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David Franklin Houston (1866–1940) served in the Wilson administration as Secretary of Agriculture (1913–1920) and as Secretary of the Treasury (1920–1921.) Prior to joining the Wilson cabinet, he had enjoyed a career in academia, and following his government service he entered the world of business.

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The Houstons lived at 1808 New Hampshire Avenue in Washington, D.C. My mother often said she remembered the Easter Egg Hunts held on the White House lawn. After Wilson's Presidency was over, the family moved to 165 East 74th Street in New York City, where Mr. Houston served on the board of several companies, including U.S. Steel, AT&T, and several others. My mother, Helen Beall Houston, attended The Brearley School there and enrolled in Bryn Mawr about 1929 but did not graduate. She moved to California in 1952.

David Franklin Houston (1866-1940) was Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1908-1913), and US Secretary of Agriculture (1913-1920), then briefly was the US Secretary of the Treasury after that: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F._Houston

The unidentified man at the left. looking like an undertaker, is William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. Secretaries McAdoo and Houston formed a two-man committee charged with selecting cities in which to locate Federal Reserve Banks, under terms of the new Federal Reserve Act. Their first hearings were held in New York City (here, at the N. Y. Customs House) and in Boston. The New York hearings opened on Monday, January 5, 1914. Story in the New York Times, January 7, 1914 (other related stories preceded it): query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9901E... William Gibbs McAdoo, on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibbs_McAdoo

A related Bain/LOC photo, also from January, 1914, shows the extravagantly-proportioned Milton C. Elliott, an attorney who served as counsel to the Federal Reserve Board, and obviously carried a lot of weight in American banking circles:

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