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Mo., 1833-35; a minister in the Ohio conference of tiie Methodist church, 1835-42 ; principal of the preparatory school of Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity, 1842-13 ; principal of the Springfield, Ohio, high school, 1843-44 ; professor of niatlie- matics in Oliio Wesleyan university, 1844-45 ; president of the Springfield Female college, 1845- 52. and president of Ohio university, Athens, Ohio. 1852-72. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Miami university, and that of LL.D. from the State University of Iowa in 1862. He died at San Jose. Cal., June 9, 1873.

HOWARD, Timothy Edward, jurist, was born on a farm near Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 27, 1837 ; son of Martin and Julia (Beahan) Howard ; grandson of Timothy and Catharine (Miles) Howard and of John and Julia (O'Gorman) Beahan, and a descendant of Irish and English ancestry. He attended Union school, Ypsilanti, Mich., 1854-55, and the University of Michigan, 1855-56 ; taught school, and was graduated from the University of Notre Dame, Ind., in 1864. He enlisted in the 12th Michigan infantry, Feb. 5, 1862, and was wounded at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and discharged from the service. He was in- structor at Notre Dame university, 1359-79 ; was a member of the common council at South Bend, Ind., 1878-84 ; clerk of the circuit court, 1879-83 ; state senator, 1886-92 ; judge of the supreme court of Indiana, 1893-99, and chief justice of the court for three terms during his service on the bench. His opinions are found in volumes 133- 153, inclusive, of the reports of the supreme court of Indiana. Many of these opinions attracted wide attention, particular!}' those in relation to taxation, legislative apportionment and constitu- tional questions. He was appointed by Governor Mount president of the Indiana fee and salary commission in 1899.

HOWARD, Volney E., representative, was born in Norridgewock, Maine, in 1808. He was a lawyer in Vicksburg, Miss., 1830-47, during which time he was al.so reporter of the court of errors and appeals, and editor of the Mississijyjnctn, the organ of the Democratic party of that state. His position as editor brought him into the political controversies of the day, and he fought a dutd with Sergeant S. Prentiss, the celebrated orator, al.so a native of Maine, and another with Alexander G. McNutt, a member of the state legislature, and afterward governor of the state. He removed to San Antonio, Texas, in 1847, where he was active in securing the annexation of the s-tate, and was elected one of its first reprewntatives in congress, serving in the 31st and 32d congresses. 1849-53. He favored the Mi-ssoiiri compromise, and in 1849 was sent to California by President Taylor on a special mis- sion regarding the admission of the territory as a

state. He returned to California after the close of his second term in congress, and continued his residence in that state during the remainder of his life. He published: Mississij^jn Law Reports, lSJ4-U('i vols., 1839-44), and with A.Hutchin- son, Statute Ldics of Mississipjn (1840). He died in Santa Monica, Cal.. May 14. 1889.

HOWARD, William Alanson, representative, was born in Hinesburg, Vt., April 8, 1813 ; son of Dan and Esther (Spencer) Howard ; grand- son of Henr}' Howard, of Easton. Mass.. and a de- scendant (through Henry « and Major Jonathan 2) of John Henry How- ard, of West Bridge- water, Mass., who was in Duxbury as early as 1643, and died in Charlestown in 1672. William Alanson Howard was apprenticed to a cabi- net-maker at Albion, N.Y., 1827-32, and prepared for college at Wyoming acade- my, 1832-35. He was graduated at Middle- bury college in 1839, having suffered from delicate health throughout his college course. He taught in a select school in Genesee county, N.Y., 1839-40, and was a mathematical tutor in a brancli of the University of Michigan, 1840-42. Meanwhile, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842, practising in Detroit in partner- ship with Alexander Buel until 1848, when Mr. Buel was elected a representative in the 31st congress. Mr. Howard was a representative from Michigan in the 34th, 35th and 36th con- gresses, 1855-61. In the 36th congress he suc- cessfully contested the seat claimed by George B. Cooper, and took his seat. May 15, 1860. Throughout his congressional service he was a member of the committee on ways and means. He was also chairman of the Kansas investigating committee. He was an earnest advocate of anti- slavery. He was chairman of the state central committee, 1860-66 ; a jiresidential elector at large for the state in 1872 and 1876, and a mem- ber of various other committees. He was ap- pointed postmaster of Detroit by President Lincoln in April, 1861, and served until removed by President Johnson in 1865. He declined the office of U.S. minister to China tendered by President Grant in 1869. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1868, 1872 and 1876, and as leader of the Michigan delegation in 1876, turned the convention to Rutherford B. Hayes, as the Presidential candi-