Howe, Edgar Watson – Howell, David
Howe, Edgar Watson
journalist, author, was born May 3, 1854, in Wabash county, Ind. He is a journalist of Atchison, Kan., editor of The Daily Globe. His first novel, The Story of a Country Town, attracted much attention. Later stories include, The Mystery of The Locks; A Moonlight Boy; and A Man Story.
Howe, Edward
musician, composer, was born in March, 1820, in Portland, Maine. He has been a teacher of music in the seminary and in the city of New York from the first, and a church organist. He has been the organist in the Church of the Messiah the last twentythree years. He has published pieces of music, contributed anthems and tunes for church service to The Church and Home, and other similar publications.
Howe, Elias
inventor, was born July 9, 1819, in Spencer, Mass. He was the inventor of the sewing machine, for which he obtained a patent in 1846. His invention enabled him to amass a fortune. He died Oct. 3, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Howe, Ephraim D
soldier, lawyer, was born April 4, 1842, in Marlborough, Mass. He served one year in the union army as a private in company R, fifth regiment Massachusetts volunteer infantry, and was in the battles of Kingston, Whithall, Goldsborough and Gum Swamp. After the war he entered Tufts college and graduated in 1867. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Gardner, Mass. He has been justice of the peace, a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has filled various public positions of trust in his county and state.
Howe, Fisher
philanthropist, author, was born in 1798 in Rochester, Vt. He was a philanthropist of Brooklyn, and the author of Oriental and Sacred Scenes; and The True Site of Calvary. He died Oct. 7, 1871, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Howe, Frederic Clemson
author, was born in 1867 in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Taxation and Taxes in the United States under the Internal Revenue System in 1791-1895.
Howe, George
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1802 in Massachusetts. He was a presbyterian clergyman, professor of biblical literature in the theological seminary at Columbia, S. C., in 1831. He is the author of Theological Education; and History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina. He died in 1883.
Howe, Henry
compiler, author, was born Oct. 11, 1816, in New Haven, Conn.
He is an historical writer and compiler of Cincinnati, and the author of Historical Collections of New Jersey (with J. W.
Barber); Our Whole Country; The Great West; Historical Collections of Virginia and Ohio; Over the World; Adventures and Achievements of Americans; and Times of the Rebellion in the West.
Howe, Henry Marion
metallurgist, author, was born March 2, 1848, in Boston, Mass. He is a metallurgist who has published The Metallurgy of Steel; and Copper Smelting.
Howe, Herbert Alonzo
educator, astronomer, author, was born Nov. 22, 1858, in Brockport, N. Y. Since 1881 he has been professor of mathematics and astronomy in the university of Denver.
He is also director of the Chamberlin observatory, and the author of A Study of the Sky; and Elements of Descriptive Astronomy.
Howe, James H
lawyer, jurist, was born in Maine. In 1873 he was appointed United States judge for the western district of Wisconsin, residing in Kenosha.
Howe, James R
merchant, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1839, in New York city. His ancestors were among the early settlers of New England. From his youth up he has been engaged in the drygoods business; is trustee in a number of public institutions in the city, and is vice-president of the Amphion Musical Musical society and a member of the Union League club. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. He has taken a prominent part in the deliberations of congress. He introduced an amendment to the constitution of the United States, making it possible for a uniform marriage and divorce law; and also advocated a national bankrupt law, and the creation of a labor commission bill. He has also spoken on the Armenian outrages, Cuba, the emergency bond bill, and pensions.
Howe, John Badlam
author, was born March 3, 1813, in Boston, Mass. He was the author of Monetary and Industrial Fallacies; Mono-Metallism and Bi- Metallism; The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France in the Use of Money; The Common Sense of Money; and Replies to Criticisms. He died Jan. 22, 1882, in Lima, Ind.
Howe, John W
congressman, was born in New Hampshire. Having settled in Pennsylvania, he was elected a representative in congress from 1849 to 1853.
Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward
philanthropist, author, poet, was born May 27, 1819, in New York city. She is a writer of Boston, long prominent in philanthropic movements, and as a lecturer upon the enfranchisement of women. The Battle Hymn of the Republic is her finest effort.
Her writings include, Passion Flowers; Words for the Hour; The World's Own; A Trip to Cuba; From the Oak to the Olive; Later Lyrics; Sex and Education; Memoir of S. G. Howe; Modern Society; Life of Margaret Fuller; Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays.
Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe
bishop, author, was born April 5, 1809, in Bristol, R. I. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of central Pennsylvania, and the author of Domestic Slavery, a Reply to Bishop Hopkins; and Life of Alonzo Potter. He died in 1895.
Howe, Mary E
poet, was born June 26, 1831, in Painesville, Ohio. In 1849 she received a prize for a composition of prose and poetry at the Painesville academy; has ever since contributed extensively to the periodical press, and her poems have received recognition in several standard works.
Howe, Robert
soldier, was born in 1732, in Brunswick county, N. C. He served with distinction through the revolutionary war, and was promoted brigadier-general. He died Nov. 12, 1785, in Brunswick county, N. C.
Howe, Samuel Gridley
educator, physician, author, was born Nov. 10, 1801, in Boston, Mass. He was a physician of Boston, the first superintendent of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, and a man of prominence in the anti-slavery movement. He was the author of Reader for the Blind; and Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution. He died Jan. 9, 1876, in Boston, Mass.
Howe, Thomas M
banker, congressman, was born in Vermont. He settled in Pennsylvania; was elected a representative in congress from 1851 to 1855, and was for many years cashier, and then president, of the Exchange bank of Pittsburg, Pa.
Howe, Thomas Y
JR., congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.
Howe, Timothy Otis
postmastergeneral, state senator, was born Feb. 17, 1816, in Livermore, Maine. In 1845 he was elected a member of the Maine legislature; in 1850 was elected circuit judge; in 1861 was elected a senator in congress from Wisconsin; and in 1881 was appointed postmaster-general. He died March 25, 1883, in Wisconsin.
Howe, Volney E
lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born about 1808, in Norridgewock, Maine. He moved to Mississippi; and there distinguished himself as a journalist. He subsequently emigrated to Texas and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853. He died May 14, 1889, in Santa Monica, Cal.
Howe, William Bell White
bishop, was born March 21, 1823, in Claremont, N. H. He was consecrated assistant bishop of South Carolina in 1871, becoming the sixth bishop of the diocese in December of the same year.
Howe, William Wirt
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1833, in Canandaigua, N. Y. In 1861 he entered the union army and attained the rank of major. In 1865 he began the practice of law in New Orleans; was appointed a judge of the chief criminal court of that city in 1867; and was promoted to the supreme court of Louisiana in 1868. Among his printed works are A Municipal History of New Orleans; and studies in the civil law.
Howell, Andrew
lawyer, state senator, author, was born Dec. 18, 1827, in Covert, N. Y. In 1858 he was elected circuit court commissioner of Lenawee county, Mich., and served three terms. He was elected a member of the state senate in 1865 and in 1867; and was circuit judge during 1882-87. He is the author of Howell's Annotated Statutes of Michigan, and other law works.
Howell, Benjamin F
soldier, banker, congressman, was born January, 1844, in Cumberland county, N. J. He was elected surrogate of Middlesex county, N.
J., and was re-elected in 1887 for a second term. He is president of the People's National bank of New Brunswick. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Howell, Clark
journalist, state legislator, was born Sept. 21, 1863, in Barnwell district, S. C. He is the managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, having succeeded Henry W. Grady to that position in 1897. In 1886 he was elected to the Georgia legislature; was re-elected in 1888 and in 1890.
Howell, David
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 1, 1747, in New Jersey. He was appointed professor of natural philosophy and mathematics in 1796; and from 1790 to 1824 was professor of law in Brown university. He was for some time attorney-general of Rhode Island, and judge of the supreme court. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1782 to 1785. He was subsequently district attorney; and from 1812 to his death was district judge for Rhode Island. He died July 29, 1826, in Providence, R. I.