From the Beginning Until Now; Essays by Mitchell Bennett Houghton

From the Beginning Until Now; Essays by Mitchell Bennett Houghton

Mitchell Bennett Houghton

1844-1925

Mitchell Bennett Houghton was born in Heard County, Georgia. He pursued his education at Dover Academy in Columbus, Georgia. During the Civil War, Houghton served as a private in the Glenville Guards of Barbour County, which became Company H, in the Fifteenth Alabama Regiment of the Confederate State Army. He fought in the battles of Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Shenandoah Valley, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, and others, and he was wounded several times. After the war, Houghton engaged in mercantile trade in Union Springs and was one of the organizers of the Bullock County Bank and the Senate Bank of Montgomery. He served as officer of both banks and then engaged in planting and real estate interests. Houghton also organized the Commercial and Industrial Association of Montgomery, served as president of the Board of Revenue of Montgomery for four years, and served as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Bullock County. Houghton passed away in 1925. The Houghton Library at Huntingdon College was donated by his heirs as a memorial to him.

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Houghton, Mitchell Bennett, “From the Beginning Until Now; Essays by Mitchell Bennett Houghton,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24736.