutgers University, started at Corning in 1962.

Shares of Corning, a company best known for its glass and ceramic products, rose 50 cents yesterday, to $34.625, on the New York Stock Exchange.

Mr. Houghton has a son and a nephew at Corning, but both are young and in the lower ranks of management. James D. Houghton, his 32-year-old son, is a product line manager in the division that produces glass shells for television picture tubes. J. Carter Houghton, the 25-year-old nephew, is with Corning's laboratory testing division, which may be sold or merged with another company by year's end.

Mr. Houghton said he was "hopeful that Houghtons can participate in the management of the company" in the future but said he was making no promises. "If they do get to the top it will be as a result of ability, not their last name," he said. The Houghton family controls about 15 percent of the company's stock.

The company traces its roots to 1851, when Mr. Houghton's great-great-grandfather, Amory Houghton, purchased an interest in a glass company in Cambridge, Mass. The company was later shifted to Brooklyn and moved in 1868 to upstate Corning, N.Y.

Mr. Houghton became chairman in 1983, succeeding his older brother, Representative Amory Houghton Jr., a Republican from Corning. James Houghton sold Corning's slow growth businesses, like light bulbs, and diversified the company into medical testing at a time when that segment of health care was expected to grow rapidly.

But since then, limits on health care spending have slowed growth, and Mr. Houghton said some action would be taken regarding that part of the company this year. "We are reevaluating the clinical labs and we will have to make a decision: fix, sell or merge," he said.

Mr. Houghton, who said he intended to continue as a member of the board, said he told the board "several years ago" that he planned to retire by the age of 60.

"I have been chief executive for 13 years and that is long enough," he said. "Roger and his people are ready and I expect it to be a seamless transition."
A version of this article appeared in print on Friday, February 9, 1996, on section D page 4 of the New York edition.
Living 1997 Corning, Steuben, NY, USA
Note Apr 21, 1999 President Clinton today announced his intent to appoint James R. Houghton and Susan D. Auld as members of the National Skill Standards Board.

James R. Houghton, of Corning, New York, is Chairman of the Board Emeritus of Corning, Inc., and formerly served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Houghton began his career with Corning in 1962 and served in production, financial and sales positions until 1965, when he was named Vice President and European area manager. He became a Director of the company is 1969 and Chairman in 1983. Mr. Houghton is also a trustee of the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was first appointed to the National Skill Standards Board in January, 1995 and was elected Chair in April, 1995. Mr. Houghton received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and an M.A. from Harvard Business School.

In April 2010, he stepped down after 41 years on the board of directors. Wendell P. Weeks succeeded Houghton as chairman and chief executive officer of Corning, Inc. Houghton worked 48 years for the company founded by his ancestors, including stints as chief executive officer from 1983 to 1996 and from 2002 to 2007. Houghton retired for the first time in 1996, but was called back to lead the company in 2002 following the crash of the telecommunications market. James Houghton was preceded as chief executive officer of the Fortune 500 company by his brother, Amo Houghton, and his father, Amory Houghton Sr.¹⁰
Death Dec 20, 2022 Boston, MA, USA
Obituary Dec 23, 2022 James Richardson Houghton died peacefully at home in Boston, MA on December 20, 2022. He had struggled valiantly for over 11 years with frontal lobe dementia. He was born in Corning, NY on April 6, 1936, the son of Amory Houghton and Laura Richardson Houghton.

Jamie, as he was always called, attended Corning public schools, then went to Fay School in Southborough, MA and graduated from St Paul’s School in Concord, NH in 1954. He attended Harvard College, graduating in 1958. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1962 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Harvard in 2011.

He is survived by his most loving family, Maisie (Kinnicutt) Houghton whom he married in 1962, his son James DeKay Houghton (m. Connie Coburn), daughter Nina Bayard Houghton, and 4 grandchildren – Isabelle and Abigail Houghton, Finn and Augusta George. He was predeceased by his four siblings, Betty, Amo, Alan and Meme.

From 1962 until his final retirement as Chairman in 2007 Jamie worked for Corning Glass Works, now known as Corning Incorporated. His first job was as a shift foreman in Danville KY, and he eventually joined Corning International before succeeding his brother Amo as Chairman and CEO in 1983. He stepped down in 1996 but was asked to return as CEO again from 2002 to 2005 ("I failed retirement," he joked). While at Corning he was an early champion of diversity in the workforce and Total Quality Management. He was a tireless cheerleader for the values by which he lived and for which he personally held the company accountable.

Jamie served on many corporate and non-profit boards, including MetLife, CBS, Exxon, JP Morgan, the Morgan Library and the Corning Museum of Glass. At one point in his career Jamie was simultaneously Chairman of Corning Inc., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation. He gave himself to many, but whenever he said "we," we, his family, knew he was thinking of us.

Jamie loved to fish for salmon on the Moisie River and to sail his Morris 27' in Penobscot Bay, Maine. He idolized Fred Astaire, danced a mean two step and sang Broadway show tunes and choral hymns with equal passion. He wrote his own lyrics and poems for many family occasions. He happily played golf with the same eightsome for many years. He built stone walls on his Corning property, smoked cigars by the pond, loved red wine, enjoyed drawing and reading American history (the longer the book the better). From the age of 9, he was a faithful Red Sox fan.

During his last years he was lovingly cared for by Rose, Jackie, Marna, Nannette, Nicole, Darcia and many other wonderful caregivers.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to the Laura Richardson Houghton Youth Center in Corning NY, Big Tree Boating in Islesboro ME or your local Planned Parenthood.
Notable James Richardson Houghton (1936-) is the retired CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corning Inc.
Biography Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, James R. Houghton Chairman Emeritus Corning Incorporated
Mr. Houghton joined Corning in 1962. He was elected a vice president of Corning and general manager of the Consumer Products Division in 1968, vice chairman in 1971, chairman of the executive committee and chief strategic officer in 1980 and chairman and chief executive officer in April 1983, retiring in April 1996. Mr. Houghton is a director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Exxon Mobil Corporation. He is a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pierpont Morgan Library and The Corning Museum of Glass and a member of The Harvard Corporation. Director since 1969. Age 65.

In 2002, owned 1.6 million shares of Corning Inc. stock

Maisie Houghton '62 and Jamie Houghton '58, MBA '62, have made a $1.25 million gift to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to establish an endowment fund that is unprecedented at Harvard College.

Income from the endowment will be designated by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis to present undergraduates with greater exposure to successful women and to affirm women's contributions to scholarship and society.

The Houghtons' longstanding interest and involvement in women's issues and a desire to benefit a program that addresses personal and professional issues for women prompted the gift, according to Maisie Houghton.

"The opportunity to support this initiative was exciting to us because of the influence the women's movement has had on both our lives -- Jamie's professionally as the chairman of Corning and mine personally and professionally -- and because of the extent to which we are both still engaged with women's issues," explains Maisie, who started a women's center in Corning, N.Y., worked as a counselor at Barnard College, and ran a series of workshops in New York City called "Women and Money."

"Maisie and I wanted to do something for women undergraduates at Harvard," explains Jamie Houghton, a Fellow of Harvard College and Campaign Executive Committee member of the Committee on University Resources. "When Harry explained his plan to us, we were delighted to help implement it. Young women today go to Harvard and identify themselves as Harvard students. Because of this, I think the College should have a special initiative for women. Harvard has made great strides, but more needs to be done."

Market Street Trust Company is a limited purpose trust company controlled by the Houghton family, the directors of which include James R. Houghton and other Houghton family members.

Corning Inc, 2003, 3.1 billion dollars in revenues; 20,000 employees

Corning Incorporated creates leading-edge technologies for the fastest-growing markets of the world's economy. Corning manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic products for the telecommunications industry; and high-performance displays and components for television and other communications-related industries. The company also uses advanced materials to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets. (Company Press Release)

James R. Houghton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James R. Houghton is the Chairman of the Board Corning Incorporated. He served as chairman and CEO from 1983 to 1996, and from 2002 to 2005.
Houghton has Bachelor of Arts and master of business administration degrees from Harvard University (A.B., 1958, MBA, 1962). He is currently a Fellow of Harvard College and a member of the Harvard Corporation.
He joined Corning in 1962. After holding a variety of management positions, he was elected Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Corning in 1983. After retiring in 1996, he was Chairman Emeritus from 1996 to 2001; and then served as non-executive Chairman of the Board in 2001-2002. He resumed his role as Chairman and CEO in 2002, and relinquished the role of CEO in April 2005.

Corporate board service
Hougton serves on a number of corporate boards: Corning Incorporated, Exxon Mobil Corporation, MetLife, Inc., Corning Museum of Glass, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, Harvard Corporation.
Director at Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, Texas, Director since 1994
Principal Occupation: Chairman of the Board, Corning Incorporated. Recent Business Experience: Mr. Houghton resumed his role as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Corning Incorporated in 2002, and relinquished the role of CEO in 2005. He served as non-executive Chairman in 2001-2002 and Chairman Emeritus from 1996-2001. He was elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Corning Incorporated in 1983, retired in 1996. Public Company Directorships: Corning Incorporated; MetLife

James R. Houghton

Born: 6-Apr-1936
Birthplace: Corning, NY

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: CEO of Corning, 2002-05

Wife: (two children)

University: AB, Harvard University (1958), University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1962), Administrator: Fellow, Harvard Corporation

Corning CEO (2002-05), Corning CEO (1983-96), Corning Vice Chairman (1971-83), Corning (1962-71)
Member of the Board of Corning (as Chairman, 1983-96 and 2001-07, continuing); Member of the Board of Exxon Mobil (1994-)
Member of the Board of Market Street Trust Co; Member of the Board of Metropolitan Life (1999-)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Trustee; Morgan Library & Museum Trustee; Bush-Cheney '04
Council on Foreign Relations Board of Directors (1992-96); Elizabeth Dole Committee
Friends of Giuliani Exploratory Committee; Friends of Hillary
John McCain 2008; New Leadership for America PAC
Obama for America; Pete Coors for Senate; Trilateral Commission

His salary was around $9 million in 2008.

2009 James R. Houghton
James R. Houghton is the chairman emeritus of Corning Incorporated. Mr. Houghton joined the company in 1962 and served in production, financial and sales positions until 1965. He then was named vice president and European area manager, Corning Glass International, S.A., residing in both Zurich and Brussels. In 1968, Mr. Houghton returned to the United States and was appointed general manager of the Consumer Products Division and elected a vice president of Corning. He was elected a director of the company in 1969, vice chairman with responsibilities for the company's International operations in 1971 and chairman in 1983. Mr. Houghton retired as chairman and chief executive officer on April 25, 1996. In June 2001, Mr. Houghton was elected non-executive chairman of the board. In April 2002, he resumed his role as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. In April 2005, he transitioned his CEO role to Wendell P. Weeks. In April 2007, he also transitioned his chairman role to Weeks. He graduated from Harvard College and received a master's degree from Harvard
Business School. Mr. Houghton is a director of Exxon Mobil Corporation. He serves as a trustee of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Incorporated Foundation, The Morgan Library and Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is past chairman of the Business Council of New York State and is a member of the Business Council. He is a member of the Harvard Corporation and the Trilateral Commission. Mr. Houghton is married to the former Maisie Kinnicutt and has two children and four grand children.¹¹
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Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S146] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 602.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, April 20, 1999.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, 1986, p. 569.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, New York, 1970, Vol. LXXXIV #1, Nov. 1969, p. 405.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 261.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 279.

[S936] Who's Who, 1958, Houghtons.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/04-1999/wh-0421a.html

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Houghton

Laura DeKay Houghton^1,2

F, #15168, b. circa 1938, d. 22 September 2000

Father*: Amory Houghton Sr¹ b. 27 Jul 1899, d. 21 Feb 1981

Mother*: Laura DeKay Richardson¹ b. 2 Oct 1900, d. 9 Apr 2003

Family: David Wells Beer b. c 1935

Marriage*: Laura DeKay Houghton married David Wells Beer on Apr 28, 1962 at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, Laura DeKay Houghton Bride of David W. Beer
Special to The New York Times.Jay Te Winburn Jr.

April 29, 1962, Sunday

Page 90, 297 words

CORNING, N.Y., April 28 --Christ Protestant Episcopal Church was the setting here this afternoon for the marriage of Miss Laura DeKay Houghton, daughter of Amory Houghton, former United States Ambassador to France, and Mrs. Houghton, to David Wells Beer. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Beer Jr. of New York. The Rev. Roger Alling performed the ceremony.⁴

Biography

Corresponded with author ?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project ?
Birth circa 1938 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 2 in 1940 census³
Graduation 1958 Milton Academy, Milton, MA, USA
Education Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Marriage Apr 28, 1962 Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, Laura DeKay Houghton Bride of David W. Beer
Special to The New York Times.Jay Te Winburn Jr.

April 29, 1962, Sunday

Page 90, 297 words

CORNING, N.Y., April 28 --Christ Protestant Episcopal Church was the setting here this afternoon for the marriage of Miss Laura DeKay Houghton, daughter of Amory Houghton, former United States Ambassador to France, and Mrs. Houghton, to David Wells Beer. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Beer Jr. of New York. The Rev. Roger Alling performed the ceremony.⁴
Children+ Child: Elizabeth A. Beer, mar. R. Kevin Keating
Nuala D.E. Keatinq-Beer
Orla Keatinq-Beer

Child: Elizabeth A. Beer m. Brian Janusiak
Ona G.B.D. Janusiak-Beer

Son: Andrew D. Beer m. Eleanor Chai
Tea Jukyounq Beer
India Chai Beer
Residence 1981 New York, New York Co., NY, USA
Death Sep 22, 2000 ⁵
Burial Hope Annex Cemetery, Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S146] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 602.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, April 20, 1999.

[S415] E-mail from Amory Houghton III, Jan 2005.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.phillipsfuneralhome.com/ecom/sp/;cat=obituaries;obit=03-142-C.

Arthur Amory Houghton Jr.^1,2

M, #15169, b. 12 December 1906, d. 3 April 1990

Father*: Arthur Amory Houghton Sr.¹ b. 20 Oct 1866, d. 19 Apr 1928

Mother*: Mahitbel Hollister¹ b. 16 Oct 1867, d. 13 Feb 1938

Family 1: Jane Olmsted b. 23 Mar 1909, d. 4 Dec 1982

Engagement: He and Jane Olmsted were engaged on Nov 10, 1928; MISS JANE OLMSTED ENGAGED TO MARRY; Daughter of Mrs. Vance C. McCormick to Wed Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. FIANCE A HARVARD SENIOR He Is Nephew of Ambassador Houghton--Miss Janett Thall Betrothed to L.G. Salomon.

November 10, 1928, Saturday

Mr. and Mrs. Vance Criswell McCormick of Harrisburg, Pa., yesterday announced to their friends in New York the engagement of Mrs. McCormick's daughter, Miss Jane Olmsted, to Arthur Amory Houghton Jr., son of Mrs. Arthur A. Houghton of Corning, N.Y., and the late Mr. Houghton, and a nephew of Alanson B. Houghton, American Ambassador to Great Britain.²⁹

Mar 1*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. first married Jane Olmsted he age 23, she age 20 on Jun 12, 1929 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Harrisburg, PA, USA.^8,9,10

Divorce*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. and Jane Olmsted were divorced in Jul, 1938 at USA.¹²

Jane Olmsted Houghton+¹ b. 28 Nov 1930, d. Apr 1989

Sylvia Biglow Houghton+¹ b. c 1933

Family 2: Ellen Crenshaw b. 17 Sep 1906, d. 18 Dec 1961

Mar 2*: His second marriage was to Ellen Crenshaw on Jun 7, 1939 at Queenstown, MD, USA.^8,12

Divorce*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. and Ellen Crenshaw were divorced on Jan 7, 1944 at Reno, NV, USA, on charges of desertion.¹²

Arthur Amory Houghton III+¹ b. 6 May 1940

Family 3: Elizabeth Douglas McCall b. 25 Feb 1919, d. Feb 1996

Mar 3*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. married third Elizabeth Douglas McCall on Jan 15, 1944.^1,4,16,17

Divorce*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. and Elizabeth Douglas McCall were divorced.

Hollister Douglas Houghton¹ b. 14 Jun 1945, d. 27 Apr 2019

Family 4: Nina Rodale b. c 1938

Marriage*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. married Nina Rodale on May 22, 1973 at Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., MD, USA, Wedding of Mrs. Horstmann To Arthur Houghton Jr. Held

June 8, 1973, Friday

Page 27, 327 words

Arthur A. Houghton Jr., chairman of the board of Steuben Glass, and Mrs. Nina Horstmann were married in a civil ceremony in Annapolis, Md., on May 22. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. J. I. Rodale of Allentown, Pa., and the late Mr. Rodale.^20,2

Biography

Notable Y
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project Y
Corresponded with author ?
Birth Dec 12, 1906 Corning, Steuben, NY, USA, age 3 in 1910 census; age 13 in 1920 census; age 23 in 1930 census; age 33 in 1930 census^1,3,4,5,6
Education between 1920 and 1925 St. Paul's School, Concord, Merrimack Co., NH, USA^4,5
Graduation 1929 Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, C Mfg^7,4,5
Occupation between 1929 and 1957 corp. official, Corning Glass; mfg. dept, Corning Glass works, 1929; revamping of Steuben Glass, the art glass div. of Corning in 1933; treasury dept. 1929-30; asst. to pres. 1930-32; v.p., 1935-42; pres. Steuben Glass, N.Y.C., 1950 through 1969, retirement; dir. U.S. Steel Corp., N.Y. Life Ins. Co., Corning Glass Works, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Co., Investors management Fund, Fundamental Investors, Inc; trustee U.S. Trust Co., NY; v.p. Corning Mus. Glass, Pierpont Morgan Library; curator rare books Library of Congress, 1940-42.^4,5
Mar 1 Jun 12, 1929 St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Harrisburg, PA, USA, he age 23, she age 20^8,9,10
1930 Census 1930 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 23, property $40,000, a salesman at glass factory; and Anna Guertin, 44, a maid¹¹
Divorce Jul, 1938 USA¹²
Mar 2 Jun 7, 1939 Queenstown, MD, USA^8,12
1940 Census 1940 New York, New York Co., NY, USA, age 33, glass manufacturing sale executive; and a housekeeper¹³
1940 Census Apr 2, 1940 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 33, married, Glass Industry, manufacturing executive; and 3 maids¹⁴
Note 1940 He pledged to Harvard University 1,500 shares of Corning Glass Works common stock for each of the next four years if the university would build a library dedicated to housing rare books in Harvard Yard. The estimated cost of the library, which on completion was named the Houghton Library, was $475,000.
Houghton Library Blog
“Fuel for the fire of learning”: Houghton Library Opens its Doors
On this day seventy-five years ago, 3 January 1942, library staff and their families attended a private celebration to mark the opening of the new Houghton Library. As the Second World War raged in two theaters, William A. Jackson, the new Library’s first director, and Philip Hofer, the founding curator of its Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, were busy managing the careful transfer of some 125,000 books from the old Treasure Room in Widener Library to their elegant new home, an effort that took sixteen days to complete.
The formal public dedication ceremony took place on 28 February 1942. Following remarks by Harvard president James B. Conant, Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr.—Harvard alumnus, Corning Glass executive, distinguished bibliophile, and generous library benefactor—offered this solemn realization: “Upon us has fallen the responsibility of safeguarding education in its broadest and most liberal sense.” Seventy-five years on, Houghton Library remains steadfast in providing faculty, students, and researchers from Harvard and beyond, as Mr. Houghton hoped it would that cold February evening, with “fuel for the fire of learning.”¹⁵
Immigration 1940 Washington, DC, USA
Research 1942
Milit-Beg between 1942 and 1945 US Air Force: capt. USAAF, Army Air Forces Intelligence School, 1942-1944; he was assigned to the Technical Service Command as Control Officer for the Eastern District from 1944 to 1945, ret. with rank lt. col., 1945.^1,5
Divorce Jan 7, 1944 Reno, NV, USA, on charges of desertion.¹²
Mar 3 Jan 15, 1944 ^1,4,16,17
Address between 1950 and 1986 Wye Plantation, Queenstown, MD, USA^7,16
Office 1960 NY, USA, Houghton, Arthur A. of New York, New York County, N.Y. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1960.
Living 1964 New York, New York Co., NY, USA, 3 Sutton Place^18,4
Newspaper Sep 16, 1964 New York, New York Co., NY, USA, An Interested Joiner

new president of Metropolitan Museum of Art; vice chairman of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and of the Fund for the Advancement of Education; vice president of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Pierpont Morgan Library; board chairman of Cooper Union; trustee of the Metropolitan, the New York Publice Library, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute of International; director of Philaharmonic Symphony Society of New York; Education; president of Steuben Glass; director of Corning Glass Works; director of New York Life Insurance Co., US Steel Corp., and Diebold Inc.¹⁹
SSN NY, USA, 076-05-8951⁶
Divorce
Marriage May 22, 1973 Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., MD, USA, Wedding of Mrs. Horstmann To Arthur Houghton Jr. Held

June 8, 1973, Friday

Page 27, 327 words

Arthur A. Houghton Jr., chairman of the board of Steuben Glass, and Mrs. Nina Horstmann were married in a civil ceremony in Annapolis, Md., on May 22. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. J. I. Rodale of Allentown, Pa., and the late Mr. Rodale,^20,2
Author 1987 Ancient portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum / [Jirí Frel, Arthur Houghton, and Marion True, editors].
Physical Description:      v. : ill; 28 cm.
Series:      Occasional papers on antiquities ; 4, etc.
Publisher/ Date:      Malibu, Calif. : The Museum, 1987-²¹
Last Loc 1990 Wye Plantation, Queenstown, Queen Annes Co., MD, USA⁶
Death Apr 3, 1990 Venice Hospital, Venice, FL, USA, age 83^6,22,23,24
Obituary Apr 4, 1990 San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA, USA, San Jose Mercury News (CA) - April 4, 1990
Deceased Name: ARTHUR HOUGHTON, GLASS EXECUTIVE
Arthur Houghton Jr., former president of Steuben Glass and one-time chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has died at 83 after a brief illness.

Mr. Houghton was a great-grandson of Armory Houghton, who founded Corning Glass Works in 1851. He became president of Steuben Glass, a Corning subsidiary, in 1933 and built its worldwide reputation during his 40 years in charge.
Copyright (c) 1990 San Jose Mercury News²⁴
Notable Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906–1990), philantropist, former president of Steuben Glass Co., a former division of Corning Glass.The Houghton Library of Harvard University was named after him.
Biography Who's Who: "Houghton, Arthur Amory, Jr., corp. ofcl; b. Corning, N.Y., Dec. 12, 1906; s. Arthur Amory and Mabel (Hollister) H; student St. Paul's Sch., Concord, N.H., 1920-5, Harvard, 1925-29; L.H.D. Lehigh U., 1954; Litt.D., Washington Coll., 1953, Hofstra Coll., 1956; m. Elizabeth Douglas McCall; children--Jane Olmsted (Mrs. Rollin Van N. Hadley, Jr.), Sylvia Bigelow, Arthur Amory III, Hollister Douglas. With mfg. dept. Corning Glass Works, 1929, treasury dept. 1929-30, asst. to pres., 1930-32, v.p., 1935-42, 57--, also dir; pres., dir. Steuben Glass Inc; dir. D.L. & W. R.R., U.S. Steel Corp; v.p. Corning Mus. of Glass; curator rare books, Libray of Congress, 1940-42; Overseer Harvard University; chmn. Inst. Internat. Edn., Parsons Sch. Design; trustee Am. Acad. in Rome, Cooper Union, Met. Mus. Art, N.Y. Pub. Library, Pierpont Morgan Library, Nat. Trust Historic Preservation; hon. trustee Inst. Contemporary Art (Boston); vice chmn., dir. Philharmonic-Symphony Soc. N.Y., Empire State Found; dir. Fund Advancement Edn., Nat. Book Com., Inc. Commd. capt. USAAF, 1942; ret. with rank lt. col., 1945. Decorated Chevlier Legion of Honor, France, 1951; recipient Michael Friedsam medal in indsl. art, 1953. Mem. Am. Fedn. Arts (trustee), English Speaking Union, U.S. (pres.), Modern Lang. Assn. (trustee). Episopalian (vestryman). Clubs: Century, Union, Harvard, Knickerbocker, Grolier (pres.) Home: 3 Sutton Pl., N.Y.C; also Wye Plantation, Queenstown, Md; and 22 W. 3d St., Corning, N.Y; Office: 718 Fifth Av., N.Y.C. 19"

Who's Who in the East: "Chmn. Philharmonic Symphony Soc. NY; Cooper Union; trustee Parsons Sch. Design, Met. Mus. Art. NY; Pub. Library, Inst. Internat. Edn., Rockefeller Found; trustee Educational Broadcasting Corp; vice chmn. Fund for Advancement Education, Lincoln Center for Performing Arts; director National Book Committee, Inc...Sr. Fellow Royal Coll. Art, London, 1958. Fellow Royal Soc. Arts...Office: 715 Fifth Av., N.Y.C. 22"

Acquired Wye Plantation on MD's eastern shore in several parcels 1938 to 1940; head of an intelligence unit of the Army Air Force in WWII, with rank of major; donated Houghton library n 1942. Rare books collection donated to several institutions. Pres. of Metropolitan Museum Art from 1964. Collected Alice in Wonderland memoribilia, including pieces owned by the original Alice, Alice Lidell and Lewis Carroll. He had the world's most extensive collection of Keats, which he gave to Harvard, and a great collection of Lewis Carroll that he housed at Wye Plantation. He was the resident of the Shakespeare Society and the English Speaking Union. Every year he visited London, where he held court at Claridge's.

Encyc. of Amer. Biog.: trustee of the NY Parsons Schoold of Design, Boston Inst. of Contemp. Art, NY French Inst., MD Queen Anne's Co. Library, NY Public Library; pres. of Shakespeare Assoc. of America; vp of Keats-Shelley Assoc. of America; Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Patron-Founder of the Poetry Soc. of America; Fellow in English Bibliography of the Library of Congress; life member of the Soc. of the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities and Maryland Hist. Soc; visiting committee of harvard University Library, the Advisory Com. of Princeton Univ. Library, Library Com. of NY Public Library, Advisory Com. of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Advisory Com. of Library of Congress, Council of Grolier Club, Nat. Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, Amer. Council on Foreign Relations, Soc. of NY Hospital, Bibliography Soc. of London, Amer. Bibliography Soc., Modern Language Society, Amer. Library Assoc., Amer. Chemurgic Soc., St. George's Soc., Library Com. of the Union Club, Library Com. of French Inst., Adv. Com. of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; chairman of the Council of Fellows, the Pierpont Morgan Library. Clubs included Century, Union, Harvard, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Grolier, The Coffee House, all of NY; the Harvard Club of Rochester; the Club of Odd Volumes of Boston; the Philobiblon of Philadelphia; the Chesapeake Bay yacht Club and the Corsica River Yacht Club. He was an Episcopalian.

Generations of Corning: A contemporary described him as "brilliant, debonair, mercurial, possessed of a wit in turn charming and devastating, and, to those who didn't know him very well, aloof." His interests were intellectual and aesthetic. He was a bibliophile, collecting rare cooks, and memorabilia associated with Lewis Carroll. He became a noted patron of the arts and benefactor to libraries and educational institutions. In Oct. 1933, Stueben Glass Inc was created, a wholly owned subsidiary of Corning. Amory served as president, Arthur as vice president and general manager. Arthur became president in 1937.

The new president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vice chairman of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and of the Fund for the Advancement of Education

Served as curator of rare books at the Library of Congress and as president of Metropolitan Museum of Art. During WWII he served with the Army Air Forces, retiring as a Lt. Colonel.

He donated his New York town house to the United Nations Association of the US to be used as the official residence of the Secretary General. He had 11 honorary doctorates, incl. Doc. of Literature, Beaver Coll. 1957; D. Sc., Hobart and Willaim Smith Colls., 1958. In 1960, he was chairman of Republican Finance Committee. Built the Harvard Rare Books Library

Century-Old Vandalism of Islamic Art, and Its Price
By SOUREN MELIKIAN
Published: April 15, 2011

LONDON — A chorus of praise greeted the “record for an Islamic work of art at auction” achieved when a painted page torn from a royal Iranian manuscript, the Shah-Name or Book of Kings, brought £7.43 million at the Sotheby’s auction of the Stuart Cary Welch collection on April 6.

Little was said about the destruction of the greatest manuscript from 16th-century Iran, intact until 1957 when the French collector Maurice de Rothschild who owned it died.

The extraordinary manuscript commissioned for the library of Shah Tahmasp (1524-76) was acquired by Arthur A. Houghton Jr., a bibliophile whose interest lay in rare English books. He was presumably advised by Mr. Welch, who had long been buying manuscript paintings from Iran and Moghul India. Soon after, Mr. Houghton began breaking up the manuscript. In November 1976, seven pages appeared at Christie’s. Many more would follow, sold through art galleries and at auction, notably at Christie’s London on Oct. 11, 1988.

This astounding example of calculated vandalism perpetrated by a cultivated man is perhaps the most extreme where Eastern art is concerned. But it was by no means unusual.

In 1957 Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans: his estimated worth was $800 million $1.6 billion.^{1,25,16,26,2,27}
Research Annual Obituary. 1990
Encyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. 22
Who Was Who in American Art. 1999
Who's Who. 1982, 1983
Who's Who in American Art, 1973-1993
The New York Times Biographical Service, 1990
Biography Index 1990-1999
Illustrated Dictionary of Glass, 1977
International Who's Who. 1974-1989
International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who 1978-1982
Who's Who in America 1974-1990
Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1975, 1987
American National Biography, 1999
Who Was Who in America, 1993
Contributn

Author

Author: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. was the author of Design policy within industry as a responsibility of high-level management [by] Arthur A. Houghton, jr.
Physical Description:      33 p. illus. 25 cm.
Publisher/ Date:      [New York, Steuben glass, 1951] in 1951.²¹

Author: He was the editor of Title:      Festschrift für Leo Mildenberg : Numismatik, Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie = Studies in honor of Leo Mildenberg : numismatics, art history, archeology / ed., Arthur Houghton ... [et al.].
Physical Description:      xviii, 297 p., 43 p. of plates : ill; 29 cm.
Publisher/ Date:      Wetteren, Belgium : Editions NR, 1984. in 1984.²¹

Author: He was the author of Remembrances (an anecdotal family history) in 1986.²⁸

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

[S98] Social Security Administration.

[S589] Unknown author, Who's Who in the East, p. 445.

[S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XXII, p. 126.

[S1042] Social Security Death Index, Houghton Surname, Social Security Death Index, Dec. 2001.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, p. 595.

[S415] E-mail from Hollister Douglas Houghton, Nov. 8, 2003.

[S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: May 30, 1947.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: June 13, 1929.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Corning, Steuben, New York; Roll: T626_1648; Enumeration District: 28; sheet 8B, line 95, dwl 22-187-211.

[S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: Houghton.

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , New York, New York, New York; Roll: T627_2657; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 31-1398, line 68, dwl 34.

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Corning, Steuben, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02781; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 51-33.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 176.

[S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XXII, p. 127.

[S939] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 488.

[S507] Unknown agency, National Social Directory 1960, p. 314.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1964.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, XCIX [1985]: 443.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Columbia University Libraries Online Catalog: Houghton Surname search.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S415] E-mail from Arthur Amory Houghton, III, May 9, 2009.

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

[S104] Who's Who 22, p. 1114.

[S934] Who's Who, 1958, p. 960.

[S95] Newspaper, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/arts/…

[S1305] Jr Arthur Amory Houghton, Remembrances.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: Nov 10, 1928.

Elizabeth Douglas McCall¹

F, #15170, b. 25 February 1919, d. February 1996

Family 1: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. b. 12 Dec 1906, d. 3 Apr 1990

Mar 3*: Elizabeth Douglas McCall married third Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. on Jan 15, 1944.^1,4,5,2

Divorce*: Elizabeth Douglas McCall and Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. were divorced.

Hollister Douglas Houghton¹⁰ b. 14 Jun 1945, d. 27 Apr 2019

Family 2: Walker O. Cain d. 1993

Marriage*: Elizabeth Douglas McCall married Walker O. Cain on Jul 27, 1973 at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY, USA.⁷

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project ?
Corresponded with author ?
Birth Feb 25, 1919 Florence, SC, USA²
Residence between 1920 and 1930 Florence, SC, USA³
Graduation 1940 Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, USA, B.S.²
Mar 3 Jan 15, 1944 ^1,4,5,2
Address between 1950 and 1960 3 Sutton Place, New York, New York Co., NY, USA^5,6
Living 1964 New York, New York Co., NY, USA, 3 Sutton Place^6,4
Divorce
Marriage Jul 27, 1973 Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY, USA⁷
Newspaper Jul 28, 1973 Mrs. Houghton Married Here
July 28, 1973, Saturday

Mrs. Elizabeth McCall Houghton and Walker O. Cain, both of New York, were married here yesterday afternoon. The Rev. William A. McQuoid performed the ceremony in the Dana Chapel of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Death Feb, 1996 New York, New York Co., NY, USA^8,9
ParentsD Arthur M. McCall and Julia H. Lachicotte²
Research Who's Who in American Women. 1963-1973
Biography Mem. Women's Council, NY Public Library, 1950--, mem. exec. com., 1957--, exec. of com. for dance, 1957--; women's com. United Rep. Finance Com., 1960--;trustee Poetry Soc. Am., 1960--; sec.-treas., dir Keats-Shelley Assn. Am., Inc., 1961--;bd. mgrs. NY Exchange for Woman's Work, 1954-57; trustee Prescott Neighbhorhood House, 1957--, exec. com., 1958--; trustee Converse Coll., Spartanburg, SC, 1958--; mem. women's coms. France-Am. Soc., French Inst., Am. Mus. Natural History, 1950-53; treas. parents assn. rearleey Sch., NYC, 1958-59, me. 75th anniversary com; benefit chmn. Prescott Neighborhood House, Am. Fedn. Arts, Inst. Internat. Edn., NY Pub. Library Dance Com; v.p. Women's Assn., St. James Ch., NYC, 1955-58; mem. altar guild St. James Ch., NYC and Old Wye Ch., Wye Mills, MD; mem. exec. bd. Guild of Cathedral St. John the Divine; me. bd. Hammond-Harwood House, Annapolis, MD, 1962; mem. Friends of Whitney Mus., MD. Com. Kenwood House, VA. Republican. Episcopalian. Clubs: Colony, Cosmopolitan (NYC), Queen Anne's County Garden of MD. Home: 3 Sutton Pl. NYC 22; also Wye Plantation, Queenstown, MD.⁴

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S939] Downs, Who's Who in New York, p. 488.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S589] Unknown author, Who's Who in the East, p. 445.

[S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XXII, p. 127.

[S507] Unknown agency, National Social Directory 1960, p. 314.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times, 1973.

[S415] E-mail from Hollister Douglas Houghton, Nov. 8, 2003.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S415] E-mail from Elizabeth McCall Houghton, Nov 6, 2003.

Jane Olmsted Houghton^1,2

F, #15171, b. 28 November 1930, d. April 1989

Father*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr.¹ b. 12 Dec 1906, d. 3 Apr 1990

Mother*: Jane Olmsted¹ b. 23 Mar 1909, d. 4 Dec 1982

Family 1: Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr. b. 13 Dec 1927, d. 2 Feb 1992

Marriage*: Jane Olmsted Houghton married Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr., son of Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley and Arabelle McKinistry, on Nov 30, 1950 at St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, New York Co., NY, USA, JANE O. HOUGHTON TO BE WED NOV. 30; St. James' Church to Be Scene of Marriage to Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr.

November 9, 1950, Thursday

Page 44, 287 words

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan of Grosse Pointe, Mich., have sent out invitations for the marriage of Mrs. McMillan's daughter, Miss Jane Olmsted Houghton, to Rollin Van Norstrand Hadley Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Rollin V. Hadley.¹

Jane Houghton Hadley+¹⁰ b. c 1951

Hope McKinstry Hadley¹¹

Peter Van Nostrand Hadley¹¹

Susan Olmsted Hadley¹¹

Family 2: Robert Gordon Hankey

Marriage*: Jane Olmsted Houghton married Robert Gordon Hankey 2nd mar.⁷

Family 3: Horace Edward Henderson

Marriage*: Jane Olmsted Houghton married Horace Edward Henderson 3rd mar.²

Family 4: George R. Kneeland

Marriage*: Jane Olmsted Houghton married George R. Kneeland 4th mar.⁸

Family 5: Chalmer J Carothers Jr

Marriage*: Jane Olmsted Houghton married Chalmer J Carothers Jr.

Biography

Corresponded with author ?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project Y
Birth Nov 28, 1930 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 9 in 1940 census^3,4
1940 Census 1940 New York, New York Co., NY, USA, age 31, divorced, none; 4 servants⁵
Education 1947 Foxcroft School, Middleburg, VA, USA⁶
Marriage Nov 30, 1950 St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, New York Co., NY, USA, JANE O. HOUGHTON TO BE WED NOV. 30; St. James' Church to Be Scene of Marriage to Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr.

November 9, 1950, Thursday

Page 44, 287 words

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan of Grosse Pointe, Mich., have sent out invitations for the marriage of Mrs. McMillan's daughter, Miss Jane Olmsted Houghton, to Rollin Van Norstrand Hadley Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Rollin V. Hadley¹
Marriage 2nd mar⁷
Marriage 3rd mar²
Marriage 4th mar⁸
Marriage
Death Apr, 1989 St. Michael's, MD, USA, Elizabeth McCall Houghton: 1988⁹
Contributn

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S589] Unknown author, Who's Who in the East, p. 445.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 177.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , New York, New York, New York; Roll: T627_2652; Page: 64B; Enumeration District: 31-1189; line 74, dwl 1.

[S95] Newspaper, NY Times Archives: May 30, 1947.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

[S95] Newspaper, New York Times, June 8, 1973.

[S415] E-mail from Elizabeth McCall Houghton, Nov 8, 2003.

[S415] E-mail from Jane Houghton Hadley (Preziosi), Jan 10, 2006.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr.^1,2

M, #15172, b. 13 December 1927, d. 2 February 1992

Father*: Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley² b. 1890, d. 1962

Mother*: Arabelle McKinistry² b. 20 Sep 1887, d. 1976

Family 1: Jane Olmsted Houghton b. 28 Nov 1930, d. Apr 1989

Marriage*: Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr. married Jane Olmsted Houghton, daughter of Arthur Amory Houghton Jr. and Jane Olmsted, on Nov 30, 1950 at St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, New York Co., NY, USA, JANE O. HOUGHTON TO BE WED NOV. 30; St. James' Church to Be Scene of Marriage to Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr.

November 9, 1950, Thursday

Page 44, 287 words

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan of Grosse Pointe, Mich., have sent out invitations for the marriage of Mrs. McMillan's daughter, Miss Jane Olmsted Houghton, to Rollin Van Norstrand Hadley Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Rollin V. Hadley.¹

Jane Houghton Hadley+² b. c 1951

Hope McKinstry Hadley⁴

Peter Van Nostrand Hadley⁴

Susan Olmsted Hadley⁴

Family 2: Shelagh Pratt

Marriage*: Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr. married Shelagh Pratt on 1963 at Switzerland.³

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project ?
Corresponded with author ?
Birth Dec 13, 1927 MA, USA³
Graduation 1950 Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA
Marriage Nov 30, 1950 St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, New York Co., NY, USA, JANE O. HOUGHTON TO BE WED NOV. 30; St. James' Church to Be Scene of Marriage to Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley Jr.

November 9, 1950, Thursday

Page 44, 287 words

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan of Grosse Pointe, Mich., have sent out invitations for the marriage of Mrs. McMillan's daughter, Miss Jane Olmsted Houghton, to Rollin Van Norstrand Hadley Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Rollin V. Hadley¹
Marriage 1963 Switzerland³
Death Feb 2, 1992 Ft. Lauderdale, Broward Co., FL, USA³

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S415] E-mail from Jane Houghton Hadley (Preziosi), Jan 10, 2006.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , Hadley/ Houghton/ Olmsted Family Tree (Owner: JPrez123): http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx

Sylvia Biglow Houghton^1,2

F, #15173, b. circa 1933

Father*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr.¹ b. 12 Dec 1906, d. 3 Apr 1990

Mother*: Jane Olmsted¹ b. 23 Mar 1909, d. 4 Dec 1982

Family: Richard Gordon Garrett d. 2007

Engagement: Sylvia Biglow Houghton and Richard Gordon Garrett were engaged on Dec 14, 1963 at Grosse Point, MI, USA; Sylvia Houghton Engaged to Wed Richard Garrett; Bennett and Princeton Graduates to Marry Here on Feb. 1

Special to The New York Times, December 15, 1963, Sunday

GROSSE POINTE, Mich., Dec. 14--Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McMillan have announced the engagement of Mrs. McMillan's daughter, Miss Sylvia Bigelow Houghton, to Richard Gordon Garrett. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Pearson Beverly Garrett of Dallas.

Marriage*: Sylvia Biglow Houghton married Richard Gordon Garrett on Feb 2, 1964.⁴

Michael H. Garrett⁶ d. 2005

David Garrett

Stephen B Garrett

Biography

Corresponded with author ?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project ?
Birth circa 1933 Corning, Steuben Co., NY, USA, age 7 in 1940 census³
Graduation Foxcroft School, Middleburg, VA, USA
Marriage Feb 2, 1964 ⁴
Residence 1990 Easton, MD, USA⁵
Living 2008

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S589] Unknown author, Who's Who in the East, p. 445.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 177.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

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

[S601] Family Group Sheet, created by Robert West Houghton, 2021.

Arthur Amory Houghton III^1,2

M, #15174, b. 6 May 1940

Father*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr.¹ b. 12 Dec 1906, d. 3 Apr 1990

Mother*: Ellen Crenshaw¹ b. 17 Sep 1906, d. 18 Dec 1961

Family 1: Sherrill Jean Mulliken b. 14 Mar 1943

Engagement: Arthur Amory Houghton III and Sherrill Jean Mulliken were engaged on May 31, 1964.

Marriage*: Arthur Amory Houghton III married Sherrill Jean Mulliken on Aug 22, 1964 at Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Washington, DC, USA.^9,5

Divorce*: Arthur Amory Houghton III and Sherrill Jean Mulliken were divorced in 1976.

Andrew Arthur Houghton+⁷ b. 18 Jun 1969

James Parker Houghton¹⁰ b. 18 Jun 1971, d. 20 Sep 1992

Family 2: Linda B. Livingston Davis b. c 1941

Marriage*: Arthur Amory Houghton III married Linda B. Livingston Davis on Dec 7, 1977 at New York, New York Co., NY, USA.^10,5

Family 3: Margarite Page Fox b. 27 Nov 1941

Marriage*: Arthur Amory Houghton III married Margarite Page Fox on May 13, 2006 at Stevenson, MD, USA.^11,8,5

Divorce*: Arthur Amory Houghton III and Margarite Page Fox were divorced on May 2, 2018.

Family 4: Roberta Sandeman

Marriage*: Arthur Amory Houghton III married Roberta Sandeman on Dec 18, 2018.

Biography

Corresponded with author Y
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project Y
Birth May 6, 1940 New York, New York Co., NY, USA^3,4,5
Education Dublin School, Dublin, NH, USA
Graduation between 1958 and 1963 Harvard University, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, El Ab 62 (63) Gov: major in Government and a minor in Engineering^6,7
Occupation between 1959 and 1960 Douglas Aircraft
Residence between 1964 and 1966 Beirut, Lebanon⁸
Marriage Aug 22, 1964 Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul, Washington, DC, USA^9,5
Research 1974 US Dept of State: Biographic Register, July 1974
Who's Who in America, 1999, 2000
Address Jun, 1974 U.S. Embassy at Cairo, Dept of State, 2201 C. St., Washington, DC, USA⁶
Divorce 1976
Marriage Dec 7, 1977 New York, New York Co., NY, USA^10,5
Residence between 1979 and 1982 Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA⁸
Author 1983 Seleucid Coins, A Comprehensive Catalogue, Part I: Seleucus I - Antiochus III, by Arthur Houghton and Catharine Lorber. The American Numismatic Society, New York (1983)
Residence between 1985 and 1986 Playa del Rey, CA, USA⁸
Note 1993 social register
Association between 1995 and 1999 American Numismatic Association, president
Marriage May 13, 2006 Stevenson, MD, USA^11,8,5
Residence 2009 Cockeysville, MD, USA, ARTHUR HOUGHTON ASSOCIATES, INC.
1100 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 293-3390
[email protected].
Fax: (202) 293-3393⁸
Contributn May 4, 2009 His autobiography
Divorce May 2, 2018
Marriage Dec 18, 2018
Notable Arthur Amory Houghton was a noted numismatic scholar and novelist.
DNA Project 2021 Kit number 967486. Descendant of John Houghton of Lancaster MA thru son Justice John Houghton, thru his son Jacob. Haplogroup R-M269 per FTDNA; Haplogroup R-S476 per 23andme
Biography Arthur Amory Houghton III was a native New Yorker. He grew up with his mother after her divorce from his father. Mr. Houghton received his BA from Harvard University in 1963 with a major in Government and a minor in Engineering; he later received an MA from the American University of Beirut in 1966 (in Near Eastern Studies). Arthur Houghton has had separate and sequential careers in the U.S. Department of State, the J. Paul Getty Museum, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and as president of a Washington-based consultancy firm.

Arthur Houghton entered the US Foreign Service in the Department of State in 1966 and was assigned to the Bureau of European Affairs, and the US Embassies in Beirut, Lebanon, and Amman, Jordan. His later assignments included the US Embassy in Cairo and Washington, DC where he served on the National Security Council (Office of Near Eastern Affairs), and within the Department of State with the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and on the U.S. Senate staff, and later, as Office Director for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Mr. Houghton was appointed International Strategy Coordinator in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, where he served until 1990 when he left to found Arthur Houghton Associates of which he is president, a business consulting firm with special interest in the Arab Middle East.

In 1981 he graduated from Harvard’s graduate program in Art History. He was appointed Associate Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1982 and served at the Getty as Acting Curator-in-Charge of Antiquities from 1984 to 1986 before returning to government service as a foreign affairs specialist in the White House.

Houghton has lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa, and speaks Arabic and French. He serves on a number of museum boards and is a former member of the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee. He spent long years in the Arab Middle East, with many visits to Turkey, Iran among other locations), having served on the visiting committee to the Department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was a trustee of several institutions with strong Middle East connections. Mr. Houghton is a former trustee of the Middle East Institute. From 1989 to 1991 he was Chairman, and remains a Director, of a New York State trust company.

Mr. Houghton is both a student and practitioner of US policy toward the Middle East, and a scholar of the Hellenistic period in the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Persia. He was Vice President of the American Council for Cultural Policy, an organization established to provide information and policy views on US laws and regulations as they affect the importation and acquisition of cultural property by institutions and individuals.

He entered the US Department of State in 1966 and held positions in the American embassies in Beirut, Amman and Cairo; and with the White House National Security Council staff. He was Associate Curator and acting Curator-in-Charge of the Department of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum from 1982 to 1986.

Houghton holds current or previous board memberships with the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Corning Museum of Glass; the American Numismatic Society (where he served as president from 1985-89); American Near East Refugee Aid; the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; the Cyprus-American Archaeological Research Institute; the Middle East Institute; the American Council for Cultural Property; the Cultural Policy Research Institute, and the Council on Cultural Policy. His public service includes membership on the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee (1984-87) and an advisory committee of the U.S. Mint (2007-2012).

In early 2007, Arthur Houghton was inspired to write a story that combined his experience as a curator of Antiquities of the J. Paul Getty Museum with the thirteen years he spent as a career Foreign Service Officer. The work of fiction that emerged is Silent Athena, a narrative of a looted statue, a worldwide criminal conspiracy, panicked flight, and resolution. In addition a sequel, Saladin’s Fire, is to be completed in the spring of 2008. He has had a special interest in Hellenistic coinages. He has written or co-authored four books and some forty scholarly studies on economic, monetary and financial aspects of the Seleucid state (312-64 B.C.) in the Hellenistic period.

He is president of the Cultural Policy Research Institute (2009), a public charity dedicated to advancing public education and understanding of the issues that underlie the ownership and disposition of cultural property. He is a board member of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts.

Houghton lived with his wife, Peggy Fox, a professional photographer and artist, in Cockeysville, Maryland, until they divorced in 2018.

[Approved by Arthur, May 4, 2009]

Amazon.com, 2018:
I am a former foreign service officer, a museum curator, a scholar of numismatics, ancient history and art, and a specialist in cultural property ownership and protection. Most recently, I've published a thriller novel, Dark Athena, drawn from my experience in diplomacy and the museum world -- see https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535171774/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Early life and education

I was born on May 6, 1940, in New York City, where I spent my early life until the age of eleven. After attending private schools in New England schools, I went to Harvard College and received my BA degree in government in 1963.

Early interest in nature, astronomy, flying and aerospace; employment in the aircraft industry

I've had a lifelong interest in the natural sciences. At the age of eight, I was awarded the yearly Nature Prize by an upper New York State camp for my interest in local wildlife. I took a strong interest in astronomy and space travel when I was thirteen and was the founding member of the Dublin School astronomy club and, later, the first president of the Harvard Rocket Society.

Motivated by Rear Admiral Luis de Florez, with whom I survived a crash at Teterboro airport in 1948, I took up flying in 1959, eventually earning my private, commercial, and instructor's certificates and my license to fly single and multi-engine aircraft. In 1959-1960, I worked in the engineering department of the Douglas Aircraft Company at El Segundo, CA, on A3 and A4 jet attack aircraft produced for the US Navy.

Arabic Study and Interest in the Middle East

After graduating from Harvard in 1963, I studied Arabic at the Middle East Center for Arab Studies in Chemlan, Lebanon, then at the American University of Beirut, achieving an MA in Near Eastern Studies in 1966.

I have served on the boards of the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA). I've traveled widely in the Middle East, and maintains friendships in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Israel.

US State Department and Foreign Service

I entered the U.S. Department of State in 1966, serving first in the department's Bureau of European Affairs, then in Beirut, Amman and Cairo, before being appointed to the National Security Council staff (1974-1976). Following a brief appointment to the staffs of Senator Charles Mathias (MD) and Dick Clark (IA), I served as deputy director for Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs, then as executive assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.(1978-1979).

In 1974, I received the American Foreign Service Association's W. Averell Harriman Award for Constructive Dissent.

Museum Service

I returned to Harvard in 1979 and achieved my second MA degree, in Art History. I was appointed associate curator of antiquities of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, CA, where I remained until 1986. My tenure at the Getty Museum, and the scandals Houghton observed there, are the subject of a book, Chasing Aphrodite, the Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum.

Return to Public Service, then Business

I returned to Washington in 1986 and in 1988 was appointed to a Vice Presidential task force created to examine issues related to the control of the US borders. In 1989, along with other members of the task force, I was appointed to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, where I served until 1995, In that year I founded and was president of a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm, Arthur Houghton Associates, formed to create partnerships between companies in the US and the Middle East.

I was a director of the Market Street Trust Company, a New York banking institution, from 1986 to 2014. I was chairman from 1989-1991

Numismatic Interest and Scholarship

I began collecting ancient coins when I was twelve, narrowing my focus to the coins of Alexander the Great's successor kings, and eventually focusing on the coinages of the Seleucids, descendants of Seleucus I, who ruled across Asia Minor and the Middle East between 312 and 64 B.C. I began a series of scholarly essays on the Seleucid kingdom and numismatics in 1979, in time publishing more than sixty articles and four books including, with Catharine Lorber and Oliver Hoover, a lifetime work on the coinages of the Seleucid kings.

I was a board member of the American Numismatic Society from 1966-2010 and the Society's president from 1986-1990. In 2015, I received the Society's Archer M. Huntington medal for career contributions to numismatic scholarship. My public service includes membership on the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee of the U.S.Mint.

Archaeology, Cultural Property Ownership and Protection: a lifetime passion.

I have had a lifetime concern with the culture of the ancient world, in particular those of the eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world. I was the co-director of an archaeological survey in the western Sudan in 1964, and later supported the Harvard excavations at Sardes. I served on the boards of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Cyprus-American Archaeological Research Institute. I was a member of the visiting committee to Harvard's Department of Islamic Studies, the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Islamic Art, and the Department of Egyptian Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

I was appointed a member of the U.S. Cultural Property Committee (1983-1987) I was also a board member of the American Council for Cultural Policy, a board member and president of the American Committee for Cultural Policy, and am currently a board member of the Committee for Cultural Policy.

A First Novel

My first novel, Dark Athena, a thriller based upon my museum and foreign service experience, was published in August, 2016.

Family and Family Associations

I was married to Marguerite Page Fox in 2006. I have a son, Andrew Houghton, by a previous marriage to Sherrill Mulliken, and two grandsons, Calder and Penn Houghton.

My family associations include Alanson Houghton, who was U.S. ambassador to Germany and the United Kingdom; Amory Houghton, CEO of Corning Glass Works and U.S. ambassador to France; and Amory Houghton, Jr., who served in the House of Representatives; the actress, Katharine Houghton Hepburn; and her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, who was a leader of the suffrage movement and, with Margaret Sanger, a co-founder of Planned Parenthood. My father told me at an early point that we are distant descendants of Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.

I am a former foreign service officer, a museum curator, a scholar of numismatics, ancient history and art, and a specialist in cultural property ownership and protection. Most recently, I've published a thriller novel, Dark Athena, drawn from my experience in diplomacy and the museum world -- see https://www.amazon.com/dp/1535171774/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Another Amazon.com biography, 2018:

Early life and education

I was born on May 6, 1940, in New York City, where I spent my early life until the age of eleven. After attending private schools in New England schools, I went to Harvard College and received my BA degree in government in 1963.

Early interest in nature, astronomy, flying and aerospace; employment in the aircraft industry

I've had a lifelong interest in the natural sciences. At the age of eight, I was awarded the yearly Nature Prize by an upper New York State camp for my interest in local wildlife. I took a strong interest in astronomy and space travel when I was thirteen and was the founding member of the Dublin School astronomy club and, later, the first president of the Harvard Rocket Society.

Motivated by Rear Admiral Luis de Florez, with whom I survived a crash at Teterboro airport in 1948, I took up flying in 1959, eventually earning my private, commercial, and instructor's certificates and my license to fly single and multi-engine aircraft. In 1959-1960, I worked in the engineering department of the Douglas Aircraft Company at El Segundo, CA, on A3 and A4 jet attack aircraft produced for the US Navy.

Arabic Study and Interest in the Middle East

After graduating from Harvard in 1963, I studied Arabic at the Middle East Center for Arab Studies in Chemlan, Lebanon, then at the American University of Beirut, achieving an MA in Near Eastern Studies in 1966.

I have served on the boards of the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA). I've traveled widely in the Middle East, and maintains friendships in Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Israel.

US State Department and Foreign Service

I entered the U.S. Department of State in 1966, serving first in the department's Bureau of European Affairs, then in Beirut, Amman and Cairo, before being appointed to the National Security Council staff (1974-1976). Following a brief appointment to the staffs of Senator Charles Mathias (MD) and Dick Clark (IA), I served as deputy director for Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs, then as executive assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.(1978-1979).

In 1974, I received the American Foreign Service Association's W. Averell Harriman Award for Constructive Dissent.

Museum Service

I returned to Harvard in 1979 and achieved my second MA degree, in Art History. I was appointed associate curator of antiquities of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, CA, where I remained until 1986. My tenure at the Getty Museum, and the scandals Houghton observed there, are the subject of a book, Chasing Aphrodite, the Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum.

Return to Public Service, then Business

I returned to Washington in 1986 and in 1988 was appointed to a Vice Presidential task force created to examine issues related to the control of the US borders. In 1989, along with other members of the task force, I was appointed to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, where I served until 1995, In that year I founded and was president of a Washington, D.C. based consulting firm, Arthur Houghton Associates, formed to create partnerships between companies in the US and the Middle East.

I was a director of the Market Street Trust Company, a New York banking institution, from 1986 to 2014. I was chairman from 1989-1991

Numismatic Interest and Scholarship

I began collecting ancient coins when I was twelve, narrowing my focus to the coins of Alexander the Great's successor kings, and eventually focusing on the coinages of the Seleucids, descendants of Seleucus I, who ruled across Asia Minor and the Middle East between 312 and 64 B.C. I began a series of scholarly essays on the Seleucid kingdom and numismatics in 1979, in time publishing more than sixty articles and four books including, with Catharine Lorber and Oliver Hoover, a lifetime work on the coinages of the Seleucid kings.

I was a board member of the American Numismatic Society from 1966-2010 and the Society's president from 1986-1990. In 2015, I received the Society's Archer M. Huntington medal for career contributions to numismatic scholarship. My public service includes membership on the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee of the U.S.Mint.

Archaeology, Cultural Property Ownership and Protection: a lifetime passion.

I have had a lifetime concern with the culture of the ancient world, in particular those of the eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world. I was the co-director of an archaeological survey in the western Sudan in 1964, and later supported the Harvard excavations at Sardes. I served on the boards of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Cyprus-American Archaeological Research Institute. I was a member of the visiting committee to Harvard's Department of Islamic Studies, the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Islamic Art, and the Department of Egyptian Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

I was appointed a member of the U.S. Cultural Property Committee (1983-1987) I was also a board member of the American Council for Cultural Policy, a board member and president of the American Committee for Cultural Policy, and am currently a board member of the Committee for Cultural Policy.

A First Novel

My first novel, Dark Athena, a thriller based upon my museum and foreign service experience, was published in August, 2016.

Family and Family Associations

I was married to Marguerite Page Fox in 2006. I have a son, Andrew Houghton, by a previous marriage to Sherrill Mulliken, and two grandsons, Calder and Penn Houghton.

My family associations include Alanson Houghton, who was U.S. ambassador to Germany and the United Kingdom; Amory Houghton, CEO of Corning Glass Works and U.S. ambassador to France; and Amory Houghton, Jr., who served in the House of Representatives; the actress, Katharine Houghton Hepburn; and her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn, who was a leader of the suffrage movement and, with Margaret Sanger, a co-founder of Planned Parenthood. My father told me at an early point that we are distant descendants of Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.

In 2022 he published his memoir: Standing Still is Not an Option: A Memoir^11,8

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S589] Unknown author, Who's Who in the East, p. 445.

[S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Houghton Surname.

[S1304] Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross,, The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, p. 177.

[S415] E-mail from Arthur Amory Houghton, III, May 9, 2009.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, p. 595.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, XCIX [1985]: 443.

[S415] E-mail from Arthur Amory Houghtin III, May 1, 2009.

[S219] Unknown compiler, Harvard Alumni Directory, 1975, p. 596.

[S506] Unknown agency, Social Register, CVII [1993]: 376.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.arthurhoughton.com/

Hollister Douglas Houghton^1,2

F, #15175, b. 14 June 1945, d. 27 April 2019

Father*: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr.¹ b. 12 Dec 1906, d. 3 Apr 1990

Mother*: Elizabeth Douglas McCall³ b. 25 Feb 1919, d. Feb 1996

Family: William Douglas Haggard III b. c 1933

Marriage*: Hollister Douglas Houghton married William Douglas Haggard III on Oct 5, 1968 at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY, USA.⁵

Biography

Corresponded with author Y
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project Y
Birth Jun 14, 1945 New York, New York Co., NY, USA⁴
Graduation St. Timothy's School, San Mateo, CA, USA
Marriage Oct 5, 1968 Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY, USA⁵
Newspaper Oct 6, 1968 Hollister Douglas Houghton Is a Bride; Married to William David Haggard 3d, an Equestrian
October 6, 1968, Sunday
No Childrn ⁴
Address Nov 6, 2003
Death Apr 27, 2019 Aiken, South Carolina, USA
Obituary Hollister Douglas Houghton
June 14, 1945 - April 28, 2019

AIKEN, SC - Holly Houghton, conservationist, philanthropist, and sportswoman, died peacefully in her home in Aiken, South Carolina, on April 27, 2019 after a battle with cancer. She was 74 years old.

The daughter of the late Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., President of Steuben Glass, and the late Elizabeth Douglas McCall, a Manhattan socialite who championed educational and cultural causes, Holly grew up in New York City and on her father's country estate, Wye Plantation, in Maryland. She was a graduate of Saint Timothy’s School and Smith College, class of 1967.

Holly was a talented woman whose humility, kindness, and quiet reserve belied her extraordinary accomplishments. She was a champion Sporting Clays enthusiast who competed nationally and internationally. She was a gifted equestrian who served as the Master of Foxhounds for the Aiken Hounds for over ten years and hunted in many of the storied hunts of Ireland, England, and France. She was an ardent fly fisherman who travelled all over Great Britain to fish for salmon, and a strong competitor on the golf course and tennis court as well.

Holly was a woman of great intellectual curiosity who loved words and collected books. Particularly fond of literature and history (she studied Medieval History at Oxford), she was a voracious reader, often consuming five or six books a week and sharing her favorites with her friends. She enjoyed nothing more than reading a good book in front of the fire, snuggled up with her two cats Eenie and Allo.

Holly was also an avid art collector and an accomplished artist and craftswoman. She was an expert at needlepoint, completing many pillows and rugs, and spent four years completing a large 8' x 10' rug that still graces her home. In recent years, Holly took up infrared photography, capturing images of local natural significance, as well as the sleepy villages on the coast of Scotland. She sold her photographs locally, donating the proceeds to her favorite charities.

Holly loved to travel. Aside from her time spent in Great Britain and Europe fly-fishing, riding, shooting, and studying, she travelled to Scotland dozens of times in the past twenty years on challenging walking vacations. A favorite was the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides, where she and her friends endured the grueling walks over rough terrain in harsh weather to bask in the beauty of the island. She visited Islay close to twenty times over the past decade and participated in Walk Islay twelve times.

At home in Aiken, Holly spent hours on long, daily treks through her beloved Hitchcock Woods in the company of friends and their canine companions. She was a devoted conservationist, supporting conservation initiatives locally and on the Edisto River. She preserved her former property adjacent to the Hitchcock Woods in perpetuity through the donation of a conservation easement to the Aiken Land Conservancy, where she served as a board member for over 10 years. Holly is credited with establishing her signature land conservancy fundraiser, Clays for Conservation, and co-sponsoring the organization's first office space on Park Avenue.

Holly is survived by her sister, Mrs. Sylvia Garrett of Easton, Maryland, her brother Arthur A. Houghton, III, of New York City, and 14 nieces and nephews spanning three generations.

At Holly's request, no services will be held.

Memorial donations may be made in Holly's name to the Aiken Land Conservancy, P.O. Box 3096, Aiken, SC 29802, or the Hitchcock Woods Foundation, P.O. Box 1702, Aiken, SC 29802.
Contributn

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S589] Unknown author, Who's Who in the East, p. 445.

[S415] E-mail from Elizabeth McCall Houghton, Nov 6, 2003.

[S36] Letter, from HollisterDouglas Houghton, Nov. 8, 2003.

[S935] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1560.

[S415] E-mail from HollisterDouglas Houghton, Nov. 8, 2003.

Hiram Cole Houghton^1,2,3

M, #15176, b. 15 February 1850, d. 3 August 1925

Father*: Jonathan Clark Houghton^4,5 b. 4 Aug 1822, d. 30 Jul 1887

Mother*: Mary Ann Cole^6,5 b. 23 Jan 1822, d. 29 Jan 1904

Family 1: Julia Cross James b. 6 Nov 1856, d. 22 May 1875

Marriage*: Hiram Cole Houghton married Julia Cross James on Jun 10, 1874 at Washington Co., NY, USA, Warren Co. Hx: June 11.^10,7,11

Julia Irene Houghton+^10,3 b. 28 Apr 1875, d. 1952

Family 2: Ella Louise Bacon b. 16 Aug 1854, d. 8 Jan 1914

Marriage: Hiram Cole Houghton married Ella Louise Bacon on Apr 16, 1878 at Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., CT, USA, mar 22 years in 1900 census.^22,7,24,9

Luella Houghton+^21,22 b. 29 Jan 1879, d. 2 Feb 1945

Mary Ann Houghton+²³ b. 9 Dec 1880, d. 18 Dec 1964

Jonathan Clark Houghton+¹² b. 29 Oct 1882, d. 7 Jan 1930

Hiram Cole Houghton Jr.+¹² b. 27 Jul 1884, d. 16 Jun 1957

Edith Houghton+²¹ b. 5 Feb 1888, d. 4 Mar 1980

Family 3: Lulu Watt b. 13 Oct 1884, d. 14 Oct 1961

Marriage*: Hiram Cole Houghton married Lulu Watt, daughter of (?) Coons, on Feb 10, 1910 at Omaha, NE, USA.^12,16

Biography

Corresponded with author ?
A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project Y
Notable Y
Birth Feb 15, 1850 South Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., VT, USA, age 6/12 in 1850 census; age 10 in 1860 census; age 30 in 1880 census; Feb. 1850, age 50 in 1900 census; age 60 in 1910 census; age 69 in 1920 census^7,8,9,5
Education Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Bennington Co., VT, USA⁶
Marriage Jun 10, 1874 Washington Co., NY, USA, Warren Co. Hx: June 11^10,7,11
Occupation North Bennington, Bennington Co., VT, USA, As a young man he ran a general store, while living with his family in a house not far North of the store in⁶
Immigration 1878 ,in 1878, sold his store and "went West" to find a new home. He went to Denver, Colorado, and decided to settle there. On his way back East, he stopped at Red Oak, IA, to vist Samuel Loomis from VT who owned a lumber yard. Samuel convinced him to stay and go into business together, loaning him money to do so. Early in 1879 his wife and daughter Luella joined him. The next year Hiram built a two story and basement kitchen house.¹²
1880 Census 1880 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 30, a lumber dealer¹³
1900 Census 1900 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 50, banker; 5 children born, 5 living and 2 servants; and Clark Hall, nephew and servant^9,14
1910 Census Apr, 1910 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 60, private bank banker¹⁵
Marriage Feb 10, 1910 Omaha, NE, USA^12,16
1920 Census 1920 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 69, bank president^16,17
Death Aug 3, 1925 Red Oak, IA, USA^18,7
Obituary Jun 17, 1957 RitesTuesday for Houghton
RED OAK Wi—Funeral services' ! will be held here Tuesday for Hir- man Cole Houghton, Jr.. 72, president of the Iowa Bankers' Assn., who died Sunday after an illness of several weeks.
He was chairman of the board of the Houghton State Bank which he headed as president for 25 years.
Houghton is survived by three sons who also are bankers, his wife. Mrs. Dorothy Houghton, former assistant director of the U.S* Foreign Operations Administration and a past president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and a daughter. Mrs. John J. Williams. Red Oak.
Two sisters and nine grandchildren also survive.
Houghton, a life long resident of Red Oak. was city treasurer, school board treasurer and president of the Airport Commission here at the time of his death.
One son. H. Deemer Houghton, became president of the local bank when his father became,
' board chairman recently. Another¹; son, Cole Houghton became vice I president of the bank. A third son, I ; Hiram Clarke Houghton, is vice ' president of the First National ; Bank of Iowa City.
Funeral services will be held at,
¹ the Congregational Church here at 11 a m. Tuesday.
Burial Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, IA, USA¹⁹
Biography Pringle: Hiram Houghton was a partner in Houghton and Loomis Lumber Yard. In 1881 he and Clark Bishop built the first opera house in the town with a furniture store and undertaking business on the street level. This burned in 1882. He loaned money and later operated the State Savings Bank, merging it in the H. C. Houghton Private Bank. In 1898, he built a three story building, with the bank occuping the corner on the first floor. This burnt down in the big fire of 1903. Another building was erected with the bank on the second floor. His son Hiram remodeled the corner of the first floor and returned the bank to its original location. In May 1935 it was reorganized under the name of Houghton State Bank, after safely weathering the depression of 1932.

Bollier Scrapbook items of Montgomery Co., IA

Submitted by David Harrington, grandson of Dessie Mae (Johnson) Bollier:

Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa

Houghton Bank Founded in 1879

Three Presidents In Bank History

Red Oak's Houghton State Bank was organized here in 1879 with H. C. Houghton sr. as president. The third Houghton generation is now serving as bank president and the bank has remained in the family since its founding.

First located in the building now occupied by the Faunce store, the bank in 1898 moved to the south-east corner of the square in the site now occupied by the building owned by Edwin Engquist. Burned out in the 1902 fired, the bank building was rebuilt. Since 1940 the bank has occupied its present quarters at the southwest corner of the square.

Founder H. C. Houghton sr. served as bank president from 1879 to 1925. His son, H. C. Houghton, jr., was president from 1925 until January of this year and is now chairman of the board. He has been a member of the bank staff since 1906.

Deemer Houghton, eldest of four children of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Houghton jr., was named bank president in January of this year. Another of the Houghton sons, Cole, is one of the two vice-presidents, along with O. N. Hultman of Stanton .

Board of Directors

The board of directors, includes H. C. Houghton jr., Deemer Houghton, Cole Houghton, O. N. Houghton, H. L. Herkert, R. J. Swanson and R. C. Kipp. All are Red Oakers except Hultman, Stanton, and Kipp, Elliott.

The bank operates an Elliott branch managed by R. C. Kipp, board of director member. At Red Oak, Vivian Nelson is auditor and C. Lester Anderson cashier. The bank has 20 employees, including the Elliott branch.

Pringle vs Houghton:
Elizabeth C. PRINGLE, Appellant, v. Hiram C. HOUGHTON, Jr., and H. Deemer Houghton, Trustees Under the Will of Hiram Cole Houghton, Deceased, and Stuart H. Pringle, Jr., Frederick C. Pringle, Ann Pringle and Joan Pringle, Appellees.

No. 49387.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 11, 1958.
This action involves construction of the will of Hiram Cole Houghton. He died in Montgomery County in September 1925. He left surviving him his widow, Lulu W. Houghton, his third wife, and six children. Julia J. Eldridge was a daughter by his first wife. He made special mention of her in his will, and she is not involved in this action. He had five children by his second wife and this action pertains to a trust established by decedent as same affects the five children: Jonathan C. Houghton, Hiram C. Houghton, Jr., Luella H. Pringle, Mary H. Will, Edith H. Heckert, and their heirs, if deceased.

Hiram Cole Houghton established a trust in his will in which he provided that $6,000 per year be paid to his widow, Lulu, during her lifetime, or until remarriage; that $3,500 be paid annually to each of his five children, or if deceased, to the "heirs of the body" of any decedent; if a child died without children, then to his surviving children or their heirs.

Jonathan died intestate in 1930 leaving a wife and four children. The income from the trust payable to Jonathan, if he had lived, has been paid throughout the years to his children.

Luella died testate in 1945 leaving three children: Donald R. Pringle, Stuart H. Pringle and Louise Pringle Olson.

Stuart H. Pringle died a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, in 1954 leaving his wife, the plaintiff, Elizabeth C. Pringle, and four minor children, the defendants.

On December 23, 1949, Stuart H. Pringle had made an assignment to his wife, Elizabeth, of his interest in both income and corpus of the trust. On the basis of this assignment she filed this action.

Lulu W. Houghton is still living, unmarried and residing in the state of California.¹²
Notable Red Oak, IA, USA, founded the Houghton Bank
Contributn all buried at the Houghton plot, Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, IA data (listed as p. 20)²⁰

Pedigree

Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 162 #6212.

[S1074] Town Records: Bennington, VT, p. 150: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 6.

[S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont; Roll: M432_921; Page: 9; line 38, dwl 149-157.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 9.

[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 162.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 7, 15.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1900 Soundex, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, Box 60, Vol. 55, E.D. 114, Sh. 15, Ln. 62.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 10.

[S1133] Unknown agency, Washington Co. NY Hx, p. 472.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 11.

[S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa; Roll: T9_357; Family History Film: 1254357; Page: 335A; Enumeration District: 145; sheet 61, line 43, dwl 580-621.

[S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa; Roll:T623; Enumeration District: 114; Sheet: 15B; line 62, dwl 710-318-357.

[S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak Ward 3, Montgomery, Iowa; Roll: T624_415; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 114;
line 3, dwl 710-137-142.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, Film 849, Box 64, Vol. 57, E.D. 121, Sh. 3, Ln. 15.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa; Roll: T625_504; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 121; line 15, dwl 710-68-68.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 7.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 7, 19.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 7, 20.

[S415] E-mail from Annabel Lantz Pina, June 5, 1999.

[S28] DAR Lineage Book, V. 20.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 12.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 7, 10.

Dorothy Deemer¹

F, #15177, b. 11 March 1890, d. 21 March 1972

Family: Hiram Cole Houghton Jr. b. 27 Jul 1884, d. 16 Jun 1957

Marriage*: Dorothy Deemer married Hiram Cole Houghton Jr., son of Hiram Cole Houghton and Ella Louise Bacon, on Dec 12, 1912 at Red Oak, IA, USA, age 28 and 22; Pringle, MLM: Dec. 18.^1,3,2

Horace Deemer Houghton+¹ b. 22 Sep 1913, d. 28 Apr 1993

Cole Hayward Houghton+¹ b. 10 Apr 1916, d. 12 Dec 1999

Joan Houghton+¹ b. 28 Nov 1921, d. b 2002

Hiram Clark Houghton JD+¹ b. 11 Mar 1923, d. 8 Jan 2003

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname Project ?
Corresponded with author ?
Birth Mar 11, 1890 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 29 in 1920 census; age 40 in 1930 census^1,2
Graduation 1912 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA²
Marriage Dec 12, 1912 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 28 and 22; Pringle, MLM: Dec. 18^1,3,2
1920 Census 1920 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 35, bank cashier, and Jeanette D. Deemer, 59, IL, mother in law^4,5
1930 Census 1930 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 45, bank president⁶
1940 Census 1940 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 52, state bank manager; 4 y of college⁷
SSN 448-28-2315
1950 US Census 1950 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 65, banker
Research between 1958 and 1973 Who's Who in American Women. 1958-1973
Who's Who in America. Vol. 5 1973.
Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times. 1988
Occupation Dept. of State Refugee Program
Death Mar 21, 1972 IA, USA, age of 82^8,9
Burial Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, IA, USA⁹
Biography Women of Montgomery County, Iowa: Dorothy Deemer was born in Red Oak March 1 1, 1890 to Jeannette Gibson Deemer and Judge Horace Emerson Deemer. She was graduated in 1912 from Wellesley College and the same year married Hiram Cole Houghton. Their four children are H. Deemer, Cole H., Clark and Joan Houghton Williams.

Red Oak records show that Dorothy Houghton's community activities began soon after she was married. She is noted as one of the early organizers of the "Montefesto Festival" begun about 1912 as a town and county festival of the Montgomery County community. She served on the board of the Red Oak Public Library and became president of the Red Oak Monday Club. She later became president of the Iowa Library Association and chairman of the board of trustees of the American Library Association. She was a member of the First Congregational Church.

Mrs. Houghton maintained her strongest and foremost interest in women's club work and she became president of the lowa Federation of Women's Clubs in 1935-37. She was one of the organizers in Red Oak of the local branch of the American Association of University Women, and helped to form a chapter of the United Nations Association during the 1960's. In 1950-1952 she became president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, an international organization of 11 million members. During those years she traveled extensively throughout the world. Later she became the deputy-director of the International Cooperation Administration of the United States government.

She served on such international organizations as the national committee of UNESCO, the board of UNICEF and the Tolstoy Foundation. In 1956 she was the co-chairman for the National Citizens for Eisenhower, and following those duties she became a member of the advisory board of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. One of her greatest satisfactions came from her 12 years of service to the state as a member of the Iowa Board of Regents supervising Iowa's state institutions of higher learning.

With Mrs. Houghton's encouragement and guidance, Ada B. Hysham gave to the people of Red Oak, through the Red Oak Monday Club, the lovely home at 800 Reed Street which is used for meetings, various community affairs and private functions.

At the age of 82, Dorothy Houghton died in her home town of Red Oak March 21, 1972. It could surely be said that for all of her life she was an energetic, enthusiastic and tireless organizer.

Who's Who, p. 1338: "Houghton, Dorothy Deemer (Mrs. Hiram Cole Houghton), govt. ofcl., b. Red Oak, Ia., Mar. 11, 1890; d. judge Horace Emerson and Jeannette (Gibson) Deemer; A.B., Wellesley College, 1912; LL.D., Coe Coll. (hon.), 1942; L.H.D. (hon.) Tarko Coll., 1949; Litt. D. (honorary), Am. U., 1952, D.Sc. in Government (honory), University of Tampa, 1954; married Hiram Cole Houghton, December 18, 1912; children --Horace Deemer, Cole Hayward, Joan (Mrs. John J. Williams, Hiram Clark. Pres. Ia. Fedn. Women's Clubs, 1935-37; pres. Gen. Fedn. Women's Clubs, 1950-52; dep. dir. Internat. Cooperation Adminstrn., 1953-55; me. adv. council Office Civil Def. Moblzn., 1957-60; mem. pub. adv. group, Refuge Relief Program, Dept. of State, 1955--. Advisor, altenate del. 5 internat. sessions. Intergovt. Com. European Migration; v.p. Electoral Coll., 1953-57; mem.-at-large nat. commn. UNESCO, mem. bd. UN Internat. Children's Fund. Mem. State Bd. Edn., Ia, 1939-51. Nat. bd. mem. Women's Med. Coll., PA. Trustee at large Nat. Soc. Crippled Children and Adults; planning com. Internat Christian U., Tolyo, Japan; trustee The Washington Pilgrimage, Inc; mem. bd Library of Red Oaks (Ia.), Seminars of Internat. Understanding. Co-chmn. Nat. Citizens for Eisenhower, 1956. Recipient Am. Heritage Award, Nat. Assn. Home Buildrs, 1952; Officer Order Orange Nassau, 1952; Insignia and Diploma of Gold Cross of Royal Order of Beneficence (Greece), 1954; Internat. Cup of Goodwill, All Nations Club, 1954; Nansen award for most distinguished service to refugees, 1956 (Geneva, Switzerland). Mem. Nat. Assn. Parliamentarians (Ia. dir.), Ia. Safety Council (exec. com), Congl. Christian Conf. Ia (asst. moderator), Ia; Hist. Soc (curator), Nat. Planning Assn. (nat. council), Assn. Bus. and Profl. Women, Am. Assn. U. Women, Pen Women Am., Ia., Library Assn. (pres, 1941-42). D.A.R., P.E.O., Delta Kappa Gamma, Zeta Phi Eta, Pi Beta Phi. Republican. Conglist. Home: Red Oak, Ia. Office: 270 Park Av., N.Y.C."

MLM: a past president of State Federation of Women's Clubs; for 4 years, chmn. 9th Dist. Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, and in 1927 Recording Sec. of the Federation. She was appointed member, Board of Curators, IA Historical Society in 1917, in Iowa City by Gov. Hammill, and held that position in 1936 (see People of IA, V. 3, p. 353 by E. R. Harlan); MLM corresponded with Mrs. Pringle.

Women of Montgomery County, Iowa (Bettie McKenzie): One of the early organizers of the "Montefesto Festival" begun about 1912 as a county festival of the Montgomery County community. Served on the board of the Red Oak Public Library; president of the Red Oak Monday Club; president of the Iowa Library Association; chairman of the board of trustees of the American Library Association; member of the 1st Congreational Church; president of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs in 1935-37; one of the organizers in Red Oak of the local branch of the American Assoc. of University Women; helped to form a chapter of the United Nations Association during the 1960's. in 1950-1952, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, an international organization of 11 million members. She traveled extensively throughout the world. She became the deputy-director of the International Cooperation Administration of the US government. She served on the national committee of UNESCO, the board of UNICEF and the Tolstoy Foundation. In 1956 she was the co-chairman for the National Citizens for Eisenhower. She was a member of the advisory board of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization. She spent 12 years as a member of the Iowa Board of Regents.

Mrs. Hiram Cole Houghton combines the talents of a small town homemaker with the leadership qualities which placed her at the head of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1950-52. She is noted as an orator and her magnetic personality has endeared her to millions of women in this county and abroad.
She has been interested in the welfare of her town and state and has served actively on many boards and associations of both.
She has received honorary degrees from Coe College, Tarkio College, and American University, Washington, D. C. -- the first woman to receive an honorary degree from this University. In 1952 the decoration of the Order of Orange Nassau was bestowed upon her by Her Majesty, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. She was honored by the Colorado Federation when 500 trees were planted in her honor in the Federation Forest.
In 1953 she was appointed by President Eisenhower as Assistant Administrator to Mr. Harold Stassen in the Mutual Security Administration in charge of Refugees and Migration.
Through her work in this job and in the General Federation Mrs. Houghton has proven that although she was born and brought up in a small town, in the land of opportunity, she is an example of what an American can accomplish.

Wikipedia:
Dorothy Deemer Houghton (March 11, 1890 - March 15, 1972) was an American Republican public official and civil servant.[1]

Dorothy was born in Red Oak, Iowa and grew up in both Red Oak and Des Moines. She was the daughter of Horace E. Deemer, who was a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.[2] She met several political figures in childhood due to the connections of her father, with whom she had a good relationship.[1] She studied at Wellesley College, graduating in 1912.
In 1921, she became the first woman on the Iowa State Conservation Board. In 1934, she served as the temporary secretary for the Iowa Republican Party.[4] She became president of the Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1935.[5] The following year, she was appointed to the State Board of Education and served on the Board of Curators for the State Historical Society of Iowa. Houghton was elected president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC) in 1950, and served as president until 1952.[5][6] She supported for the United Nations while president of the GFWC.[6] She also supported Dwight Eisenhower's presidential candidacy and campaigned across several states.[7] Following Eisenhower's election to President, she was appointed assistant director for the Mutual Security of Refugees and Migrants, acting as a goodwill ambassador.[8] She retired in 1956 and received the Nansen Medal that year in recognition of her work with refugees, presented by Eleanor Roosevelt.[9][1] She subsequently campaigned to re-elect Eisenhower and became vice president of the Electoral College.
She married Hiram Houghton and had four children, but felt a lack of "intellectual stimulation" from being a housewife.[1] After her political career, Houghton retired to Red Oak and continued to serve on various committees] She moved to Iowa City in 1957 after her husband's death, where she published her memoirs, Reflections.[1] She died in 1972 aged 82 and was buried in Red Oak.^1,10,11,12
Gen. Soc. D.A.R., P.E.O.
ParentsD Judge Horace Emerson Deemer, b. IN, a jurist who wrote the history of Montgomery County, IA; md. Jul. 12, 1892, Jeanette Gibson of Red Oak, b. IL²

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[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 162.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 16, 19.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, Film 849, Box 64, Vol. 57, E.D. 121, Sh. 12, Ln. 10.

[S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa; Roll: T625_504; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 121; line 10, dwl 1112-301-312.

[S1233] 1930 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa; Roll: 670; Page: 17B; Enumeration District: 14; line 97, dwl 1112-472-496.

[S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa; Roll: m-t0627-01185; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 69-15.

[S98] Social Security Administration.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 20.

[S934] Who's Who, 1958, p. 960.

[S1076] Rootsweb.Com, online sites.rootsweb.com, Women of Montgomery Co., IA, June 12 2002.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/bios/women/womene-i.htm

Horace Deemer Houghton^1,2

M, #15178, b. 22 September 1913, d. 28 April 1993

Father*: Hiram Cole Houghton Jr.¹ b. 27 Jul 1884, d. 16 Jun 1957

Mother*: Dorothy Deemer¹ b. 11 Mar 1890, d. 21 Mar 1972

Family: Frances Shepard b. 17 May 1921, d. 26 Feb 2016

Marriage*: Horace Deemer Houghton married Frances Shepard on Oct 19, 1940.⁵

Robert Deemer Houghton⁵ b. c 1947

Barbara Houghton⁵ b. c 1949

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Birth Sep 22, 1913 Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, USA, age 6 in 1920 census; age 16 in 1930 census^3,4,2
Mil. Enls Capt. US Army, WWII
Marriage Oct 19, 1940 ⁵
1950 US Census 1950 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 36, city bank cashier
Death Apr 28, 1993 Red Oak, IA, USA
Burial Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, IA, USA, H. Deemer Houghton⁶

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 162.

[S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Red Oak, Montgomery Co., IA, Film 849, Box 64, Vol. 57, E.D. 121, Sh. 12, Ln. 10.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 16, 19.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 19.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 20.

Cole Hayward Houghton^1,2

M, #15179, b. 10 April 1916, d. 12 December 1999

Father*: Hiram Cole Houghton Jr.¹ b. 27 Jul 1884, d. 16 Jun 1957

Mother*: Dorothy Deemer¹ b. 11 Mar 1890, d. 21 Mar 1972

Family: Garneriere Sellergren b. c 1910

Marriage*: Cole Hayward Houghton married Garneriere Sellergren on Jun 22, 1940.⁴

Linda Houghton⁴ b. c 1949

Suran? Houghton⁴

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Birth Apr 10, 1916 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 3 8/12 in 1920 census; age 14 in 1930 census^3,2
Marriage Jun 22, 1940 ⁴
SSN 481-05-7908
1950 US Census 1950 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 34, banking asst. cashier
Death Dec 12, 1999 Bethesda, Montgomery Co., MD, USA⁵

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 162.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 16, 19.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 19.

[S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.faqs.org/people-search/houghton-maryland/

Joan Houghton^1,2

F, #15180, b. 28 November 1921, d. before 2002

Father*: Hiram Cole Houghton Jr.¹ b. 27 Jul 1884, d. 16 Jun 1957

Mother*: Dorothy Deemer¹ b. 11 Mar 1890, d. 21 Mar 1972

Family: John J. Williams

Marriage*: Joan Houghton married John J. Williams.¹

John R. Williams⁴

Wendy Williams⁴

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Birth Nov 28, 1921 Red Oak, IA, USA, age 8 in 1930 census^3,2
Marriage ¹
Death before 2002

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Citations

[S17] Who's Who, 1958, p. 1338.

[S814] Marshall L. McClanahan, Houghton, John & Beatrix - MLM;, M, p. 162.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 16, 19.

[S873] Luella Houghton Pringle, We Houghtons - L. Pringle, p. 19.