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academy, Hopewell, N.J., where James Manning, president of Brown university, was also a student, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1766, A.M., 1769. He then went to Brown at the suggestion of President Manning and was a

tutor there, 1766-69 ; and professor of natural phil- osophy, 17- 69 79. He also taught Fiench, Ger- man and He- bieu. When the war

caused a sus- pension of college exer- cises m 1779, he resigned his professorship and entered public b€r\ ice. He was a lawyer in Providence, R.I., 1779-1812 ; a delegate to the Continenal congress from Rhode Island, 1782-85 ; associate justice of the Rhode Island supreme court, 1786-87 ; and attorney- general of the state, 1789. He was again at Brown as professor of jurisprudence, 1790-1824 ; and acting president ad interim, 1791-92. He was U.S. boundary commissioner ; district attorney of Rhode Island ; and U.S. judge of the Rhode Island district, 1812-26. He was married to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Brown, pastor of the First Baptist church, Providence. He was a fellow of Brown university, 1773-1824, and secretary of the corporation, 1780-1806. He received the degree of A.M. from Brown univer- sity and Philadelphia college in 1769, and Yale in 1772, and that of LL.D. from Brown in 1793. He died in Providence, R.I., July 29, 1824.

HOWELL, Evan Park, journalist, was born in Warsaw, Milton county, Ga., Dec. 10, 1839 ; son of Clark and EfRe (Park) Howell ; grandson of Evan Howell and of James Park ; and a descendant of Joseph Howell, of Cabarrus county, N.C., whose father came from Wales; and of James Park, of Virginia, whose ancestors came from Scotland. He was educated at the Georgia Military institute, and the Lumpkin law school, Athens, Ga., and was admitted to the bar in 1859. On April 7, 1861, he entered the Confed- erate army as orderly sergeant of Co. E, 1st regiment Georgia volunteers. He was promoted lieutenant in May, 1861, and served as first lieutenant until the regiment was discharged in May, 1862, the term of enlistment having exjjired. His company was immediately reorganized as an artillery company and he was made captain. His battery was part of the garrison of Fort

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McAllister, near Savannah, and with the 7th Georgia cavalry protecting the rear of the fort and the part of the coast near the Ogeechee river. His battery was ordered to Mississippi with Walk- er's brigade, under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, to the relief of Vicks- burg in June, 1863. He was in the two days' battle at Jackson, Miss., after the fall of Vicksburg, and in the several engage- ments that followed. His battery com- menced the fight at Chickamauga Creek, and was in all the fighting from Chat- tanooga to Atlanta and around Atlanta,

being so badly dis- ^_^ _

abled at Jonesboro

that General Claiborne sent it to Macon to recruit, where it remained until the war ended. On re- turning home Captain Howell worked on a farm near Atlanta and in 1867 was city editor of the At- lanta Intelligencer, but soon resumed the practice of law. He was solicitor-general of his judicial circuit, 1869-72, and state senator, 1872-77. He purchased a half-interest in the Atlanta Constitu- tion in November, 1876, and was editor-in-chief of the paper and president of the corporation for twenty years. In 1881 he sold a fourth-interest to Henry W. Grady, and made him managing editor of the paper. He sold his remaining interest in the paper in 1896 for $100,000 in cash and retired from journalism. He was elected a director in all the various railroads converging at Atlanta ; director in the two national expositions held at Atlanta ; president of the Kimball House company, and a commissioner in charge of the erection of the state capitol. He declined the appointment of U.S. consul at Manchester, England, tendered to him by President Cleve- land in 1885 ; served as a delegate to the Demo- cratic National conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1896, and was on the committee on resolutions at each of the four conventions. In 1898 President McKinley appointed him on the commission to investigate the conduct of the war with Spain. His contributions to political literature in the campaigns of 1896 and 1900 were widely read.

HOWELL, George Rogers, historian, was born in Southampton, N.Y., June 15, 1833; son of Charles and Mary (Rogers) Howell, and a direct descendant of Edward, who came from Marsh Gibbon, England, and settled with his family in Boston, Mass., in 1639, removing in 1641 to South- ampton, Long Island, N.Y. He was a student