Three years later, in 1846, the act was amended to make all that part of the state " embraced between the north boundary of township 49, the line between ranges 37 and 38 west and Lake Superior, together with islands in said lake west of the county of Schoolcraft, shall be laid off as a separate county, to be known and designated as the County of Houghton.

The Houghton Lake area's first white settlers were said to be the Emery family in 1873.

It received the Royal Assent on 11 June 1792, and was entitled An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from Kirkby Kendal in the county of Westmoreland, to West Houghton in the county palatine of Lancaster, and also a navigable Branch from the said intended Canal at or near Barwick, to or near Warton Cragg, and also another navigable Branch, from, at or near, Galemoss, by Chorley, to or near Duxbury in the said county palatine of Lancaster.

The source is usually said to be at Well Head inside Waulud's Bank at Marsh Farm, but there the River Lea is also fed by a stream that starts further west in Houghton Regis.

" Brian Houghton, of the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, said that Racist music was a great recruiting tool, " Through music ... to grab these kids, teach them to be racists and hook them for life.

Another was said to live in an " uncannie-looking " dale between Darlington and Houghton, near Throstlenest.

An Act of Parliament received the Royal Assent on 13 May 1785, entitled " An Act for amending and improving the Navigation of the River Arun, from Houghton Bridge, in the parish of Houghton, in the county of Sussex, to Pallenham Wharf, in the parish of Wisborough Green, in the said county ; and for continuing and extending the Navigation of the said River Arun, from the said Wharf, called Pallenhara Wharf, to a certain Bridge, called New Bridge, situate in the parishes of Pulborough and Wisborough Green, in the said county of Sussex ".

The Houghton High School Hockey coach at the time Don Miller said, " By having to move to either Houghton County Arena or the Student Ice Arena, a severe scheduling problem would arise … especially the Houghton High School Hockey Team.

Houghton has never said any such thing and believes the opposite.

Barbarians mix of sex and violence was such that David Houghton, writer for GamesRadar, said the game would be rated " Mature " by the Entertainment Software Rating Board if it was published in 2009.

Another was said to live in an " uncannie-looking " dale between Darlington and Houghton, near Throstlenest.

Strangers and travellers found a ready reception ; and even their horses were treated with so much care that it was humorously said that, if one were turned loose in any part of the country, it would immediately make its way to the rector of Houghton.

" Nephros can now offer the only on-line HDF therapy available in the U. S .," said John C. Houghton, President & CEO of Nephros, Inc.

Grimethorpe colliery was one of the deepest pits in Britain and, following similar mergers with ' Houghton Main ' and ' Dearne Valley ', employed 6, 000 men at the time of the closure in May 1993.

Houghton then proceeded to mine for gold during the California Gold Rush, and after about 6 months of mining, he moved to San Jose and entered various commercial businesses.

The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically, Edition: 6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001 ISBN 0-395-65237-5, ISBN 978-0-395-65237-4 Chapter " The Napoleonic Period, 1799-1815 ", pp. 435 – 441

His other memorable one day cricket inning was against New Zealand in 1987 Reliance World Cup, in which Houghton scored 142 runs off 137 deliveries with 13 fours and 6 sixes.

Houghton Mifflin, Tolkien ’ s American hardcover publisher, had neglected to protect the work in the United States.

Among those who were fascinated was Dorothy de Santillana, a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, to whom Kosinski confided that he had a manuscript based on his experiences.

Kosiński himself responded that he had never maintained that the book was autobiographical, even though years earlier he confided to Houghton Mifflin editor Santillana that his manuscript " draws upon a childhood spent, by the casual chances of war, in the remotest villages of Eastern Europe.

They had been living openly together in Richmond, Houghton Hall and London society since about 1724, and she had borne him an illegitimate daughter whom he eventually had ennobled as Lady Maria Walpole.

Many Cornish and Finnish immigrants arrived in the Houghton area to work in the copper mines ; both groups have had a great influence on the culture and cuisine of the local area.

By 1880 Houghton had become " a burgeoning city " and in 1883, the railroad was extended from Marquette.

The books were published by Houghton Mifflin in 1941, though certain changes had to be introduced because of the technology of the time.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as Christina and Matt Drayton. The film tells the story of Joanna " Joey " Drayton ( Katharine Houghton ), a young white woman who has had a whirlwind romance with Dr. John Prentice ( Sidney Poitier ), a young, idealistic black physician she met while in Hawaii.

She contacted Houghton Gilman, her first cousin, whom she had not seen in roughly fifteen years, who was a Wall Street attorney.

However, there was a Mr. Cone who together with his partner a Mr. Houghton had purchased a proved homestead in what is now Page Springs from Benjamin Coppel in 1878, farmed a year and then rented the property to a family from Arkansas.

The township had been organized while it was part of Houghton County.

Lumbering had a profound impact on the early development of Houghton Lake.

Around 1883, a community at Houghton Lake had been created.

By the mid-1900s Houghton Lake had become known as a prime resort area.

In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 – 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.

Ted Geisel's friend William Ellsworth Spaulding, who was then the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division, invited Geisel to dinner in Boston and " proposed that Ted write and illustrate such a book for six-and seven-year olds who had already mastered the basic mechanics of reading.

The town had been in the wapentake of Loveden, and the town included three townships of Manthorpe with Little Gonerby, Harrowby, and Spittlegate with Houghton and Walton.

Albert Houghton, originally a founding member of the Communist Party in Merseyside, had drawn Trotskyist conclusions and by 1939 had " long battled with the Stalinists " in the Labour Party in Merseyside.

By the time Chantelle Houghton won series 4 of Celebrity Big Brother, the same agency had already signed up a professional model who made a more convincing Paris Hilton look-alike ... and who was briefly also offered as a fake " Chantelle ".

In 1794 Park offered his services to the African Association, then looking for a successor to Major Daniel Houghton, who had been sent in 1790 to discover the course of the Niger River and had died in the Sahara.

The letters have been preserved among the papers of Wilbur Siebert at Harvard's Houghton Library.

The Houghton County Courthouse “.. stood high upon the bluff on Houghton Village facing North and pleasantly overlooking Portage Lake .” ( Sawyer 110 ), and has been inducted in the U. S. Registry of Historic Districts and Buildings of the Upper Peninsula.

The Rodiad, on flagellation, was published by John Camden Hotten in 1871, falsely dated to 1810 and ascribed to Colman ; the true author seems to have been Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton.

Anne, though from a noble family-she was a daughter of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton, and the widow of Christopher Horton of Catton Hall-seems to have been rather loose with her favours, given one wag's comment that she was " the Duke of Grafton's Mrs Houghton, the Duke of Dorset's Mrs Houghton, everyone's Mrs Houghton.

Although much of the infrastructure related to the mining industry was demolished in the 1980s and early 1990s and the land changed to other uses, remnants of the coal mining heritage remain: large spoil heaps adorn the villages of Great Houghton and Thurnscoe very notably ; although landscaping has been attempted, no cosmetic alteration can disguise their size.

Very little remains of this small settlement but a sign at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Lakeshore Drive in Houghton, Michigan, into which it has been incorporated.

Although the company has long been publicly owned, James R. Houghton, great-great-grandson of the founder, served as chairman of the board of directors from 2001 to 2007.

Historically Houghton Mifflin's practice has been to place the publication year at the foot of the title page for the first printings of its first editions.

* Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby-Labour politician, last Cabinet member to have been born in the nineteenth century and last cabinet member to have served in the First World War

Since her defeat in 2005, she has recently been attempting to re-enter the Commons, seeking the Labour Party nomination and being shortlisted in the ' safe ' Labour seats of Stockton North, Houghton & Sunderland South, Wigan, and Stalybridge & Hyde but has not been selected for any of them, despite the support of the Labour-affiliated Unite union.

It may have been introduced in James Busby's collection of 1832, but C. Waterhouse was growing Steen at Highercombe in Houghton, South Australia by 1862.

The latter had been raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Houghton, of Great Houghton in the West Riding of the County of York, in 1863.

Because of this, Harvard has always been limited and creative in its renovation options, including the building of a causeway to neighboring Houghton Library through what was a large window ( though this bridge existed well before the present renovation ).