Louise Seymour Houghton

Louise Seymour Houghton (November 22, 1838 – August 22, 1920) was an American religious writer, translator, and editor, as well as an educator, and settlement worker. She was affiliated with several organizations, including Vassar College, the McAll Mission and the Jacob A. Riis Settlement of Manhattan. Houghton traveled, lectured, and wrote extensively.

Early life and education Louise Seymour was born in Piermont, New York, on November 22, 1838. Her parents were Hezekiah C. Seymour, who served as New York State Engineer and Surveyor, and Mary (Sherrill) Seymour.

Houghton began her education at home before she attended the Utica Female Seminary. and the Story Tellers' League.

Selected works

Books Antipas, son of Chuza and others whom Jesus loved (1895) (text) The Bible in Picture and Story (New York, 1889) Cruise of the "Mystery" in McAll Mission Work (1891) Das leben Jesu in bild und erzählung (in German, 1893) (text) Faithful to the End, The Story of Emile Cook's Life, Adapted From the French (1881) (text) Fifine : a story of the Paris workmen's mission (1898) (Japanese translation) From Olivet to Patmos, in Picture and Story (1891) (text) Golden thoughts in pen and pencil (1889) Handbook of French and Belgian Protestantism (1919) (text) Hebrew Life and Thought: Being Interpretative Studies in the Literature of Israel (Chicago, 1906) (text) How to tell bible stories (1929) (text) Life of David Livingstone—the story of one who followed Christ (1882) (text) Our debt to the red man; the French-Indians in the development of the United States (1918) (text) Selections from the Old Testament (1916) (text) The Cry of the Penitent. A Babylonian Prayer, (1903) (text) The Sabbath Month: : Devotional Thoughts for Young Mothers (Philadelphia, 1879) The Life of Christ in Picture and Story (1890) (text) The Life of the Lord Jesus (1895) (text) The Log of the "Lady Gray" (1896) The Russian Grandmother's Wonder Tales (New York, 1906) (text) The Sabbath month : devotional thoughts for young mothers (1879) (text) The Silent Highway; a Story of the McAll Mission (text) Telling Bible Stories (1905) (text) Wanted: A Test for Pauperism (1888) (text)

Articles "The National Conference of Charities and Corrections", The North American Review (October 1, 1888) (text) "Women and War-Policies", The North American Review (May 1, 1889) (text)

Collaborations French by reading, a progressive French method, with Mary Hayes Houghton (1891) (text)

Translations Bordeaux, Henry, The House (New York, 1914) (text) Bordeaux, Henry, The parting of the ways (New York, Duffield, 1911) (text) Boylesve, René, You no longer count (Tu n'es plus rien!) (text) Cain, Georges, The Byways of Paris (New York, Duffield, 1912) (text) Pinard, Ernest, Unpublished correspondence of Napoleon I : preserved in the War Archives (Volume 1), (Volume 2), (Volume 3) , The people of action, an essay on American idealism, 1918 (text) Sabatier, Auguste, Religions of Authority and Religions of the Spirit (1903) (text) Sabatier, Paul, Life of St. Francis of Assisi (New York, 1894) (text) Stapfer, Edmond, Jesus Christ Before His ministry, 1896 (text) Stapfer, Edmond, Jesus Christ During His Ministry (3 vols., 1896–98) (text Stapfer, Edmond, The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, 1898 (text)

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