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is the author of : Hie Great West (1851) ; Travels and Adventures of Celebrated Travellers (1853) ; Life and Death on the Ocean (1855) ; Adventures and Achievements of Americans (1858) ; Our Whole Country (3 vols., 1861) ; Times of the Rebel- lion in the West. (1876) ; Over the World (1883) ; Outline Histonj of New Haven (1884) ; New Haven Elms and Greens (1885). He died in Colaiiibus, Ohio. Oct. U. 1893.

HOWE, Henry riarion, metallurgist, was born in Boston, Mass., March 2, 1848 ; son of Dr. Sam- uel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe. He gradu- ated from the Boston Latin school in 1865, from Harvard in 1869, and from the Massachus- etts Institute of Tech- nology in 1871. He also gained practical scientific knowledge by working at the forge and furnace and by extensive travel in America and Eu- rope. He attained a high position as a metallurgist and was employed by some of the largest man- ufacturing concerns in the United States judge in the depart- miniug at the Paris ex- was president d'honneur of

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and Canada. He was ment of mines and position of 1889 the congress on mining, metallurgy, and on the methods of testing at the Paris exposition of 1900 ; president of the jury of mines and mining at the Columbian exposition, Chicago, 111., 1893, and president of the American Institute of Min- ing Engineers in 1893. He was made professor of metallurgy in Columbia university in 1897. In 1895 the Bessemer gold medal was unanimously awarded him by the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain in recognition of his work, "Metal- lurgy of Iron and Steel," the first volume of which took four years to write, and which was translated into French and in part into Ger- man and Russian. The medal, which was found- ed by Sir Henry Bessemer, is bestowed periodi- cally upon those who have most benefited the industry, and Mr. Howe was the fourth American to be honored with the medal, the others being Peter Cooper, Abram S. Hewitt, and John Fritz, builder of the Bethlehem, Pa., iron works. The Society for the Encouragement of National In- dustry, Paris, awarded the author a prize of 2500 francs ; the Society for tlie Promotion of Industry of Berlin awarded him its great gold medal, and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia its Elliot Cresson gold medal, its highest honor.

He was elected an honorary member of various scientific societies, including the American Soci- ety of Mechanical Engineers in 1886. He is the author of : Metallurgy of Iron and Steel (Vol.1., 1895).

HOWE, Herbert Alonzo, educator, was born at Brockport, N.Y.. Nov. 22, 1858 ; son of Alonzo J. and Julia M. (Osgood) Howe, and grandson of Charles and Jane Ann (Pettingill) Howe and of Sewall M. and Elhira (Brown) Osgood. He was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1875 and was elected professor of astronomy there in 1880, and director of the Chamberlin observa- tory at the University of I'enver, Col., in 1890. He was made a member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft and of the American Mathematical society in 1891. He received the degree of A.M. in astronomy from the University of Cincinnati in 1877, and the degree of Sc.D. from Boston university in 1884. He is the author of : A Study of the Sky (1896) ; Elements of Descriptive Astron- omy (1897), and contributions to scientific peri- odicals.

HOWE, James Lewis, chemist, was born in Newburyport, Mass., Aug. 4, 1859 ; son of Francis A. and Mary F. (Lewis) Howe ; grandson of the Rev. James Howe and of the Hon. James Lewis, of Pepperell, Mass. , and a descendant of Puritan ancestors who came to Massachusetts prior to 1640, including John Lyford, 1621, died in Vir- ginia, 1629, and the Rev. Peter Hobart, first min- ister of Hingham, Mass. He was graduated from Amherst college, A.B., in 1880, and from Gottin- gen university, A.M. and Ph.D., in 1882, He was professor of chemistry at Central university, Richmond, Ky., 1883-87; was scientist and lec- turer to the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, Louisville, 1886-94 ; became professor of chemis- try at Washington and Lee university, Lexing- ton, Va., in 1894 ; secretary of the chemical section of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science in 1893 ; secretary of the council in 1894 ; general secretary in 1895, and vice- president for the chemical section in 1899. He was elected a trustee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor and a member of the Ameri- can Chemical society, of the German Chemical society and of the Chemical Society of London. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville, Ky., in 1886. He is the author of: A Bibliog- raphy of the Metals of the Platinum Group (1897) ; Inorganic Chemistry according to the Periodic Law (1898), which he prepared in collaboration with Francis Preston Venable.

HOWE, James Robinson, representative, was born in New York city. Jan. 27, 1839 ; son of John and Ann Elizabeth (Woodruff) Howe ; grandson of John and Elsie (Robinson) Howe