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Houghton

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Hough·ton  (htn), Henry Oscar 1823-1895.
American publisher who founded (1852) the printing office that became the Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Noun1.Houghton - United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)
Henry Oscar Houghton
2.Houghton - a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula
Great Lakes State, Michigan, Wolverine State, MI - a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region


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At the end of three working years, two of which were spent in high school and the university and one spent at writing, and all three in studying immensely and intensely, I was publishing stories in magazines such as the "Atlantic Monthly," was correcting proofs of my first book (issued by Houghton, Mifflin Co.
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