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Hough was born in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1858. He was the son of Brig. -Gen. Alfred Lacey Hough and Mary (Merrill) Hough. His father was of Quaker stock; Thomas Hough of Macclesfield, England, the original settler, emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1685 and later settled in central New Jersey. His mother was descended from Nathaniel Merrill, who settled at Salem, Massachussets, in 1632.
Life at frontier army posts afforded meager educational opportunities, but he had the advantage of a year at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. , before entering Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1879.
Debarred by defective eyesight from army life, he taught school for a year after graduation and then studied law in the office of Richard C. McMurtrie in Philadelphia. Admitted to the bar in 1883, he removed to New York City the following year to join the firm of Biddle & Ward (later Robinson, Biddle & Ward), with which he was associated throughout his professional career. After twenty years of active practice, during which he attained a leading position in maritime law, he was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1906 United States district judge for the southern district of New York. Although a Republican in politics, he was appointed by President Wilson in 1916 United States circuit judge for the 2nd circuit.
Hough's health was precarious throughout his twenty years of judicial service, but his dynamic personality made a deep impression upon his contemporaries. The steady concentration of litigation in his jurisdiction imposed an incredible task. In ten years as a trial judge he conducted more than 1, 200 trials and filed 1, 809 written opinions. As an appellate judge, in the course of a decade he participated in the hearing of 2, 047 cases, in 675 of which he wrote the opinion of the court. Only a vigorous and decisive mind could cope with such labors; there was little opportunity for reflection. His mind was never tortured by doubt, and his courage in his convictions was unfaltering. He was at his best as a trial judge. There the high initial velocity of his mind was conspicuously effective in mastering facts, analyzing evidence, and applying general principles to concrete cases. The force of common sense and caustic humor could go no further than in his drastic treatment of any effort to evade an issue. While he had a well-stored mind, his distinction was due to the combination of gifts not less essential than learning to the successful discharge of his varied duties.
His reported opinions are scattered through 174 volumes of the Federal Reporter. Characteristic specimens of his clarity of thought and vigor of expression may be found in his exposition of the constitutionality of the New York Housing Law of 1920 (269 Fed. , 306); and in his opinions rendered in Associated Press vs. International News Service (245 Fed. , 244), on property rights in news; The Saturnus (250 Fed. , 407), on admiralty jurisdiction; and The Napoli (278 Fed. , 770), on novel problems of war risk insurance. He made some noteworthy contributions to law reviews and lectured on legal subjects at Harvard, Cornell, and Pennsylvania. In 1925 he published under the auspices of a committee of the bar Reports of Cases in the Vice-admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty of the State of New York, 1715-88. He died in New York City and was buried in the family burying ground near Mount Holly, N. J. , among five generations of his ancestors.
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From 1919 to 1927 Hough was president of the Maritime Law Association of the United States and in 1922 was a delegate to the International Conference on Maritime Laws at Brussels.
He had married, on November 21, 1903, Ethel Powers, by whom he had two children.
