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Houghton

noun

United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895). Synonym: Henry Oscar Houghton.

A town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula.

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"Houghton" Quotes from Famous Books

... Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., requested me to write a small book on Civil Government in the United States, which might be useful as a text-book, and at the same time serviceable and suggestive to the general reader ...

— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske

... afterwards Lord Houghton, was greatly attracted towards my father, who liked him; but circumstances prevented their seeing much of each other. Milnes was then forty-five years old; he was a Cambridge man, and intimate with Tennyson, Hallam, and other men of literary mark, and he was himself a minor poet, and warm ...

— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne

... London—a period of honors and entertainment. If Mark Twain had been a lion on his first visit, he was hardly less than royalty now. His rooms at the Langham Hotel were like a court. The nation's most distinguished men—among them Robert Browning, Sir John Millais, Lord Houghton, and Sir Charles Dilke—came to pay their respects. Authors were calling constantly. Charles Reade and Wilkie Collins could not get enough of Mark Twain. Reade proposed to join with him in writing a novel, as Warner ...

— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine

... "Doctor and Mrs. Houghton," Bottomley announced, in his soothing undertone. Harriet could have embraced the uninteresting elderly couple who entered smilingly. They beamed that it was so hot—they were going up to the club; couldn't the ...

— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

... to refer, moreover, to the interest aroused in him as a boy by "Abraham Lincoln," by C. G. Leland, in the "New Plutarch Series": Marcus Ward & Co., London; and to the light he has much later derived from "Abraham Lincoln," by John T. Morse, Junior: Houghton Mifflin ...

— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood

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