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284 founder and for some time president of the Metaphysical club in Boston, and published a sketch of the Concord school of philosophy, also &ldquo;Stray Chords&rdquo; (Boston, 1884), a volume of poems. In December, 1870, she married Michael Anagnos, who succeeded her father as superintendent of the Perkins institution. &mdash; Their son, Henry Marion, mining engineer, b. in Boston, Mass., 2 March, 1848, was graduated at Harvard in 1869, and at the Massachusetts institute of technology in 1871. His attention was then turned to mining engineering and metallurgy, and he has had charge of various works in the United States and Canada. Mr. Howe is an active member of the American institute of mining engineers, was its vice-president in 1879-'81, and has been a manager since 1886. His publications, consisting of professional papers, have been contributed to the transactions of the mining engineers, and treat principally of the metallurgy of iron, steel, copper, and nickel. He has also written valuable treatises for the &ldquo;Bulletins of the U. S. Geological Survey,&rdquo; such as &ldquo;Copper Smelting&rdquo; (Washington, 1885), and &ldquo;Metallurgy of Steel&rdquo; (1887). &mdash; Another daughter, Maud, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 9 Nov., 1855, married in February, 1887, John Elliott, an English artist. She has published &ldquo;San Rasario Ranch&rdquo; (Boston, 1884); &ldquo;A Newport Aquarelle&rdquo; (1885); and &ldquo;Atalanta in the South&rdquo; (1886).

HOWE, Timothy Otis, senator, b. in Livermore. Me., 24 Feb., 1816 ; d. in Kenosha, Wis., 25 March, 1883. He received a common-school education, working on a farm during his vacations. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Readfield. He was an ardent Whig and admirer of Henry Clay, and in 1840 was in the legislature, where he was active in debate. Impaired health occasioned his removal to Wisconsin in the latter part of this year, and opening a law-office in Green Bay, then a small village, he continued his residence there throughout his life. He was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in 1848, and two years afterward was elected circuit judge. The circuit judges were also judges of the supreme court, and during part of his term he served as chief justice of the state. Resigning his judgeship in 1855, he resumed his profession, and was an efficient Republican speaker in the canvass of 1856. In the trial that was held to ascertain whether William Boynton or Coles Bashford was lawful governor of Wisconsin, Mr. Howe appeared as Bashford's counsel and gained his case, and his success largely increased his reputation. In 1861 he was elected U. S. senator as a Republican, serv- ing till 1879. During his long career he served on the committees of finance, commerce, pensions, and claims, was one of the earliest advocates of univer- sal emancipation, and in a speech in the senate on 29 May, 1861, advocated in strong terms the negro- suffrage bill for the District of Columbia. He also urged the right of the National government to es- tablish territorial governments over the seceded states. He made able speeches in 1865-'6 against the policy of Andrew Johnson, and voted in favor of his impeachment. He supported the silver bill in 1878, denounced President Hayes's policy re- garding civil-service reform in the southern states, and opposed the anti-Chinese bill. On the death of Salmon P. Chase, President Grant offered Judge Howe a judgeship in the supreme court, which he declined. He had left the senate when the third- term question came up, but favored the election of Grant, and in 1880 spoke strongly in its sup- port. In 1881 he was a U. S. delegate to the In- ternational monetary conference in Paris. In De- cember, 1881, he was appointed postmaster-general by President Arthur, and, although his term of service was little more than a year, a reduction of postage was effected, postal-notes were issued, and reform measures urged with great force.

HOWELL, Arthur, a preacher of the Society of Friends, b. in Philadelphia, 20 Aug., 1748 ; d. there, 26 Jan., 1816. In 1779 he was acknowledged as a minister by the monthly meeting of the Phila- delphia Friends, and is described as " remarkable for spiritual mindedness, and the gift of prophecy." When in, the preaching-gallery he always sat with his hat drawn over his face, and the upper part of his outside coat elevated to meet it, isolated from all earthly things. Many anecdotes are related of his strict integrity in business. On one occasion he purchased a cargo of oil on a rising market, and, after selling it at a higher rate than he anticipated, he paid the person from whom he had bought it an additional dollar on each barrel. During the fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia he rendered valuable assistance in nursing the sick and bury- ing the dead. Although credited with supernatural powers of divination, he was simple and prudent.

HOWELL, David, jurist, b. in New Jersey, 1 Jan., 1747; d. in Providence, R. I., 29 July, 1S26. He was graduated at Princeton in 1766, and, re- moving to Rhode Island, was appointed professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Brown in 1769, also holding the chair of law from 1790 till 1824. In the interval he filled the several of- fices of member of the Continental congress in 1782-'5, attorney-general in 1789, judge of the su- preme court, commissioner for settling the bounda- ries of the United States, and district attorney, and from 1812 until his death was a district judge of Rhode Island. Brown gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1793. Judge Howell was distinguished for wit, learning, and eloquence, and was a forcible political speaker. — His son, Jeremiah Brown, senator, b. in Providence, R. I., in 1772 ; d. there in November, 1822, was graduated at Brown in 1789, studied law, and was admitted to practice. In 1810 he was elected to the U. S. senate as a Federalist, and served from 1811 till 1817. Dart- mouth gave him the degree of A. M. in 1791. HOWELL, George Rogers, b. in Southamp- ton, N. Y., 15. June, 1833. He was graduated at Yale in 1854, and, after spending several years in teaching and in studying, he entered the Prince- ton theological seminary, and was graduated in 1864. When engaged in ministerial work in western New York, he was invited to deliver the address at the celebration of the 225th anniversary of his native place in 1865. At the close of this celebration he was requested by many of his towns- people to prepare a history of this town. He pub- lished "The Early History of Southampton, L. I., with Genealogies" (New York, 1866; 2d ed„ Albany, 1887). In 1872 he was invited to take an office in the New York state library, to become familiar with its wants and its mode of adminis- tration, preparatory to becoming librarian when that post should become vacant. He has pub- lished historical and scientific pamphlets, and has written much for the newspapers. He published several papers in the " Transactions of the Albany Institute," including "Linguistic Discussions." " The Open Polar Sea," and " Heraldry in America."

HOWELL, James B., senator, b. near Morristown, N. J., 4 July, 1816; d. in Keokuk, Iowa, 17 June, 1880. His father, Elias, removed with his family to Ohio in 1819, and, settling in Licking county, was state senator, and in 1830 a member of congress. James was graduated at Miami uni-