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Letter, 10 May 1880
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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.
Letter from O.A. Houghton to John William Dawson, written from Syracuse, N.Y.