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NAME HOUGH 564 HOUGHTON Dr. Hough married Mary Eva Evans, of Warren County, Ohio; their son. Dr. Charles A. Hough, vifas a physician Hving at Lebanon, Ohio. The father died at Lebanon in 1897. Daniel Drake and His Followers, Otto Juettner, Cincinnati. 1909. Phys. and Surgs. of the United States, William B. Atkinson, Pliiladelphia, 1878. Hough, John Stockton (1845-1900). John Stockton Hough, medical bibliographer and writer, was of Quaker descent. His an- cestor, Richard Hough, a follower of Wil- liam Penn, came to this country in 1683 and was a member of the Supreme Council of Pennsylvania. John Stockton Hough was born December 5, 1845, at Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsyl- vania. He was the eldest son of William Aspy Hough and Eleanor Stockton, daughter of John Stockton of Princeton, New Jersey. He received his prelitninary education at East- man's National College. In 1864 he entered The Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, from which he graduated with the degree of B. Chem., in 1867. While at- tending the Polytechnic College he seems also to have been in attendance at the Medical De- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, for he received his M. D. from that institu- tion in 1868. During the year 1868-69 he was Resident Physician at the Philadelphia Hos- pital ("Blockley"). Returning to the Poly- technic College he took his M. S. in chemistry in 1870. From this time until 1847 he prac- tised medicine in Philadelphia. In January, 1874, he married the daughter of William Wetherell. She died in Florence, Italy, the same year, leaving an infant daugh- ter. In 1887 Dr. Hough married for his sec- ond wife, Edith, daughter of Edward Reilly. I have been unable to ascertain her place of residence. Dr. Hough devised various surgical instru- ments while in practice in Philadelphia and between 1868 and 1886 wrote various papers on subjects connected with hygiene, biology, speculative physiology, social science, vital statistics and population which were published in the American Naturalist and in the leading medical periodicals ; the fourteen titles and places of publication are given in the Index Catalogue of the Surgeon-General's Office, First Series, vol. .xiii, 1892. In 1889 he published at Trenton, New Jersey, "Incunabula Medica" and in January, 1890, he issued the first number of Bibliothcca Medica Historicn-lileroria et BibVtographica, a weekly periodical devoted to the bibliography and his- tory of the literature of medicine. This num- ber was devoted to Peyligk and Hundt. Appar- ently he did not receive sufficient encourage- ment to continue the publication and it died with the initial number, and American medical literature was thereby the loser. For these publications Dr. Hough collected a library of several thousand titles. He died at Ewingville, near Trenton, N. J., May 6, 1900. The following year his valuable collection of books was purchased by the li- brary of the College of Physicians of Phila- delphia, through the courtesy of Mr. Robert Hoe. Some of the duplicates relating to biogra- phy, history, law, religion and medicine, to- gether with a number of incunabula, were sold by the College to the library of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, while otliers were sold to various dealers ; eventually a number of the medical biographies and bibliographies came into the possession of the author of this sketch. The marginal notes and additions to the works on medical bibliography in the hand- writing of Dr. Hough show that he was more tlian a mere collector of old and curious medical works ; he was a profound student of books and of the times in which they were written. William Snow Miller. Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., New York, 1887. Personal letter from Dr. William Pepper Dean, School of Med., Univ. of Pennsylvania. Houghton, Douglas (1809-1845). Douglas Houghton, a scientific explorer, was born in Troy, New York, Septeinber 21. 1809. His American progenitors migrated from Bol- ton, Lancashire, England, and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a lawyer in Troj', New York, but in 1812 he moved to Fredonia, Chautauqua County. New York, where Douglas's early education was obtained at home and in Fredonia Academy. In 1829 he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute, Troy. New York, and 1829 assisted the professor of chemistry and natural history in the same school. Meantime he had been studying medicine under Dr. White and in 1831 was licensed to practise by the Chautauqua County (New York) Medical Society. On the recommendations of Prof. Eaton he gave a course of scientific lectures in Detroit. This made him hosts of admirers and friends, so that he settled in Detroit and began medical prac- tice with unusual success. He practised den- tistry as well as medicine and surgery. The writer saw a tooth filled more than fifty years before by Dr. Houghton, as good as when filled. In 1831-32, as physician to H. R.