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 HOWELL

HOWELL

1881; inspector of ordnance, navy j'ard, Wash- ington, 1881-8-4; commanded the Atlanta in the squadron of evolution, 1888-90; commandant of the navy yard at Washington, 1893-96; com- mandant at League Island, 1896-97, and com- mander-in-chief of the European squadron, January, 1898. In the war with Spain he com- manded the North patrol fleet with headquarters at Provincetown, Mass., April, Maj- and June, 1898, and in July and August, 1898, was command- ing the 1st squadron, North Atlantic fleet, block- ading the north coast of Cuba. His promotions were: passed midshipman, Jan. 19, 1861; master, Feb. 23, 1861; lieutenant, April 18, 1861; lieu- tenant-commander. March 3, 1865; commander, March 6, 1872; captain, March 1, 1884; commo- dore. May 21, 1895, and rear-admiral, Aug. 10, 1898. He is the inventor of the Howell torpedo and the Howell disappearing gun carriage, and the author of: Deviations of the Compass; Marine Surveying; Observations on the Dip of the Sea Horizon.

HOWELL, John Gumming, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 24, 1819; son of Maj. Richard Lewis and Rebecca A. (Stockton) Howell, and grandson of Gov. Richard Howell (q.v.) His father was present in 1813 at Fort George, where Gen- eral Pike fell into his arms mortally wounded; and was deputy collector of the port of Philadel- phia twenty-seven years. John attended Washington college, Pa.; was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. navy, June 9, 1836; was promoted passed midshipman, Aug. 2, 1836; master, Feb. 21, 1849; lieuten- ant, Aug. 2, 1849; commander. July 16, 1862; captain, July 25, 1866; commodore, Jan. 29, 1873; rear-admiral, April 26, 1877; and was retired by operation of law after forty-five years' service, Nov. 24, 1881. He served his naval apprenticeship on the brig Perry, and the sloop-of-war Saratoga, taking part in the naval operations of the Mexican war. He married in 1854, Mary, daughter of Com. R. F. Stockton. He was executive officer of the Minne- sota at the battle of Hatteras Inlet, Feb. 8, 1862; commanded the Lehigh, and the steamer Tahoma, of the Eastern Gulf blockading squadron, 1862-63, and the Nereus, of the North Atlantic squadron, 1864-65, and was a participant in both attacks on Fort Fisher, N.C., 1864 and 1865. For his "cool



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performance of duty " he was twice recommend- ed for promotion by Rear- Admiral Porter in 1865. He was fleet captain of the European squadron, 1868-70; commandant of the League Island navy yard, 1870-72; of the navy yard, Portsmouth, N.H., 1873-74; chief clerk of the bureau of j-ards and docks, 1874-78; and commanded the North Atlantic and European squadrons, 1878-81. He died in Folkstone, England, Sept. 12, 1892.

HOWELL, Julius Franklin, educator, was born in Nansemond county, Va., Jan. 17, 1846; son of Edward and Sarah (Barnes) Howell, and grandson of Edward Howell. He attended pri- vate schools and Reynoldson Collegiate institute. Gates county, N.C, 1855-61, and the civil war prevented his immediate attendance at college. He was subsequently a student at Illinois Normal university in 1886; at Harvard university, 1891- 92, and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1892. He was princiiial of the Reynoldson Col- legiate institute, 1868-73; of the high schools at Austin, Ark., 1873-78; Lonoke, Ark., 1878-83; Arkadelphia, Ark., 1883-83, and at Morrillton, Ark., 1883-85; was a professor in the University of Arkansas, 1885-98; principal of the University high school at Fayetteville, Ark., 1898, and was elected president of the Mountain Home Baptist college in 1899. He was married, Sept. 17, 1870, to Ida Celsus Hinton. He is the author of: Sylla- bus of Egyptian History (1897).

HOWELL, Nathaniel Woodhull, representa- tive, was born in Blooming Grove, N.Y., Jan. 1, 1770. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1788; A.M., 1791. He taught school in Montgomery, N.Y., 1789-92; practised law in New York city and in Tioga county, N.Y., 1794- 96, and in Canandaigua, N.Y., 1796-1851. He was U.S. attorney-general for western New York, 1799-1803; first judge of Ontario county, 1819-32; a member of the state assemblj' for several terms, and a representative in the 13tli congress, 1813-15. He received the degree LL.D. from Union in 1822, and from Hamilton in 1827, and was a trustee of Auburn Theological seminary, 1821-29. He was married, March 17, 1798, to Sally Chapin. and secondly, March 10, 1809, to Fanny Coleman. He died in Canandaigua, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1851.

HOWELL, Richard, governor of New Jersey, was born in Newark, Del., Oct. 25, 1754; son of Ebenezer, and a descendant of William Howell, who came over with William Penn on the TT'e?- come. He was educated at Newcastle, Del., and with his twin brother Lewis remained at school there after his father and the remainder of the family removed to Cumberland county, N.J. The two brothers followed their father to New Jersey in 1774, and Lewis studied medicine and Richard law. In November, 1774. Richard was a member of the disguised tea-party that