Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . orn in Harvard, Massachusetts,June 19, 1820; died April 26, 1889. He was raisedon the farm in Harvard and attended school learned the machinist trade and started the firstloom for the Clinton Wire mill, where he was em-ployed for a number of years. He came to Wor-cester to associate himself with D. H. Fanning, whoin 1861 started the manufacture of hoop skirts inWorcester. The company was called the Worces-ter Skirt Company. Out o
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . orn in Harvard, Massachusetts,June 19, 1820; died April 26, 1889. He was raisedon the farm in Harvard and attended school learned the machinist trade and started the firstloom for the Clinton Wire mill, where he was em-ployed for a number of years. He came to Wor-cester to associate himself with D. H. Fanning, whoin 1861 started the manufacture of hoop skirts inWorcester. The company was called the Worces-ter Skirt Company. Out of it grew the Worcester Corset Company, at the head of which Mr. Fanninghas continued. Mr. Houghton was engaged in themanufacturing of skirts and corsets for many a time he was in business for himself in themanufacture of pocketbooks. He retired some yearsbefore his death. His widow now lives in their oldhome, 19 Oak avenue, Worcester. He died April26. 1889, in Worcester. He was a Republican inpolitics. He married. 1845. Merry Randall Weatherbee,daughter of Silas and Mary (Taylor) Weatherbee,Iiorn in Boxboro, Massachusetts, November 8,
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