Background
Harris was the son of Oscar Allen Houghton (May 15, 1841 - September 22, 1908) and Oscar"s first wife Susan Harris Ayres (July 7, 1843 - December 9, 1900).
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Harris Ayres Houghton was a physician and member of the United States military intelligence community during and shortly after World War I. His fame, or rather infamy, is due to the anonymous translation and publication from the Russian language into the English language, of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the United States in 1920.
Career
The lead title he"s responsible for producing is "Praemonitus Praemunitus."
In 1901 Harris graduated from the Syracuse University School of Medicine. He thereafter pursued advanced study in Berlin. On October 26, 1902, Harris married Virginia Boyd Dudley (December 8, 1876 - April 8, 1946) of Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia.
And in December 1917 he was transferred and assigned to his position on Governor"s Island.
On or about February 1, 1918, his personal assistant, Mission Natalie de Bogory, brought him an exceedingly rare book, a 1917 edition of Serge Nilus"s book on the anti-Christ which incorporated into itself as an ending chapter the notorious plagiarism, literary forgery, and hoax subsequently known briefly as the infamous Protocols of Zion. This rare edition had allegedly been brought to the United States by an unidentified Russian army officer who obtained it in Petrograd, Russia.
At the time of obtaining the text from Mission de Bogory, Doctor Houghton was a military intelligence officer of the United States Department of War attached to the Eastern Department offices located on Governor"s Island in the City of New New York
