Timothy E. Houghton1

M, #37441

Family: Dorothy F. Munroe

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  • Marriage*: Timothy E. Houghton married Dorothy F. Munroe.1

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

Timothy E. Houghton Jr1

M, #37442

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

Loren B. Houghton1,2,3,4

M, #37443, b. 1 April 1831, d. 27 August 1908

Family 1: Julia A. Newton b. 19 Apr 1838, d. 22 Feb 1860

Family 2: Josephine Durkee b. 23 Jan 1839, d. 4 Oct 1927

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BirthApr 1, 1831Orange, Orange Co., VT, USA, dd calc; age 19 in 1850 census; age 29 in 1860 census; age 39 in 1870 census; age 49 in 1880 census; Apr 1831, age 69 in 1900 census2,6,7,5
Marriage8
Residence1863Stockbridge, Windsor Co., VT, USA, a farmer3
MarriageDec 31, 1863Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 31, 2nd; mar 36 years in 1900 census9,3
OccupationVT, USA, a farmer9
Residence1869Orange, Orange Co., VT, USA, a farmer7,10
1870 Census1870Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 38, a farmer, property $1500; next to wife's parents, Joseph and Olive Durkee11
1880 Census1880Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 49, a farmer, and Olive Durkee, 72, widow, carpet weaver12,13
1900 Census1900Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 69, farmer2,14
DeathAug 27, 1908Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 77-4-26, of heart disease and dropsy15,5
BurialPittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, 1831-190815
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  1. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p. 533-535.
  2. [S235] U.S. Census, 1900 Soundex Vermont, Box 17, Vol. 10, E.D. 203, Sh. 2, Ln. 72.
  3. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, p. 861; VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30270, VT VRs 1770-1870.
  4. [S1226] 1850 U.S. Federal Census , Orange, Orange, Vermont; Roll: M432_926; Page: 142; line 32, dwl 1270-1364.
  5. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, Vol. 2, p. 1075: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  6. [S235] U.S. Census, 1850 US Census, Orange, Orange Co., VT, Box 926, p. 142.
  7. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 983: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT.
  8. [S1074] Town Records: Orange, Orange Co., VT, p. 358; VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30270, VT VRs 1770-1870.
  9. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p. 533.
  10. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 921: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT.
  11. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsfield, Orange Co., VT, Reel 1625, p. 552b, Ln 35, dwl 37-61.
  12. [S235] U.S. Census, 1880 Soundex, Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, Reel 6, Vol. 6, ED. 184, Sh. 4, Ln. 16.
  13. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, Reel 6, Vol. 6, ED. 184, Sh. 4, Ln. 16, dwl 32-37.
  14. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsfield, Rutland Co., Vermont; Roll: T623 ; Enumeration District: 203; Sheet 2B; line 72, dwl 44-44.
  15. [S1284] Margaret R. Jenks, Chittenden, VT Cemetery Inscriptions, p. 44.
  16. [S1074] Town Records: Ludlow, VT, p. 1475: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  17. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 1559: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  18. [S1074] Town Records: Newbury, VT, p. 873: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.

Josephine Durkee1,2

F, #37444, b. 23 January 1839, d. 4 October 1927

Family: Loren B. Houghton b. 1 Apr 1831, d. 27 Aug 1908

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BirthJan 23, 1839Stockbridge, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 31 in 1870 census; age 41 in 1880 census; Jan 1839, age 61 in 1900 census; Pittsfield VT also given3,4
MarriageDec 31, 1863Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 31, 2nd; mar 36 years in 1900 census1,2
Residence1869Orange, Orange Co., VT, USA, a farmer3,5
1870 Census1870Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 38, a farmer, property $1500; next to wife's parents, Joseph and Olive Durkee6
1880 Census1880Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 49, a farmer, and Olive Durkee, 72, widow, carpet weaver7,8
1900 Census1900Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 69, farmer9,10
DeathOct 4, 1927Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 88-9-11, of valvular heart disease11,12
BurialPittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA11
ParentsDJoseph Durkeee and Olive Whitcomb; parents born in Stockbridge, VT12
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  1. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p. 533.
  2. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, p. 861; VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30270, VT VRs 1770-1870.
  3. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 983: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT.
  4. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 1559: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  5. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 921: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT.
  6. [S1228] 1870 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsfield, Orange Co., VT, Reel 1625, p. 552b, Ln 35, dwl 37-61.
  7. [S235] U.S. Census, 1880 Soundex, Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, Reel 6, Vol. 6, ED. 184, Sh. 4, Ln. 16.
  8. [S1229] 1880 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, Reel 6, Vol. 6, ED. 184, Sh. 4, Ln. 16, dwl 32-37.
  9. [S235] U.S. Census, 1900 Soundex Vermont, Box 17, Vol. 10, E.D. 203, Sh. 2, Ln. 72.
  10. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Pittsfield, Rutland Co., Vermont; Roll: T623 ; Enumeration District: 203; Sheet 2B; line 72, dwl 44-44.
  11. [S1284] Margaret R. Jenks, Chittenden, VT Cemetery Inscriptions, p. 44.
  12. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT; VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30766, VT Vital Records 1909-1941.
  13. [S1074] Town Records: Ludlow, VT, p. 1475: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.
  14. [S1074] Town Records: Newbury, VT, p. 873: VT Division of Records, Middlesex, VT, F-30546, VT VRs 1871-1904.

Bert Houghton1,2

M, #37445, b. 17 January 1867, d. 17 June 1939

Family: Kate M. Bossuet b. Jul 1867

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BirthJan 17, 1867Pittsfield, Rutland Co., VT, USA, age 3 in 1870 census; age 13 in 1880 census; Jan 1867, age 33 in 1900 census; age 43 in 1910 census; age 52 in 1920 census; age 66 in 1930 census1,3
EducationJan, 1892Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, mech. and elec. engineering1
OccupationHe was an engineer, designer and builder of electric power plants and electrical machinery. He worked for Calumet and Hecla Mining Comp. of MI and for the Boston General Electric Co. He developed the first motor operated gun carriage for coast defense (exhibited at 1893 Chicago's World Fair). He later designed the electric driven mail cancelling machine. In 1896 he joined Lockwood, Green and Co. of Boston. He built a power plant in 1898 for Boston Electric Light Co. He joined the Boston Edison Co. and then was from 1920 was operating superintendent of the Brooklyn Edison Co. until he retired in 1934. He delivered 1,100 lectures on mechanical and electrical engineering. He was a member of the Amer. Soc. of Mech. Engineers, the Electrical Engineering Soc., the National Electric Light Assoc., and the Cornell Soc. of Engineers. He was a Mason.4
MarriageJan 8, 1893Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, mar 19 y in 1910 census5
1900 Census1900Arlington, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 33, mechanical engineer6,7
1910 Census1910Arlington, Middlesex Co., MA, USA, age 43, electrical engineer8
1920 Census1920Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, age 52, mechanical engineer9,10
ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA, also a summer house in Pittsfield, VT11
DeathJun 17, 1939Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY, USA11
ObituaryJun 18, 1939NY Times:
Bert Houghton, 72, Engineer, Is Dead Ex-Operating Superintendent of Brooklyn Edison Served Company for 22 years. Had Built Many Plants
Also a Designer of Electrical Machinery -- Developed Coast Defense Gun Carriages
Bert Houghton, who retired in 1934 as operating superintendent of the Brooklyn Edison Company after a distinguised career as a designer and builder of electrical power plants and electrical machinery, died yesterday in the Brooklyn Hospital, after a long illness, at the age of 72. His Brooklyn residence was 1,274 East Twenty-third Street, and his country home was in Pittsfield, Vt., his birthplace, to which he gave a park and a community center.
A poor boy, after attending the district grammar school, Bert Houghton worked his way through St. Johnsbury Academy, and then took a job to make the money necessary to put himself through Cornell, where he was graduated as a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer in 1892. Long afterward he served for eight years on the board of governors of the Cornell Club of New York, and for four years as the club's treasurer.
Mr. Houghton's first professional employment was with E. D. Leavitt, a consulting engineer, of Cambridgeport, Mass., with whom he built cotton and woolen mills in Boston. After a period with the Calumet and Hecla Company he entered the motor department of the General Electric Company, then busily engaged in motorizing street cars.
During a visit to the government arsenal at Watertown, N.Y. Mr. Houghton became interested in the handling of big guns, with the result that he developed the first motor operated gun carriage ot be used on our coast defenses. Another achievement out of the main line of his work an electrically driven mail canceling machine, now used in our postoffices.
From 1898 to 1912 Mr. Houghton designed and built power plants in Boston, first for the Boston Electric Company, then for its competitor, the Boston Edison Company, and finally for the enlarged Boston Edison Company, formed by the merger of the two companies. His work in Boston during these years was marked by the introduction of many new ideas in this sphere of engineering.
Erected Plants in Boston
After joining the Brooklyn Edison Company in 1912 Mr. Houghton rebuilt two of its important plants, the Gold Street and Sixty-sixth Street Stations, in each case accomplishing the task of enlarging and improving the plants without halting their operation. In 1920 he was appointed operating superintendent and he remained in charge of all the Brooklyn Edison plants until his resignation on Oct. 10, 1934.
Mr. Houghton was on the governing board of the Fourth Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, and was a member of the American Society of of Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineering Society of boston and the Masons.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Olive W. H. Feerick of the Twenty-third Street address, Brooklyn; a granddaughter, and a sister, Mrs. Bess Fifield.
Funeral services will be held at 8 P. M. tomorrow in the funeral parlors at 187 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn. Burial will take place in Pittsfield.12
BurialPittsfield, VT, USA, 1867-193913
BiographyHe was bom in Pittsfield. Vt.. January 17, 1867. His parents were Loren B. and Josephine Durkec Houghton, and his father was a farmer. After attending district school at Pittsfield. Houghton entered St. Johnshury Academy in 1884. graduating in 1887. He had paid his own way through the Academy, and in order to replenish his funds he worked a year for the Washburn Mower Company of Worcester, Mass., before entering Cornell with the Class of 1892. He left the University in 1891 with a letter from Dr. Thurston to E. Leavitt, Consulting Engineer. Cambridge, Mass. on presentation of this letter, he was given employment as a draftsman and inspector by the company. Later he was assigned to do important work for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company of Michigan, for the City of Boston and in the cotton and woolen mills of New England. Thus he gained a knowledge of how big undertakings were designed and carried out that was to prove valuable later. At about this time the first street cars were being equipped with electric motors in Boston. He became interested and entered the motor department of the General Electric Company.
ResearchEncyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 1114
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  1. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p. 533.
  2. [S1074] Town Records: Pittsfield, VT, p. 921: VT Division of Records, Middelesex, VT.
  3. [S235] U.S. Census, 1880 Soundex, Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT, Reel 6, Vol. 6, ED. 184, Sh. 4, Ln. 16.
  4. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p. 533-536.
  5. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p.536.
  6. [S235] U.S. Census, 1900 Soundex Massachusetts, Box 127, Vol. 36, E.D. 658, Sh. 3, Ln. 62.
  7. [S1230] 1900 U.S. Federal Census , Arlington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; Roll: T623 655; Enumeration District: 658; Sheet 3B; line 62, dwl 19-49-50.
  8. [S1231] 1910 U.S. Federal Census , Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_594; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 728; line 6, dwl 19-44-45.
  9. [S235] U.S. Census, 1920 Soundex, Brooklyn, New York Co., NY, Film 767, Box 330, Vol. 195, E.D. 1346, Sh. 9, Ln. 59.
  10. [S1232] 1920 U.S. Federal Census , Brooklyn Assembly District 21, Kings, New York; Roll: T625_1178; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 1346; line 59, dwl 673-62-275.
  11. [S779] Unknown author Encyclopedia of Amer. Biog., XI, p. 536.
  12. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 18 Jun 1939.
  13. [S1284] Margaret R. Jenks, Chittenden, VT Cemetery Inscriptions, p. 44.
  14. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Houghton Surname.

Amos Comer1

M, #37456, b. 10 December 1750, d. 30 June 1823

Family: Ann Allen

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BirthDec 10, 1750York Co., PA, USA1,2
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DeathJun 30, 1823Randolph Co., NC, USA1
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  2. [S415] E-mail from Ben Reynolds, Jun 17, 2002.

Ann Allen1

F, #37457

Family: Amos Comer b. 10 Dec 1750, d. 30 Jun 1823

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William Comer1

M, #37458, b. 1782, d. 1855

Family: Nancy Barbee

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Birth17821
Marriage1
Death18551
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Nancy Barbee1

F, #37459

Family: William Comer b. 1782, d. 1855

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Allen Barbee Comer1

M, #37460, b. 1811, d. 1861

Family: Mary Cole

  • Marriage*: Allen Barbee Comer married Mary Cole.1

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Birth18111
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Death18611
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Mary Cole1

F, #37461

Family: Allen Barbee Comer b. 1811, d. 1861

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John Alvin Scarlett Comer1

M, #37462, b. 1836

Family: Sophia Herriott

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Birth18361
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Sophia Herriott1

F, #37463

Family: John Alvin Scarlett Comer b. 1836

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Mary Pollie Comer1

F, #37464, b. 1860, d. 1937

Family: William Sampson Davis

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Birth18601
Marriage1
Death19371
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William Sampson Davis1

M, #37465

Family: Mary Pollie Comer b. 1860, d. 1937

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Sophia Catherine Davis1

F, #37466, b. 1877, d. 1949

Family: William Hughes James

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Birth18771
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Death19491
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William Hughes James1

M, #37467

Family: Sophia Catherine Davis b. 1877, d. 1949

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Dudge John James1

M, #37468, b. 1912, d. 1984

Family: Ludie Retha Riter b. 1908, d. 1998

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Birth19121
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Death19841
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Ludie Retha Riter

F, #37469, b. 1908, d. 1998

Family: Dudge John James b. 1912, d. 1984

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Birth1908
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Death1998
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Sharon Catherine James1

F, #37470

Family: James Otis

  • Marriage*: Sharon Catherine James married James Otis.1

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