Houghton, Frederick W.

HOUGHTON

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 23:47:29

Frederick W. Houghton

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.687)
FREDERICK W. HOUGHTON, M.D., physician and druggist at Council Bluffs, is a native of Wisconsin, and was born at Sparta, in that state, September 9, 1861, and is a son of Albert R. HOUGHTON. When Dr. HOUGHTON was but two years of age, his parents removed to St. Albans, Vermont, and when eight years old, the family removed to Sacramento, California, and after a residence of one year on the Pacific Coast, returned and located at Council Bluffs. Dr. HOUGHTON was educated in the public schools of this city, graduating from the high school in the class of 1879. Deciding to pursue the medical profession, he entered the office of Dr. McCRAE, of Council Bluffs, where he continued for a time, but in 1880 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City, taking a three years' course, graduating in May 1883. He still further qualified himself for the medical profession by a year's course at St. Joseph's Hospital, at Paterson, New Jersey, where he remained one year.

In 1887, Dr. HOUGHTON located at Council Bluffs, and engaged in the practice of his profession and also opened a drug store, which he still conducts in connection with his medical practice. He was married in September 1885 to Miss Geneva VAN BEEBE of this city. They have one son, Albert B.

Dr. HOUGHTON received a thorough medical education; he is energetic and public spirited, and though still a young man, occupies a prominent place among the medical fraternity of Pottawattamie County.