HOUGHTON, WALTER RALEIGH: 1845-1929.
Born near Nit. Pleasant, Ia., on Oct. 3, 1845, Walter Raleigh Houghton was educated in the schools of Nit. Pleasant and of Washington, Ind., and graduated from Indiana University in 1871, receiving an honorary A.M. in 1872. In 1910 he received the Ph.D. degree from Oskaloosa College. He was a veteran of the Civil War.
From 1872 to 1884 he served as principal of the preparatory department of Indiana University and he was later principal of the high school at Connersville, Ind. He died on Jan. 24, 1929, and was buried at Connersville .
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