Biography of C. A.  Houghton, pages 703/704. History of DeKalb County, 
Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



C. A. Houghton

To a great extent the prosperity of the agricultural sections of our 
country is due to the honest industry, the sturdy perseverance, the 
unswerving persistence and wise economy which as prominently 
characterize the farming element of DeKalb county, among this class may 
be mentioned the gentleman whose name heads this review, who, by reason 
of years of indefatigable labor and honest effort, has not acquired a 
well merited material prosperity, but has also richly earned the 
highest esteem of all with whom he has associated, and he is one of the 
leading agriculturists of he community in which he resides. C. A. 
Houghton was born April 12, 1863, in Auburn, DeKalb county, the son of 
O. C. and Mary (Twining) Houghton. The father was a native of the 
Empire state, while the mother was born in Ohio. They came to Indiana 
in May, 1847, and settled in Union township, at Auburn. To them were 
born eight children, namely: Samantha; Leland is deceased, D. I., who 
lives in Illinois, was the first male child born in the town of Auburn; 
Mrs. Phelina Johnson lives in Oregon; Mrs. Etta Otto lives in 
California; Hiram, Ella and Anna are deceased; C. A.  The subject of 
this review was educated in the common schools of DeKalb county, 
attending the short winter terms of the primitive schools, and devoting 
the remainder of this time to working on the farm. On September 1, 
1892, he was married to Anna E. Rann, daughter of John Rann, a union 
has resulted in the birth of five children; Vera, Roscoe, Paul, Ruth 
and Lela, all of whom are at present living under the parental 
rooftree. The subject is still actively engaged in carrying on general 
farming, and has made a success of his chosen vocation because of his 
thorough knowledge of the subject and his determination formed early in 
life to do well what was worth doing at all.  His landed estate 
comprises eighty acres of good land; his buildings and other 
improvements are substantial, and no better place can be found to enjoy 
the benefits of true Hoosier hospitality.  In the course of his busy 
and praiseworthy career he has found no time to seek the honors of 
public life, being content to exercise his suffrage in behalf of the 
Republican party, with which he has always been affiliated.



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