Background
Houghton, Henry Spencer was born on March 27, 1880 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Albert Charles and Amy (Twitchell) Houghton.
Houghton, Henry Spencer was born on March 27, 1880 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Albert Charles and Amy (Twitchell) Houghton.
B.Ph., Ohio State University, 1901, Doctor of Science, 1934. Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins, 1905. Doctor of Laws, University of Hongkong (China), 1925.
Assistant Rockefeller Institute, New York, 1905-1906. Physician Wuhu General Hospital, Wuhu, China, 1906-1911. Dean Harvard Medical School of China, Shanghai, 1911-1917.
With China Medical Board, New York, 1917.
Acting director Peking Union Medical College, 1918-1921, director, 1921-1928. Dean Medical College, University of Iowa, 1928-1933.
Director of University Clinics and associate dean division of biological sciences, University of Chicago, 1933-1934. Director for China Medical Board, Incorporated., 1934-1937.
Director of Peking Union Medical College, 1937-1946.
Held as political prisoner by Japanese Army, December 1941-September 1945.
Fellow royal Society Tropical Medicine, American College of Physicians. Member American Society Tropical Medicine, Far Eastern Association Tropical Medicine, Beta Theta Pi.
Married Caroline Carmack, June 1906. Children: Edwin Wells (deceased), Benjamin Carmack, Amy Twitchell and Mary Hildebrand (twins), Albert Charles, Hugh Fuller (deceased).