Houck, James A.
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James A. Houck was born in Knox, NY in 1839, the son of Christian Houck.
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Houck, James A., the oldest hotel proprietor in one place in Albany, is a son of Christian Houck, one of the earliest hotel keepers in the town of Knox, Albany county, where James A. was born in 1839. About 1859 the family came to Albany where Christian conducted the Avenue House on Washington avenue until his death. In 1871 James A. Houck succeeded a Mr. Brayton as proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, on State street corner of South Pearl, and immediately changed the name to the Globe Hotel, which it still bears, and under which it has attained a wide popularity. In May, 1894, he admitted his son Clarence A. as a partner under the firm name of J. A. Houck & Son. Mr Houck is one of the best known landlords in Eastern New York and during his quarter of a century proprietorship of the Globe has won a high reputation among the traveling public. He was elected sheriff of Albany county in 1879, as a Republican, and served one term and was a candidate for county clerk, but suffered defeat along with the rest of the ticket.
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