Houghton, Douglass

9/21/1909

Troy, New York

Douglass T. Houghton School erected in 1908 in his honor.
Houghton county, lake, and city are named for him.

He was educated as a physician at the Rensselaer Institute and graduated in 1829. he was 19 years old.

Drowned in Lake Superior near Eagle River.
49.121 - Photographs of oil portraait of
58.169 - Misc ites assoc with
63.208.1 - bronze tablet from school named after

A doctor and geologist.
Detroit mayor, 1842-1843

1832-37 - practiced as physician and surgeon and dentist, Detroit
1833: Vice President of Young Mens Society
1836: Elected Censor of Medical Society of Territory of Michigan
1837-45 Appointed State Geologist of Michigan (first appointee)
1838 - Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at University of Michigan
1842 - First President of Detroit Board of Education
1842-43: Elected Mayor of Detroit
1844 - President of Michigan Insurance Comm. & National Insur. Bank

Initiated into Detroit Lodge#2, Masonic Lodge on October 3, 1843, passed on October 31, 1843. Raised to sublime Degree of Master Mason November 15, 1843.

Author of several U.S. and State geological reports

Jacob Haughton

Mary Lydia Douglass

Harriet Stevens, m. 9/10/1833, Fredonia, New York,

Katherine
Harriet (b. 1837)
Mary (b. 1840)

American