Louisa Courtauld Osburne Haughton (1866-1951)
Louise Courtauld Osburne Haughton was born in Cheshire, England, in 1866 and immigrated with her family to Baltimore in 1871. Haughton’s father ran a successful shipping business until his death in 1909. His business acumen rubbed off on his daughters Louise and Maud, who ran a successful dressmaking establishment, Haughton & Haughton, for a number of years in the early twentieth century. As significant as her success as a woman business owner is her work in various societies and clubs in Maryland. In addition to being one of the co-founders of the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore (with Hester Crawford Dorsey), she served as its president for its final 23 years. She also was a member of the National Geographic Society and the Maryland Academy of Sciences and co-founded the Lizette Woodworth Reese Memorial Association, which collected materials pertaining to Reese’s life and work that would eventually be donated to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Her short fiction was published in leading magazines, and she also wrote several unpublished plays. Haughton died in 1951.
Sources
Leonard, John William. Woman’s Who’s Who of America. The American Commonwealth Company, 1914.
Muller, Amelia. “Carriage-Trade Modiste: Magician With Shears.” Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 1948.
“Mr. H. O. Haughton Dead.” Baltimore Sun, 27 Feb. 1909: 9.
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Contributors
Hunter Flynn