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Howard, William Alanson

congressman, governor, was born April 8, 1813, in Hinesburg, Vt. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster at Detroit. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866; and was governor of Dakota from 1878 to 1880. He died April 10, 1880, in Washington, D. C.

HOWARD, WILLIAM MARCELLUS, lawyer, was born Dec. 6, 1857, in Berwick city, La. He was elected solicitor-general of the northern judicial circuit of Georgia by the state legislature in 1884; was reelected to that office in 1888 and in 1892, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat. He has been renominated for a seat in the fifty-sixth congress. HOWARD, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, educator, college president, author, was born Sept. 19, 1817, in England. He was licensed as a preacher, became in 1863 pastor of the presbyterian church in Aurora, N. Y., and was chosen the first president of Wells Female college in that place. He published Aids to French Composition. He died July 1, 1871, in Aurora, N. Y.

HOWARTH, MRS. ELLEN CLEMEN- TINE, poet, was born May 20, 1827, in Cooperstown, N. Y. She has published The Wind-Harp, and Other Poems; and Poems, with an introduction by Richard Watson Gilder. Her best-known poems are Thou Wilt Never Grow Old; and 'Tis but a Little Faded Flower.