h/o Edith BOGGESS, 2nd s/o Walter Martin Hough and Adele SIGLER
Lived a most adventurous life, born Carthage, Missouri(ah) as Albert Edwin, name rearranged to Edwin Albert when raised by mother's sister Estelle, graduated valedictorian of 1926 high school class with future cousin Marguerita Ellen Knight, many honors at University of Missouri, hired by New York firm durng height of the depression, spent a winter in northern Canada, including a dog sled trip of over one hundred miles, wrote articles about airplanes and did a lot of flying, married, served as a naval officer during WW II, once stationed at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Florida before serving in the Pacific, ending in Washington D C spending rest of life with the government, stateside and overseas. One child and one grandchild, both living.
Birth: 23 SEP 1908 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Birth name: Albert Edwin Hough, changed when maternal grandmother filed for his birth certificate in 1930, giving Edwin Albert Hough, name he was raised with because of two older Albert's in the family.
Death: from congestive heart failure in Washington, District of Columbia. He died at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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From the WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, April 12, 1995:
EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH, AID Official
Edwin Albert Hough, 86, an official with the Agency for International Development who retired in 1970 as chief of agency's Burma desk, died of congestive heart failure April 9 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, He lived in Chevy Chase.
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Mr Hough was born in Carthage, Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri. During the early 1930s, he worked in advertising and real estate in Kansas City, Mo., and New York. He also hunted and fished in Alberta, Canada.
In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He joined the Navy served at ~[Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Fla (http://www.evergladesrodandgun.com/everglades-city-lodging-and-hotel/The-Atmosphere.html), where the fishermen used their vessels to seek German submarines in Gulf of Mexico (so he told us in 1984 when we took him to lunch there and]~ in the Pacific Theater worked in Korea and Japan as an economic adviser - in Japan under General MacArthur, of World War II.
After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces.
He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in 1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. In retirement, he traveled extensively. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Edith Boggess Hough, and a daughter, Jane Ellen Hough, both of Chevy Chase; and a grandchild.
Census: 1930, age 21 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana with father & step-mother.
Father: Walter Martin Hough b: 5 NOV 1886 in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri
Mother: Adele A. Sigler b: 29 JAN 1887 in Webb City, Jasper county, Missouri
Marriage: Edith Boggess b: 15 AUG 1906 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 24 AUG 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado
Known Child
Jane Ellen Hough
Lived a most adventurous life, born Carthage, Missouri(ah) as Albert Edwin, name rearranged to Edwin Albert when raised by mother's sister Estelle, graduated valedictorian of 1926 high school class with future cousin Marguerita Ellen Knight, many honors at University of Missouri, hired by New York firm durng height of the depression, spent a winter in northern Canada, including a dog sled trip of over one hundred miles, wrote articles about airplanes and did a lot of flying, married, served as a naval officer during WW II, once stationed at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Florida before serving in the Pacific, ending in Washington D C spending rest of life with the government, stateside and overseas. One child and one grandchild, both living.
Birth: 23 SEP 1908 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Birth name: Albert Edwin Hough, changed when maternal grandmother filed for his birth certificate in 1930, giving Edwin Albert Hough, name he was raised with because of two older Albert's in the family.
Death: from congestive heart failure in Washington, District of Columbia. He died at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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From the WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, April 12, 1995:
EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH, AID Official
Edwin Albert Hough, 86, an official with the Agency for International Development who retired in 1970 as chief of agency's Burma desk, died of congestive heart failure April 9 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, He lived in Chevy Chase.
____________________________
Mr Hough was born in Carthage, Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri. During the early 1930s, he worked in advertising and real estate in Kansas City, Mo., and New York. He also hunted and fished in Alberta, Canada.
In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He joined the Navy served at ~[Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Fla (http://www.evergladesrodandgun.com/everglades-city-lodging-and-hotel/The-Atmosphere.html), where the fishermen used their vessels to seek German submarines in Gulf of Mexico (so he told us in 1984 when we took him to lunch there and]~ in the Pacific Theater worked in Korea and Japan as an economic adviser - in Japan under General MacArthur, of World War II.
After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces.
He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in 1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. In retirement, he traveled extensively. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Edith Boggess Hough, and a daughter, Jane Ellen Hough, both of Chevy Chase; and a grandchild.
Census: 1930, age 21 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana with father & step-mother.
Father: Walter Martin Hough b: 5 NOV 1886 in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri
Mother: Adele A. Sigler b: 29 JAN 1887 in Webb City, Jasper county, Missouri
Marriage: Edith Boggess b: 15 AUG 1906 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 24 AUG 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado
Known Child
Jane Ellen Hough
h/o Edith BOGGESS, 2nd s/o Walter Martin Hough and Adele SIGLER
Lived a most adventurous life, born Carthage, Missouri(ah) as Albert Edwin, name rearranged to Edwin Albert when raised by mother's sister Estelle, graduated valedictorian of 1926 high school class with future cousin Marguerita Ellen Knight, many honors at University of Missouri, hired by New York firm durng height of the depression, spent a winter in northern Canada, including a dog sled trip of over one hundred miles, wrote articles about airplanes and did a lot of flying, married, served as a naval officer during WW II, once stationed at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Florida before serving in the Pacific, ending in Washington D C spending rest of life with the government, stateside and overseas. One child and one grandchild, both living.
Birth: 23 SEP 1908 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Birth name: Albert Edwin Hough, changed when maternal grandmother filed for his birth certificate in 1930, giving Edwin Albert Hough, name he was raised with because of two older Albert's in the family.
Death: from congestive heart failure in Washington, District of Columbia. He died at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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From the WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, April 12, 1995:
EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH, AID Official
Edwin Albert Hough, 86, an official with the Agency for International Development who retired in 1970 as chief of agency's Burma desk, died of congestive heart failure April 9 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, He lived in Chevy Chase.
____________________________
Mr Hough was born in Carthage, Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri. During the early 1930s, he worked in advertising and real estate in Kansas City, Mo., and New York. He also hunted and fished in Alberta, Canada.
In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He joined the Navy served at ~[Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Fla (http://www.evergladesrodandgun.com/everglades-city-lodging-and-hotel/The-Atmosphere.html), where the fishermen used their vessels to seek German submarines in Gulf of Mexico (so he told us in 1984 when we took him to lunch there and]~ in the Pacific Theater worked in Korea and Japan as an economic adviser - in Japan under General MacArthur, of World War II.
After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces.
He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in 1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. In retirement, he traveled extensively. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Edith Boggess Hough, and a daughter, Jane Ellen Hough, both of Chevy Chase; and a grandchild.
Census: 1930, age 21 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana with father & step-mother.
Father: Walter Martin Hough b: 5 NOV 1886 in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri
Mother: Adele A. Sigler b: 29 JAN 1887 in Webb City, Jasper county, Missouri
Marriage: Edith Boggess b: 15 AUG 1906 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 24 AUG 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado
Known Child
Jane Ellen Hough
Lived a most adventurous life, born Carthage, Missouri(ah) as Albert Edwin, name rearranged to Edwin Albert when raised by mother's sister Estelle, graduated valedictorian of 1926 high school class with future cousin Marguerita Ellen Knight, many honors at University of Missouri, hired by New York firm durng height of the depression, spent a winter in northern Canada, including a dog sled trip of over one hundred miles, wrote articles about airplanes and did a lot of flying, married, served as a naval officer during WW II, once stationed at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Florida before serving in the Pacific, ending in Washington D C spending rest of life with the government, stateside and overseas. One child and one grandchild, both living.
Birth: 23 SEP 1908 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Birth name: Albert Edwin Hough, changed when maternal grandmother filed for his birth certificate in 1930, giving Edwin Albert Hough, name he was raised with because of two older Albert's in the family.
Death: from congestive heart failure in Washington, District of Columbia. He died at Sibley Memorial Hospital.
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From the WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, April 12, 1995:
EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH, AID Official
Edwin Albert Hough, 86, an official with the Agency for International Development who retired in 1970 as chief of agency's Burma desk, died of congestive heart failure April 9 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, He lived in Chevy Chase.
____________________________
Mr Hough was born in Carthage, Mo., and graduated from the University of Missouri. During the early 1930s, he worked in advertising and real estate in Kansas City, Mo., and New York. He also hunted and fished in Alberta, Canada.
In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He joined the Navy served at ~[Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county, Fla (http://www.evergladesrodandgun.com/everglades-city-lodging-and-hotel/The-Atmosphere.html), where the fishermen used their vessels to seek German submarines in Gulf of Mexico (so he told us in 1984 when we took him to lunch there and]~ in the Pacific Theater worked in Korea and Japan as an economic adviser - in Japan under General MacArthur, of World War II.
After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces.
He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in 1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. In retirement, he traveled extensively. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Edith Boggess Hough, and a daughter, Jane Ellen Hough, both of Chevy Chase; and a grandchild.
Census: 1930, age 21 New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana with father & step-mother.
Father: Walter Martin Hough b: 5 NOV 1886 in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri
Mother: Adele A. Sigler b: 29 JAN 1887 in Webb City, Jasper county, Missouri
Marriage: Edith Boggess b: 15 AUG 1906 in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Married: 24 AUG 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado
Known Child
Jane Ellen Hough
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