Houghton, Douglas
naturalist, was born Sept. 21, 1809, in Troy, N. Y.
He erected a hermitage in his father's orchard, where he engaged in various researches. Among his experiments was the manufacture of percussion powder, which had been recently invented. He died Oct. 13, 1845, on Lake Superior.
HOUGHTON, GEORGE FREDERICK, lawyer, journalist, was born May 31, 1820, in Guilford, Vt. In 1848-49 he was state secretary of civil and military affairs, and in 1852-53 state's attorney for Franklin county. The next year he established the Vermont Transcript, and was subsequently connected with the Church Journal of New York. He died Feb. 22, 1870, in St.
Albans, Vt.
HOUGHTON, GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT, journalist, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1850, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a journalist and poet of New York city. His published volumes of verse include, Songs from Over the Sea; Album Leaves; Drift from York Harbor, Maine; The Legend of St. Olaf's Kirk; and Niagara, and Other Poems. He died in April, 1891, in Yonkers, N. Y.