Peyton Hoge Houston

Background

Houston, Peyton Hoge was born on December 20, 1910 in Cincinnati. Son of George Harrison and Mary Stuart (Hoge) Houston.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1932.

Career

Free lance writer, 1934-1941; with, Houston & Jolles (management consultant), New York City, 1941-1949; executive assistant, Houston & Jolles (management consultant), New York City, 1941-1943; vice president, Houston & Jolles (management consultant), New York City, 1946-1949; with, The Equity Corporation (and successors Wheelabrator-Frye, The Signal Companies, Allied Signal and the Henley Group), New York City and Hampton, N.H., 1950-1986; assistant to president, The Equity Corporation, 1950-1959; vice president, The Equity Corporation, 1959-1966; senior vice-president, director, General United Life Insurance Company (subsidiary Equity Corporation), Des Moines, 1967-1971; corporation secretary, Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc., 1971-1981; secretary, director various subsidiary, corporation secretary, The Pullman Company, 1981-1988; secretary various subsidiaries, The Pullman Company.

Achievements

• Peyton Hoge Houston has been listed as a noteworthy environmental systems company executive, poet by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Sonnet Variations

    (One of 1,000 copies of Houston's second book issued as Ja...)

  • Arguments of idea

    (Book by Houston, Peyton)

  • Poems on the Shape of Morning
  • Occasions In A World
  • Importance of the Unicorn
  • OCCASIONS IN A WORLD. Jargon 52.

Membership

With United States Army, 1943-1945. Member Princeton Club (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Priscilla Moore, November 26, 1942 (divorced January 1959). Stepchildren: Robert, Russell Stewart. Married Parrish Beaumont Cummings, May 22, 1959.

Stepchildren: Joseph P. Dobson, Michael Dobson, Laura Parrish Dobson Pool.

Father:

George Harrison Houston

Mother:

Mary Stuart (Hoge) Houston

Spouse:

Priscilla Moore

Spouse:

Parrish Beaumont Cummings

child:

Michael Dobson Houston

child:

Russell Stewart Houston

child:

Laura Parrish Dobson Pool Houston

child:

Robert Houston

child:

Joseph P. Dobson Houston