American publisher, born at Sutton, VT, on the 30th of April 1823. Was apprenticed to a printer in Burlington, VT; afterward entered the University of Vermont, and graduated in 1846; for a time was reporter on the Boston Traveller; in 1849 established a printing-office in Cambridge, MA, the successor to which is the Riverside Press; established the publishing-house of Hurd and Houghton in 1864; in 1878 the firm of Houghton, Osgood and Company, which was changed in 1880 to Houghton, Mifflin and Company. He died on the 26th of August 1895, in North Andover, MA.
