Houston, James Curtis Campbell
James Curtis "Pat" Houston, a mining engineer, was born 19 July 1906 in Toronto, Ontario. Raised in Jordan Station, Ontario, he attended Queen's University and graduated in 1930 with a BSc in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering. Houston worked in Manitoba as a bush miner, and later in Sudbury, Ontario. He passed away in 1996.
J.C. Houston was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
Richard Hovey (May 4, 1864 February 24, 1900) was an American poet. Hovey was born in Normal, Illinois, the son of Major General Charles Edward Hovey and Harriet Spofford Hovey. He grew up in North Amherst, Massachusetts, and in Washington, D.C., before attending Dartmouth College. His first volume of poems was privately published in 1880.
He collaborated with Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: Songs from Vagabondia (1894), More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), and Last Songs from Vagabondia (1900), the last being published after Hovey's death. He died after undergoing minor abdominal surgery in 1900.