Windham

HOUGHTON, Frederick Lowell

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 226

Frederick Lowell HOUGHTON, lawyer, editor and farmer, Putney [Windham County, 
Vermont], was born 24 August 1859; son of Charles and Edna R. (LOWELL) 
HOUGHTON. Educated in Boston public schools; and Boston University, B. L. 
1884. Practiced law in Boston 1884-1894; breeder of thoroughbred Holstein 
cattle in Putney [Windham County, Vermont] since 1880. His father was one of 
the pioneer breeders, establishing the second Holstein herd in America in 
1866 on the farm in Putney, and was the first secretary of the Holstein 
Breeders' Association in America. The subject of this sketch has been editor 
and proprietor of the Holstein-Friesian Register, Brattleboro, since 1887; 
was secretary of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America 1894; is 
honorary member of the Canadian Holstein-Friesian Association, and many state 
associations in the U. S. Author of Holstein-Friesian Cattle, a history of 
the breed and its development in America, published 1887; editor of the 
literary bureau of the Holstein-Friesian Associaton. Trustee, Vermont 
Savings Bank, Brattleboro; director Brattleboro Trust Company. Republican; 
represented Putney in the Legislature 1900 and 1904; town moderator several 
years. Episcopalian. Member of Golden Rule Lodge No. 32, Free & Accepted 
Masons, of Putney; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Independent Order of 
Red Men; Vermont Wheel Club; Brattleboro Board of Trade; and Vermont Bar 
Association. In 1896 [Frederick Lowell HOUGHTON] married [Miss?] Rosemarie 
McCULLUM of Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts, who died in 1899; they 
had two daughters, Gladys and Rosemarie.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly