BIOGRAPHIES:  Horace E. HOUGHTON, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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HORACE E. HOUGHTON, lawyer, Durand, was born at Alexander, Genesee
Co., N. Y., April 6, 1835. He received an academic education at the
Genesee, Wyoming Seminary; came in 1857, to East Troy, Walworth Co.,
Wis., where he studied law with John Frasier. He moved to Durand in
1862, and was soon after elected County Clerk. He has been District
Attorney of Pepin County for the past ten years; was member of the
Assembly in 1873, and of the State Senate for '79 and '80, during which
term he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. He was
also connected with the Sanitary Committee, in 1864, at Nashville and
Chattanooga. He was married, Jan. 16, 1865, to Miss Alice Ide, daughter
of F. J. Ide, of Naples, Buffalo Co., Wis. They have two children,
Harry and Idell.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 701


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