Jasper-Boone-Jackson County MO Archives Biographies..... HOUGH, Albert Edwin September 23, 1908 - April 9, 1995 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 May 17, 2009, 11:14 am Author: William (Bill) Samuel BOGGESS      ALBERT EDWIN HOUGH   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=califia1&id=I2031 ALBERT EDWIN HOUGH (1908MO-1995DC) was second known child born of Adele Sigler and Walter Martin Hough's 25 August 1905 marriage, in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri 23 September 1908 Both of his parents were also the second known children born of their parents. Edwin's name was switched to Edwin Albert Hough, at some early point in his life. He was an interesting story teller, as were both his parental; grandfather Franklin and father Walter afore him. His parents wed in Carthage, Missouri soon to remove to Dallas, Texas where father was employed by Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad company, when first son Franklin was apparently born about 1906. Walter and Adele did not get along well, so she spent a lot of time back in Carthage where Albert Edwin was born. His older brother, Franklin, died young, reportedly about three years old, thusly, after Albert Edwin was born. Adele parted from Walter returning to Carthage about 1910, with son Albert Edwin, staying with sister Estelle at least for awhile. Its unclear who raised Edwin until 1918 death of his mother, it appears Adele did but following her but after her tragic death, Estelle took over, when he had little to no good clothing according to letter to his father from Estelle in 1919. Adele met and married a second husband February 1918 and died within a couple weeks from a botched abortion while in the Yates Hotel, Joplin, Missouri. Edwin is in Estelle's home on U S census in 1920. Letters show him at the University of Missouri in 1927 and 1928 when Edith Boggess was also there until death of her mother, 1 April 1928. He is with his father and step-mother in New Orleans for the 1930 U S census, where his father died in 1932. Edwin, ventured to the wild country of Clearwater Valley, Alberta, Canada in 1930 where he writes "Stell and Bill" of a fifty-mile, dog team, journey to Waterways for Christmas and New Years, where Waterways Hotel has set up for them a Christmas dinner. 19 April 1933 finds Edwin in Kansas City involved with an aviation journal. He writes he has been flying to St Joe and St Louis and may take up flying himself during the summer. His parental grandmother passes away June 1935, Edwin inherits the following five Frederic Remington (1861-1909) (www.spanamwar.com/remington.htm) pieces of art directly from his grandmother; "Cattlle Rustlers", "Gracious Senorita", "Old Dick", "Prarie on Fire" and "Sentinels at Guard", work done by Frederic while he lived with Edwin's grandparents, Franklin and "Nellie" Hough in Kansas City sometime between 1883 and 1888. Edwin had Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City, (now Nelson-Atkins muesum), maintain these fine pieces of art, who in turn featured them on occasions for public viewing. Edwin marries Edith Boggess in Manitou Springs, Colorado, November 1935. They enjoy a motor car touring wedding trip, visiting his relatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas then home to 1045 south Garrison avenue in Carthage, Missouri. From his 1995 obituary; "In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He served in the Navy (at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier County, Fla., where the fishermen used their vessels to seek German submarines in Gulf of Mexico so he said in 1980s while lunching there) in the Pacific during the final months of World War II. After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces. He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. In retirement, he traveled extensively. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Edith Boggess Hough, and a daughter, Jane Ellen Hough, both of Chevy Chase; and a grandchild." His loving wife and companion of nearly sixty years, Edith, passed away from a stroke the following 13 February 1996, at same hospital in Washington DC. Their last residence was in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Maryland. Daughter Jane Ellen who in turn had one son, Gianmarco Leoncavallo, arranged and oversaw their cermains buried in Block 32, Lot 174 of Park cemetery, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri 13 May1996. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/jasper/bios/hough18bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mofiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb