Houghton History: Title: The Houghton genealogy: the descendants of Ralph and John Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts, with an introduction giving the Houghton families in England from the time of William the Conqueror, 1065, to Lord Henry Bold Houghton, 1848
Author John Wesley Houghton
OBITUARY. The following obituary of Mr. Asa Houghton, which we find in the Wellington Dairyman, of last week, will be read with interest by the many friends of the deceased in this vicinity, as he was for a number of years a resident of Berea, and removed from here to Wellington about the year 1862.
Died, September 10th, 1875, at the residence of his son, Dr. J. W. Houghton, in Wellington, Ohio, Asa Houghton, aged eighty years and ten days.
The deceased was born and reared in Brattleboro, Vt. At twenty years of age, he, with a brother, engaged in teaching at Batavia, N.Y. Here he purchased a tract of land, married Miss Begelow, one of his former pupils, and made this place his home for twenty years.
In the prime of a vigorous manhood, he exchanged his property in Batavia for several hundred acres of land in Spencer, Medina Co., Ohio, and in January 1836, moved his family there. Traveling independent of public conveyance was no trivial undertaking at that day and in that season, and the contrast between the old home and the new; the privations that the wisest forethought had failed to anticipate; the heroic endurance and energy to provide for a large family in the wilderness, is known only to her who shared the experience.
Forty-seven years he was a member of the M. E. Church, uniting at Batavia, after his conversion, which occurred at a camp-meeting in Barry, Orleans Co., N. Y. He was a prompt, cheerful, liberal supporter of all the interests of Christianity, a power in his own church, but too intelligent and sweet-spirited to confine his sympathies within the narrow limits of bigotry. An incident is related of him since his death, by a former neighbor of Batavia, when temperance was fanaticism, and the crusading was on the other side. A frame was ready to go up which was building for Mr. Houghton, when finding that refreshments were substituted for the customary whisky, the carpenter and his men refused to put up a bent, unless the beverage was brought. The host allowed them to go home and summoning a smaller gang of men, employed by him elsewhere, he applied his knowledge of mechanics to the emergency, and the building went up; and no man was less clear in brain or less steady of hand for having been to that raising--a thing previously unknown in that region.
For years before Mr. Houghton's death his impaired hearing debarred him from the enjoyments of the public religious service, isolated him from society which otherwise he was fitted to adorn, and almost denied him the delights of conversation. For this affliction he was in some degree compensated by the retention of a vigorous understanding and a lifelong habit of choice and extensive reading. He kept in active sympathy with human progress. Intolerance and bitterness found no place in his genial soul. With every opportunity to do so he never permitted himself to lapse into indolent ease. Ingenious and industrious he found recreation in change of employment, and it was his pleasure to surprise his friends with frequent gifts, the result of his skill and forethought.
From infirmities of mind he was singularly free. His observations were wise, well-timed and often witty almost to the end. Four months of suffering added to an inability to lie down would have soon destroyed a less vigorous body, and utterly unbalanced a less healthy mind; but it made him neither selfish, irritable nor exacting. His brave and noble patience, his cheerfulness, dignity and courtesy, were a rare example of a fine nature tempted by grace.
Twelve days before his death he could no longer read, but after that he bent his ear to catch the slowly pronounced hymns and Bible passages he loved so well; and after his mind clouded with delirium prayer and praise mingled with the names of wife and children. The members of his household accept the little one's solution of the mystery of his going, and think it is not untrue that "Grandpa has gone to live with the Lord, above the clouds, up in the sunshine."
(Grindstone City Advertiser, 23 Sep 1875)
Author John Wesley Houghton
OBITUARY. The following obituary of Mr. Asa Houghton, which we find in the Wellington Dairyman, of last week, will be read with interest by the many friends of the deceased in this vicinity, as he was for a number of years a resident of Berea, and removed from here to Wellington about the year 1862.
Died, September 10th, 1875, at the residence of his son, Dr. J. W. Houghton, in Wellington, Ohio, Asa Houghton, aged eighty years and ten days.
The deceased was born and reared in Brattleboro, Vt. At twenty years of age, he, with a brother, engaged in teaching at Batavia, N.Y. Here he purchased a tract of land, married Miss Begelow, one of his former pupils, and made this place his home for twenty years.
In the prime of a vigorous manhood, he exchanged his property in Batavia for several hundred acres of land in Spencer, Medina Co., Ohio, and in January 1836, moved his family there. Traveling independent of public conveyance was no trivial undertaking at that day and in that season, and the contrast between the old home and the new; the privations that the wisest forethought had failed to anticipate; the heroic endurance and energy to provide for a large family in the wilderness, is known only to her who shared the experience.
Forty-seven years he was a member of the M. E. Church, uniting at Batavia, after his conversion, which occurred at a camp-meeting in Barry, Orleans Co., N. Y. He was a prompt, cheerful, liberal supporter of all the interests of Christianity, a power in his own church, but too intelligent and sweet-spirited to confine his sympathies within the narrow limits of bigotry. An incident is related of him since his death, by a former neighbor of Batavia, when temperance was fanaticism, and the crusading was on the other side. A frame was ready to go up which was building for Mr. Houghton, when finding that refreshments were substituted for the customary whisky, the carpenter and his men refused to put up a bent, unless the beverage was brought. The host allowed them to go home and summoning a smaller gang of men, employed by him elsewhere, he applied his knowledge of mechanics to the emergency, and the building went up; and no man was less clear in brain or less steady of hand for having been to that raising--a thing previously unknown in that region.
For years before Mr. Houghton's death his impaired hearing debarred him from the enjoyments of the public religious service, isolated him from society which otherwise he was fitted to adorn, and almost denied him the delights of conversation. For this affliction he was in some degree compensated by the retention of a vigorous understanding and a lifelong habit of choice and extensive reading. He kept in active sympathy with human progress. Intolerance and bitterness found no place in his genial soul. With every opportunity to do so he never permitted himself to lapse into indolent ease. Ingenious and industrious he found recreation in change of employment, and it was his pleasure to surprise his friends with frequent gifts, the result of his skill and forethought.
From infirmities of mind he was singularly free. His observations were wise, well-timed and often witty almost to the end. Four months of suffering added to an inability to lie down would have soon destroyed a less vigorous body, and utterly unbalanced a less healthy mind; but it made him neither selfish, irritable nor exacting. His brave and noble patience, his cheerfulness, dignity and courtesy, were a rare example of a fine nature tempted by grace.
Twelve days before his death he could no longer read, but after that he bent his ear to catch the slowly pronounced hymns and Bible passages he loved so well; and after his mind clouded with delirium prayer and praise mingled with the names of wife and children. The members of his household accept the little one's solution of the mystery of his going, and think it is not untrue that "Grandpa has gone to live with the Lord, above the clouds, up in the sunshine."
(Grindstone City Advertiser, 23 Sep 1875)
Houghton History: Title: The Houghton genealogy: the descendants of Ralph and John Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts, with an introduction giving the Houghton families in England from the time of William the Conqueror, 1065, to Lord Henry Bold Houghton, 1848
Author John Wesley Houghton
OBITUARY. The following obituary of Mr. Asa Houghton, which we find in the Wellington Dairyman, of last week, will be read with interest by the many friends of the deceased in this vicinity, as he was for a number of years a resident of Berea, and removed from here to Wellington about the year 1862.
Died, September 10th, 1875, at the residence of his son, Dr. J. W. Houghton, in Wellington, Ohio, Asa Houghton, aged eighty years and ten days.
The deceased was born and reared in Brattleboro, Vt. At twenty years of age, he, with a brother, engaged in teaching at Batavia, N.Y. Here he purchased a tract of land, married Miss Begelow, one of his former pupils, and made this place his home for twenty years.
In the prime of a vigorous manhood, he exchanged his property in Batavia for several hundred acres of land in Spencer, Medina Co., Ohio, and in January 1836, moved his family there. Traveling independent of public conveyance was no trivial undertaking at that day and in that season, and the contrast between the old home and the new; the privations that the wisest forethought had failed to anticipate; the heroic endurance and energy to provide for a large family in the wilderness, is known only to her who shared the experience.
Forty-seven years he was a member of the M. E. Church, uniting at Batavia, after his conversion, which occurred at a camp-meeting in Barry, Orleans Co., N. Y. He was a prompt, cheerful, liberal supporter of all the interests of Christianity, a power in his own church, but too intelligent and sweet-spirited to confine his sympathies within the narrow limits of bigotry. An incident is related of him since his death, by a former neighbor of Batavia, when temperance was fanaticism, and the crusading was on the other side. A frame was ready to go up which was building for Mr. Houghton, when finding that refreshments were substituted for the customary whisky, the carpenter and his men refused to put up a bent, unless the beverage was brought. The host allowed them to go home and summoning a smaller gang of men, employed by him elsewhere, he applied his knowledge of mechanics to the emergency, and the building went up; and no man was less clear in brain or less steady of hand for having been to that raising--a thing previously unknown in that region.
For years before Mr. Houghton's death his impaired hearing debarred him from the enjoyments of the public religious service, isolated him from society which otherwise he was fitted to adorn, and almost denied him the delights of conversation. For this affliction he was in some degree compensated by the retention of a vigorous understanding and a lifelong habit of choice and extensive reading. He kept in active sympathy with human progress. Intolerance and bitterness found no place in his genial soul. With every opportunity to do so he never permitted himself to lapse into indolent ease. Ingenious and industrious he found recreation in change of employment, and it was his pleasure to surprise his friends with frequent gifts, the result of his skill and forethought.
From infirmities of mind he was singularly free. His observations were wise, well-timed and often witty almost to the end. Four months of suffering added to an inability to lie down would have soon destroyed a less vigorous body, and utterly unbalanced a less healthy mind; but it made him neither selfish, irritable nor exacting. His brave and noble patience, his cheerfulness, dignity and courtesy, were a rare example of a fine nature tempted by grace.
Twelve days before his death he could no longer read, but after that he bent his ear to catch the slowly pronounced hymns and Bible passages he loved so well; and after his mind clouded with delirium prayer and praise mingled with the names of wife and children. The members of his household accept the little one's solution of the mystery of his going, and think it is not untrue that "Grandpa has gone to live with the Lord, above the clouds, up in the sunshine."
(Grindstone City Advertiser, 23 Sep 1875)
Author John Wesley Houghton
OBITUARY. The following obituary of Mr. Asa Houghton, which we find in the Wellington Dairyman, of last week, will be read with interest by the many friends of the deceased in this vicinity, as he was for a number of years a resident of Berea, and removed from here to Wellington about the year 1862.
Died, September 10th, 1875, at the residence of his son, Dr. J. W. Houghton, in Wellington, Ohio, Asa Houghton, aged eighty years and ten days.
The deceased was born and reared in Brattleboro, Vt. At twenty years of age, he, with a brother, engaged in teaching at Batavia, N.Y. Here he purchased a tract of land, married Miss Begelow, one of his former pupils, and made this place his home for twenty years.
In the prime of a vigorous manhood, he exchanged his property in Batavia for several hundred acres of land in Spencer, Medina Co., Ohio, and in January 1836, moved his family there. Traveling independent of public conveyance was no trivial undertaking at that day and in that season, and the contrast between the old home and the new; the privations that the wisest forethought had failed to anticipate; the heroic endurance and energy to provide for a large family in the wilderness, is known only to her who shared the experience.
Forty-seven years he was a member of the M. E. Church, uniting at Batavia, after his conversion, which occurred at a camp-meeting in Barry, Orleans Co., N. Y. He was a prompt, cheerful, liberal supporter of all the interests of Christianity, a power in his own church, but too intelligent and sweet-spirited to confine his sympathies within the narrow limits of bigotry. An incident is related of him since his death, by a former neighbor of Batavia, when temperance was fanaticism, and the crusading was on the other side. A frame was ready to go up which was building for Mr. Houghton, when finding that refreshments were substituted for the customary whisky, the carpenter and his men refused to put up a bent, unless the beverage was brought. The host allowed them to go home and summoning a smaller gang of men, employed by him elsewhere, he applied his knowledge of mechanics to the emergency, and the building went up; and no man was less clear in brain or less steady of hand for having been to that raising--a thing previously unknown in that region.
For years before Mr. Houghton's death his impaired hearing debarred him from the enjoyments of the public religious service, isolated him from society which otherwise he was fitted to adorn, and almost denied him the delights of conversation. For this affliction he was in some degree compensated by the retention of a vigorous understanding and a lifelong habit of choice and extensive reading. He kept in active sympathy with human progress. Intolerance and bitterness found no place in his genial soul. With every opportunity to do so he never permitted himself to lapse into indolent ease. Ingenious and industrious he found recreation in change of employment, and it was his pleasure to surprise his friends with frequent gifts, the result of his skill and forethought.
From infirmities of mind he was singularly free. His observations were wise, well-timed and often witty almost to the end. Four months of suffering added to an inability to lie down would have soon destroyed a less vigorous body, and utterly unbalanced a less healthy mind; but it made him neither selfish, irritable nor exacting. His brave and noble patience, his cheerfulness, dignity and courtesy, were a rare example of a fine nature tempted by grace.
Twelve days before his death he could no longer read, but after that he bent his ear to catch the slowly pronounced hymns and Bible passages he loved so well; and after his mind clouded with delirium prayer and praise mingled with the names of wife and children. The members of his household accept the little one's solution of the mystery of his going, and think it is not untrue that "Grandpa has gone to live with the Lord, above the clouds, up in the sunshine."
(Grindstone City Advertiser, 23 Sep 1875)
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