Background
Houghton, Louise Seymour was born on November 22, 1838 in Piermont, New York, United States. Daughter of Honorary H. C. and Mary (Sherrill) Seymour.
Houghton, Louise Seymour was born on November 22, 1838 in Piermont, New York, United States. Daughter of Honorary H. C. and Mary (Sherrill) Seymour.
Educated at home and Utica Female Seminary.
Spent the years 1872-1875 abroad, and became active as volunteer in the McAll Mission in France. Director American McAll Association, and editor of its periodical. Charter member of first religious settlement in this country (1889), the King’s Daughters Settlement, now Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, New New York Associate editor and editor The Evangelist, 1888-1902.
Associate editor Christian Work and The Evangelist, 1902-1904.
Author: Faithful to the End, 1880. Life of David Livingstone, 1882.
Telling Bible Stories, 1905. The Russian Grandmother’s Wonder Tales, 1906.
Our Debt to the Red Manitoba, 1918.
Handbook of French and Belgian Protestantism, 1919. Translator: Their Married Lives (from French), 1883. Little Hans and His Bible Leaf (from German), 1884.
Saint Francis of Assisi, 1894.
Outre-Mer, 1896; Jesus Christ, 3 volumes, 1898. Religions of Authority and the Religion of the Spirit, 1902.
The Parting of the Ways, 1911. Byways of Paris, 1911.
Letters and Despatches of Napoleon, 3 volumes, 1913.
The House, 1914. You Number Longer Count, 1918. The People of Action, 1918 (all from French).
Home: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Member of first religious settlement in this country (1889), the King’s Daughters Settlement, now Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, New New York
Married East. R. Houghton, December 30, 1856 (died 1878).