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1861-79. In the senate he served on the committees on finance, commerce, pensions and claims, and as chairman of the committees on appropriations and Revolutionary claims. He advocated eman- cipation, Negro-sutfrage in the District of Colum- bia, and territorial jurisdiction over the seceded states. He was a delegate to the Loyalists' con- vention of 18(56 at Philadelphia; voted for the im- peiichment of President Johnson; supported the silver bill of 1878, and opposed the anti-Chinese bill. He declined a seat on the U.S. supreme bench offered him by President Grant. He was a delegate to the international monetary confer- ence in Paris in 1881, and in December of that year was appointed by President Arthur post- master-general in liis cabinet. He died in Racine, Wis.. March 25. 1883.

HOWE, William Bell White, sixth bishop of South Carolina, and 98th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Claremont, N.H., March 31, 1823: son of the Rev. James Blake and Mary (White) Howe; grandson of Abraliam Howe and of Edward White, and a direct descendant of William Bell, colonel of the Ancient and Honorable artillery of Boston, just prior to the Revolution; and also of Abraham Howe, of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England, who settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1638. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of Vermont in 1844; studied the- ology, and was or- dained a deacon, April 9, 1847, and a priest, June 3, 1849. He was rector of the jjarish of St. John, Berkeley, S.C., 1847-60, and of St. Pliilip's church, Charles- ton, S.C, 1860-71. He was elected assistant bisliop of South Carolina, May 13, 1871, and on Oct. 8, 1871, he was consecrated at St. Paul's church, Baltimore, Md., at the session of the general convention, by Bishops Smith, Whit- tinghara, Davis, Atkinson and Gregg, of the American church, assisted by Bishops Selwyn, of Lichfield, England, and Bishop Venables, of Nassau, N.P., the bishop of Lichfield preacliing the sermon. He was coadjutor to Bishop Davis in 1871, and on the death of that prelate, Dec. 2, 1871, became the sixth bishop of the diocese of South Carolina. During the civil war, as rector of St. Philip's church, he continued to minister to his congregation in the parish church until they were driven out by the shells of the Federal

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army during the siege of Charleston. W^ith the Rev. Alexander Marshall he remained with his people until the city was evacuated, when lie was ordered out by the federal authorities, but was restored to his parish after the war closed. In 1866 he founded St. Philip's church home, Charleston, as a refuge for old ladies. He re- ceived from the University of the South and the University of Georgia the degree of D.D. in 1871, and from Columbia college that of S.T.D. in 1872. He died in Charleston, S.C, Nov. 25, 1894.

HOWE, William Henry, painter, was born at Ravenna, Oliio, in November, 1844; son of Elisha Biglow and Celestia (Russell) Howe, grandson of John Howe and of Almond Russell, and a descendant on liis mother's side from the Pilgrim fathers. His father was born at Old Concord, Mass., his ancestors having come from England about 1700. William Henry Howe was educated in the public schools and pursued the study of art in Paris under Otto de Thoren and Vuillef roy. He opened a studio in New York in 1884. He became especially noted as a painter of cattle, and waselected an associate of the National Acad- emy of Design in 1894. and an Academician in 1897. He 1-eceived gold and silver medals and other hon- ors from various expositions; lionorable mention from the Paris Salon of 1886 and a gold medal in 1888, and gold medals from the New Orleans exposition in 1885; Exposition Universelle, Paris, in 1889; World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893, and from London, Boston, New York, San Francisco and Atlanta. He was awarded the title of Officier d'Academie by the French government in 1896, and the cross of Legion d'Honneur in 1898. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1899, and a life member of the Lotus club and of the Salmagundi club. He is represented in the I\Iuseum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, by his picture Xonnau Bull; in Cleveland by TJie Vagabonds, and at the Lotus club. New York, by Stable Interior. Among his other noted paintings are: Return of tlte Herd; Early Start to Market; The Truants.

HOWELL, Benjamin Franklin, representa- tive, was bora in Cumberland county, N.J., in January, 1844. He enlisted in the 12th New Jersey volunteers in 1862, and served until the close of the war. He then engaged in business in South Amboy, N.J. In 1882 he was elected surrogate of Middlesex county, and was re-elected in 1887. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Minneai)olis, June 7, 1892, and a representative in the 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th and 58tli congresses. 1895-1905.

HOWELL, David, delegate to the Continental congress, was born in Morristown. N.J., Jan. 1. 1747; .son of Aaron and Sarali Howell. He prepared for college at the Rev. Is;:a'- Eaton"