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Hough was born in Martinsburg, New York on July 22, 1822 to Horatio Gates Hough and Martha Pitcher Hough. He was christened Benjamin Franklin, but when he was eight the order of the names was reversed.
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Hough was born in Martinsburg, New York on July 22, 1822 to Horatio Gates Hough and Martha Pitcher Hough. He was christened Benjamin Franklin, but when he was eight the order of the names was reversed.
He was prepared for college at Lowville Academy and later at the Black River Institute at Watertown, N. Y. In 1840 he entered Union College with advanced standing, graduating in 1843. After a year's teaching at the Academy of Champion, N. Y. , he became principal of Gustavus Academy in Ohio, but in 1846 he decided upon a medical career and entered Western Reserve Medical College, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1848.
He returned to New York state after his educational period and practised medicine in Somerville. Hough was interested not only in scientific studies, but also in historical research. He collected local historical data and edited documents of the Revolutionary and Indian Wars. In 1854 he was chosen to direct the New York state census and carried on this work in Albany while continuing his work as a practicing physician.
In the early part of the Civil War he acted as inspector of the United States Sanitary Commission. In 1862 he enlisted as regimental surgeon of the 97th New York Volunteers, serving until March 10, 1863, during the Maryland and Virginia campaigns. After the war he settled in Lowville, N. Y. He superintended the New York state census of 1865 and edited a New York Convention Manual (2 vols. , 1867) and an annotated copy of the prevailing constitution for the use of the convention assembled in 1867 to revise the constitution of New York state. He was then called upon to supervise the census of the District of Columbia in 1867, and subsequently he was selected as the superintendent of the United States census of 1870. These census studies revealed to him the rapid depletion of the nation's forest resources. He recognized the danger of the popular impression that the timber of the United States was almost inexhaustible and undertook to place before the public the need of action to check the destructive agencies that were operating to devastate the forests.
At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Portland, Me. , in 1873, Hough presented a paper "On the Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests. " It resulted in Hough's being appointed with George B. Emerson, to prepare a suitable memorial to Congress. The report of this committee advocating the enactment of laws to encourage forestry was indorsed by President Grant who transmitted the plan to Congress in February 1874. Two years later Congress took action and Hough was chosen to investigate the consumption of timber and the preservation of forests, receiving the appointment as forestry agent in the Department of Agriculture on August 30, 1876. Hough's first report was completed in December 1877. In 1881 he received a new commission carrying a larger appropriation from Congress. His work included travel in Europe where he studied the German system of forestry and of forest education. During the next two years, he issued his second and third official reports.
This investigation, covering the timber and forest products of the whole period of the government, aroused wide international interest and was awarded a diploma of honor at the International Geographical Congress in Venice a few years later. When Nathaniel H. Egleston was appointed the chief of the division of forestry in 1883, Hough remained as forestry agent to assist in the preparation of the fourth volume of the official forestry reports. In March 1885 he drafted a bill for the New York state legislature which created a comprehensive forestry commission for the state. Some of his more important books are: A Catalogue of Indigenous, Naturalized and Filicoid Plants of Lewis County, N. Y. (1846); History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, N. Y. (1853); History of Duryée's Brigade in 1862 (1864); Washingtoniana, or Memorials of the Death of George Washington (1865); American Biographical Notes (1875); and Elements of Forestry (1882).
He has to his credit seventy-eight publications, including government reports and bulletins on history, meteorology, climatology, education, law, and civil records. In addition to these he edited numerous colonial documents and translated Lucien Baudens' Guerre de Crimée under the title: On Military and Camp Hospitals (1862). He published the first American Journal of Forestry in October 1882, but he was forced to abandon this project within about a year on account of lack of subscribers.
Although he was not a professional forester, his contribution to the forestry movement was outstanding, particularly in educating public opinion toward a more conservative use of forest resources. He was the first federal official in forestry, and he efficiently prepared the way for the work of his successors. His home, the Franklin B. Hough House, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963.
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On July 9, 1845, Hough married Maria S. Eggleston of Champion, N. Y. , who died on June 2, 1848, leaving an infant daughter.
On May 16, 1849, he was married to Mariah E. Kilham of Turin, N. Y. They had eight children.
