Proprietor of "The Houghton," the leading hotel of Sidaw, Michagan. He also deals in harvesters, mowers, discdrills, buggies, carts, plows, and harrows. In short he is a "hustler" (Severance, B. Frank. Genealogy and biography of the descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. Greenfield, Mass. : T. Morey & Son, 1905, pg. 155).