biography
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Houghton, Henry Oscar
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| male
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| lived:
| (1823–95)
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| biography:
| Publisher, born in Sutton, Vermont, USA. In 1848 he launched Riverside Press printers and in 1864 started the distinguished publishing firm that evolved into Houghton, Mifflin. The company, a descendant of Ticknor & Fields, published such authors as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Browning, and Charles Dickens. |
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