Patricia Lee Wood1

F, #97621

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birth1
Living2008Medford, MA, USA
Pedigree

Citations

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

Merith "Merry" L. Wood1

F, #97622

Family: James Cole

  • Marriage*: Merith "Merry" L. Wood married James Cole.1

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birth1
Marriage1
Living2008Jefferson, MA, USA
Pedigree

Citations

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

James Cole1

M, #97623

Family: Merith "Merry" L. Wood

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
Pedigree

Citations

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

William Douglas Houghton1,2

M, #97624, b. 24 September 1951

Family: Ann Marie Jones b. 12 Aug 1961

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectY
Corresponded with authorY
BirthSep 24, 1951Elkhorn, WI, USA1,2
MarriageApr 16, 1993Fairfax Co., VA, USA, Marriage 2: 01 Apr 2007, St. Agnes Catholic Church, Balston, VA..1
Author2010Houghton Ancestors: A 1,000 Year Historical Adventure.
DNA ProjectFeb 5, 2010John Houghton, thru son Jonas
AddressFeb 5, 2010Sequim, WA, USA, houghton@nicola.com
Contributn2018Bill contributed copies of 4 documents of Ezra Houghton: I recently purchased four, original documents concerning Lt. Era Houghton (b. 1722--1789) and his father, Benjamin Houghton (1700—1774) and I thought you might be interested in seeing copies of them.
CorrespondMar 1, 2018
Contributn
BiographyWilliam D. Houghton: I'm a retired FBI guy. I spent 30 years in the FBI (and some at the CIA) catching Russian spies--both US citizens and Russian KGB.
I retired in 2007 and now live in Washington State. My next book may be on my work at the FBI. It was exciting, but I'm glad to have retired!

"Bill Houghton worked for the FBI for 30 years as a senior Intelligence Analyst who identified Russsian and American spies. He retired in 2007 and now lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state with his wife Anne and son Ian. He enjoys writing, teaching, and collecting artifacts from past generations."

William Houghton

Author, Historian, and Antiquities Collector & Dealer

Greater Seattle Area
Security and Investigations

Current     

Ancient Civilizations

Previous     

FBI,
National Intelligence Council,
Central Intelligence Agency

Education     

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

www.linkedin.com/pub/william-houghton/20/b66/87a/

Summary

SECURITY DIRECTOR
Security manager with 30 years experience at the FBI, CIA, National Intelligence Council, and Office of Director of National Intelligence. Proven ability to enforce local and federal statutes that protect the lives and property of citizens and corporations. Managed teams of professionals that neutralized foreign spies and terrorists. Expertise in developing and managing programs that help protect the intellectual property of US corporations. Recognized expert in using business intelligence practices to find key performance indicators that will provide senior leaders with the best possible course of action. Energetic leader, strong motivator, excellent public speaker, and authority on counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and risk management operations.

Specialties: Homeland Security, instructor, teacher, US Government, FBI, CIA, budgeting, business intelligence, contract management, leadership, legal, microsoft office, presentation skills, risk management, seminars,
Experience
President
Ancient Civilizations
June 2007 – Present (5 years 11 months) Washington State

I am currently the President of "Ancient Civilizations," an online retail store that sells antiques, ancient artifacts, and fine collectables. As an author, historian, and antiquities collector for over 45 years, I am proud to have started my own small business that specializes in ancient treasures from around the world.
I have published two, nonfiction books: "Orley Houghton Memoirs" and "Houghton Ancestors: A 1,000 Year Historical Adventure." Both books are on sale at Lulu.com and Amazon.com.

FBI
May 1977 – June 2007 (30 years 2 months) I worked at the FBI for 30 years on national security and counterterrorism investigations. I was also detailed to the CIA and the National Intelligence Council for almost 10 years. Most of my experience is in espionage investigations, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and countering the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
FBI Senior Program Manager, National Intelligence Council, September 2002 – May 2007 (4 years 9 months)

The NIC was first under DCI George Tenet and is now part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Synchronize the efforts of US intelligence agencies to prepare a number of highly classified, national-level, threat and risk assessments on a variety of topical and country-specific issues. Subject matter expert for over $750 million of government contracts. As a result, these reports serve as the vital foundation for policy makers to make key decisions on the safety of our nation.
Personally prepared classified reports on major world issues for the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, as well as for the Attorney General of the United States and the National Security Council. These reports are critical for an accurate understand on world situations and problems and have allowed senior US elected officials, including the President, to make informed decisions that in many cases have worldwide consequences. There is no room for error and the demand for excellence is preeminent. These reports were always finished on time and highly commend.
Greatly increased the core knowledge of thousands of US intelligence analysts and leaders about deception practices and business intelligence methods for dealing with world crisis hotspots. In 2006, for example, 34 lectures were successfully presented to over 1,200 students at; and various other governments and private agencies. This training and certification has given the US intelligence community a more precise method of documenting worldwide risks and was highly praised by each host agency.
National Counterintelligence Executive

Central Intelligence Agency, January 1994 – January 1999 (5 years 1 month)

Selected by senior FBI officials to serve on a seven-year, detailed assignment at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Successfully managed an Analytic Branch of the Office of the National Counter Intelligence Executive, a new federal agency that manages all counterintelligence investigations within the United States. Hired new staff and managed an office budget of $1.2 million to produce multi-disciplinary products at the national level, including several reports for Congress and the President. Reduced the damage caused by espionage, thereby saving lives and future expenditures for new, classified equipment.
Neutralized the activities of dozens of American and foreign spies who were stealing classified, US intellectual property. Personally briefed DCI George Tenet and several other leaders within the U.S. Intelligence Community on the positive reasons to pass the Intellectual Property Protection Act and protect the estimated $5 trillion worth of intellectual property in the United States-or about one-half of all US exports. Without this key support, the bill may not have passed. After the law was passed by Congress and signed by the President, Mr. George Tenet, the former Director of Central Intelligence and the CIA, recognized these efforts by presenting an official Letter of Commendation.

Education
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, BS in Education, History, Political Science, Education, 1969 – 1973

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
University of Virginia
Russian Studies3
NoteAnalysis of Houghton Ancestors by CJV:
Claims all houghtons descend from Herverus p 5: unproven

Houghton was the most common given name in England and America for over 500 years

Houghtons commissioned JWH to find Houghton properties p. 31; untrue

List of famous European Houghtons:
William, archbishop of Dublin
Shakespeare and Houghtons
St. John Houghton
Houghton Coat of Arms
4 Houghton Properties in England
Radcliffe theory of Ralph
John on the Abigail, p. 47: error
Ralph as being born in Lancashire England p. 52
The first Houghtons in US: Henry, William, Chris
King George's War
Timothy Houghton and Canada
Houghtons in Rev. War: good
Joab Houghton
Douglass Houghton
William Houghton
Chester W. Houghton
Albert C. Houghton (wrong dd; wife's)
James Franklin Houghton
Sherman Otis Houghton
Jacob Houghton Jr. (2 diff. Houghtons)
Georgianna Houghton of London
Corning Houghtons: Amory Houghton
Horace Houghton
Orley C. Houghton
Cecile Houghton

Erroneous statements:

Sir Ralph Houghton was indeed the son of Sir Richard Hoghton and that he chose to keep that fact a secret after to immigrated to America.

John Houghton, (1593-1635) arrived in North America from England on June 20, 1635.41 John was born on May 19, 1593, in Bedfordshire, England, and was a passenger on the ship Abigail when it set sail from Plymouth, England, and ar-rived in Boston, Massachusetts. p. 47

The two cousins, John and Ralph Houghton, who settled in America with their families in 1647, were also descended from Sir Richard Hoghton, who was born in 1570. These Houghtons were descendants of Adam de Hoghton, the Bishop of St. David and Chancellor of England who died in 1389. Thus, both John and Ralph Houghton can trace their ancestors back to Roger de Busli, who as we have learned was one of the William the Conqueror‘s gen-erals in 1066. p. 47

On June 20, 1635, John Houghton (1593-1635) arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. John was born on May 19, 1593, in Bedfordshire, England, and was a passenger on the ship Abigail when it set sail from Plymouth, England, and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts.
and for future generations.

John Houghton is listed as the 29th passenger on the manifest of the sailing ship Abigail, but a careless entry or perhaps just poor penmanship appeared to have listed John‘s age as four, when in fact it was 42. This error has caused a considerable amount of confusion for latter gene-alogists and historians, but the correct transcription for his age should have been 42 years-old. He listed the town of Bedford as the place he intended to inhabit, and listed his place of birth as "Eaton Bray, Co. Dedham." [a Joh, age 4, is 25th passenger]

John‘s Houghton‘s parents were John and Catherine Houghton and he was married to Damarius Buckmaster (1593-1666). Church records report that this John Houghton was christened on May 19, 1593.

In 1647, the next Houghton ancestors that came to America were two cousins, John and Ralph Houghton. Many of the thousands of Houghton families living in the United States today can trace their ancestors back to one of these two Houghtons. p. 68 [ not cousins via DNA]

John and his wife Beatrix Joselyn (1625-1720) were married in Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England, and arrived on the sailing sloop Abigail, with their three children: John, Jacob, and Mary. John Houghton is listed as the Town Clerk of Lancaster, Massachusetts, but after the Indian massacre of 1675-1676, the Houghton family moved with his cousin Ralph‘s family to the safer location of Woburn, Massachusetts. p. 68 (CJV: town clerk is son Justice John Houghton; not Joselyn)

Ralph Houghton was born in Lancashire, England, in 1623, and is believed to be the son of Sir Richard Hoghton, who as we have learned in the previous chapter, founded Hoghton Tower. Most genealogical sources do not site Ralph‘s relationship to Sir Richard Hoghton, as most Eng-lish records show no such relationship. But one source does cite this father-son relationship as correct. Although Sir Ralph Houghton was reportedly knighted by King Charles I of England, Ralph chose to fight on the side of Cromwell. In 1638, to avoid both political and religious prosecution, it appears he fled to America.54
Ralph and his wife, Jane Stowe, arrived in Boston aboard the Abigail in 1647 on the same ship with his cousin John Houghton. Ralph and Jane also came with their two sons, Ralph and James. Ralph and was one of the four English settlers who signed the Lancaster Covenant in 1652. p. 50 [ no evidence; not on Abigail]

Ralph Houghton died in his beloved state of Massachusetts on June 10, 1700, at the age of 77. p. 51 (wrong date)

Ralph Houghton‘s son James Houghton (unknown-1711) married Mary Sawyer and lived most of his life in Lancaster. p. 51 (not Sawyer)

Based upon the above defined DNA testing, the laboratory found that this author has a Paternal, DNA Haplogroup type called ?R1b.? Therefore, by finding the author‘s ge-netic codes, all Houghtons who are ancestors or descendants of me, like my son Ian or any Houghton in the world, will contain this same genetic markers or codes. The 29 generations of Houghtons over the past 1,000 years would all have the same Haplogroup R1b DNA. It is now possible to trace the same paternal DNA back to the beginning of modern man—some 90,000 years ago! (CJV: not true, other haplogroups, i.e. Ralph line is I1)


Exploring the New World as two, cousins John and Ralph Houghton, set sail from England on the ship Abigail and settled in the Colony of Massachusetts in 1647 [Abigail sailed in 1635; only Joh age 4, from Eaton Bay to Dedham MA; no Ralph]
Research2010Houghton Ancestors; Desc. of William Houghton of WI

Author

  • Author: William Douglas Houghton was the author of The Memoirs of Orley Clifton Houghton by William D. Houghton

    This short work contains the 40-page, memoirs of19th Century inventor and engineer Orley Clifton Houghton. The memoir was hand-written to his son Bruce Robertson Houghton, Sr. in the 1950s. Sadly, I believe that several pages of his autobiography have been lost or destroyed, as the document ends abruptly. It was meant to be a brief history of the heritage of the Houghton Farm in Wisconsin and an overview of Orley’s early work as an inventor, in designing and producing mechanized farm equipment. It certainly was never meant to be published, but just as an historical reference for his son. As one of Orley’s grandsons, I believe this document should be preserved and shared with future Houghton generations, as well as being a fascinating window into American 19th Century rural life. in 2009.4
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1394] William D. Houghton, Houghton Ancestors:.
  2. [S415] E-mail from William D. Houghton, Feb. 5, 2010.
  3. [S415] E-mail from William Douglas Houghton, Feb. 5, 2010.
  4. [S1395] William D. Houghton, Memoirs of Orley Clifton Houghton.

Ian Douglas Houghton1

M, #97625, b. 25 November 1997

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthNov 25, 1997Fairfax Co., VA, USA1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1394] William D. Houghton, Houghton Ancestors:.

Bruce Robertson Houghton1

M, #97626

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Residence1940Cook Co., IL, USA
Mil. EnlsJan 9, 1940Raleigh, NC, USA, Name: Bruce R Houghton Birth Year: 1892 Nativity State or Country: Wisconsin State: Illinois County or City: Cook Enlistment Date: 9 Jan 1940 Enlistment State: North Carolina Enlistment City: Raleigh 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: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men) Education: 2 years of high school Marital Status: Separated, with dependents1
Pedigree

Citations

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

Robert Cushman1

M, #97627

Family: Nancy Faith Houghton b. 8 Oct 1932, d. 20 Oct 2000

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
ResidenceLa Grange, Walworth Co., WI, USA
DeathElkhorn, WI, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1395] William D. Houghton, Memoirs of Orley Clifton Houghton, p. 3.

George William Houghton

M, #97628, b. circa 1941, d. April 2009

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1941
DeathApr, 2009North Augusta, SC, USA, age 681
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S93] Newspaper Obituary, HOUGHTON, George William; 68; North Augusta SC; Peterborough E (ON); 2009-4-2.

Louise Mary Dobrick1,2

F, #97629, b. 21 February 1919, d. 26 January 1983

Family: Bruce Robertson Houghton b. 29 Apr 1920

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthFeb 21, 1919Juneau, WI, USA2
MarriageMar 21, 1947Kenosha, WI, USA1
1950 US Census1950LaGrange, WI, USA, age 29, garage auto mechanic
DeathJan 26, 1983La Grange, Walworth Co., WI, USA2
BurialRound Priaire Cemetery, Elkhorn, WI, USA
ParentsDWilliam C. Dobrick and Mary O. Novak.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1395] William D. Houghton, Memoirs of Orley Clifton Houghton.
  2. [S415] E-mail from William D. Houghton, Feb. 5, 2010.

Ann Marie Jones1,2

F, #97630, b. 12 August 1961

Family: William Douglas Houghton b. 24 Sep 1951

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthAug 12, 1961Houston, TX, USA2
MarriageApr 16, 1993Fairfax Co., VA, USA, Marriage 2: 01 Apr 2007, St. Agnes Catholic Church, Balston, VA..1
ParentsDFrederick Ernest Jones, Jr. and Sidonia Elizabeth Carter.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1394] William D. Houghton, Houghton Ancestors:.
  2. [S415] E-mail from William D. Houghton, Feb. 5, 2010.

Archbishop William Houghton1

M, #97631, d. 1298

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Death1298Dijon, France1
BiographyWilliam Houghton
Archbishop of Dublin, date and place of birth unknown; d. at Dijon, 1298

————
* Published by Encyclopedia Press, 1913.


Houghton, WILLIAM (variously called DE HOTUM, DE HOTHUM, DE HOZUM, BOTHUM, DE HONDEN, HEDDON, HEDDONEM, according as his name was pronounced by those of different nationalities—in the ancient manuscripts of his order it is invariably written DE ODONE), Archbishop of Dublin, date and place of birth unknown; d. at Dijon, 1298. His great learning united to solid piety made him illustrious among the savants of his time, while his rare prudence in the management of affairs gave him no small distinction among the statesmen of the thirteenth century. It is not known in which convent in England he received the habit of St. Dominic—it is certain that he made his higher studies in the Convent of St. James in Paris—there he took his degrees and lectured with great success. In the general chapter of the order held in Vienna in 1282, he was chosen Provincial of England, and discharged the duties of this office with zeal and ability. His contemporaries all speak of a uniform sweetness and a singular charm and distinction of manner which won for him at once love and respect. He governed the English province for five years, when he was recalled to Paris to resume his public lectures on theology. His ability was recognized by the court of France, especially by the king, Philip IV. But the English Dominicans wished him to return home, and they elected him provincial, which office he filled for a term of seven years. He became a favorite of King Edward I, and received many marks of royal affection and esteem.

Edward I sent Houghton to Rome as ambassador to propose to the Holy Father his royal desire to assist his Holiness in affording help to the Christians in the Holy Land. The king proposed the conditions of the Holy Siege and he did this through his minister, William Houghton, who was favorably received at Rome and obtained nearly all that he desired. He returned to England with a Brief from Nicholas IV, dated Rome, November 10, 1289.

The See of Dublin had become vacant by the death of Archbishop John de Sandford. Thomas Chat-worth, the successor named by the chapter, was not acceptable to the king, so the see remained vacant from Oct—1294, to June, 1297.

Edward I appealed to Pope Boniface VIII requesting the appointment of William Houghton. This wish was granted and Houghton was consecrated at Ghent by Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, in 1297.

A bloody war was raging between France and England and the two monarchs, Philip IV of France and Edward I of England, were brought by the prudent mediatorship of Houghton to conclude a treaty of peace for two years. In 1298, Edward I sent Houghton to Boniface VIII as a legate to acquaint his Holiness with the conclusion of the treaty of peace. Having been received by the sovereign pontiff (June 20, 1298) Houghton set out for England but on the way fell sick at Dijon (France) and died there August 28, 1298. By command of Edward I the remains were brought to London and laid in the Church of the Friars Preachers. Notwithstanding the important public offices Houghton filled, he found time to write the following works: "Commentarii in Sententiarum Libros", "De immediata visione Dei tractatus", "De unitate formarum Tractatus" "Lecturae Scholastae", and a speech in French on the rights of the English king.

ALBERT REINHART

William Houghton (archbishop)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Houghton[1] (date and place of birth unknown; died at Dijon, 1298) was an English Dominican who became a diplomat and Archbishop of Dublin.
Contents

Life

It is not known in which convent in England he received the habit of St. Dominic--it is certain that he made his higher studies in the Convent of St. James in Paris--there he took his degrees and lectured with great success. In the general chapter of the order held in Vienna in 1282 he was chosen Provincial of England. His contemporaries all speak of a uniform sweetness and a singular charm and distinction of manner which won for him at once love and respect. He governed the English province for five years, when he was recalled to Paris to resume his public lectures on theology.

His ability was recognized by the court of France, especially by the king, Philip IV. But the English Dominicans wished him to return home, and they elected him provincial, which office he filled for a term of seven years. He became a favourite of King Edward I, and received many marks of royal affection and esteem.

Edward I sent Houghton to Rome as ambassador to propose to the Pope his royal desire to assist his Holiness in affording help to the Christians in the Holy Land. The king proposed the conditions of the Holy Siege and he did this through his minister, William Houghton, who was favourably received at Rome and obtained nearly all that he desired. He returned to England with a Brief from Pope Nicholas IV, dated Rome, 10 Nov., 1289.

The See of Dublin had become vacant by the death of Archbishop John de Sandford. Thomas Chatworth, the successor named by the chapter, was not acceptable to the king, so the see remained vacant from Oct., 1294, to June, 1297. Edward I appealed to Pope Boniface VIII requesting the appointment of William Houghton. This wish was granted and Houghton was consecrated at Ghent by Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham, in 1297.

A war was raging between France and England and the two monarchs, Philip IV of France and Edward I of England, were brought by the mediation of Houghton to conclude a treaty of peace for two years. In 1298, Edward I sent Houghton to Boniface VIII as a legate to acquaint his Holiness with the conclusion of the treaty of peace. Having been received by the sovereign pontiff (20 June, 1298) Houghton set out for England but on the way fell sick at Dijon (France) and died there 28 August, 1298. By command of Edward I the remains were brought to London and laid in the Church of the Friars Preachers.
[edit] Works

He found time to write the following works: "Commentarii in Sententiarum Libros", "De immediata visione Dei tractatus", "De unitate formarum Tractatus", "Lecturæ Scholasticæ", and a speech in French on the rights of the English king.
[edit] References

* David Knowles, The Religious Orders in England (1979), p. 168

[edit] Notes

1. ^ William of Hothum; De Hotum, De Hothum, De Hozum, Bothum, De Honden, Heddon, Heddonem; in the ancient manuscripts of his order it is written De Odone.

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
Notable
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=William_Houghton

Notable Houghtons

M, #97632

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
NotableRalph Houghton (~1624-1705) was the founding ancestor of the Ralph Houghton line of Lancaster, MA. YDNA Haplogroup: I-M253; Genetically unrelated to John Houghton of Lancaster MA. They do not share the same Y-DNA. But note later discussion of non-parental events, etc.
NotableJohn Houghton (~1624-1684) was the founding ancestor of the John Houghton line of Lancaster, MA. YDNA Haplogroup from descendants: R-M269: R-BY108230 --
Notable1629was the first Houghton to arrive in America
Notable1635On of the earliest Houghtons.
NotableJohn Houghton (~1660-1709) was the founding ancestor of the John Houghton line of Stony Brooke, NJ.
NotableJohn Houghton (1668-?), in his legal testimony at the Salem witch trial, supported John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth, who were accused of witchcraft and were convicted; and John Proctor was hanged.
NotableRowland Houghton (1678-1744) was a Boston mechanic who designed a new “theodolate,” a brass surveying instrument. He received a patent from the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts in 1735. This was only the second patent for a mechanical invention issued in the British colonies of North America. It is the earliest brass surveying instrument to be patented and documented. One of only two extant is an incomplete version that is housed in the Smithsonian.
NotableEzra Houghton (1722-1789) was a Tory loyalist in the American Revolutionary War. There were only 4 Houghtons (John Houghton 3d, Solomon Houghton, Nahum Houghton, and Ezra) to stay loyal to England. All had lands confiscated.
NotableOnly known Houghton to be the victim of rape and murder in 1844 (by Thomas Barrett who was executed)
NotableLt. Ralph Houghton (1729-1809) was one of the original Minutemen in the American Revolution from Milton, MA.
NotableElijah Houghton (1746-1830) was the founding ancestor of the Elijah Houghton line of Virginia.
NotableAbijah Houghton Jr (1749-1831) was one of the original Minutemen in Rev. War and was wounded at Bunker Hill.
NotableDaniel Houghton (1755-1775) and William French were shot in mass as the first proto-martyrs of the Revolutionary War, dying as a result of wounds in a fray with the "Yorker" Royalists in which Vermonters fired no shots.
Notable18501850 patent for mechanical dishwasher
NotableHon. Samuel Prentiss (1782-1857), husband of Lucretia Houghton, was a U.S. Senator from VT, 1831-1842 and a Supreme Court Judge of VT.
NotableJohn W. Houghton (1789-1851) was a noted Augusta, GA shoe manufacturer; he left money in his will to build a school for poor children (1st public school there) and freed his slaves and left money for them to go to Liberia.
NotableAndersonville Prison, near, Andersonville, Sumter Co., GA, USA, 1 of only 4 Houghtons
NotableEli Houghton (1797-1865) was a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saint at Nauvoo, IL, whichJoseph Smith, Jr. founded. Blessed by Hiram Smith, older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith.
NotableElijah Houghton (1801-1868) was a New York mahogany wood and lumber yard owner and a widely published poet in his day.
NotableMary Elizabeth Sawyer (1806-1889), daughter of Elizabeth Houghton, was the Mary of the poem "Mary had a little lamb".
Notablewas a circus midget with Thumbiana & Lilliputian Opera Company run by Tom Thumb's widow; He was 31 inchs tall and travelled the country selling a little booklet about himself; Known as Major Samuel Edgar Houghton. He went overseas and performed for Queen Victoria.
Notable1898A famous pastor of the "Church around the corner" in New York City
NotableCanadian-born American who owned a real estate, insurance, and investment brokerage house, Mrs. Alice Houghton & Co. In her era, she had the distinction of being the only women in Spokane, Washington who was actively engaged as a real estate dealer.
Notable1912Last person listed in 1912 J. W. Houghton genealogy in regular section; #31801
Notable1915He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. He played in one of the earliest professional basketball leagues in the United States – the New York State League
Notable1919Noted American author and settlement worker: Author, 'The Sabbath Month,' 1878; 'Fifine,' 1879; 'Faithful to the End,' 1880; 'Life of David Livingston,' 1882; 'The Bible in Picture and Story,' 1889; 'The Life of Christ in Picture and Story,' 1890; 'From Olivet to Patmos in Picture and Story,' 1891; 'Antipas and Other Children,' 1893; 'The Log of the Lady Gray,' 1896; 'The Life of the Lord Jesus,' 1896; 'The Cruise of the Mystery,' 1894; 'The Silent Highway,' 1901 (Telling Bible Stories, 1905; Hebrew Life and Thought, 1906; The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales, 1906; Our Debt to the Red Man, 1918; The Idealism of the French People, 1918; Handbook of French and Belgian Protestantism, 1919). Translator of 'Their Married Lives,' 1883 (from the French); 'Little Hans and his Bible Leaf,' 1884 (from German); 'Sabatier's St. Francis of Assisi,' 1894, (Outre-Mer, 1896) and 'Jesus Christ,' 3 volumes, 1898 (both from French) (Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit (all from French); (The Parting of the Ways, 1911; Byways of Paris, 1911; Letters and Despatches of Napoleon, 3 vols., 1913; The House, 1914; You No Longer Count, 1918; The People of Action, 1918].
Association1925Klu Klux Klan
NotableAmerican born British opera star, 1868-1928
NotableArthur A. Houghton, Sr. (1866–1928), son of Amory Houghton Jr, was a former president of Corning Glass.
NotableWilliam J. Tully (1870–1930), son-in-law of Amory Houghton Jr; father of Alice Tully; New York State Senator 1905 to 1908
NotableOne of 11 soldiers who founded the American Legion.
Notablechief geologist of US Geological Survey
NotableJesse Houghton Metcalf (1860-1942), grandson of Eunice Dench Houghton, wasan industrialist, philanthropist, and United States senator from RI.
Notable(1859-1944) Rider and Marksman in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
NotableAlanson Bigelow Houghton (1863-1941) was the chief United States diplomat to Germany and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's 1925-1929 (Britain) between the World Wars and was the only Houghton ever to be on the cover of Time Magazine.
NotableAlcatraz, CA, USA, For robbery and assault with intent to kill
Notable(1866-1948) Famous conservationist
NotableProf. Dale Neely Houghton (1893-1975): professor emeritus and a distinguished scholar in marketing and sales at New York University and a pioneer in motivational research
Notable(1906-1924) A famous college coach; coached Thorpe; inducted into College Football Hall of Fame
NotableKatherine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) was a birth control and Suffrage movement leader and mother of Katharine Hepburn, the actress. She joined her friend Margaret Sanger in building the American Birth Control League (today it is Planned Parenthood Federation of America).
Notable(1887-1954) First American professor of physical anthropologist at Harvard
NotableA professor of vocal music at Boston University from 1927 until 1964. He was chairman of the voice department and conductor of the Boston University Glee Club, the University Chorus and the Seminary Singers,
NotableMotion picture and television sound engineer.
NotableAmory Houghton, Sr (1899-1981) was president of Corning, Inc.,US ambassador to France, 1957-1961, and was a National President of the Boy Scouts of America.
Notable(1911-1987) President of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Notable(1959-1987) In 1987, he was murdered by Scott Hain, who was 17 at the time. Hain was last person ever executed in the USA for murder as a minor in 2003.
NotableArthur 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.
NotableAlice Bigelow Tully (1902-1993), granddaughter of Amory Houghton Jr., a professional mezzo-soprano singer and philantrophist. Funded the Alice Tully Hall, a 1000 seat chamber music hall of Lincoln Center.
Notable1836Among the most bizarre deaths: steamed to death by a quack doctor
NotableJohn "Shorty" Haughton was a noted jazz trombonist; brother of Chauncey M. Haughton
NotableAmerican jazz saxophonist (alto) and clarinetist, active from 1927 to 1958. : Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, Chick Webb And His Little Chicks, Chick Webb And His Orchestra, Don Redman And His Orchestra, Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra
NotableOne of 3 Houghtons who are known to have been murdered
Notable(1916-2005) a noted labor mediator whose long career included mediating a dispute between the United Farm Workers and a major California grape grower in the 1960s and serving as chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority during the air-traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s
NotableDr. John C. Houghton, PhD,(1948-) in 2006, worked in the Office of Biological and Environmental Reserach, U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to DOE, he was an office director at ARCO Oil and Gas Company’s corporate research laboratory; held several positions at the U.S. Geological Survey, including deputy assistant director for research; served as a senior policy analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Carter White House; a research scientist in MIT’s Energy Laboratory, where he co-authored a text on he economics of depletable resources.
NotableAmory Houghton Jr (1926-) was president of Corning, Inc., and a member of the US House of Representatives, 1987-2005.
NotableSchuyler Grant (1971-), great niece of actress Katherine Hepburn, is an American actress best known for supporting roles in television and is studio director at the New York Kula Yoga Project
Notable(1969-) President, National Wildlife Refuge Association in 2016
Notable
NotableArthur Amory Houghton was a noted numismatic scholar and novelist.
NotableDr. Anne Houghton Hopkins, PhD (1942-2021): a political science professor; Served as the fourth president of the University of North Florida from 1999 to 2002.
NotableAn American Historian and Director of NSA’s National Cryptologic Museum. He is the former Historian and Curator of the International Spy Museum.
NotableWorld famous climate scientist; lead editor of groundbreaking IPCC studies on climate change for the United Nations’ climate science advisory group when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007
NotableEnglish novelist
NotableApr, 2022Author of HOUGHTON
Family, Commerce, Ships & Shipping
NotableJames Richardson Houghton (1936-) is the retired CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corning Inc.
NotableMundy Hepburn is an American artist who designs and builds glass sculptures filled with luminous electrified inert gases.
Occupation2024Professional baseball player: Position: Relief Pitcher
Bats: Right • Throws: Right;
5-11, 190lb (180cm, 86kg)
Schools: Cleveland State Community College (Cleveland, TN), Lipscomb University (Nashville, TN)
NotableA mechanical engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; At least 5 published journal articles in laser fusion research in 1970s:
J. W. Houghton, "Fiber Optic Systems for Multiple Beam Diagnostics with a Streak Camera," LPAR- 78, pp. 6-62 to 6-64

R. A. Lerche, L. W. Coleman, J. W. Houghton, D. R. Speck, and E. K. Storm, “ Laser fusion ion temperatures determined by neutron time-of-flight techniques,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 31, 645 (1977)
NotableVery first individual enumerated in JW Houghton's 1912 Houghton Genealogy2
BiographyPer grandson Eric Perkins, Robert was part of the team that designed the first ATM
Notable
Notable
ResearchOne of the weirdest divorce case
NotableAn American Actress and niece of Katherine Hepburn
ResearchA selection of notable American Houghtons and Haughtons: The famous, infamous, and some just interesting by Charles J. Vella, PhD (C)
Send suggestions for individuals to be included here to me at charlesvella@comcast.net
While there were Houghtons/Haughtons who were really infamously black sheep (involved and convicted of bigamy, prostitution, embezzlement, fraud, pornography, bill engraving fraud, medical over prescription, poisoning, theft, lynching, bank robbery, and murder), the more notable are...
Henry Haughton (~1629) was the first Haughton emigrant ot New England in 1629 to New Salem.
William Houghton (~1635) was the first Houghton emigrant to New England in 1635 to CT.
Ralph Houghton (~1624-1705) was the founding ancestor of the Ralph Houghton line of Lancaster, MA. John Houghton (~1624-1684) was the founding ancestor of the John Houghton line of Lancaster, MA.
John Houghton (~1660-1709) was the founding ancestor of the John Houghton line of Stony Brooke, NJ.
John Houghton (1668-?), in his legal testimony at the Salem witch trial, supported John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth, who were accused of witchcraft, convicted, and John was hanged.
Rowland Houghton (1678-1744) was a Boston mechanic who designed a new theodolate, a brass surveying instrument. He received a patent from the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts in 1735. This was only the second patent for a mechanical invention issued in the British colonies of North America. It is the earliest brass surveying instrument to be patented and documented. One of only two extant is an incomplete version that is housed in the Smithsonian.
Ezra Houghton (1722-1789) was a Tory loyalist in the American Revolutionary War. There were only 4 Houghtons (John Houghton 3d, Solomon Houghton, Nahum Houghton, and Ezra) to stay loyal to England. All had lands confiscated.
Lt. Ralph Houghton (1729-1809) was one of the original Minutemen in the American Revolution from Milton, MA.
Elijah Houghton (1746-1830) was the founding ancestor of the Elijah Houghton line of Virginia.
Abijah Houghton Jr (1749-1831) was one of the Minuteman in Rev. War and was wounded at Bunker Hill.
Daniel Houghton (1755-1775) and William French were shot in mass as the first proto-martyrs of the Revolutionary War, dying as a result of wounds in a fray with the "Yorker" Royalists in which Vermonters fired no shots. Hon.
Samuel Prentiss (1782-1857), husband of Lucretia Houghton, was a U.S. Senator from VT, 1831-1842 and a Supreme Court Judge of VT.
John W. Houghton (1782-1851) was a noted Augusta, GA shoe manufacturer; he left money in his will to build a school for poor children (1st public school there) and freed his slaves and left money for them to go to Liberia.
Joel Houghton (1792-?) held a 1850 patent for a wooden mechanical dishwasher.
Eli Houghton (1797-1865) was a member of the Church of the Latter Day Saint at Nauvoo, IL, which Joseph Smith, Jr. founded.
Elijah Houghton (1801-1868) was a New York mahogany wood and lumber yard owner and a widely published poet in his day.
Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (1806-1889), daughter of Elizabeth Houghton, was the Mary of the poem "Mary had a little lamb" .
Horace Hoskins Houghton (1808-1879) was a newspaper publisher in IL, author, and US Consul to Brazil and Hawaii.
Dr. Douglass Houghton (1809-1845) was a mayor of Detroit, MI and the 1st state geologist of MI.
David Houghton (1812-1874) and five of his sons served in the Union Army in the Civil War; the most soldiers from a single Houghton family.
Amory Houghton Sr (1812-1882) was the founder of Corning Glass and the ancestor of the wealthiest Houghton family in American history. Lawrence J. Haughton (1819-b1900) was one of the wealthiest farmers & slave holders in Chatham Co., NC.
Lawrence Haughton (1818-1898) was a North Carolina Haughton who owned the most slaves (99) of any Houghton/Haughton in any US census.
Martha Maria Houghton (1819-1851) and her husband Rev. Joseph Woods Hancock were missionaries to the Sioux Indians.
Rowland Hussey Macy, Sr (1822-1877), husband of Louisa Houghton, was the founder of Macy's Dept. Store.
Henry Oscar Houghton (1823-1895) was the founder of the Riverside Press in 1852 and then the publishing company of Houghton, Mifflin Co. in 1880. His son Henry Oscar Houghton Jr was the second president of the firm.
Marilla Houghton (1825-1894), sister of Henry Oscar Houghton, and wife of Dr. John Chester Gallup; she and her husband were noted abolitionists and temperance reformers and founded Houghton Seminary in Clinton, New York in 1861.
Rev. Willard J. Houghton (1825-1896) was Methodist evangelist minister who founded the Houghton Seminary of Houghton, NY, which today is the Christian based Houghton College.
George Harper Houghton (1826-1870) was a photographer and went south to photograph the Civil War. Many of his pictures are in the VT Historical Society in Montpelier. Some of his photos were used by Ken Burns in his documentary of the Civil War.
Henry Ludovicus Houghton (1826-1904) was one of the Bath, ME Houghton Brothers firm of shipbuilders (along with brothers Levi Warren and John Reed Houghton, and founded by their father Levi Houghton).
James Franklin Houghton (1827-1903) was a president of the Home Mutual Insurance Company in San Francisco, CA.
Sherman Otis Houghton (1828-1914) was a member of the US House of Representatives from CA and Mayor of San Jose, CA and had the Naval ship USS Sherman Houghton named after him. He married two sisters, Mary Martha and Eliza Poor Donner, who were survivors of the infamous Donner Party who resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
Henry Stedman Nourse (1831-1903), grandson of Polly Houghton, was the author of Lancasteria; Lancaster MA VRs; and the Early Records of Lancaster, MA.
Dr. John Wesley Houghton (1834-1924) was the author of the original Houghton Genealogy of 1912.
Nathaniel Haughton (1834-1899) was the founder, in 1890, of the Haughton Elevator Co. of Toledo, OH. in 1867.
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922), husband of Fannie Briggs Houghton, was a U.S. Senator; Governor of CT; President of Aetna Insurance; and the first president of the National Baseball League.
John Houghton (1836-1906) was a Civil War Union prisoner at the infamous Confederate Prison at Andersonville, GA.
Dr. Henry Clarke Houghton, MD (1837-1901) was physician and professor of homeopathic medicine.
Rev. Ross Clark Houghton, DD, Lit.D.(1837-1904) was a Methodist minister and author of multiple books. Louise Seymour Houghton (1838-1929) was a prolific author of religious and historical subjects and a pioneer settlement worker.
Thomas F. Houghton (1840-1903) was an Irish born American architect who designed 10 Catholic Churches in NY and MA. David J. M. Houghton (1840-1923) was a Union Army private in the Civil war who survived as a prisoner at the infamous Andersonville Prison in Georgia .
Edward J. Houghton (1841-1865) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for a Civil War Naval action.
George L. Houghton (1841-1917) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for a Civil War action in IL; his brother Daniel served in the Confederate Army.
Bvt. Major Charles Henry Houghton (1842-1914) was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War and was also arrested and fined for financial mismanagement as customs collector at Perth Amboy in 1882.
Stella Houghton Scott (1844-1928), daughter of Stella Houghton. With husband, Arthur Gilman, was one of the originators of the Society for College Instruction of Women, which they helped develop into what was first called Harvard Annex, and which finally became Radcliffe College.
Louis Albert Houghton (1846-?) graduated from Gallaudet College and was a professor at the Tennessee School for the Deaf. Merritt Dana Houghton (1846-1919) was a noted American painter.
George Washington Wright Houghton (1850-1891) was an author and one of the incorporators of the society of Sons of the Revolution, and was its second secretary.
William Addison Houghton, MA (1852-1917) was a philologist, author, and Winkley professor of Latin, language and literature Bowdoin College.
Samuel Edgar Houghton (1852-1904) was a circus midget with Thumbiana & Lilliputian Opera Company. Known as Major Samuel Edgar Houghton, he was 31 inches tall. He performed before Queen Victoria.
Edward Walker Houghton (1855-1927) was an English born Houghton who was a noted theater architect in the US.
Frank Atherton Houghton (1855-?) supervised the building of Commander Peary's North Pole ship, the "Roosevelt" for the successful 1909 North Pole expedition.
Albert Parker Houghton (1859-1944) was a rider and marksman in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Charles Newell Houghton (1859-1922) was a Winnebago Native American (maternally), who lived with the Winnabagos on their NE reservation most of his life, and authored multiple Native American mythological tales.
Jesse Houghton Metcalf (1860-1942), grandson of Eunice Dench Houghton, was an industrialist, philanthropist, and United States senator from RI.
Marquis Mills Converse (1861-1931), a John Houghton descendant, founded the Converse Rubber Co., the eventual maker of Converse shoes. Charles David White (1862-1935), husband of Mary Elizabeth Houghton, was a chief geologist of the US Geological Survey.
Dr. Arthur D. Houghton (1861-1938) was and English born Houghton who was one of 11 soldiers, including Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who founded the American Legion. It was formed in Paris on March 16, 1919 by veterans of the American Expeditionary Forces (A. E. F.) The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. Focusing on service to veterans, servicemembers and communities, the Legion evolved from a group of war-weary veterans of World War I into one of the most influential nonprofit groups in the United States. Membership swiftly grew to over 1 million, and local posts sprang up across the country.
Alanson Bigelow Houghton (1863-1941) was was the chief United States diplomat to Germany and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's 1925-1929 (Britain) between the World Wars and was the only Houghton ever to be on the cover of Time Magazine. Augustus Seymour Houghton (1866-1949) was an American lawyer and wildlife conservation leader.
August Seymour Houghton (1866-1948) was a noted conservationist.
Dr. Elijah Mark Houghton, MD, PhC (1867-1937) was an internationally known pharmacologist and bacteriologist, and a director of medical research and biological labs of Parke, Davis & Co.
Frederick M. Houghton (1869-1950) was an archealogical researcher of New York and pioneered English as a second language teaching in the US and Canada.
Edward Rittenhouse Houghton (1871-1955) was a president and chairman of the board of Houghton Mifflin Company.
Dr. Harris Ayers Houghton, MD (1874-1946) was a dedicated physician, author, and Houghton genealogist, but also is known for bringing about the English translation and publication in the US of the infamous anti-Jewish fraudulent plagiarism, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Katherine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) was a birth control and Suffrage movement leader and mother of Katharine Hepburn, the actress. She joined her friend Margaret Sanger in building the American Birth Control League (today it is Planned Parenthood Federation of America).
Dr. Henry Spencer Houghton, MD (1880-1975) was a graduate of Johns Hopkins and a medical missionary to China where he directed a number of medical schools. He was involved in the loss of original Peking Man Homo erectus fossils at beginning of WWII.
Dr. Herbert Pierrepoint Houghton, PhD (1880-1964) received a doctorate in Greek and Sanskrit in 1907 from Johns Hopkins and was a priest, philologist/professor of classical languages, and president of Carroll College.
Dr. Montafix Wilson Houghton, MD (1880-1951) was a US Public Health physician and surgeon.
Tod Browning (1882-1962), husband of Alice Lillian Houghton, was the Hollywood director of the famous films Dracula (1930) and Freaks (1932). William Morris Houghton (1882-1960) was an journalist and editor for the New York Herald Tribune.
Dr. James Tilly Houghton, MD (1885-1931) graduated from Harvard Medical School, was a physician, and survived the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 (along with a crew member Tom Johnson Houghton)
Phillip Allen Houghton (1887-?) was founder of Houghton Chemical Company, whose president is now his grandson Bruce E. Houghton.
Rev. Dr. William Henry Houghton (1887-1947) was Baptist minister, author, and 20th President of Moody Bible Institute. Junius Henry Houghton (1892-1980) was a graduate of West Point and a Brigadier General in USAF.
Earnest Albert Hooton (1887-1954) was the first American professor of physical anthropologist at Harvard University. Very famous professor; his anthropological views are considered racist today.
Brig. General Junius Henry Houghton (1892-1980) was aBrigadier General, U.S.A.F.
Ernest Baker Houghton (1893-1941) played basketball for Union College, NY in 1914-1915 and was awarded The Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year and was eventually inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Lt. Arthur Reginald Houghton (1893-1925), was an English born US Navy aviator who lost his life in the crash of the Shenandoah, the first dirigible built in the US.
Mansfield Freeman (1895-1992), husband of Mary Louise Houghton, was one of the founders of American International Group (AIG) insurance and a noted Chinese scholar.
Amory Houghton, Sr (1899-1981) was president of Corning, Inc., US ambassador to France, 1957-1961, and was a National President of the Boy Scouts of America.
Ruth E. Houghton (1899-1967) was one of the first and only female presidents of a mutual fund in the US for decades; she and her husband Emerson Wirt Axe, both well-known economists, formed with him E. W. Axe & Co., and managed four Axe-Houghton mutual funds.
William Henry Ernest Houghton (1900-1976) was a president of the Muzak Corp. Lessing Lanham Engelking (1902-1980), husband of Hess Pringle Houghton, was the legendary city editor of the New York Hearld Tribune for 39 years.
Alice Bigelow Tully (1902-1993), granddaughter of Amory Houghton Jr., a professional mezzo-soprano singer and philantrophist. Funded the Alice Tully Hall, a 1000 seat chamber music hall of Lincoln Center.
Dr. Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr, PhD (1904-1983) was a professor at both Harvard University and Wellesley College and a noted Victorian period scholar.
Marshall Loring McClanahan (1904-1990), son of Ethel Maria Houghton, wrote the second most comprehensive Houghton Genealogy in 1957.
Dr. Henry Garrett Houghton (1905-1987) was the chairman of Meterology Dept. of MIT for 35 years and a president of the American Meterological Society.
Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906–1990), was a philantropist, former president of Steuben Glass Co., a former division of Corning Glass.The Houghton Library of Harvard University was named after him.
Percy Duncan Houghton (1906-1924) was a famous college coach; he coached Thorpe;was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame.
Katherine Houghton Hepburn (1907-2003) was the noted American actress (of John Houghton line). The only winner of four academy awards, all for Best Actress. Charles Norris Houghton (1909-2001) was a noted Broadway stage director, author, and teacher.
Dr. Karl Herbert Houghton, MD (1911-2008) survived the Bataan Death March in WWII and was on the Atomic Energy Commission.
Daniel Jeremiah Haughton (1911-1987) was president of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.
Edith Grace Houghton (1912-2003) was a baseball prodigy, playing professional baseball from the age of 10 in 1922. She was the first woman Major League baseball scout and is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Robert Allen Houghton (1913-1997) was LAPD Ass. Chief of Police and author who investigated the assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy and the Charles Manson murders.
George Shepard (Shep) Houghton (1914-2016) Film and TV actor and dancer, 1927-1975, including roles in Star Trek of 1966, I Love Lucy show from 1951 to 1957, and Wagon Train, Perry Mason, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Mr. Lucky, The Untouchables, and The Twilight Zone, all in the 1950s.
Archibald (Buck) Houghton (1915-1999) was an American TV and film producer; produced Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone TV series.
Ronald W. Haughton (1916-2005) was a noted labor mediator whose long career included mediating a dispute between the United Farm Workers and a major California grape grower in the 1960s and serving as chairman of the Federal Labor Relations Authority during the air-traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s
Proctor Willis Houghton (1916-2012) was the president of Houghton Chemical Company. Firman Andrews Houghton (1919-1985) was one of New England's best- known poets and playwrights.
Major General Kenneth John Houghton (1920-2006) was a Marine Corp legend, distinguishing himself in three wars, in some of the most important campaigns in Marine Corps history.
Mary Alice Murphy (1921-2002), wife of Junius Henry Houghton, Jr, was a chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and witnessed the first atomic bomb blast.
William R. Haughton (1923-1986) was one of the great horse harness race drivers.
Charles Henry Houghton, Jr. (1924-2000) was an attorney and former Army colonel credited with capturing Nazi war criminals after World War II.
Frederick Waldo Latrash (1925-2002), husband of Patricia Houghton, a daughter of Henry Oscar Houghton III, was a CIA operative; a station chief in Chile (1971-1973) during overthrow and assassination of democratically elected Salvador Allende.
Florence Elaine Marshall (nee Houghton) (1925-) is a major genealogical author of Kalb Co., IL.
Dr. Raymond Warren Houghton, PhD (1926-2010) was a noted professor of education of Rhode Island College and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland .
Gerald Haines Houghton (1926-2002) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Cardinals. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 1950 NFL Draft and played 14 games.
Dr. Arthur Vincent Houghton III, PhD (1926-1992) was a professor of mechanic engineering at University of New Mexico.
Amory Houghton Jr (1926-) was president of Corning, Inc., and a member of the US House of Representatives, 1987-2005.
Benjamin Thomas Houghton (1935-2001) was a founder of Enidine, formerly known as Integrated Dynamics.
Benjamin Thomas Houghton (1936-2001) helped found Enidine, formerly known as Integrated Dynamics.
James Richardson Houghton (1936-) is the retired CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corning Inc.
Dr. David Drew Houghton (1938-) is a noted professor of meterology, author, and ex-president of the American Meterological Society.
Dr. Edward Francis Houghton (1938-) is a noted UCSF professor emeritus, Dept of Music, and was Dean of the Division of Arts, UCSC.
Charles Lavelle Houghton Sr (1941-2003) received the 2002 award for the world's largest giant pumpkin; 1337 pounds. He is in the 2004 Guiness Book of World Records.
Dr. George Gerald Houghton, ThD (1941-) and Dr. Myron James Houghton, Ph.D., ThD (1941-) are twin brothers who are both Baptist ministers and theology professors.
Mary A. Houghton (1942-) serves as the President of the ShoreBank Corporation.
Dr. Richard Arnold Houghton III, PhD (1943-) is a senior ecology scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, an expert on the global carbon cycle and was part of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 that won the Nobel Prize with ex-vice president Al Gore.
Dr. Alan Nourse Houghton, Jr., MD (1947-) is a cancer immunology professor and researcher at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
James Houghton (1948-) is an American actor and writer. He has appeared on The Young and the Restless and Knots Landing.
Dr. Charlotte Marie Houghton, PhD (1950-) is an art history professor at Penn State University.
William Douglas Houghton (1951-) worked for the FBI for 30 years as a senior Intelligence Analyst who identified Russian and American spies. He has written several Houghton books.
Dr. John William Houghton, PhD (1953-) is a prize-winning medieval historian with degrees from Harvard, Yale, Indiana and Notre Dame universities. He is an Episcopal minister, medieval scholar, and Tolkien expert.
Kris Khardasian (nee Houghton) (1955-) is ex-wife of Robert Khardasian, O.J. Simpson's trial lawyer, and wife of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner, of Olympic fame. She is an American celebrity, author and reality television personality (Keeping Up With the Kardashians).
James Houghton (1959-2016) is the founding artistic director of the New York's Signature Theater, and the director of the drama division at Juilliard.
Michael William Houghton (1959-1987). In 1987, he was murdered by Scott Hain, who was 17 at the time. Hain was last person ever executed in the USA for murder as a minor in 2003.
Radcliffe Franklin Haughton (1966-2012) was a Jamaican born U.S. mass murderer, having committed a murder-suicide, shooting 7 women and killing 3 and himself.
David F. Houghton (1969-) was president, National Wildlife Refuge Association in 2016
Schuyler Grant (1971-) is the great niece of actress Katherine Hepburn, an American actress best known for supporting roles in television and is studio director at the New York Kula Yoga Project.
Israel D. Houghton (1979-) is an American Christian music singer. Aaliyah Dana Haughton (1979-2001) was an African American musical rock star.
Laura Mersini-Houghton (nee Mersini) (b. ?) is a cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has developed (together with collaborators) a theory for the birth of the universe from the landscape multiverse that included five predictions proposed in 2006, four of which have since been observed.
Daniel Houghton is the executive director of NC2 Media, which recently purchased the Lonely Planet guidebook company for $77 million. Christopher Colin Houghton (1988-) and Shane Michael Houghton (1985-), brothers, are Indie Comic book authors of Reed Gunther and the Steak-Snacking Snake.
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 528 #3180.
  2. [S1] Dr. John Wesley Houghton M.D., Houghton Genealogy of 1912, p. 19, #1.

Margaret Beekman1

F, #97633, b. circa 1821, d. 29 August 1835

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birthcirca 18211
DeathAug 29, 1835age 141
BurialBeekman Cemetery, Beetown, Grant Co., WI, USA
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 69.

Matilda Beekman1

F, #97634, b. 2 December 1824, d. 30 March 1901

Family: Dr. Lewis H. Mosher b. 17 Nov 1822, d. 29 Mar 1882

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthDec 2, 18241
Marriage1
DeathMar 30, 19011
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 71.

Dr. Lewis H. Mosher1

M, #97635, b. 17 November 1822, d. 29 March 1882

Family: Matilda Beekman b. 2 Dec 1824, d. 30 Mar 1901

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthNov 17, 18221
Marriage1
DeathMar 29, 18821
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 71.

William Benford Aitken PhD1

M, #97636, b. 21 July 1867

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJul 21, 1867New York City, NY, USA1
Author1913Descended from Wilhemus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke2
BiographyHe graduated from Columbia University in 1888; entered the
Law School and School of Political Science in the
same year and received the degree of M.A. in 1889
and Ph.D. in 1890. In 1890 he was admitted to
the Bar of the State of New York. He is a bank
president. His writings are A History of the Treaties
between England and the United States Concerning the
North American Fisheries, and The Dominion of
Canada, a Study of Annexation. He married on
January 20, 1897, Edith Whitman Colfax, daughter
of Albert E. Colfax. She died on November i, 1897,
leaving a daughter:
i. Edith Colfax Aitken.

William B. Aitken married, second, on February
4, 1903, Nora Hamilton Coote, daughter of Captain
C. W. M. Coote, hereinbefore mentioned.1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 78.
  2. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke.

Mary Scott Beekman1

F, #97637, b. 24 January 1830

Family: Major Benjamin T. Biggs

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthJan 24, 18301
MarriageMay 18, 18531
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 213.

Major Benjamin T. Biggs1

M, #97638

Family: Mary Scott Beekman b. 24 Jan 1830

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
MarriageMay 18, 18531
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 213.

Caroline Beekman1

F, #97639, b. 2 March 1832, d. 1 July 1890

Family: Sewell C. Biggs b. 1823, d. 1911

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
BirthMar 2, 18321
Marriage18541
DeathJul 1, 1890
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 213.

Sewell C. Biggs1

M, #97640, b. 1823, d. 1911

Family: Caroline Beekman b. 2 Mar 1832, d. 1 Jul 1890

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birth1823
Marriage18541
Death1911
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1397] A.M., Ph.D. William B. Aitken, Descended from Wilhemus Beekman & Jan T. Van Dyke, p. 213.

Researchers Houghton

M, #97641

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Note2015The History of Houghton Surname Research by Charles J. Vella, PhD (C)

Dr. Douglass Houghton (1810-1845):

Michigan geologist who compiled an unpublished list of English Houghtons circa 1825.

Joseph Willard (1798-1865):

Topographical and historical sketches of the town of Lancaster 1826, (Lancaster MA):

First to erroneously report John and Ralph Houghton of Lancaster MA as "cousins". A theory disproved by current DNA evidence.

Jason Houghton (1768-1843):

Wrote a Lineage of the Houghton Family circa 1828


Houghton Association (1846-1868):
The original Houghton Association was created circa 1846 and lasted until 1855. It was then reorganized in 1868 and later dissolved circa 1870. The purpose of the association was to collect information relative to unclaimed Houghton property in England, reported to belong to the Houghton family in America. Clearly a get rich scheme. There were three meetings of the Houghton Association: one at Winchendon, MA, on Apr. 21, 1868, one at Groton, June 3, 1869 and at Milton, June 5, 1869. Columbus Smith spoke at two of them. About 220 Members paid $5 in 1868 to join the Houghton association hoping to receive $200 in any recovered property. Fisher Rice, agent of the Association, interviewed Judge Jacob Houghton, who refused to join, but gave him an introduction to Sir Henry Bold Hoghton Bt in England. While John Wesley Houghton mentions it's history in his genealogy, he had nothing to do with the Association.


Fisher M. Rice (1847):

The Houghton Association: report of the agent to England.
Imprint: New York: Jared W. Bell, printer, 1848. Available at Higginson Books.

Francis W. Houghton (1835-1911) :

Houghton Memorial, 1869 Compiled descendants of Jason and Caty Houghton, of the Ralph Houghton line. 670 descendants of Ralph Houghton's line were published in Columbus Smith's 1869 Report to the Houghton Association. This consititutes the first published genealogy of the Houghton family.

Columbus Smith (1869):

Report to the Houghton Association, 1869 (author; relied heavily on Francis W. Houghton's data; he wrote 8 other family surname reports)

Josiah Houghton (1800-1861):

Wrote a genealogy of John Houghton of Lancaster MA, after supposedly spending a fortune in getting family records and history to enable him to claim and secure property in England.

Rev. Royal and Cecelia Houghton (1868):

Wrote a diary that contains information about their Houghton family.

David Anthony Keizer (1857- ):

History and Genealogy of the Houghton Family, the descendants of Capt. Timothy Houghton who emigrated to Nova Scotia: 1896

This is the second published Houghton genealogy. John Wesley Houghton in his 1912 Houghton Genealogy, Almira White in her White Genealogy, as well as Marshall McClanahan in his 1957 Houghton genealogies, all used the data first compiled and published by David A. Keizer in his 1896 genealogy of the Canadian descendants of Capt. Timothy Houghton of Massachusetts. Keizer noted that he had read H. S. Nourse's Early Records of Lancaster, MA, as well as his Lancaster MA BMD Records, and his Military Annals of Lancaster MA. He also read J. Willard's Sketches of Lancaster MA of 1826. He erroneously believed John Houghton the Emigrant of Lancaster MA was the John, age 4/40 of the "Abigail". He includes 1852 descendants of Capt. Timothy Houghton. Available at Higginson Books.

Charles Edward Church (1835-) & Ernest Percy Webber (1874-): D. Keizer' Genealogy of the Houghton Family. 1896 above is misattributed to both of these individuals in several references; (see "The Sedition Trial of Timothy Houghton" by Barry Cahill; Mr. Cahill gives C.E. Church as compiler of Keizer's work)

Henry Stedman Nourse (1831-1903):

Early Records of Lancaster MA (1884)

Lancaster MA VRs (1890)

Lancasteria (1900)

Includes many early Houghton vital records; He was a John Houghton of Lancaster, MA descendant.


Almira Larkin White (1900):

Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 3 volumes,1900-1905

Compiled many early Houghtons

Caroline Keyes Houghton Squires (1852-):

The Houghton Family by Thaddeus William Harris: Handwritten genealogy copied from manuscripts belonging to Mrs Caroline K. Houghton Squires, daughter of Simon W. Houghton to whom these papers originally belonged.


Daniel Merrick Wheeler (1846-):

He wrote a genealogy of the Whitingham VT Houghtons: 1903

John Barber White (1909)::

Descendants of John Barber of Worcester, Mass., 1714-1909, 1909

Includes a number of early Ralph Houghton descendants

Dr. John Wesley Houghton (1834-1924):

Houghton Genealogy. Descendants of Ralph and John Houghton, 1912

The third published Houghton genealogy, considered by many as the Houghton Genealogy. Very few place references; compiled from Houghtons sending him data; no citations. Many errors. But an outstanding job for a pre-computer age genealogist. While he reported the English Houghtons, he disavowed the "Ralph is Radcliffe of English De Hoghton ancestry theory". He was a Ralph Houghton descendant. He listes 8350 Houghton descendants.J. W. Houghton obviously used Francis W. Houghton's material (esp. British ancestry) of 1869. Available at Higginson Books.

Arthur Wellington Clark (1850-):

Author of an unpublished genealogy of the Houghton Family circa 1900; Dr. JWH offered to co-author the Houghton Genealogy with him; critical of JWH, lists corrections.

John Calvin Lawrence Clark (1871):

A famous New England historian; he researched the Houghtons with Dr. Harris A. Houghton.

Annie Lane Burr and Thomas Hovey Gage (1925):

John Houghton of Lancaster, Mass., and some of his descendants, 1925 (first and only NEGHR publication of a Houghton line). The 4th published Houghton genealogy.

Dr. Harris Ayers Houghton (1874-1946):

Houghton researcher before 1930 (used many county histories).

His work is in the Chicago SAR Library. McClanahan attributes his genealogy of the Houghton family as being "from early Harris Ayres Houghton data", as well as stating "Possibly Dr. Frederic L. Weis used his data in his Early Families of Lancaster, Mass."

Clarence Winthrop Bowen, Ph.D. (1852-):

History of Woodstock, CT, c 1930

Lists some Houghton lines in Connecticut

Luella Houghton (1879-1945):

She wrote a 32 page Houghton genealogy of her family, "We Houghtons and our beloved Shed-Members", 1938. The 5th published Houghton genealogy.

Mrs. Fred (Lillie) Brandt:

Descendants of Eleazer Houghton 1690-1790 and his wife Elizabeth (Divoll) Houghton 1693-1784, 1964

Compiled and self published the Illinois descendants of Eleazer Houghton (87 pages). The 6th published Houghton genealogy. Available at Newbery Library in Chicago.


Rev. Frederick Lewis Weis (1941):

Early Families of Lancaster MA, 1941

Compiled 7 generations of John Houghton descendants (40 pages) and several generations of Ralph Houghton (7 pages); no citations; relied heavily on Burr and Hovey; appears to have used Nourse's Lancaster MA VRs data.

William DeLoss Love II (1888- ):

Descendants of Capt. William Houghton and Marilla Clay, 1953. The 6th published Houghton genealogy. Available at Higginson Books.

Vivian Imogene Morgan Uran (1891-1970):

Houghton Genealogy, 1954 A Ralph Houghton descendant, through her mother, Lydia May Houghton. She wrote a 500 page compilation of her Houghton ancestry to Ralph Houghton. (She was the author's wife Marilyn's grandmother; Her genealogy started the author's interest in Houghton research).


Edna Florine Houghton (1892-1980):

Compiled the Houghton Genealogy of the descendants of Deacon Jason Houghton, of Ralph Houghton line.

Norman Wiley Carpenter (1921-1959):

He compiled a genealogy of the descendants of Elijah Houghton in 1955.

Marshall Loring McClanahan (1904-1990):

John & Beatrix (Joselyn) Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts, & some of their Descendants, c. 1957
Ralph and Jane (Stowe) Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts, & some Descendants.

Considered the second major Houghton genealogy; an unpublished manuscript; One of the first to use vital record citations; clearly duplicated JWH and Weis, used Harris A Houghton; but multiple typos of dates; many misquoting of pages in VRs citations. He clearly read Rev. Royal Houghton's diary. He includes a total of 8568 Houghton descendants (Ralph line, 3204 individuals and John line , 5364 individuals).

Rosamond Nadine VanNoy (1922- ):

A Houghton Family from Ralph Houghton of Lancaster MA., 1652 to Rosamond Houghton VanNoy of Conover, WI, 1992:

A genealogy of the Broome Co. NY Houghtons, descendants of Otis Houghton. The 7th published Houghton genealogy. (includes 217 individuals)

Barbara Marie Houghton, L. M. Griggs, Vanchie P. Houghton, J. Smith, B. Williams (1933- ):

The Michigan Descendants of Noah Houghton including Noah's Ancestry in America, 1994

A solid work of genealogical research of the Houghton's of Michigan. The 8th published Houghton genealogy. (includes 1064 individuals)

Scott Bartley (c 1995):

Vermont Families in 1791, 1995: VT Houghtons based on McClanahan.

Howard Baker Houghton, Jr. (1922-1999):

Our Houghton Heritage, 1995

The major Houghton genealogy of the descendants of John Houghton of New Jersey; includes about 240 individuals; the 9th published Houghton genealogy.

Dr. Carolyn Houghton Chapman (1938- ):

She compiled the descendants of John Hart Houghton, of the NJ Houghtons, 1997; includes 66 individuals

William Wells Houghton, Jr (1934-):

He helped compile the descendants of Reuben Houghton of Canada and IA, 1997; includes 164 individuals

Ralph Henry Houghton (1944 - ):

He created the first electronic version of John Wesley Houghton's The Houghton Genealogy of 1912. Fully searchable. Available at:

http://people.albion.edu/rhoughto/Family/Houghton/The_Houghton_Genealogy_New.pdf

Nicholas John Schroeder (1979-):

He compiled the descendants of Nathaniel Houghton, Jr, 2000

Edward S. Houghton (1905-):

He compiled the descendants of Silas Houghton, 2001. His nephew Richard William Houghton compiled the data into a gedcom; includes 57 individuals.

Jeffrey Whealdon Bryant (1957- ):

He compiled the descendants of Alfred Haughton of England, 2002; includes 629 individuals.

Jeffrey Lynn Haughton (1944-):

He is the major current compiler of Haughton genealogical data, 2003

Deryl Wayne Houghton (1941-):

He helped compile the descendants of Joseph Houghton of MI, 2003; iincludes 402 individuals; also a website

Christopher A. Houghten (1972-):

He compiled the descendants of Thomas Houghten of England, 2004; includes 557 individuals

Marjorie Virginia Houghten Schulkins (1925-):

She separately compiled the descendants of Thomas Houghten of England, 2004; includes 557 individuals; some differences from Chris Houghten's data

Byril Samuel Sutton (1949-):

He helped compile some of the descendants of Elijah Houghton of VA, 2006; the best compilation of Houghtons originating in the state of Virginia; includes 1239 individuals.

William Douglas Houghton (1951-):

The Memoirs of Orton Clifton Houghton. 2009

An excellent brief memoir of late 19th century rural America and a Houghton inventor. The 10th published Houghton genealogy

Houghton Ancestors: A 1,000 Year Historical Adventure. 2010. 241 p; The 11th published Houghton genealogy

While he states that that "This is the most comprehensive and factually accurate book ever written about Houghtons.", but only includes 118 Houghtons. It is based on the 1912 Houghton Genealogy data focusing on the early English Houghtons, and his own family, the descendants of William Houghton of Wisconsin. He again restates and accepts the "Ralph and John are cousins" and the "John & Ralph Houghton of Lancaster were on the Abigail" theories. But it is interesting read about some interesting Houghtons and he does have great pictures.



Dr. Charles J. Vella, Ph.D. (1944- ):



Houghton Surname Project, 1994-2015; currenly unpublished but available online at the Houghton Surname Project website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~houghtonfamily/

Houghton DNA Project, 2004-2015; currently includes 52 volunteers, and 15 Houghton/Haughton DNA lines

First Houghton researcher to consistently use primary sources; first review and compilation of all of the U.S. census data for Houghton surname listings, and the first DNA analysis of the American Houghton lines. It is the largest Houghton database ever compiled. The beneficiary of 100s of Houghton researchers who supplied their Houghton data to him. He includes the data of all previously available Houghton genealogies. It includes 91,340 total individuals; 49023 Houghton surname individuals; 72,962 total Houghtons and descendants; 3925 Haughtons.

If using this material please use citation: "Houghton Surname Project, authored and compiled by Charles J. Vella, PhD"
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Evelyn Chase1

F, #97642, b. 1915, d. 1990

Family 1: Alfred Macy Houghton b. 20 Jun 1885, d. 1953

Family 2: William C. Barbee

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birth1915Washington, DC, USA, age 24 in 1940 census2,3
Marriage1
1940 Census1940Washington, DC, USA, age 54, private practice lawyer3
1950 US Census1950Washington, DC, USA, age 64, general law practice
Marriage
Death19902
BurialRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC, USA2
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.
  2. [S654] Electronic Web Site, , http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
  3. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia; Roll: T627_563; Page: 63B; Enumeration District: 1-310.

Alfred Ballentine Houghton1

M, #97643, b. 7 April 1943, d. 4 December 2008

Family 1: Katherine Pollard Maddux b. c 1945, d. 18 Sep 1971

  • Marriage*: Alfred Ballentine Houghton married Katherine Pollard Maddux on Jun 14, 1966 at McLean, VA, USA.2
  • Separation*: Alfred Ballentine Houghton and Katherine Pollard Maddux were separated circa 1970.

Family 2: Vera Lacher b. c 1950

  • Marriage*: Alfred Ballentine Houghton married Vera Lacher.1

Biography

NotableY
Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthApr 7, 1943Washington, DC, USA1
MarriageJun 14, 1966McLean, VA, USA2
Graduation1969American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC, USA
Separationcirca 1970
NewspaperSep 21, 1971New York, New York Co., NY, USA, NY Times: Wife slain, Washington lawyer held
Washington, Sept. 20 -- A member of a socially prominent Washington family was killed last night at the family estate in suburban McLean, Va., and her estranged husband has been charged with murder.
Katherine Pollars Maddux Houghton, 26 years old, was shoot to death, the police said today. The body was found by policemen answering a call from a relative.
Her husband, Alfred Ballentine Houghton, 28, a lawyer for the District of Columbia, was arrested early today at his mother's home in the Spring Valley section of Washington. he is being held for the authorities of Fairfax County, Va., who have charged him with murder.
At an arraignment today he was ordered held for 30 days by District authorities while he undergoes a mental examination. He is to be returned to court Oct. 19 to face proceedings seeking his extradition to Virginia.
Mrs. Houghton was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cabell Maddux Jr., who were on an extended tour of Europe when the shooting occurred. She was the granddaughter of Dr. Richard J. Alfaro, former president of Panama and forer vice president of the World Court. She also was a first cousin of the entertainer Nancy Ames.
Mr. Houghton, formerly an employee in the trust department of a Washington bank, joined the staff of the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel in July. He was assigned to a special litigation division that handles, among other things, family and mental-health cases.
The Fairfax County police said the shooting had apparently followed a series of arguments between the couple. Mr. and Mrs. Houghton, who had no children, had been separated for about a year. They were married in 1966.3
Marriage1
ResearchKorman v. Carpenter, Virginia Supreme Court, June 13, 1975

JAMES W. KORMAN, ADMINISTRATOR, ETC. v. ARTHUR J. CARPENTER, JR., COMMITTEE, ETC:
On September 19, 1971, appellee's ward, Alfred B. Houghton, fatally shot his wife, appellant's decedent, Katherine Pollard Maddux Houghton. On his plea of guilty Houghton was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to serve twenty years in the penitentiary. At the time of the homicide the parties, although not divorced, were living separate and apart, having prior thereto executed a separation and property settlement agreement. Mrs. Houghton was survived by her husband, both parents and two brothers.

The administrator of the decedent's estate brought an action for wrongful death on behalf of Mrs. Houghton's parents and brothers against Houghton's committee. In his motion for judgment the administrator made no claim of economic loss and sought only damages for solace. Houghton's committee demurred on the ground that no action could be maintained under Virginia's Wrongful Death Act (Code § 8-633) since Mrs. Houghton would not have been able to maintain an action for assault against her husband had she lived. The trial court sustained the demurrer, relying upon Keister's Adm'r v. Keister's Ex'ors, 123 Va. 157, 96 S.E. 315 (1918), and the administrator has appealed.
DeathDec 4, 2008Richmond, VA, USA1
ObituaryDec 7, 2008Washington, DC, USA, Washington Post, The (DC) - December 7, 2008
Deceased Name: ALFRED HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON ALFRED B. HOUGHTON Of Richmond, VA passed away suddenly on December 4, 2008. Alfred was born on April 7, 1943 in Washington, DC to the late Evelyn Chase Houghton Barbee and Alfred Macey Houghton. He is survived by his wife, Vera Houghton; his son, Aaron David Houghton and his family; his sister, Ann Thouron; nephews, Arthur and Phillip Carpenter and their families whom he loved. A funeral will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, December 9 at St. James's Episcopal Church, 1205 W. Franklin St., Richmond, VA. Burial will be private in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Nantucket Boys & Girls Club, 61 Sparks Ave., P.O. Box 269, Nantucket, MA 02554.1
BurialRock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC, USA1
Black Sheeparrested for the killing of his wife
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Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.
  2. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1965.
  3. [S95] Newspaper, New York Times Archives: 1971.

Erika Plea1

F, #97644

Family: Aaron David Houghton b. c 1974

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Marriage1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.

Ann Houghton1

F, #97645, b. 1941

Family: (?) Thouron

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Birth1941Washington, DC, USA, age 9 in 1950 census1
Marriage1
Living2008
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.

(?) Thouron1

M, #97646

Family: Ann Houghton b. 1941

Biography

A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Corresponded with authorN
Marriage1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.

Loren (?)1

F, #97647, b. circa 1956

Family: Everett Rushmore Houghton b. c 1949

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
Birthcirca 1956
Marriage1
Pedigree

Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.

Lt. Col. Jean M. Houghton1

F, #97648, b. 1 April 1924, d. 4 December 2008

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthApr 1, 1924Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 6 in 1930 census; age 16 in 1940 census1
1940 Census1940Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, USA, age 37, divorced, dept. store saleslady; and father Fritz Eckerstrom, 75, Sweden2
Mil. Serv.St. Margaret's Hospital, Dorchester, MA, USA, in the Army Nurse Corps for the next 28 years.3
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GraduationUniversity of Colorado, CO, USA, MA
DeathDec 4, 2008Needham, Norfolk Co., MA, USA, age 841
ObituaryJEAN MARIE HOUGHTON (LTC-Ret. ANC) - Of Needham, passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2008, at the age of 84, peacefully, surrounded by her loving family. The cause of death was sepsis. Jean graduated as a Registered Nurse from St. Margaret's Hospital in Dorchester and
later received her Master's Degree at the University of Colorado. In the United States, Lt. Col. Houghton served at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Brook Army (SRN); Fitzsimmons General Hospital; Ireland Army Hospital; Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where she received the Meritorious Service Medal ANC; and Fort Devens, where she received The Legion Merit for "Unsurpassed Leadership and Administrative Skills." In Asia she served at the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Korea; the U.S. Army Hospital, Camp Zama, Japan; and the 36th Evacuation Hospital, Republic Vietnam, where she received the Bronze Medal for "Meritorious Achievement against Hostile Forces." In Europe she served at the 98th General Hospital, Germany; the 34th General - France; and the 279th Station Hospital, Berlin. Closer to home, Jean gave herself in love and generosity to four generations of family and friends as well as contributing to many organizations, including the Needham Korean War Memorial Committee, the Needham American Legion Post # 14, Life Member of the Needham V.F.W. Post 2498, Disabled American Veterans, Needham Historical Society, Army Nurse Corps Assoc., 36th Evacuation Hospital Assoc. and others. She was an At-Large Life Member of Vietnam Veterans of America – Massachusetts. Lt. Col. Jean Houghton served her first 28 years of life nurturing her siblings and her mother. Then she went to serve her country for the next 28 years. The last 28 years of her retirement she continued to serve veterans organizations and family. 28, 28, 28 equals 84 years of serving her country and family to the fullest. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 1, 1924 to the late Cmdr. C. Charles Houghton and Florence M. (Eckerstrom) Houghton. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Lawrence B. Houghton Sr. and his wife Dolores of Jupiter, FL and her sister, Virginia H. Tierney and her late husband Joseph of Waltham. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews. Funeral from the George F. Doherty & Sons Funeral Home, 1305 Highland Ave., NEEDHAM, Tuesday at 8 AM. Funeral mass in St. Joseph's Church, Needham, at 9 AM. Relatives and friends kindly invited. Visiting hours Monday 4-8 PM. Interment St. Mary's Cemetery, Needham. Expressions of sympathy may be made in Jean's memory to the charity of your choice.
BurialSt. Mary's Cemetery, Needham, Norfolk Co., MA, USA
BiographyLieutenant Colonel Jean Houghton, USA (Ret.)
A native of Boston and a graduate of St. Margaret's Hospital School of Nursing in Dorchester, Jean Houghton is the daughter and sister of Navy veterans. However, Lt. Col. Jean Houghton broke with family tradition and opted to serve her country by enlisting in the Army. Though Lt. Col. Houghton served in Korea after the War, she saw plenty of action during the Korean Revolution in 1959 and 1960, which provided excellent preparation for front line nursing in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. During her 28 years of service, Lt. Col. Houghton did, indeed, "see the world," with tours of duty in Germany, France, and Japan, in addition to Korea, and Vietnam. Stateside, the Lt. Col. served in various locations west of the Mississippi, with a final assignment at Fort Devins in Massachusetts. A model of Yankee ingenuity, Lt. Col. Houghton enjoyed the challenge of adapting, improvising, and creating equipment in the difficult and restricted conditions of war. Home at last, she provides a family anchor for her 10 nieces and nephews and fifteen great nieces and nephews.
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Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.
  2. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T627_1669; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 15-398; line 29, dwl 172.
  3. [S882] Ancestry.Com, online www.ancestry.com, National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Cadet Nurse Corps Files, compiled 1943 - 1948, documenting the period 1942 - 1948; Box #: 262.

Lawrence Bradlee Houghton Sr1

M, #97649, b. 19 January 1928, d. 26 April 2015

Family: Dolores Maria Tortora b. 8 Sep 1940

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthJan 19, 1928Cambridge, MA, USA, age 2 2?/12 in 1930 census; age 12 in 1940 census1,2
Mil. EnlsS2C US Navy, WWII
Mil. DraftMay 23, 1946age 18; recently discharged from US Navy; NY-NH-Hartford Railroad
1950 US Census1950age 22, railroad, carpenter helper
Residence1951Boston, MA, USA, Lawrence, age 23, a carpenter; Jean, 26, nurse
Marriage1
Living2012Jupiter, FL, USA1
DNA ProjectJan 31, 2013Non-Ralph Houghton DNA; Kit Number: 271646
DeathApr 26, 2015FL, USA
BurialSouth Florida National Cemetery, Lake Worth, FL, USA
BiographyLiz Houghton Cunha, 2012: Dad is dealing with dementia & is really disoriented. I knew he would be messed up after spending a month up here in Massachusetts. He has been home in Florida for 3 weeks now,anyway,he is at the point where he still remembers the past. Through the years he has told us many stories of his childhood(boy what a movie this disfuntional family would make) You have all the information that I know of concerning dad's side of the family. We honestly didn't know about his 1/2 brothers & sisters from Florida until 10 or so years ago and dad was not one to speak much about them. He was very emotional about the situation. He, Virginia & Jean were all scarred from the scandal that his father brought them into. They remember the fights of Florence & Casco concerning Amy and was ridiculed all through their school years..you see...Amy was a school teacher in the city of Boston & was having an affair & a child (children) out of wedlock. The school actually changed their rules because of her.
ResearchJupiter, FL
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
West Palm Beach, FL
Cranston, RI
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Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Rose Houghton-Cunha, Nov. 9, 2012.

Lawrence Bradlee Houghton Jr.

M, #97650, b. June 1970

Family: Erin Kelly

  • Partner*: Lawrence Bradlee Houghton Jr. was in a relationship with Erin Kelly They never married.

Biography

Corresponded with authorN
A Contributor to Houghton Surname ProjectN
BirthJun, 19702
PartnerThey never married.
Notebetween Feb 16, 2011 and Nov, 2012
Research2012FL, USA2
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Citations

  1. [S1389] Genealogybank.Com, online http://www.genealogybank.com, http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/doc/obit/… surname.
  2. [S415] E-mail from Elizabeth Rose Houghton-Cunha, Nov. 9, 2012.