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Notable Houghton

     Notable Houghton: Ralph Houghton (~1624-1705) was the founding ancestor of the Ralph Houghton line of Lancaster, MA. Genetically unrelated to John Houghton of Lancaster MA. Notable Houghton: John Houghton (~1624-1684) was the founding ancestor of the John Houghton line of Lancaster, MA. Notable Houghton: was the first Houghton to arrive in America
in 1629. Notable Houghton: On of the earliest Houghtons.
in 1635. Notable Houghton: John Houghton (~1660-1709) was the founding ancestor of the John Houghton line of Stony Brooke, NJ.

Notable Houghton: John 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. Notable Houghton: 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. Notable Houghton: 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. Notable Houghton: Lt. Ralph Houghton (1729-1809) was one of the original Minutemen in the American Revolution from Milton, MA. Notable Houghton: Elijah Houghton (1746-1830) was the founding ancestor of the Elijah Houghton line of Virginia. Notable Houghton: Abijah Houghton Jr (1749-1831) was one of the original Minutemen in Rev. War and was wounded at Bunker Hill. Notable Houghton: 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. Notable Houghton: 1850 patent for mechanical dishwasher in 1850. Notable Houghton: 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. Notable Houghton: John 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. Notable Houghton: Eli 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. Notable Houghton: Elijah Houghton (1801-1868) was a New York mahogany wood and lumber yard owner and a widely published poet in his day. Notable Houghton: Mary Elizabeth Sawyer (1806-1889), daughter of Elizabeth Houghton, was the Mary of the poem "Mary had a little lamb". Notable Houghton: Arthur A. Houghton, Sr. (1866–1928), son of Amory Houghton Jr, was a former president of Corning Glass. Notable Houghton: William J. Tully (1870–1930), son-in-law of Amory Houghton Jr; father of Alice Tully; New York State Senator 1905 to 1908. Notable Houghton: Jesse Houghton Metcalf (1860-1942), grandson of Eunice Dench Houghton, wasan industrialist, philanthropist, and United States senator from RI. Notable Houghton: Alanson 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. Notable Houghton: (1906-1924) A famous college coach; coached Thorpe; inducted into College Football Hall of Fame. Notable Houghton: 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). Notable Houghton: (1887-1954) First American professor of physical anthropologist at Harvard. Notable Houghton: 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. Notable: Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906–1990), philantropist, former president of Steuben Glass Co., a former division of Corning Glass.The Houghton Library of Harvard University was named after him. Notable Houghton: 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. Notable Houghton: (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. Notable Houghton: James Richardson Houghton (1936-) is the retired CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corning Inc. Notable Houghton: Amory Houghton Jr (1926-) was president of Corning, Inc., and a member of the US House of Representatives, 1987-2005. Notable Houghton: Schuyler 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 Houghton: (1969-) President, National Wildlife Refuge Association in 2016. Notable Houghton. Notable Houghton: Arthur Amory Houghton was a noted numismatic scholar and novelist. Notable Houghton: Mundy Hepburn is an American artist who designs and builds glass sculptures filled with luminous electrified inert gases.

Notable Houghton

     Notable Houghton: arrested for the killing of his wife.