of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, during his 1839 expedition. A portrait of Houghton hangs in the chamber of the Michigan House of Representatives. Douglass Houghton Elementary School in Waterford, Michigan, is named in his honor. Notes References Helen Wallin, "Douglass Houghton, Michigan's First State Geologist 1837-1845", Michigan Geological and Land Management Division (2004). Biography: Douglass Houghton", Elmwood Cemetery] (where he is interred). Laudatory biographies are: Alvah Bradish, Memoir of Douglass Houghton, First State Geologist of Michigan (1889). Edsel K. Rintala, Douglass Houghton, Michigan's Pioneer Geologist (1954). A brief introduction to Houghton and the Lake Superior copper deposits can be found in: Ira B. Joralemon, Copper: The Encompassing Story of Mankind's First Metal (1973). A revisionary history of Houghton's geological work is found in: Krause, David J. (1992). The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper 1500–1870. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. . Further reading Significant Houghton papers are in the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in the Clarke Historical Library of Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. His annual geological reports are compiled in George N. Fuller, ed., Geological Reports of Douglass Houghton 1837-1845 (1928). Burt, Williams A., and Hubbard, Bela Reports on the Mineral Region of Lake Superior (Buffalo: L. Danforth, 1846), 113 pages. Steve Lehto, Michigan's Columbus: The Life of Douglass Houghton, Royal Oak, MI: Momentum Books, c. 2009. External links The Douglass Houghton Scholars Program at the University of Michigan American geologists American surveyors Burials at Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit) Mayors of Detroit 1809 births 1845 deaths University of Michigan faculty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni Michigan Democrats Upper Peninsula of Michigan People from Fredonia, New York People from Troy, New York Houghton, Michigan 19th-century American politicians Scientists from New York (state)