Bui. 984. U. S. Dept. of Aericult 
Plate X!! 
Portrait of J. Dunbar Houghton, Hanging in Union Academy 
Memorial Hall. 
J. Dunbar Houghton, born on farm Xo. 127, was for thirteen years the beloved principal of 
Belleville Academy and he holds a place with Norris Shepardson and Major Barney in the 
hearts of the people. At his death the following resolution was passed by the trustees of 
the Academy: 
"Resolved, that, reared among us, he ceased not to have our welfare educationally and 
religiously near his heart, giving to us his main energies and wcrk cf his life; and as" 'it is 
the strength of a town or community to have its best men in everlasting remembrance/ 
so it shall be our care that the memory cf his life and teachings shall not die.' ; 
