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Cazenovin, N.V. state aasembly in 183i>-36; and in he wui* u representative from X«'w i'orlc to the twenty -ninth congress. He died in Sew York. Houghton, Douglas, sii.ntist, naturalist, was born 5ept. 21, 18UU, in Troy, N.V. lie erect<'d a hermitage in nis father's orchanl in Tiov. N.V'.. where he ii.m;,^ in various in

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George Washington Wright, jHh t, v born on Aug. Cambridge, Mans. Hu was the author of Sonj^s from Over tbe Sea; Album Leaves; Drift from York Harbor; .Maine; The Legend of bt. Ulaf's Kirk; and .Niagara, and Other Poems. He died in April, IHOI, in Vonkers, N .V. Houghton, Henry Clark, physician, edu-

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state's attorney for Franklin county. Vt. The next year he establia'i. tin- '. riT>ont Transcript; and was suIim i|ii( iit ly lonneet•h1 with the ('•mr.li .Tournal of N'cw York. He died Feb. 22, 1870, in St. Albans, Vt.

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