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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Houghton, O. A. (Oscar Allen), 1843-1908
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Description area
Dates of existence
1843-1908
History
Rev. Oscar Allen Houghton was born on May 15, 1843, in Trenton, Oneida County, New York.
He was a clergyman. He was educated at Genesee College (M.A., 1872) and at Syracuse University, N.Y. (PhD., 1874). He was a minister in many churches, among them the Central New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Wolcott Methodist Episcopal Church, Vermont (1869-1871).
In 1869, he married Susan H. Ayres (1843–1900) and in 1902, he married Ida Arabella Delamater Gilbert (1855–1916). He died on September 22, 1908, in Towanda, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.