Show THE LATE II O IIOUOHTON lll irn < lilrl nktlrti nf a HrprnrnUllto tmrrlcnn Ultra Hear Oeear lloughlon who was born at Button Vermont April 101113 died at South Andover recentl Mr lloughton was the founder ot the pub llthlng house of Houihton Mlftlln k Co of lloelon and his career an Im liortant one having much to do with Ihe education of the American people was dm to his singular honesty and energ Mr lloughton began life as n rlnter on the Hurllugton Free PrM but while nt work applied himself to his education Through dint nf n rarcful economy he flitted hlniMlf for college nod graduated l from the Unlterslt ot Vermont working hard all the time no ns to find mean for his Instruction Jolng In Iloston not thoroughly proficient profi-cient he found employment on n newspaper news-paper not only doing Ihe work of n compositor but writing for It In 1819 be l purchased nn interest in the firm of Freeman Holies who were printers Shortly after tho firm of Hollctt Haitghton was established at Cambridge Cam-bridge In time publishing wa added to the bustnes of printing Many cull 1 r K linSUY O HOUQHTON tlons of Hacon Carlyle Macaulay Cooper Dickens were Issued by tho firm In 18GI Mr lloughton became associated with M M Hurd and under the name of hind Houghlou a large and lucrative business was carried on In 1878 lie house of James It Osgood k Co the successors of Tlcknor Kleldi amalgamated with tho firm of Hurd lloughlon Tho firm then became Houghton Osgood Co and later Iloughton Mlfllln Co To the mechanical me-chanical appliances of the Hlvcrslde Press were added many valuable literary liter-ary franchises There wero published tho productions of Longfellow Hawthorne Haw-thorne Kmcron WhittIer Lowell Holmes Thoreau Whlpple Agamls In 1873 Ito firm ot Kurd Houghton purchased the Atlantic Monthly I and from the Hlversldo Press were Issue l tha Journal of American folk Lore amt I tho Andover Hot lew Mr lloughton was Councilman Alderman und Maor of Cnmbrldcc and though directing with all hla energies his business ot publishing he paid great attention to his civic requirements Mr Houghlon took great Interest la I lie passage of tho International Copyright Law During Dur-ing his long career of activity his relationships re-lationships with tho ninny men of letters let-ters were of tho most conllal character |