Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-08-30
Death of II. o. HOughtOn.
A Native of Vermont, who Became One
of Americas Noted Publishers.

Henry o. Houghton, head of the pub
fishing house of Houghton, Minln IL Co.
of Boston, widely known IN this country
and abroad, died suddenly Monday at his
summer home in North Andover, Mass.
Mr.. Houghton was born at Sutton, this
state, in 1928. AT the age of 10 he entered
the Burlington Free Press Office as an APP
prentice. While working at the trade he
fitted himself for college and graduated at
the University of Vermont, paying his way
| by hard work. He went to Boston at the
age of % and began work on the Boston
| Traveller as a type setter, proof reader and
reporter. In 1S49 he bought the interest
of Mr.. Freeman in the firm of Freeman IL
Bodies, then among the leading printers of
Boston. The business was soon removed
to the site of the Riverside Press, on the
banks of the Charles in Cambridge, and
from the first Mr.. Houghton was its con-
trolling spirit. The business continued an
uninterrupted career of success, character
lied by works that satisfied artistic feeling
as well as literary sense, and became by
various alliances possessed of valuable
plates and the literary accumulations and
franchises of half century, collected by
leading firms. These privileges covered
the works of that famous galaxy of New
England literary stars, Longfellow, Whit
tier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau,
Hawthorne and Whipple, to say nothing
of others equally valuable.
Mr., Houghton was one of the leading
advocates of the international copyright
law passed by the last Congress. In per-
son, he was strongly made, had kindly
face and cordial manner. The firm of
Houghton, Milllin n Co. are proprietors of
Armstrong IL Co., photographers, and are
publishers of the Atlantic Monthly and the
Andover Review. He leaves one son, II.
o. Houghton, jr., who is member of the
firm. Three daughters also survive him.
The relations of Mr.. HOughton with au-
thors have been delightfully."- intimate and
pleasant 1t has been custom of his to
celebrate the 10th birthday of some of the
leading Atlantic contributors with din
ner, a breakfast or a garden party. Some
of the more notable of these. genuine lit
erary events in their way, were the Whit
tier dinner party, the Holmes breakfast
and the Stowe garden party.
The Boston Transcript says edtorially:
Mr.. Houghton was very fond of Vermont,
and proud of his native state Last year
the Vermont Association gave a dinner at
Young's in honor of this son of the Green
Mountain state, for eight years president
of the association, and who proved in him
self that Integrity, ability, loyalty, SAVIOR
ed with dash of quaint humor, constitute
the birthright of the Nermonter.' Some
of the stories told of Mr.. Houghton at that
dinner illustrate how early he came into
his inheritance of industry, frugality ana
temperance, and how soon he began to
show those qualities which made HIM re-
spected and beloved. There was pathos
as well as pleasure in looking back upon
the distinctively American story of his
life and work Among publishers his
name and that of his house have been one.
To the great reading public it is that most
closely associated with the best names in
our literature from Emerson and Lowell
and Longfellow and Holmes to Aldrich
and Curtis and Fiske. Many honors had
been conferred upon Mr.. Houghton in
Cambridge, including mayoralty