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 ItERRINOSJlAW'S MIIIIARY OK AMERICAN UtOQRAPHY. ami hixty-thiid i-oa»ixty-iM;cund gre^seii as a republican. Howell, Joshua N., solJin, wa- h*tvu in Pi-nnHvlvania. In IStil he was <<>lontl in the eighty fifth regiment Penneylvanin infantry; and in 1864 was brevetted hrigadii r general of volunteers. He died .Sept. 14, lSi>4. in

Penn.sylvania,

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durtor of teacliers' inBtitutes; and for sevsumeral years iner of the higher branehes under the rejifents of the univer-

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ham deliverhistoHcnl

and literary lettiii>>; and has done much worlc for the o«um» of t<>t!ipf'raTirv,

repcat«dly

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has

[ileaiK.I the

cause of woman be the wmniittWH of >.tatf I< ;:i-lat ures, asked to spealc before the house of repre* She is the pfesi-eiitativea of ( 'onnerticut. .h-nt of tlu' National .American Woman's suirrage asjiociation and National h-etnr«-r for the woman's christian temperance union. Howell, Nathaniel, congrei»(*8 he prailuin 1770 in N't w York. In 1813-15 he alttl from Princeton college. WAR a representative from New Yorlc to the tliirfe. iitli rongress; He died Oct. 16, 1821, (<>ri-
 * tio*ef| many jtatriotic songs; and wa«< the author of a jiaiiiplilet entitled A Fan for Fanning, and a Toueh for I'lyoii. Howell, Richard, !*oMier. lawyer, iurist, governor, was lx)rn in 17.>;{ in Newark. Del. In 1775 he was ap|>ointed eaptain of the seein

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New Jersey regiment. He distinguished himself at Quel»ee; wjis promoted to major in 177t»; and commantled hin re<,'iment until 1779. He was the third governor of New

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.terney in I794-I801. in Tn nton, N..T.

He

died April 28, 1802.

Howell» Sobert Boy te, Crawford, ciergvman, author, was born March 10, 1801, in ^',^ytll' county. Nf. He wa< a noted bajiti-t He was the author U rgAinan of Na!*hville. of Terms of Saeramental Communion; The Way of Salvation; KiU nf Infant ItaptiRm: The Covenant and Early Bapllie Cross i





tists

I8«1.V7A -iipii

of Virginia.

in Nashville, Teon.

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died April 6, 1808,

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I.oiiisiana.

Howell, William F., lawyer, jurist, waat In Michigan. He removed to New York, froni nhiih -tatf he was a|i]»ointed justin'

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of the I uited States court for the territory of Arizona.

Jolitti Franklin, educator, college

president, author, was born Jan. 17. 1840. Sinee iHiiS lie in Nan.seniond counfy, a. baa been engaged in educational work. In 1899*1901 he president of the .Mountain home baptist oolleg)-; and in 190 Idi wa-> preHident of the Virginia inntitut*-. He itf the author of Syllatnu of Eg>'ptian Utntory. Howell, Mary Seymoor, reformer, l< ctiiT' er, author, wns born Aug. 29, 1850, in .Mount &lorrto» N.Y. At one time she wan con

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in Rutus K., lawyer, jurist, he was an assoeiate Justice of the

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Howell, William Henry, educator, author, bom Feb. 2U, iStiO, in Baltimore, Md. held professorships at the Johns

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llo|ikin» ami Harvard universities; atid also in the univer.'^ity of Michigan. He in the author of Textbook of Physiology. Howells, journalist, William Cooper, founder, diplomat, statesman, author, waH l>orn in 180" in Wales. He was promineiil in Amciican polities; au<I was uiie ot' the

fuundern of the republican party. He was a member of the Ohio state Kenat<-*, and in* triMliir,

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lie was always eii;iap'(l in work; and later in lite pubthe Ashtabula Sentinel; one ot the papers in tli<< state (»t Ohio; and

iinetidmeiit.

journalistic lishi'd

olde.st

still continues to publish. He was* appoittttni by Pre»i«jent tirant asl niled Stafei* eonnul to t^uelM'c; anu>rved nine years went to lire on a

mar Kichmond,

and rc»igiied in 1881 un«l farm which he had bonghl Three years later he

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returned to Ohio. lie was the author of lAfv in Ohio from 1813 to 1840. He died in 181M in JeiTerson, Ohio.

Howells, William Dean, author, was Imru

March

I, 1837, at Marlin s Kerry, Ohio. In he published with .J. .f. Piatt, Poems Friends. In the same year he wrote n Life of Abraham Lincoln, and from 1801-

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Life, iinil

Huiian Journeyu, date from thisi portion of From 1866-81 he was editor of The Atlantic Montnly, and since then has devoted his tinie wholly to literature in RoAton and New York. His writings since 18(59 include; Tire Dav of Their Weddin-i; Their Silver Wedding .lournnl; The Laml loid at Lion's Head; No I.<>r l.o-t subur ban Sketch<-<: 'I'heir Wedding Journal; A hance Acquaintance; A Foregon*' Conclu r >M-took; The Cn sion; The Lady of tli. iliscovered Country; A Modern Instance; . Woman's Reason; The Minister's Cliargc; bis career.



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Lillian

an«l

Summer; A

Other

JStories;

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Kesponsibilily,

Doctor Brwn's Practice;

The Riw of Silas Lapham; April IIo{>es; Annie KiUmrn; A Hazard of New Fortunes; he Shallow of a Dream; An Imperative l>«ty; The Quality of Mercy; The World "f I

liMtice; The Coast of Bolicniia . Travi |.-r Imni Altruria; Ragged Lady; Christmas Kverv Hay. and Other .Stories for Childrfu; A I'artinp and a Alcetinfj; The Sleeping Car.

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Other

Farces;

The

Mous<.-Trap.

and

Other Farces; Out of tJie Question, a COmrdy; A Counterfeit Presentment, a comedy;