History of Sutton, (Caledonia County) Vermont United States of America

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Henry Oscar Houghton, publisher, was born in Sutton, Vt., April 30, 1823; son of William and Marilla (Clay) Houghton. His parents removed to Bradford about 1835. He was a pupil at the Bradford academy, and when thirteen years old was apprenticed in the office of the Burlington Free Press. His brother Daniel was a student at the University of Vermont, and persuaded Henry to gain a college education. After a short term at his trade at Nunda, N.Y., he prepared himself for college, matriculated at the University of Vermont in 1842 paid his own tuitiou by working at the case, and was graduated in 1846. He was a proof-reader and reporter on the Boston Evening Traveler, 1846-48. In 1849 he borrowed $1500, and with it purchased the interest of Mr. Freeman in the business of Freeman & Bolles, printers, in Boston, and formed the firm of Bolles & Houghton. The office was removed to Cambridge, Mass. Subsequently Mr. Bolles retired, and in 1852 the Riverside Press was established under the firm name of H. O. Houghton & Co., and Mr. Houghton remained at the head of the business during his lifetime. In 1864 he helped to found the publishing house of Hurd & Houghton, and in 1878 the firm of James R. Osgood & Co., successors to Fields, Osgood & Co. and Ticknor & Fields, was consolidated with Hurd & Houghton and H. O. Houghton & Co., owners of the Riverside Press, as Houghton, Osgood & Co. By this change the house obtained the large list of books of Ticknor & Fields, including the works of Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier and Holmes. In 1880 the firm became Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Besides the list of books, including those by the more noted American authors, the firm continued the publication of The Atlantic Monthly as well as other periodicals, and became recognized leaders in the production of the best examples of American book-making. Mr. Houghton was mayor of Cambridge in 1872. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Wesleyan in 1866. He died in North Andover, Mass., Aug. 25, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

James Monroe Ingalls, soldier and author, was born in Sutton, Vt., Jan. 25, 1837; son of James and Mary (Cass) Ingalls; grandson of Samuel and Anna (Shepard) Ingalls and a descendant of Edmund Ingalls, who came from Lincolnshire, England, in 1629, and was the first settler of Lynn, Mass. He was educated in the public schools and was professor of mathematics in the Evansville seminary, Wisconsin, 1860-64. He enlisted in the regular army, Jan. 2, 1864, and was assigned to the 16th infantry; was promoted corporal, and served as commissary and quartermaster's sergeant until May 21, 1865. He was promoted 2d and 1st lieutenant, May 3, 1865, accepting the promotions, May 21, 1865. On April 17, 1869, he was transferred to the 2d infantry; on Jan. 1, 1871, to the lst artillery; was promoted captain of artillery, July 1, 1880; major, June 1, 1897, and lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 5, 1900. He served in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and other points in the south, 1864-71, and was then sent to the artillery school, Fort Monroe, graduating with the class of 1872. He was next stationed successively at Plattsburgh barracks, and Forts Jefferson and Barrancas, and in July, 1880, was assigned to the command of Battery A, Governor's Island, New York harbor, and thence transferred to San Francisco harbor, where he served until ordered to Battery G at Fort Monroe, 1889. He suggested and organized the department of ballistics at the artillery school, Fort Monroe, and was made the first instructor, Dec. 19, 1882, which position he held until the school suspended operations in the spring of 1898 on account of the war with Spain. He was also senior instructor in practical artillery exercises, class of 1884; in engineering, class of 1888; in electricity and defensive torpedoes, classes of 1884, 1886, 1888 and 1890; and in signalling, 1884-88. He prepared the first text-book on ballistics for the use of the school, embracing all the best modern methods employed in Europe, which was published in September, 1883 (2d ed., 1885; 3d ed., 1886), and was the first treatise on exterior ballistics published in the United States. He is also the author of: Ballistic Machines (1885); Handbook of Problems in Exterior Ballis-tics (1890; 3d ed., 1900); Handbook of Problems in Direct Fire (1890; rev. ed., 1900); Interior Bal-listics (1890; rev. ed., 1894); Ballistic Tables for Direct, Curved and High-Angle Fire (1891); Bal-listice for the Instruction of Artillery Gunners (1893); Ballistic Problems in Indirect and Curved Fire (1899), and many important tables, essays, reports, papers and contributions on artillery subjects to American and foreign professional journals and to "Johnson's Cyclop?dia." His works on ballistics were accepted as authoritative by artillerists in America and Europe.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor