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one appeal at the close of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. She was president of the Woman's branch of the New Orleans exposition, 1884-85, and was elected vice-president of the American Authors' guild in 1898. She preached in Eonie, Italy, Santo Domingo and from Unitarian pulpits in the United States, and lectured before the Concord School of Pliilosophy. Of Mrs. Howe's family, the well-known Sam Ward of New York and Washington society was her brother; the elder of her sisters was the wife of the sculptor, Thomas Crawford, and the mother of Francis Marion Crawford, the novelist; her youngest sister married, in 1846, Adolph Mailliard, whose father was administrator of the American estate of Joseph Bonaparte, ex-king of Spain; her daughter Julia Romana was a distinguished •educator; Iier daughter Laura E. Richards be- came a well-known autlior; her daughter Maud, also an author, was married to John Elliott, the artist; her daughter Florence became a writer on social topics, and her son Henry Marion acquired a wide reputation as a writer on iron and steel manufacture. Her poetical works include: Passion Floicers (1854); Words of the Hour (1856); Later Lyrics (1866); Froiti Sunset Ridge (1898). Her plays include: The World's Own, acted at Wallack's theatre, 1855, and Hippolytus, a tragedy never produced, written for Edwin Booth in 1858. Her prose works include: A Trip to Cuba (1860); From the Oak to the Olive (1868); 3Iodern Society (1881); Life of Margaret Fuller (1883), and a volume of essays entitled: 7s Polite .Society Polite? (1898); and she edited: Sex and Education, a reply to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's " Sex in Education" (1874). She was associate editor of the Woman's Journal and contributed to the various reviews and magazines.

HOWE, Mark Antony De Wolfe, first bishop of Central Pennsylvania and 99th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Bristol, R.I., April 5, 1808; only child of John and Louisa (Smith) Howe; grandson of Capt. Perley and Abigail D'Wolf Howe and of Stephen and Ruth (Bosworth) Smith; great-grandson of the Rev. Perley Howe; of Mark Antony and Abigail (Potter) D'Wolf, and of Samuel and Eliza (Drown) Smith; and a descendant of James Howe, who came in 1637 to Roxbury, and in 1638 settled in Ipswich, Mass., and of Richard Smith, who settled in Bristol, R.I., in 1680 and was clerk of the town. Bishop Howe's grandfather, Capt. Perley Howe, an ardent patriot in the American Revolution, was impoverished by investing in Continental money and spent his last days as a ■teacher in Hartford and Weathersfield, Conn. His father, John Howe, was born at Killingly, Conn., July 5, 1783, was graduated at Brown in 1805; admitted to the bar in 1808, practised law

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in Bristol, Conn., 1808-41; was a state represent- ative for several years; collector of customs, 1841-45; farmer, 1845-53; died at the home of his son. Bishop Howe, in Philadelphia, Pa., March 14, 1864. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was a pupil of the village school; attended the villageacademy which was taught by two di- vinity students of Bishop Griswold, one of them the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng; and received his final preparation for col- lege at Phillips acade- my, Andover, Mass., and under private tui- tion at South Kings- ton and Taunton. He entered Middlebury college in 1824 and in 1826 changed to Brown, where he was gradu- ated, A.B., 1828; A.M., 1831. He was usher in the Adams school, Boston, 1828, and head master of the Hawes school, South Boston, 1829- 30. He was confirmed in St. Matthew's church, South Boston, by Bishop Griswold in 1830; was a student of theology under the Rev. Mr. Bristed in Bristol, 1830-31, and tutor in Brown univer- sity, 1831-33. He was ordained deacon in January, 1833, and priest in February, 1833, by Bishop Griswold. He was assistant and rector of St. Matthew's church. South Boston, Mass., 1832-33; rector of St. James's parish, Roxbury, 1833-34; of Christ church, Cambridge, 1834-35; and of St. James's church, Roxbury, 1836-46. He served as associate editor of the Christian Witness, Boston, 1834-45; declined a call to St. Paul's church, Louisville, Ky., 1845; and was rector of St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1846-71. He was a candidate for election for bishop coad- jutor to Bishop Potter of Pennsylvania in 1863 and a deadlock in the contest between him and Dr. Stevens was decided by lot in favor of the latter. In 1865 he was elected missionary bishop of Nevada, which diocese included Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, but declined the office. In November, 1871, he was elected bishop of the newly erected diocese of Central Pennsylvania and was consecrated in St. Luke's church. Phil- adelphia, Dec. 28, 1871, by his uncle. Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, assisted by Bishops McIIvaine, Lee, Potter, Clark, Bedell, Kerfoot and Morris. In 1884 he was given a coadjutor in the person of Bishop Rulison. He was a deputy to the general convention, 1850-71; secretary of the house of clerical and lay deputies, 1850-53; trustee of Brown university, 1873-90; a fellow of Brown