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deal, their very existence depends upon
the confidence of their patrons. He is
director of tin- Rockville Building and
Loan Association; the Rockville Aque-
duct Company, and a corporator of the
Savings Banks of Rockville. Politically
Mr. Rottomlcy is a staunch Repuhlican,
although he rarely takes the foreground
in political affairs. In social as well as in
business life, he is one of the leading men
of Rockville. He is a member of Fayette
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons;
Adoniram Chapter, Royal Arch Masons;
Adoniram Council, Royal and Select Mas-
ters.
Mr. Rottomley married, January 20.
1897, Lucy Mary, daughter of Jonathan
and Eliza M. (Thomas) Pickering, of
Camden, New Jersey. Mrs. Bottomley
was born in Manchester, England. There
was one child of this marriage, Margaret.
The family attend and aid in the support
of the Union Congregational Church, of
Rockville.
HOUGH, Frederick J.,
Manufacturer.
Three generations of this family have
resided in Collinsville, Connecticut. Jo-
siah Hough, grandfather, coming when a
young man. He was succeeded by his
son, Emerson A. Hough, Collinsville's
druggist for half a century and well be-
loved citizen, and now his son, Frederick
J. Hough, is the business representative
of the family in Collinsville, being assistant
superintendent of the Collins Com-
pany, a corporation with which his entire
business life has been spent. When
Emerson A. Hough returned from the
Civil War in October, 1864, he resumed
his position in the Polk drug store in Col-
linsville, and from that time until his
death, half a century later, he was en-
gaged in the drug business, operating his
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own Store from [8671 and whether a- part-
ner or sole owner was its capable, effi-
cient, directing head. He was more to
his townsmen than their druggist, he was
their friend, their postmaster for long
years, and when they attended Congrega-
tional worship it was his rich vibrant bass
voice which led them in song. When he
passed away in 191 5 it was as though
each home in Collinsville had lost a dear
friend.
The Houghs are of Scotch ancestry. It
is a local place name, coming from the
Saxon and Dutch, Hoch, Hoog and How,
meaning high. There is a place named
Hough in the County of Lincoln, Eng-
land. Robert Hough, great-grandfather
of Frederick J. Hough, was a resident of
Glastonbury, Connecticut, and there his
son, Josiah Hough, was born and grew to
manhood. He was an expert worker in
wood, and in youthful manhood located in
Collinsville, where he was for years in
the employ of the construction department
of the Collins Company. Later he
became a manufacturer of wooden boxes,
working under a contract with the Collins
Company. In politics he was a Democrat,
and for many years he was a mem-
ber of the Congregational church. Josiah
Hough married Laura Rice, of Barkhamsted,
Litchfield county, Connecticut,
who was the mother of six children
Jane E., married Henry A. Gleason
Henry J., who lived in Brooklyn, New
George R., a locomotive engineer,
York ;
who resided at Clayton, Illinois; Dayton
E., a locomotive engineer ; Lucella, mar-
ried Deacon H. E. Harrington, of Hartford,
Connecticut ; and Emerson A., of
whom further mention follows:
Emerson A. Hough was born in Col-
linsville, Connecticut, November 24. 1S42,
died in the town of his birth, March 25,
1915. He attended primary, grammar and
high school in Collinsville, then became a
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