{"id":1467,"date":"2014-06-03T13:57:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T20:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2018-06-14T08:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:48:24","slug":"houghton-mitchell-bennett-1844","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"HOUGHTON, MITCHELL BENNETT, 1844-1925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman. Born&#8211; September 14, 1844, Heard County, Ga. Parents&#8211; William Henry and Eliza Ann (Bennett) Houghton. Education&#8211; Dover Academy, Columbus, Ga. Served as private, Glenville Guards of Barbour County, which became Company H, Fifteenth Alabama Regiment of the Confederate State Army; fought in the battles of Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Shenandoah Valley, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, and others; wounded several times. After the war, engaged in mercantile trade in Union Springs and was one of the organizers of the Bullock County Bank and the Senate Bank of Montgomery; served as officer of both banks, then engaged in planting and real estate interests. Organized the Commercial and Industrial Association of Montgomery; President, Board of Revenue of Montgomery, four years; Chairman, Democratic Executive Committee of Bullock County.\u00a0 Commander of Tennessee Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Houghton Library at Huntingdon College was donated by his heirs as a memorial to him. Died November 4, 1925.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of Alabama Biography, p. 847.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the Beginning Until Now; Essays. Montgomery, Ala.; Author, 1914?<\/p>\n<p>With William Robert Houghton; Two Boys in the Civil War and After. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1912.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman. Born&#8211; September 14, 1844, Heard County, Ga. Parents&#8211; William Henry and Eliza Ann (Bennett) Houghton. Education&#8211; Dover Academy, Columbus, Ga. Served as private, Glenville Guards of Barbour County, which became Company H, Fifteenth Alabama Regiment of the Confederate State Army; fought in the battles of Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Shenandoah Valley, Port Republic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8254,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}