Albert Charles Houghton Gravesite
This file appears in: A.C. Houghton: North Adams' First Mayor
Houghton was described as personally being “a modest, unassuming gentleman, always approachable, always courteous, apparently never over-worked and yet accomplishing a vast amount of labor,” as well as truthful “yet withal so tactful that even the men to whom he is compelled to say no go away his friends.”
This file appears in: A.C. Houghton: North Adams' First Mayor
A.C. Houghton: North Adams' First Mayor
Albert Charles Houghton, though born in Stamford, Vermont, became North Adams’ first mayor in 1895. He was first drawn to the area by business interests. Alongside his brother, he ran a chemical manufacturing business, Houghton Chemical Works, which…