Mabel Houghton1

F, #108661, b. circa 1883

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Birthcirca 1883IL, USA, age 57 in 1940 census1
1940 Census1940Snoqualmie, King Co., WA, USA, age 57, widowed, public school teacher1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Snoqualmie, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4346; Page: 61B; Enumeration District: 17-183.

Kathleen E. Houghton1

F, #108662, b. circa 1887

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Birthcirca 1887SD, USA, age 53 in 1940 census1
1940 Census1940Bremerton, Kitsap Co., WA, USA, age 53, divorced, telephone operator1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington; Roll: T627_4347; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 18-17.

Meryl G. (?)1

F, #108663, b. circa 1897

Family: Nuel George Houghton b. 25 Jun 1889

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Birthcirca 1897WA, USA, age 43 in 1940 census1
Marriage1
1940 Census1940Spokane, Spokane Co., WA, USA, age 50, steam railroad engineer1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Spokane, Spokane, Washington; Roll: T627_4387; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 41-95.

Jeanne N. Houghton1

F, #108664, b. circa 1929

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Birthcirca 1929WA, USA, age 11 in 1940 census1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Spokane, Spokane, Washington; Roll: T627_4387; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 41-95.

Emma (?)1

F, #108665, b. circa 1897

Family: Harold Hamilton Houghton b. 4 Mar 1893, d. May 1964

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Birthcirca 1897Canada, age 43 in 1940 census1
Marriage1
1940 Census1940Alderwood, Snohonish Co., WA, USA, age 46, lumber industry, log and scales buyer; and nephew in law William Ivey, 27, Canada1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Alderwood, Snohomish, Washington; Roll: T627_4358; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 31-1.

Edna Bjorklund1

F, #108666, b. circa 1898

Family: Walter Houghton b. 30 Sep 1899, d. 30 Mar 1950

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Birthcirca 1898WA, USA, age 42 in 1940 census1
MarriageMay 25, 19351
1940 Census1940Seattle, King Co., WA, USA, age 40, building steel construction, structural iron worker1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4375; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 40-60.

Richard Bjorklund1

M, #108667, b. circa 1926

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Birthcirca 1926WA, USA, age 14 in 1940 census1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4375; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 40-60.

Ruth Norine Thompson1

F, #108668, b. 6 July 1915, d. 21 February 2017

Family: Elgar Webster Houghton b. 20 Dec 1911, d. 17 Nov 1983

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BirthJul 6, 1915Sedro Woolley, WA, USA, age 24 in 1940 census1
Marriagecirca 19331
1940 Census1940Everett, Snohomish Co., WA, USA, age 28, WPA research worker1
Residence2009Sangor, CA, USA, with son
DeathFeb 21, 2017Render Care, Clovis, CA, USA2
ObituaryMar 10, 2017Ruth Norine Houghton was born in Sedro Woolley, Washington July 6, 1915 and left on a new passage February 21, 2017. Ruth was the daughter of Henry and Nora Thompson. Graduating from Everett High School, she met and married the love of her life, Elgar Houghton. Their lives remained tightly entwined with Elgar's older sister, Corva and her husband, Hugo Lindblom. WWII strengthened the relationship as Elgar served with the Coast Guard in the European Theatre and Ruth went to work for the Navy. Their only son, Gareth went to live with his Lindblom family where he bonded with his older cousin, Suzanne and his younger cousin, Hugo. They remain cousin/siblings to this day as do later arrivals, Richard and Jane. Ruth's family reconstituted after the war as a part of, "The greatest generation." Richard Lindblom noted, "With the passage of our fathers and now Corva and Ruth, our family has seen the last of the greatest generation. We continue to drive on their roads and bridges and enjoy the benefits of their dams. They truly were, the greatest!" From that time on, Ruth was fully employed as office manager for Johnson and Thorpe Furniture and later Al Larsen Painting. Concurrently, she continued her role as mother, wife, grandmother and transcriptionist for Elgar's prose and poetry productions. Just a few years after her retirement, she lost her husband, Elgar in November 1983 after fifty years of marriage. However, that was not the end of her life... After grieving the loss of her husband and returning to the world, Ruth had proposals of marriage. Taking stock of her life, she reasoned, "I am tired of washing, ironing, cleaning and cooking!" Thus, with a renewed energy for life, she emerged as a social butterfly, joining the senior dancing circuit, anchored at Normanna Lodge, sons of Norway, in Everett, Washington. Over the next 25 years, she wore out several pair of dancing shoes as well as a few dancing partners. She traveled, kept track of her son, grandchildren, great grandchildren and their children! At age 93, Ruth retired to Sanger, California, joining her son, Dr. Gareth Houghton and his wife, Wan. She spent the last days of her life at Render Care in Clovis, where she enjoyed the company of four other seniors before she left after a journey of 101 years. Ruth leaves a tremendous legacy, to include her son and his wife; grandchildren, Mark Houghton and his wife, Masako, Brad Houghton and his wife, Karen, Blake Anderson and his, wife Laura, Alisa Stevens and her husband, Randy; great grandchildren, Kris Houghton and Maria Montoya and their children, Emilio, Alma and Paolo; Alex Houghton, Matt Houghton and Jordan Houghton; Joshua, Asher and Caleb Stevens. With only two exceptions, all of Ruth's adult heirs have served in the military. Ruth's passage was preceded by older siblings, Chester Thompson and Winifred Sandmo. She is survived by her younger sister, 100 year old Mary McDonald and her children, Barbara, Eugene and Amy. Ruth leaves her estate to her heirs in the form of RHEAP, (Ruth Houghton Educational Advancement Program) inviting future generations to pursue academic and vocational goals.
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Published in The Herald (Everett) on Mar. 10, 20172
ParentsDHenry and Nora Thompson

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Everett, Snohomish, Washington; Roll: T627_4359; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 31-56.
  2. [S93] Newspaper Obituary, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/heraldnet/obituary.aspx

Dr. Gareth Charles Houghton PhD

M, #108669, b. 6 May 1935

Family 1: Patricia Evelyn Cheedle

  • Marriage*: Dr. Gareth Charles Houghton PhD married Patricia Evelyn Cheedle.2
  • Divorce*: Dr. Gareth Charles Houghton PhD and Patricia Evelyn Cheedle were divorced.

Family 2: (?) Anderson

  • Partner*: Dr. Gareth Charles Houghton PhD was the long term partner of (?) Anderson.

Family 3: Wanpiva Bhavilai b. 12 Dec 1944

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BirthMay 6, 1935Everett, Snohomish Co., WA, USA, age 4 in 1940 census1,2
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Graduation1987California School of Professional Psychology, PhD in clinical psychology. Dr. Houghton has served as a clinical supervisor for Fresno City and Reedley College since 1995. Dr. Houghton specializes in pain management and clinical hypnosis and works with the medical Community and private clients throughout the central Valley.
Address2012Fresno, CA, USA, Psychologist
Living2017Sangor, CA, USA

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Everett, Snohomish, Washington; Roll: T627_4359; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 31-56.
  2. [S601] Family Group Sheet, from Jordan Gerald Houghton, Feb 18, 2019.

Frederick Houghton1

M, #108670, b. circa 1916

Family: M. Ethel (?) b. c 1915

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Birthcirca 1916WA, USA, age 24 in 1940 census1
Marriage1
1940 Census1940Haller Lake, King Co., WA, USA, age 24, automobile garage truck driver1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Haller Lake, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4344; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 17-81.

M. Ethel (?)1

F, #108671, b. circa 1915

Family: Frederick Houghton b. c 1916

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Birthcirca 1915Canada, age 25 in 1940 census1
Marriage1
1940 Census1940Haller Lake, King Co., WA, USA, age 24, automobile garage truck driver1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Haller Lake, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4344; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 17-81.

Frederick Houghton1

M, #108672, b. circa 1939

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Birthcirca 1939WA, USA, age 9/12 in 1940 census1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Haller Lake, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4344; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 17-81.

Anne Fletcher

F, #108673, b. 19 May 1926, d. 2 October 2011

Family: Ronald Waring Haughton b. 20 Jul 1916, d. 4 Jul 2005

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BirthMay 19, 1926Detroit, MI, USA
MarriageFeb 23, 1952Grosse Pointe, MI, USA
DeathOct 2, 2011Safety Harbor, FL, USA
ParentsDFather:      Charles Henry Fletcher
Mother:      Cora Van Campen

Jan Haughton

F, #108674

Family: (?) Tracy

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Living2005Harbor, FL, USA

(?) Tracy

M, #108675

Family: Jan Haughton

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John Haughton

M, #108676

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Living2005Millersville, MD, USA

Patricia Haughton

F, #108677, b. 20 May 1956

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BirthMay 20, 1956
Living2005Wilmington, DE, USA

Leslie Haughton

F, #108678

Family: (?) Zimsky

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Living2005Buffalo, Erie Co., NY, USA

(?) Zimsky

M, #108679

Family: Leslie Haughton

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Roy Dewey1

M, #108680, b. circa 1903

Family: Lurena (?) b. c 1903

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Birthcirca 1903CO, USA, age 37 in 1940 census1
Marriage1
1940 Census1940Seattle, King Co., WA, USA, age 37, taxis cab co. driver1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T627_4383; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 40-328.

Betty Houghton1

F, #108681, b. circa 1934

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Birthcirca 1934WA, USA, age 6 in 1940 census1
1940 Census1940Everett, Snohomish Co., WA, USA, age 6, living with and granddaughter of Emmett and Florence Butts1

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  1. [S1479] 1940 U.S. Federal Census , Everett, Snohomish, Washington; Roll: T627_4359; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 31-62.

James M. Anderson1

M, #108682, b. 15 January 1924, d. 29 June 2008

Family: Vera May Houghton b. 26 Feb 1927, d. 18 Jul 1994

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BirthJan 15, 1924Widen, Clay Co., WV, USA1
Marriage1
DeathJun 29, 2008Parkersburg, WV, USA1
ObituaryJames M. "Andy" Anderson, 84, of St. Marys, W.Va., died June 29, 2008, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg.

He was born Jan. 15, 1924, in Widen, Clay County, W.Va., a son of the late Ernest and Rose Frame Anderson. He was retired from Cytec as a pipefitter and was a member of the Pipefitters Union. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of St. Marys and was recently attending the Cornerstone Gospel Church. He was a U. S. Army veteran of World War II and was a member of the American Legion Post 79. For the past two years, he had resided at the Arlington Personal Care Home in Parkersburg. He liked history on World War II, collecting old money and fishing.

He is survived by one son, James D. Anderson and his wife, Anne, of Parkersburg; three grandchildren, Jessica Barker of Vienna, Staff Sgt. Chad Anderson, USMC of Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., and Christy Rhodes of St. Marys; two great-grandsons; two great-granddaughters; one sister, Virginia Fletcher of Charleston, W.Va; niece, Linda Houghton of Belmont, W.Va; and nephew, John Duffy of South Carolina.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Vera Mae Houghton Anderson; three sisters; and four brothers.

Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the Ingram Funeral Home, St. Marys, with Pastor Rick Kapple officiating. Interment will be in the St. Marys IOOF Cemetery with military graveside rites. Friends may call from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday and from noon to 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
BurialIOOF Cemetery, St. Marys, WV, USA

Betty Lou Houghton1

F, #108683, b. 17 November 1934, d. 8 April 1985

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BirthNov 17, 1934Widen, Clay Co., WV, USA1
DeathApr 8, 1985Parkersburg, WV, USA1
BurialIOOF Cemetery, St. Marys, WV, USA

Linda Beth Houghton

F, #108684

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Carlin Otis Propst

M, #108685, b. 22 July 1926, d. 21 April 1971

Family: Nina Houghton b. 1924, d. 1989

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BirthJul 22, 1926
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DeathApr 21, 1971
BurialSkidmore Cemetery, Sutton, WV, USA

(?) Given

M, #108686

Family: Maysel Houghton b. c 1908

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Paul B. Farley1

M, #108687, b. 11 March 1923, d. 4 June 1989

Family: Iva Mae Houghton b. 16 Jun 1918, d. 8 Feb 2008

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BirthMar 11, 1923
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DeathJun 4, 19891
BurialWalnut Grove Cemetery, Widen, Clay Co., WV, USA

(?) Brown

M, #108688

Family: Mozelle Houghton b. c 1921

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(?) Mick

M, #108689

Family: Ada Maude Houghton b. 5 Dec 1884

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Earnest Albert Hooton

M, #108690, b. 20 November 1887, d. 3 May 1954

Family: Mary Beidler Camp b. 11 Aug 1889

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BirthNov 20, 1887Clemansville, WI, USA
MarriageJun 3, 1915
Children+4 children including:
Jay Camp Hooton
1918 – 1969

Newton William Hooten
1920 – 1982
Author1931Up from the Ape (1931), widely used as a textbook, was followed by Apes, Men, and Morons (1937), Why Men Behave Like Apes, and Vice-Versa (1940), and Man’s Poor Relations (1942).
Mil. Draft1942Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA
DeathMay 3, 1954Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA
BurialMount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA, USA
Notable(1887-1954) First American professor of physical anthropologist at Harvard
BiographyFirst American professor of physical anthropologist, Harvard University
Influential teacher of a generation of physical anthropologists
1946: described differences between “classic Neanderthals” from Western Europe and those with more modern appearance from central Europe or the Near East.
Known for his work on racial classification; Mildly racist; but maintained no correlation between race & IQ

Wikepedia:
Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was a U.S. physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book Up From The Ape. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, a group that "focused on the anatomy of blacks and reflected the racism of the time."[1]

Biography

Hooton was born in Clemansville, Wisconsin. He was educated at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. After earning his BA there in 1907, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, which he deferred in order to continue his studies in the United States. He pursued graduate studies in Classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received an MA in 1908 and a Ph.D. in 1911 on "The Pre-Hellenistic Stage of the Evolution of the Literary Art at Rome" and then continued on to England. He found the classical scholarship at Oxford uninteresting, but quickly became interested in anthropology, which he studied with R.R. Marett, receiving a diploma in 1912. At the conclusion of his time in England, he was hired by Harvard University, where he taught until his death in 1954. During this time he was also Curator of Somatology at the nearby Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Hooton was known for combining a rigorous attention to scholarly detail combined with a candid and witty personal style. Henry Shapiro remembers that his lectures "were compounded of a strange, unpredictable mixture of strict attention to his duty to present the necessary facts... and of a delightful impatience with the restrictions of this role to which he seemed to react by launching into informal, speculative, and thoroughly entertaining and absorbing discussions of the subject at hand." As a result Hooton established Harvard as a center for physical anthropology in the United States and at the time of his death most physical anthropologists in the United States were former students or instructed by one.[2]

Many of Hooton's research projects were indebted to his training in physical anthropology at a time when this field consisted most of anatomy and focused on physiological variation between individuals. One project that came to be known as 'Harvard Fanny Study', for instance, involved measuring buttock spread and buttock-knee lengths in order to design more comfortable chairs for the Pennsylvania railroad.[3] A similar study of applied physical anthropology examined the restrictive shape of ball-turrets in military aircraft.[4]

Hooton was an advanced primatologist for his time. If the great Latin playwright Terence said "Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto" ("I am a man; nothing about men is alien to me"), Hooton, following and correcting him, used to say: "Primas sum: primatum nihil a me alienum puto" ("I am a primate; nothing about primates is alien to me").[5]

Hooton was also a public figure well known for popular volumes with titles like Up From the Ape, Young Man, You are Normal, and Apes, Men, and Morons. He was also a gifted cartoonist and wit, and like his contemporaries Ogden Nash and James Thurber he published occasional poems and drawings that were eventually collected and published.

Hooton died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Race

He used comparative anatomy to divide humanity up into races — in Hooton's case, this involved describing the morphological characteristics of different "primary races" and the various "subtypes". In 1926, the American Association of Physical Anthropology and the National Research Council organized a Committee on the Negro, which focused on the anatomy of blacks. Among those appointed to the Committee on the Negro were Aleš Hrdli?ka, Earnest Hooton and eugenist Charles Davenport. In 1927, the committee endorsed a comparison of African babies with young apes. Ten years later, the group published findings in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology to "prove that the negro race is phylogenetically a closer approach to primitive man than the white race." Hooton played a key part in establishing the racial stereotypes about black athleticism and black criminality of his day in terms of an anthropological framework.[1] Hooton was one of the first to attempt to develop mathematically rigorous criteria for race typology.[6]

At the same time Hooton maintained that no scientific basis existed correlating mentality with racial variation. "...Each racial type runs the gamut from idiots and criminals to geniuses and statesmen. No type produces a majority of individuals from either end of the scale. While there may be specific racial abilities and disabilities, these have not yet been demonstrated. There are no racial monopolies either of human virtues or of vices."[7] While advocating eugenic sterilizations of those deemed "insane, diseased and criminalistic", he emphasized there was no justification to correlate such "degeneracy", as he termed it, with race. Anthropologist Pat Shipman presents Hooton's work as representing a transition in anthropology away from its 19th-century stereotypes about race and its fixation over cranial measurements. In that context, she writes, Hooton maintained an "oversimplistic mode of thinking about human types and variability" while at the same time he moved to eliminate unfounded racial biases and pseudoscience. His remarks in a 1936 conference dealing with immigration, for example, included a ten point summary of the current scientific consensus about race which, in retrospect, parallel the points raised ten years later in UNESCO's landmark The Race Question.[6]
Criticism

E.B. Reuter, a sociologist and contemporary of Hooton, criticized Hooton for using circular logic when he ascribed the physical traits of criminals to cause criminality.[8]
References

American Anthropological Association. "Eugenics and Physical Anthropology." 2007. August 7, 2007.[1]
Shapiro, Harry L. (18 June 1954). "Earnest A. Hooton: 1887—1954". Science 119 (3103): 861–2. doi:10.1126/science.119.3103.861.
Krogman, Wilton M. (October 1976). "Fifty Years of Physical Anthropology: The Men, the Material, the Concepts, the Methods". Annual Review of Anthropology 5 (1–15): 10. doi:10.1146/annurev.an.05.100176.000245.
Reuter, Claus (2000). Development of Aircraft Turrets in the AAF: 1917–1944. Sr Research & Pub. pp. 132–4. ISBN 9781894643085.
Hooton, Earnest Albert: "The Importance of Primate Studies in Anthropology" in GAVAN, James A. (ed.): The Non-Human Primates and Human Evolution. In Memory of Earnest Albert Hooton (1887-1954),Wayne University Press, 1955, pp.1-10
Shipman, Pat (2002). The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science. Harvard University Press. pp. 176–7. ISBN 9780674008625.
Hooton, Earnest A (29 May 1936). "Plain Statements About Race". Science 83 (2161): 513. doi:10.1126/science.83.2161.511.

Wright, Richard A. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. "Encyclopedia of Criminality." 2004. August 4, 2007. [2]

Works by Hooton

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954. Papers of Earnest A. Hooton, 1926-1954 (inclusive) : A Finding Aid (995-1 ) Harvard University Library: Peabody Museum Archives 1995 and 2007. Call No: 995-1. 28 document boxes.
Africana. I-5 co-editor (1917) 'recording the habits of foul or barbarous savages' pub. Peabody Museum. From Internet Archive.

Works about Hooton

Birdsell, Joseph 1987. Some reflections on fifty years in biological anthropology in Annual Reviews of Anthropology 16(1):1-12.
Krogman, Wilton 1976. Fifty years of physical anthropology: the men, the materials, the concepts, and the methods in Annual Reviews of Anthropology 5:1-14.
Shapiro, H. 1954. Earnest Albert Hooton, 1887-1954 (obituary) in American Anthropologist 56(6): 1081-1084
Garn, Stanley and Giles, Eugene. 1995. Earnest Albert Hooton, November 20, 1887 - May 3, 1954. Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America v. 68 167-180.
Melear, K.B. The Criminological Theory of Earnest A. Hooton. 'Summer 1998'. Florida State University: Criminology

External links

American Association of Physical Anthropologists: The Earnest Albert Hooton Prize. The page includes a selected list of Hooton's publications.
National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir