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was with General Gates at the disastrous bat- tle of Camden, Aug. 6, 1780. The same year he joined the army under General Greene, and his bayonet charge at the battle of Cowpens secured the defeat of the British forces. It is said that he received the swords of seven British officers, who surrendered to him during the engagement. Congress ordered a medal struck and presented to him for his bravery. He was at the retreat at Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781, and at the battle of Hobkirk's Hill, April 15, where he suc- ceeded to the command of the 2d Maryland regi- ment. His command was reduced to thirty men fit Eutaw Springs, and as their only surviving officer he made a final charge, and fell severely wounded. He was married, May 18, 1787, to Peggy Oswald, daughter of Judge Benjamin and Mary (Galloway) Chew. He was a delegate to the Continental congi'ess, 1787-88; governor of Maryland, 1789-92, and was U.S. senator as suc- cessor to Richard Potts, resigned, 1796-97, and for a full term, 1797-1803. President Washing^ ton invited him into his cabinet as secretary of war in 1796, and in 1798 selected him as one of the major-generals in the army organizing in anticipation of war with France. In 1814 he prepared to take the field, and when the national capital was in the hands of the British he op- posed all arguments looking to a capitulation. In 1816 he was the candidate of the Federalist"" party for Vice-President of the United States, and received twenty-two electoral votes. His son, John Eager Howard, served in the war of 1812, and with his three brothers was at the bat- tle of North Point, Sept. 12, 1814; and his grand- son, John Eager Howard, served in the Mexican war, and was first on the walls at the storming of Chapultepec. Another son, George Howard (q.v.), was governor of Maryland; another son, Benjamin Chew (q.v.), was a representative in congress; another son, Charles, was graduated at St. Mary's, Baltimore, was sometime presi- dent of the Baltimore and Susquehanna railroad; afterward president-judge of the Orphans' court; in 1860 was president of the board of police com- missioners of Baltimore, and was married to Elizabeth Phoebe, daughter of Francis Scott and Mary T. (Lloyd) Key. Governor John Eager Howard died at " Belvedere," Md., Oct. 12, 1827. HOWARD, Joseph, Jr., journalist, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 3, 1833; son of John T. and Susan (Raymond) Howard, and grandson of Joseph and Anstiss (Smith) Howard, of Salem, N.Y., who removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1820. Joseph, Jr., was a student at Farmington, Conn., and entered Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N.Y., in the class of 1857. He entered journalism as a contributor to the New York Times in 1860 over the signature " Howard," and

attended and reported for that paper the national conventions of that year. He was war corre- spondent of the Times in 1861, and reported from the Virginia battlefields the two great battles of that year. He was city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and of the New York Sunday Mercury in 1862, and became a regular contributor to news- papers and magazines in New York and Boston. In 1864 he wrote and published what purported to be a proclamation from President Lincoln, calling for 500,000 men to arrest the rebellion, but what was intended as a burlesque was taken seriously by the government, and Mr. Howard was arrested and incarcerated in the U.S. prison, Fort Lafayette, for fourteen weeks, when he was released without trial. He was immediately made official recorder of the Department of the East, and as such served at the trials and at- tended the execution of Captains Young and Kennedy, of the Confederate States service. In 1866 he resumed his connection with the New York Times, and in August, 1868, became man- aging editor of the Democrat, then first published by " Brick " Pomeroy in New York city. On Jan. 1, 1869, he became editor of the New York Star, of which he became publisher and subse- quently proprietor. In 1875 he became con- nected with the New York Sun, and in 1876, with the New York Herald, and he remained on the Herald staff ten years. In 1886 he established himself as an independent journalist and his contributions, known as " Howard's Column," ap- peared regularly in the New York Press, the Boston Globe, the New York Recorder, and the prominent newspapers of the nortliwest. He also gave some time to lecturing, his subjects in- cluding Reminiscences of Journalism, Cranks, and People I Have Met. He was one of the founders of the New York Press club, of which he was president five years; a member of the Boston Press club and of the Philadelphia Jour- nalists; and president of the International League of Press Clubs. He was married, in 1856. to Anna S., daughter of Dr. Samuel Gregg, of Massa- chusetts, and their oldest daughter, Grace, estab- lished a mission for Indian girls in Dakota, which was successful.

HOWARD, Leiand Ossian, entomologist, was born in Rockford, 111., June 10, 1857; son of Ossian Gregory and Lucy Dunham (Thurber) Howard^ grandson of Calvin and Sarah (Gregory) Howard, and a descendant of William Hay ward, or Howard. He was a student at Cornell uni- versity, 1873-78, where he was graduated B.S., 1877, and M.S., 1883. As an undergraduate he worked with Professor Comstock in the depart- ment of entomology, and from 1878 to 1886 was an assistant entomologist in the department of agriculture, Washington, D.C. He was made